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Hidden Message in MI AG’s Court Shenanigans: Baker Hog Case Far from Over

by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2014 | Regulation, Resistance | 82 comments

I have found myself thinking a lot about last week’s courtroom antics of Harold Martin, the Michigan assistant attorney general, which have been viewed more than 1,000 times already on YouTube.  While it’s tempting to simply label Martin as unprofessional and...

In Appeal, Dan Brown Says Judge’s Raw Milk Injunction Drove Him Out of Farming

by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 42 comments

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...

Hog Farmer Mark Baker to MI DNR: One More Time, Explain Genetic Purification

by David Gumpert | Feb 13, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 66 comments

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,...

Michael Schmidt “Upbeat” As He Readies Himself for Appeals Court Date over Raw Milk in Canada

by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 74 comments

Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt has been in legal limbo for about twenty years now. It’s 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...

Odds and Ends: Eucalyptus and Climate; That CDC MN Raw Milk Study; Dairy Footprints; NOFA-NJ Conference

by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 70 comments

I love eucalyptus trees, both their smell and their look. But I didn’t 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...

For American Cheese Society, When Does Cooperation with FDA Become Complicity?; Special Online Food “Summit”

by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 69 comments

(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...

Top Food Rights Story of 2013? More People Waking Up

by David Gumpert | Jan 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation, Resistance | 68 comments

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...

Overreach: MN Judge Puts Crimp in MDA’s 10-Year Pursuit of Raw Dairy Farmer Hartmann

by David Gumpert | Oct 31, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance | 122 comments

Minnesota’s 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 farmer’s truck.In a strongly worded 30-page opinion, Minnesota Judge...
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