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Why RAWMI Can’t Serve Two (or More) Masters, and Needs Serious Re-Assessment…Before Trust Erodes Further; Raw Milk in Academia; FSN’s “Naughty” List

by David Gumpert | Dec 26, 2011 | Uncategorized | 44 comments

I am fortunate that I have a few raw milk buying options. I spend a fair amount of time in New Hampshire, and there I have a favorite farm where I can buy wonderful milk from a farmer who carefully tends to several grass-fed guernseys. The milk is very creamy and...

Bull in the China Shop? Sparks Fly As RAWMI Inserts Itself into Local Legislative Battles Over Raw Milk in WI and MN; Before-and-After at One Market

by David Gumpert | Dec 22, 2011 | Uncategorized | 53 comments

I can remember when I was a kid, and visiting guests were expected momentarily, my sister and I would be admonished by my parents not to “fight in front of the company.” Raw milk supporters in Wisconsin and Minnesota are on the verge of fighting in front...

Raw Dairies Everywhere Can Learn An Important Lesson from OPDC: Turn Your Customers Into Warriors

by David Gumpert | Dec 19, 2011 | Uncategorized | 38 comments

The Harvard Business School is always on the lookout for interesting business case studies to help teach its high-powered students about the latest trends in business management. I’m going to nominate Organic Pastures Dairy Co. for consideration as an HBS...

Deja Vu All Over Again? Mix OPDC, CDFA, Raw Milk, and You Get Potent Brew of Political Drama…in 2006 and 2011

by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2011 | What's New | 30 comments

Back in the fall of 2006, the California Department of Food and Agriculture shut down Organic Pastures Dairy Co. after the state identified six children it said were sickened by E.coli O157:H7. Inspectors invaded the dairy and carried out hundreds of manure and...

Accusing FDA of “Quasi-Criminal Action,” Amish Farmer Seeks “Public Court Forum”; Those in Favor of Raw Milk…

by David Gumpert | Dec 15, 2011 | Uncategorized | 23 comments

The Amish are reluctant participants in the legal system, no matter what the occasion. They prefer to stay very much within their own communities, and avoid conflict with the outside world.  But Dan Allgyer has put together a credible and cogent response to the...

Why Consumers Need to Take the Lead in Organizing Against the FDA and Its Lackeys; Farmageddon DC Showing; FDA Mustn’t “Waiver”; More Blog Musings

by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2011 | Uncategorized | 26 comments

?As I was putting up the video of Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger being served with a court summons, I wondered to myself: What purpose does putting this little video, which just shows an officer handing a guy a sheaf of papers, quipping “just doing my...

Red Ribbon Isn’t All That’s Missing from Fed’s Package Against PA Farmer; WI Farmer Seeks to Promote His Sheriff

by David Gumpert | Dec 10, 2011 | Uncategorized | 37 comments

When you go to buy a car or insurance, the sales people nearly instantaneously print out all the documentation you need. All you have to do is sign on the bottom line. No need to bother with all the fine print. Well, the U.S. Department of Justice has kind of done the...

While Demonstrators Flout FDAs Interstate Raw Milk Ban, Feds and WI Officials Focus on Subduing Defiant Farmers

by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2011 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

The Raw Milk Freedom Riders were organized to shift the legal heat of the federal and state war against raw milk from farmers to consumers. Committing a crime? Max Kane, at Chicago rally, pays “agent” Mary Bercke for raw milk she has just brought from...
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