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WI Prosecutors Seek to Limit What Hershberger Jury Will Hear About Constitution, Religious Beliefs, Nullification

by David Gumpert | Jul 12, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 9 comments

Prosecutors seeking to jail Vernon Hershberger for distributing his farm’s food privately to members of a food club betrayed their nervousness yesterday when they filed motions intended to limit the evidence the Wisconsin farmer can present to a jury.  The...

Schmidt Seeks to Use Intense Scrapie Probe to Foster Dialog; RAWMI Catching On?

by David Gumpert | Jun 23, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 6 comments

Over nearly two decades of fighting for the right to access raw milk, Michael Schmidt has become legendary for his persistent promotion of dialog with reluctant regulators and politicians. He went on a hunger strike last fall that he ended after five weeks when his...

The Raw Politics of Raw Milk: ME’s Ag Bureaucrats Ignore Their Guv and Go with FDA in Opposing Food Sovereignty

by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 44 comments

Two more Maine towns—Appleton and Livermore– have passed food sovereignty ordinances in the last few days during the current town meeting season. This brings to eight the total number that have legally sanctioned private food sales by local farmers over the last...

“Michael Schmidt Paralysis” Is Proving Contagious: The Emergence of a Moral Authority

by David Gumpert | Jun 14, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Resistance | 23 comments

 There’s a new strain of illness making the rounds of Canada’s rulers. Call it “Michael Schmidt Paralysis.” You don’t wish health problems on your enemies, but news that a second British Columbia prosecutor has bowed out of a major raw milk hearing against dairy...

MO Farmer Plans Public Distribution of Raw Milk, in Defiance of Cease and Desist

by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2012 | Legal, Nutrition, Regulation, Resistance | 84 comments

The latest tactic in impeding raw milk distribution–harassing farmers using drop sites–seems to be spreading from Minnesota to Missouri.  And like in Minnesota, where many of the ten consumer drop site hosts warned by regulators recently are...

The Defeat of Sen. Rand Paul’s Amendment on FDA Cops Serves As Another American Civics Teaching Moment

by David Gumpert | May 29, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 37 comments

Lots of people were discouraged because Sen. Rand Paul’s proposed amendment to reign in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was overwhelmingly defeated last week. It would have prohibited FDA agents from carrying weapons and making arrests as well as liberalized the...

Where Will the First Case of Child Abuse for Serving “Dangerous” Food Originate?

by David Gumpert | May 24, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Nutrition, Regulation, Resistance | 43 comments

When I wrote about the case of parents suing Minnesota farmer Michael Hartmann in connection with their child’s alleged illness from raw milk, and the judge’s suggestion the parents might bear  some responsibility for their child’s illness, I assumed the...

Lots of Bobbing and Weaving Going on in MN, As MDA Gets Delay in Schlangen Trial; OPDC Cleared to Sell Dairy Products

by David Gumpert | May 17, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 48 comments

  Food rights proponents got another civics lesson today when Alvin Schlangen’s jury trial on four misdemeanor charges, due to begin next Monday, was put off indefinitely.It is easy for food rights proponents who participated in protest activities in...
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