by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2014 | Regulation, Resistance |
I have found myself thinking a lot about last weeks courtroom antics of Harold Martin, the Michigan assistant attorney general, which have been viewed more than 1,000 times already on YouTube. While its tempting to simply label Martin as unprofessional and...
by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Lawyers for Maine farmer Dan Brown say a judge who issued an injunction last April barring him from selling raw milk completely overlooked that he would have had to spend $62,500 to comply with regulations to obtain a state permit for his one-cow dairy. As a...
by David Gumpert | Feb 13, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Corporate hog producers and state agriculture regulators around the country are understood to be watching closely the legal case of Michigan hog farmer Mark Baker. What they are seeing is a highly tentative Michigan Department of Natural Resources,...
by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt has been in legal limbo for about twenty years now. Its difficult to even make that statement without wondering, first, about the system that allows such ongoing official pressures on one farmer, and second, about what it is...
by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
I love eucalyptus trees, both their smell and their look. But I didnt like learning about how they are being used to supposedly fight global warming. Vast eucalyptus forests have been planted in Brazil, and the trees are harvested for charcoal. Same...
by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
(Note: The American Cheese Society requested I remove its logo, which had originally accompanied this post, from my blog.)In a war, you are either a collaborator, or a resister. A journalist who has been writing about the Russian rock group, Pussy Riot, made...
by David Gumpert | Jan 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation, Resistance |
I was going to write a year-end top food rights stories of 2013 and rank the events that seemed most important. The criminal trial of Wisconsin farmer Vernon Hershberger, the second trial of Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen, the legislative clashes over food...
by David Gumpert | Oct 31, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance |
Minnesotas relentless decade-long pursuit of dairy farmer Michael Hartmann finally ran off the road, when a state judge ruled earlier this month that the state conducted an illegal search of the farmers truck.In a strongly worded 30-page opinion, Minnesota Judge...
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