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Will WI Supreme Court Do Its Duty to Uphold U.S. Constitution in Food Rights Cases?

by David Gumpert | Oct 15, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 52 comments

For upwards of a decade, Wisconsin’s small raw-milk producers have been doing battle with the state’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, as well as the courts and politicians. DATCP has refused to allow the farms to distribute milk privately,...

Musings of a Rebel Sheep Farmer; A Monsanto Protester

by David Gumpert | Sep 23, 2014 | Raids, Regulation, Resistance | 29 comments

Back in 2010, Canadian agriculture authorities launched a campaign to kill and test for scrapie a herd of rare Shropshire sheep owned by Ontario farmer Montana Jones. By 2012, after the Canadian authorities refused all Jones’ compromise offers and were set to remove...

Despite Setbacks, Beat Goes On for Food Rights, with Legal, Community, Political Actions

by David Gumpert | Aug 25, 2014 | Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 4 comments

If you look at the recent legal scorecard, the Food Rights movement is getting clobbered. Losses in Maine (Dan Brown’s food sovereignty case), Wisconsin (Vernon Hershberger’s appeal of his single misdemeanor conviction, along with rejection of Zinniker-Craig case) and...

Michigan Food Dump Meant to Send Us All a Message

by David Gumpert | Jul 22, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 69 comments

The government-sponsored dump of nearly $5,000 of milk, eggs, butter, and cream from Michigan’s My Family Co-Op yesterday carried a very clear and powerful political message to all Americans: We control your food and we don’t like you buying your food outside...

MI Food Seizure Aftermath: They Wonder Why People Are Pissed?

by David Gumpert | Jul 20, 2014 | Food Clubs, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 25 comments

Jenny Samuelson was all set to do the deal dictated by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development: Dispose of nearly $5,000 worth of raw milk, cream, butter, eggs, and cheese. Under MDARD supervision, she was to bring the 250 gallons of milk to a...

Raw Dairy Farmers Wait for the Other Shoe to Drop

by David Gumpert | Jun 6, 2014 | Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 33 comments

It’s been a year since the criminal trial of Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger, and his acquittal by a jury of all licensing charges.  Things have been very quiet on the enforcement front since then….almost as quiet as the recent discussion on...

India Watches Our Raw Milk Wars with Concern

by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance | 11 comments

Michael Schmidt has decided to appeal his conviction for violating Ontario’s dairy laws to the Canadian Supreme Court. In doing so, he may well have begun another chapter, “The New 20-Year Raw Milk War Against Michael Schmidt.” In Europe, they fought a 100-Year...

How Do You Spell “Legitimacy”? Regulators May Be Tested by Schmidt Decision

by David Gumpert | Mar 13, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 24 comments

You’d think food regulators throughout North America would be celebrating the emphatic endorsement they received from Ontario’s Court of Appeal in the Michael Schmidt raw milk case. The three justices agreed with everything their government told them to agree...
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