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Major New Escalation in War on Food Rights As Federal and Local Agencies Team to Arrest 3 in CA on Criminal Charges Associated with Rawesome Food Club

by David Gumpert | Aug 4, 2011 | Uncategorized | 27 comments

The American government has launched a major new escalation in its campaign against food rights by arresting on criminal charges the manager of the private Rawesome Food Club in Venice, CA, a farmer who supplies the club, and her assistant. The circumstances of the...

Raw Milk As Political Theater: Lawyers Join Media in Jockeying for Competitive Position

by David Gumpert | Aug 1, 2011 | What's New | 41 comments

It continues to amaze me how controversial and provocative a topic raw milk is. Every few weeks, it seems, more media outlets are writing and broadcasting about it. In media lingo, raw milk “has legs.” Most recently, a Washington, DC, NPR station promoted...

Tuning Out: Negative Lab Tests on SC Dairy Further Undermine FDA Safety Credibility; Friend in a High Place?

by David Gumpert | Jul 28, 2011 | Uncategorized | 69 comments

It seems the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been unable to close the loop on that South Carolina raw dairy’s campylobacter outbreak. A South Carolina paper has reported that lab tests on the Tucker Adkins dairy’s milk, by both the FDA and the South...

Hartmann’s Supporters Run the Risk of Blaming the Victim in Product Liability Suit; More Media Fairness on Raw Dairy

by David Gumpert | Jul 26, 2011 | Uncategorized | 39 comments

Michael HartmannThe court suit by a  family alleging that a young boy became ill from Minnesota farmer Michael Hartmann’s milk in May 2010 may well be headed for a jury trial. The judge in the case took under advisement the family’s request for...

Support Your Farmer, Through Thick and Thin? MN Customers Test Limits in Case of Family Suing Hartmann; An Invite for a Goat in a CA Philosophy Class; Adios Milk Ad

by David Gumpert | Jul 23, 2011 | Uncategorized | 32 comments

Minnesota farmer Michael Hartmann has a very loyal following of customers. Many of them attended the two-week trial last summer in which he sued the Minnesota agriculture officials. He challenged the state over the embargo of his food products in the aftermath of...

FDA Puts Its Raw Milk Media Offensive Into Overdrive to Make Political Hay from NC Outbreak

by David Gumpert | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized | 10 comments

There’s news about a possible outbreak of campylobacter from raw milk in North Carolina, that likely affected three people, and possibly affected as many as eight.Now, chances are you’ve read that news elsewhere, such as on the many lawyer web sites that...

The Food Safety Ideologues Have a New Spin on That Pesky WI Commercial Dairy Campy Outbreak; In Praise of Camel, Horse and Other Non-Cow’s Milk

by David Gumpert | Jul 16, 2011 | Uncategorized | 28 comments

It’s becoming clear that the Wisconsin campylobacter outbreak a few weeks back, triggered by tainted unpasteurized milk from a commercial dairy, has created a dilemma for the food safety ideologues. These are the people in the regulatory, health, and legal...

Finally, We Get the Real Story of the FDA’s Role in the 2009 GA Raw Milk Pour-out–Let Your Imagination Go

by David Gumpert | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized | 28 comments

When the full history of the raw milk revolution is completed, one incident that will stand out as a low point will be the Georgia raw milk “pour-out”. That was Oct. 19, when dozens of consumers gathered at the farm of Eric Wagoner in Georgia, and carried...
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