by David Gumpert | Oct 21, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The scene outside Halcyon Grange #345 on a rural road in tiny Blue Hill, Maine, is one that has been played out countless times over the past couple centuries. As darkness set in, a couple of men, volunteers, were carving up a pig that had been roasting on a large...
by David Gumpert | Sep 23, 2013 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Lots more people are beginning to get it on food rights. They are coming to understand they cant look the other way when regulators try to intimidate farmers on trumped-up charges. They are beginning to appreciate the importance of becoming directly involved in...
by David Gumpert | Sep 13, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Ive been reading through academic papers being presented this weekend at a Yale University conference on food sovereignty. Ive been learning some new terms from reading papers being presented at the conference. One term that rang a bell is the cunning...
by David Gumpert | Aug 26, 2013 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Its going to become more difficult for pols to simply trample food rights, and then walk away as if nothing happened. A classic case in point is emerging in Maine. There, the states Republican governor, thought to be supportive of small farmers and...
by David Gumpert | Aug 5, 2013 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
At the end of the Q&A following my presentation at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT, last Thursday evening, one woman among the 25 or so people in attendance raised her hand. I was expecting an uplifting presentation, and what I got was just the opposite,...
by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
What makes the case of farmer Mark Baker and his campaign to reverse the Michigan Department of Natural Resources feral-hog genetic purification program different from other food rights cases that have taken place in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and California...
by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Resistance |
When I first heard about the Boston Marathon bombing, I assumed it was likely a case of domestic terrorism. Foreigners tend not to be so aware of the historical relevance of the Boston Marathon–that it takes place on Patriots Day, the commemoration of the start...
by David Gumpert | Feb 8, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
When you follow the tedium of the legal justice system, you begin to understand why some defendants, even though they are innocent, decide to cop pleas rather than follow the process through to completion. It can be a maddening process that is often difficult for the...
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