by David Gumpert | Apr 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Back in the days of the Old South early last century, there’d be this awful cycle of violence that went something like this: A black man would be accused of snatching a purse or stealing food or, God forbid, smiling or making eye contact with a white woman. This...
by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2012 | News Media, Nutrition, Research |
There’s a big disclosure today of another animal cruelty undercover investigation, this one involving egg-laying hens. The Humane Society of the United States says it is “shining a light on the dark world of suffering for millions of egg-laying...
by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
There’s no escaping the power of the social media. If anyone harbored any doubts, yesterday’s news that a small one-and-a-half-year-old photo-sharing company launched by a couple of twenty-somethings is being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion should wipe...
by David Gumpert | Apr 8, 2012 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research |
Losing her prized calf, Titanic, has Brigitte Ruthman thinking a little differently about dairy-producing priorities. Ruthman, owner of a tiny dairy, has been on this blog before in connection with her clashes with Massachusetts agriculture regulators, who have tried...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration caught a big break from U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett, when he dismissed the suit by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund against the agency (as described in my previous post). But we shouldn’t be surprised. The...
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The two-year-old legal challenge to the ban on interstate shipments of raw milk ended with a whimper late last week when a federal judge dismissed the suit. U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett threw out the suit filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund on behalf...
by David Gumpert | Apr 2, 2012 | Uncategorized |
You listen to Mark Baker of Bakers Green Acres vent about his run-in with the state of Michigan over its plan to ban heritage breeds of pigs, and he could be a raw dairy producer. There’s the same amazement-turned-outrage that his own government could be coming...
by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The public health community would like us to think that it goes after small dairies and food clubs in the interests of food safety. But in more places, regulatory and enforcement actions are looking like nationally coordinated grudge matches, a settling of old scores....
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