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The Last Straw? PA Farmer At End of His Rope on Regulator Inspections Questions USDA Laxity on Covid Safety

by David Gumpert | May 28, 2020 | What's New | 20 comments

Amos Miller, the Pennsylvania Amish farmer who has been trying to work through a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) court action against his farm for four years now, is normally a soft-spoken philosophical man. But he gets nearly agitated when asked about recent...

It’s a Bitter-sweet Welcome Home from Prison for Salve Maker Sam Girod

by David Gumpert | May 23, 2020 | What's New | 11 comments

Last time we looked in on Sam Girod was in July 2017, as he was being sentenced to six years in federal prison following conviction by a jury of violating drug labeling and other rules in connection with a commonly available skin salve.  It was in some bizarre...

In Midst of Pandemic, No Letup in Legal Assault Against Raw-Dairy Farmer Michael Schmidt

by David Gumpert | May 21, 2020 | What's New | 4 comments

Much of Canada’s legal system may be shuttered, but that isn’t discouraging the Ontario government from ramping up bullying surveillance against raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt and his family.  Glenn Jarvie, regulator with Ontario’s Ministry of...

Federal Dragnet Shutters Holistic MD’s Blog on Covid-19 Protocols

by David Gumpert | May 17, 2020 | What's New | 23 comments

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been following a blog by a family practice physician, Dr. David Brownstein, on his experiences treating individuals with Covid-19. I became especially intrigued by an April 12 posting: “My colleagues and I have treated almost 100...

Vaccine or Bust: Irony of Ironies for the Covid-19 Deniers

by David Gumpert | May 8, 2020 | What's New | 40 comments

Now that both South Korea and Taiwan have gotten Covid-19 under control, they have begun their new baseball seasons. They are the only game in town, as it were. I’m hoping to begin catching some on ESPN….or at least the recordings, since the games are played between 1...

Should Meat Workers Be Forced to Risk Contracting Covid-19 to Keep the Commodity Food System Operating?

by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2020 | What's New | 27 comments

A couple weeks ago we saw obscene images of dairy farmers discarding milk, and vegetable growers plowing over tomatoes intended for restaurants that have been shuttered, all while thousands of hungry Americans waited in line for handouts at food pantries.  Now, a...

A Whole Lot of Grieving Going On…With No Resolution in Sight

by David Gumpert | Apr 27, 2020 | What's New | 14 comments

This is a time for mourning, for things large and small.  You can see it in the increasingly emotional debates about “solving” the Covid-19 pandemic—a growing number of Americans are for opening everything up and relying on herd immunity, while others are for...

“Here’s Another Nice Mess You’ve Gotten Me Into”: How Does Our Nightmare Pandemic Movie End?

by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2020 | What's New | 44 comments

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were masters of slapstick comedy as film stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Invariably, they’d wind up in some kind of jam, like locked outside a hospital in a rainstorm, and Hardy would complain to Laurel, “Well, here’s another nice mess...
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