by David Gumpert | May 16, 2014 | Legal, News Media, Regulation |
One of the things that most impressed me about the Tuesday Maine Supreme Court hearing for Dan Brown was the happenings outside the courtroom. Before the hearing, Dan Brown supporters gathered on the steps of the Portland courthouse to hear not only from...
by David Gumpert | May 13, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
How will the Maine Supreme Court rule on the Dan Brown food sovereignty case? If the intense 30-minute hearing today is any indication, it could be quite a sharp debate among the seven justices (six of whom were in attendance at todays hearing). Even...
by David Gumpert | May 11, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk |
In its pursuit of Dan Brown, the state of Maine has made much about public health and the states raw milk permit program that his one-cow dairy didnt register for, to justify the case. But at its heart, the case is about the Food Sovereignty ordinances adopted by...
by David Gumpert | May 6, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research |
A business expert I worked with some years ago while writing a book about business planning used to remark, If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there. I feel a little like Im descending further into that...
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk |
When I testified before the Vermont House of Representatives about raw milk risk, I presented annualized data and risk data that I and others had calculated. I pointed out that the legislators would never, ever, receive data about raw milk in an annualized,...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
What are we to make of an academic conference in Canadathe most anti-raw-milk country on the planet that actually included serious and open discussion from a wide range of attendees about the benefits of raw milk and ways to make it legal? Im not sure....
by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2014 | News Media, Regulation |
Dont underestimate the importance of Vermonts passage of a GMO-labeling law. Tiny Vermont (population 626,000) is the first of what will likely be a number of states to confront Americas food oligarchy and try to force these cartels to actually do something...
by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance |
Michael Schmidt has decided to appeal his conviction for violating Ontarios dairy laws to the Canadian Supreme Court. In doing so, he may well have begun another chapter, The New 20-Year Raw Milk War Against Michael Schmidt. In Europe, they fought a 100-Year...
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