by David Gumpert | Aug 16, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Regulation |
Liz Reitzig has, over the last few years, become a national leader of Americas rapidly expanding food rights movement. She is the co-coordinator of Grassfed on the Hill buying club serving the greater Washington, DC, area, and co-founder of the Farm Food Freedom...
by David Gumpert | Aug 13, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Aajonus Vonderplanitz and Amanda Rose don’t at first glance have a lot in common when it comes to food politics. Vonderplanitz is adamant about private food rights, while Rose seems much less politically oriented on the issue. But interestingly, both have...
by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’ve spent the last few days reading through the most recent filings in the Maine Food Sovereignty case. If the potential importance of a food rights case could be measured in the heavy weight of the many pages of these initial arguments, this is a serious case....
by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
I am the first to admit I know little about best practices for dealing with potentially serious widely-spreading diseases among farm animals. The image that pops into my mind when this subject comes up is of the huge piles of dead cows in England during the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 3, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids |
A raiding party of twenty agents from three different agencies descended on Michael Schmidt’s Ontario Farm at 7 this morning with a simple message: he could be looking at 14 years in jail in connection with conspiracy charges associated with the scrapie...
by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2012 | Food Clubs, Raids, Raw Milk |
Last March, there was a three-day preliminary hearing in Ventura County about the allegations of fraud against James Stewart and two other principles in the Rawesome affair–Sharon Palmer and Larry Otting. The allegations mostly concern a mortgage transaction and...
by David Gumpert | Jul 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance |
(Additional information and links have been added to this article since it was first posted.)Just when it seemed as if the Rawesome Food Club case couldn’t get any more bizarre…it got more bizarre, a lot more bizarre. A case that has seen brutal infighting...
by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2012 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The food rights movement is entering a new phase. We might best think of it as the “legal phase.” All those raids on food clubs and farms (mostly over raw milk distribution) over the last few years–the “crackdown phase”, if you...
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