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The Key Role of Raw Milk Moms in Helping End Michael Schmidts Hunger StrikeNext Up Is Judges Sentence; RAWMI Opens for Business at WAPF Conference

by David Gumpert | Nov 14, 2011 | Uncategorized | 64 comments

Ontario dairy farmer Michael Schmidt ended his hunger strike more than a week ago, but he just ate his first solid food yesterday, at the banquet dinner of the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Wise Traditions Conference in Dallas. He didn’t partake in the...

MA Dairy Farmer Brigitte Ruthman Reflects on a 2nd Raw Milk Cease-and-Desist, and Whether to Pursue the Dream

by David Gumpert | Nov 12, 2011 | Uncategorized | 13 comments

Brigitte Ruthman is a Massachusetts dairy farmer who just received a second Cease-and-Desist order from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. (Here is the story of her first one, received 15 months ago.) In this guest post, she seeks to interpret...

Is It a Crime to Feed Embargoed Cheese to the Pigs? Is That Why the FDA Just Can’t Get Enough of Kicking Kelli and Anthony Estrella Into the Ground?

by David Gumpert | Nov 9, 2011 | Uncategorized | 48 comments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week showed a rare soft side to consumers, by stepping back from enforcement on demonstrators of its ban on interstate raw milk shipments. It’s important that all involved in fighting for food rights appreciate that...

In Accomplishing Their Goals, Michael Schmidt and the Raw Milk Freedom Riders Teach Us Important Lessons About Dealing with Fear; U.S. Judge Acknowledges FDA Shift

by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2011 | Uncategorized | 33 comments

It’s been a good week for the emerging Food Rights movement. Today, day 37 of dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s hunger strike, he met with Ontario’s premier, Dalton McGuinty. It seems Schmidt was meeting with the premier’s chief of staff this...

Raw Milk Freedom Riders Elicit Pledge from FDA Not to Enforce Interstate Ban on Individuals, and Promise of Face-to-Face Discussion; Schmidt: “It’s Dialog or Death”

by David Gumpert | Nov 2, 2011 | What's New | 25 comments

Participants in the Raw Milk Freedom Riders caravan stop at the Maryland state line, showing raw milk they had just purchased in Pennsylvania. The scene at the Maryland-Pennsylvania border was almost surrealistic. There, in a beautifully sunny pastoral countryside,...

The Not-So-Hidden Agenda Behind Tuesday’s “Freedom Riders” Protest; How Prohibition Helped Create Today’s Regulatory Mess; A Farm-to-Fork Fiasco

by David Gumpert | Oct 30, 2011 | Uncategorized | 32 comments

The Tuesday “Raw Milk Freedom Riders–Milk and Cookies Rally” is shaping up as a national event. There are car caravans coming from Minnesota and Illinois, as well as protesters flying in from Wisconsin, Michigan, and California, among many other...

There Is a Precedent for Ontario’s Dalton McGuinty to Meet with Michael Schmidt, and It’s a Win-Win for Everyone…But Time Is Running Short

by David Gumpert | Oct 27, 2011 | Uncategorized | 34 comments

Ontario’s premier, Dalton McGuinty, may well be wondering if meeting with Michael Schmidt might involve a loss of “face”…that he will look weak if he accedes to the dairy farmer’s request. He might want to take a look at the photo here....

Michael Schmidt Reported “Tired, But Well”–Five Important Lessons We’ve Already Learned from His Self Sacrifice

by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2011 | Uncategorized | 28 comments

As he enters the fourth week of a hunger strike, Michael Schmidt’s life still hangs in the balance. This from Jon Duschinsky, a Canadian organizer: Michael Schmidt”Spent an awe-inspiring afternoon with Michael & Elisa and other campaigners today....
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