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FTCLDF Isnt About to Abandon Legal Action Any Time Soonand Big Cases May Be Brewing

by David Gumpert | Aug 28, 2009 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

If I’ve sounded negative about the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund’s legal initiatives (see my Aug. 22 and Aug. 24 postings), the negativity isn’t rubbing off on Pete Kennedy, the organization’s president. He tells me the fledgling...

Hopelessness of Going Up Against State Drove Claravales Ron Garthwaite to Drop Out of AB 1735 Case

by David Gumpert | Aug 25, 2009 | Uncategorized | 8 comments

Ron Garthwaite and his wife, Collette Cassidy, tend to calves at Claravale Farm in Panoche, CA.As he contemplated a possible December trial of the 2008 suit against California agriculture officials in connection with AB 1735 and its tough coliform standard, Claravale...

Whither the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund? Forging an Identity in Wake of Legal Setbacks

by David Gumpert | Aug 23, 2009 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund was launched on July 4, 2007, to symbolically emphasize its commitment to farmer and consumer independence. It was formed in large measure as a result of a government crackdown on producers of raw milk, and the emergence of the...

To Produce Organic Raw Milk or Not to Produce Organic Raw Milk; Ominous Study on Gut Flora; Tweeting

by David Gumpert | Aug 19, 2009 | Uncategorized | 16 comments

Stephen Leslie and team plow a field at Cedar Mountain Farm in Vermont. (Photo by Carla Kimball, http://revealedpresence.com/2009/08/25/farming-with-horses/)Before they came to eastern Vermont ten years ago and launched Cedar Mountain Farm, Kerry Gawalt and Stephen...

Todays Riddle: What Is the Wild Debate Over Health Care Really Telling Us? Farmers Market Bounty

by David Gumpert | Aug 17, 2009 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

Like many Americans, I watched with amazement, and a sense of shame, the videos earlier this week about the thousands of people drawn to free health care services in the Los Angeles area (provided by Remote Area Medical).So great was the demand that even after...

Filling in the Raw Milk Information Gap Will Take Time, But We May Be Seeing a Beginning

by David Gumpert | Aug 14, 2009 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

Ray Robinson milks his cows at the family dairy in Hardwick, MA, last Saturday.You have to wonder… Pam and Ray Robinson run a small dairy farm with 35 cows in central Massachusetts, where they sell some of their milk raw directly to consumers. Earlier this...

What Is It About Raw Milk That Gets Opponents So Obsessed? Why the Dee Creek Episode Wont Die

by David Gumpert | Aug 11, 2009 | Uncategorized | 19 comments

Michael and Anita Puckett, owners of Dee Creek, after a federal judge refused to impose a plea agreement last September.At the raw milk symposium sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) last month, I argued in my presentation that all the fuss...

Home Delivery of Raw Milk: How Vermont Farmers United to Fend Off Regulators and Big Dairyand Broaden Availability

by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2009 | Uncategorized | 5 comments

Since the federal government launched its anti-rawmilk campaign in 2006, I’ve had a tendency to focus much of my attention on the large states where the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has concentrated its fire: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and...
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