by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2022 | What's New |
The photos of ill-equipped Ukrainian soldiers saying sad good-byes to their fleeing wives and children and going off to fight the invading armies of one of the world’s most powerful militaries conjure up a time in American history when something similar was happening...
by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2022 | What's New |
Canadian raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt reports he is being pursued, yet again, by regulators in Ontario. “After 28 years in court, my friend Glen Jarvie investigator for the Government returned with court papers and charged us once again,” Schmidt posted on Facebook...
by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2022 | What's New |
The attempted insurrection last January 6 was a traumatic event for many Americans. We have all had the good fortune to live in a country that has known only political stability for many generations. Few of us appreciate that we are in the world’s minority—in much of...
by David Gumpert | Dec 15, 2021 | What's New |
Over the past summer and fall, at farmers markets and food coops in New Hampshire and Vermont, I kept seeing small packages of “microgreen” products, with names like ‘black oil sunflower microgreens’ and ‘pea microgreens.’ I bought a few and found them delicious...
by David Gumpert | Oct 22, 2021 | What's New |
For a decade now, judges, regulators, and even some media have ridiculed the notion of ‘food rights,’ the idea that Americans have a right to grow, buy, and consume the foods of our own choosing. FDA lawyers in 2010 argued in a brief defending against a suit filed by...
by David Gumpert | Oct 1, 2021 | What's New |
Uncle Sam doesn’t like to lose in court, especially when the winner is a legally clumsy Amish farmer selling healing food via private food clubs around the country. That much became clear during a phone hearing before federal judge Edward Smith Friday, following up on...
by David Gumpert | Sep 16, 2021 | What's New |
Early in the pandemic, National Geographic published an article about Mary Mallon, the Irish immigrant dubbed “Typhoid Mary” by a New York City tabloid in the early 1900s. National Geographic tries to be non-political, so the article focused on Mary Mallon’s role in...
by David Gumpert | Aug 26, 2021 | What's New |
In a highly unusual move, federal Judge Edward Smith on Wednesday put on hold a $250,000 fine of Pennsylvania Amish farmer Amos Miller “until further order of the court.” Smith’s dramatic action came shortly after a phone hearing requested by Miller’s lawyers to...
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