by David Gumpert | Aug 20, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, News Media, Raids, Raw Milk |
The foreman of the jury that acquitted Wisconsin farmer Vernon Hershberger of all licensing charges is wondering if state lawyers who prosecuted the case should be sanctioned by a bar association for their conduct during the trial last May. He is especially...
by David Gumpert | Aug 16, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Despite my disparaging view of the prosecution in the Alvin Schlangen case, the six-person jury had its own view, and it wasn’t the same as mine or others on this blog. After nearly four hours of deliberation on Thursday, it convicted the Minnesota farmer of...
by David Gumpert | Aug 15, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Regulation |
Were Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen’s eggs unsafe because they were sitting out at room temperature for some hours?On Day 2 of Schlangen’s criminal trial yesterday, that was one of the key questions under consideration, as Schlangen took the stand...
by David Gumpert | Aug 14, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk |
After a notably weak opening-day prosecution of Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen, his defense attorney will today file a motion to dismiss the criminal misdemeanor case. Defense lawyer Nathan Hansen will argue that Schlangen has the right to sell food to about...
by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Theres something weird….no, make that sinister….going on in the Minnesota prosecution of raw dairy farmers. Ive written a number of times about the apparent prosecution effort to link a single uninvestigated illness from campylobacter to Alvin...
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 31, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Alvin Schlangen knows the drill by now. Designate a few members of his Minnesota food club to run things in the event he is thrown in jail. Savor his last few meals at home. Get the word out as far and wide as possible to encourage supporters to attend his...
by David Gumpert | Jul 29, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Regulation |
Its easy to forget in all the dustup between Aajonus Vonderplanitz and Sharon Palmer that her Ventura County farm began as a nearly romantic project back in 2008, supported financially by nearly a dozen Rawesome members and other supporters of locally-produced...
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