by David Gumpert | Aug 30, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
The principle of private food should get a test in front of a jury of ordinary citizens when raw dairy farmer Vernon Hershbeger goes on trial in Wisconsin on Jan. 7. I should say the principle should get a test, because initial indications are that the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 27, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
At first glance, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-year legal assault on Estrella Family Creamery in Washington state appears entirely vindictive. The FDA seems intent on using its enormous enforcement powers to cruelly stomp on and...
by David Gumpert | Aug 13, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Aajonus Vonderplanitz and Amanda Rose don’t at first glance have a lot in common when it comes to food politics. Vonderplanitz is adamant about private food rights, while Rose seems much less politically oriented on the issue. But interestingly, both have...
by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’ve spent the last few days reading through the most recent filings in the Maine Food Sovereignty case. If the potential importance of a food rights case could be measured in the heavy weight of the many pages of these initial arguments, this is a serious case....
by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
I am the first to admit I know little about best practices for dealing with potentially serious widely-spreading diseases among farm animals. The image that pops into my mind when this subject comes up is of the huge piles of dead cows in England during the...
by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2012 | Food Clubs, Raids, Raw Milk |
Last March, there was a three-day preliminary hearing in Ventura County about the allegations of fraud against James Stewart and two other principles in the Rawesome affair–Sharon Palmer and Larry Otting. The allegations mostly concern a mortgage transaction and...
by David Gumpert | Jul 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance |
(Additional information and links have been added to this article since it was first posted.)Just when it seemed as if the Rawesome Food Club case couldn’t get any more bizarre…it got more bizarre, a lot more bizarre. A case that has seen brutal infighting...
by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2012 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The food rights movement is entering a new phase. We might best think of it as the “legal phase.” All those raids on food clubs and farms (mostly over raw milk distribution) over the last few years–the “crackdown phase”, if you...
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