by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Max Kane addresses his supporter outside the Viroqua courthouse before his court appearance. I expected last evening when about 40 supporters of Max Kane gathered at one of Viroqua’s largest homes—now a bed-and-breakfast—that lots of people would be...
by David Gumpert | Dec 22, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Max Kane listens to Judge Rosbrough pronounce his decision.At the end of a nearly two-hour court session, state judge M.J. Rosbrough gave Max Kane the news that he would lose on all counts, But the judge did so in a nearly professorial, kindly way. The raw milk issue...
by David Gumpert | Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Wayne and Kay Craig, and family, at last month’s Weston A. Price Foundation conference. The on-again-off-again enforcement activities by Wisconsin regulators against distributors of raw milk over the last four years have left at least two dairy farmers facing...
by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Dairy farm owner Doug Stephan pleads his case for legalizing raw milk to Framingham Board of Health. After all the debate and discussion on this blog and in various media, there was something surrealistic about being in a legally binding open forum discussion about...
by David Gumpert | Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I thought I was having some fun with my previous post about John Sheehan and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration being nervous about the explosion of interest in raw milk. Little did I realize that I was terribly understating the situation. The people at the FDA are...
by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2009 | Uncategorized |
John Sheehan, director of the FDA’s division of plant and dairy food safety.I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the annual performance review of John Sheehan, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s division of plant and dairy food...
by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The mafia knows the technique well. It asks a business owner for “protection” money. He balks. “Why should I pay you for something I don’t need?” The mafia types send a bruiser over after hours to “work the guy over.” After...
by David Gumpert | Dec 5, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. greets supporters after his keynote speech at the Acres USA conference. The raw milk battle in Wisconsin is becoming ever more complicated, and intense. I’ve been at the Acres USA annual conference in St. Paul this past...
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