by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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....
by David Gumpert | Oct 22, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The rumbles from Ontario dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s hunger strike are spreading quickly and widely. As just one quantitative indication, the “Support Michael Schmidt” Facebook page has nearly 1,300 members, and that number will be out of date no...
by David Gumpert | Oct 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
There’s one sentence in Michael Schmidt’s letter to Ontario’s Premier McGuinty, published as my previous post, that I can’t get out of my head. “In return, my farm has been raided by armed officers, my family has been terrorized and I...
by David Gumpert | Oct 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt personally delivered a letter to Ontario’s premier, Dalton McGuinty, today. In it, he explains why he is carrying on his hunger strike, and what it will take for him to end it. Schmidt states his position more clearly...
by David Gumpert | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The enormity of Michael Schmidt’s hunger strike is sinking in with more and more people. For one person to put his life on the line so that others might re-gain or keep the right to eat the foods of their choosing–not the government’s...
by David Gumpert | Oct 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Michael SchmidtMichael Schmidt reports that he continues to work full time at his Ontario raw dairy farm, despite having gone 14 days without food, the last seven on just water. When he’s not working the farm, he’s busy speaking at the growing number of...
by David Gumpert | Oct 13, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sharon PalmerSharon Palmer has achieved a level of fame in the food rights movement. She’s been raided four times since she moved to the Healthy Family Farm location in Ventura County, the most recent one having taken place August 3, when she was one of three...
by David Gumpert | Oct 11, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee and James Stewart at raw milk rally last Wednesday in Los Angeles. I’ve been fond of telling whomever will listen that the U.S. is in a war over food rights. But I must amend that. We’re in a guerrilla war over food rights. ...
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