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Hershberger “Raw Milk Trial,” Sans Raw Milk; Ed Shank Speaks Up About That Dairy Study; FDA Rep on the Hot Seat in IL

by David Gumpert | May 8, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 25 comments

For those people expecting the upcoming trial of Vernon Hershberger to provide a jury verdict on the benefits of raw milk, there’s been a glitch. The judge in the case, Guy Reynolds, said yesterday at a pretrial hearing that the words “raw milk” can’t be uttered...

Here’s Another Takeaway from Latest Government Study “Proving” Raw Milk Inherently Unsafe; Maine Food Sovereignty Supporters Push State Legislation

by David Gumpert | May 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 18 comments

Government scientists have examined an outbreak of 148 illnesses from campylobacter last year at The Family Cow dairy in Pennsylvania, and concluded it’s impossible to produce raw milk safely.  This supposedly scientific report, by scientists of the U.S....

Raw Milk Not Necessarily an Allowed “Local Food,” Says Maine Judge in Ruling Against Food Sovereignty Ordinance

by David Gumpert | May 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 11 comments

Maine’s food sovereignty movement took a hit when a state judge ruled earlier this week that farmer Dan Brown must have a license to sell raw milk, despite his town’s ordinance exempting local farmers from state food regulations. The judge was ruling in response...

The Alvin Schlangen Legal Scorecard: Two Courts, Two Different Decisions

by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 35 comments

For a long time, I have argued that the state and federal judges hearing food rights cases are living on a different planet than the people. The judges nearly always come down entirely on the side of the regulators. The people, in the form of a jury, see things much...

Illinois Regulators Pull a Classic Power Grab to Stamp Out Raw Milk; Speaking Up; My New Book on Food Rights

by David Gumpert | Apr 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 35 comments

Dave Milano made a telling observation in a comment following my previous post: “The simple notion of basic human rights gets lost in tangles of misunderstanding, and as a result, States are given more power than they ought to have, or are tacitly or directly given...

A Crack in the United Front? Here’s Why National Farmers Union Raw Milk Endorsement Is a Big Deal

by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 129 comments

For years, the public health, medical, regulator, and conventional dairy communities have marched in lockstep against raw milk. Collaborating with these forces of government and business have been the farmer communities, via their trade groups, the American Farm...

From the Middle East, a Rallying Cry for Raw Milk and Food Rights Activists

by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2013 | Raw Milk, Regulation | 102 comments

Barack Obama gave a remarkable speech in Israel last week. Remarkable not just because he challenged Israeli young people to push for peace with the Palestinians, but because he was cheered by the young Israelis in the audience.  One of his statements...

Legal Maneuvering in Hershberger Case Is Mind Numbing, And Here’s Why It Makes Me Nervous

by David Gumpert | Mar 20, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 33 comments

What to make of the latest legal twists in the Vernon Hershberger raw milk saga? I thought about trying to doctor a photo of Hershberger to put on the site so it would look like a human pretzel, because that’s what he seems to have become–a legal...
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