by David Gumpert | Jan 21, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Just because I’m suggesting that we be a little kinder to each other, and to a handful of individuals who disagree with the majority on raw milk regulation, doesn’t mean I hold any illusions about the regulators. Basically, the regulators, starting at the...
by David Gumpert | Jan 19, 2009 | Uncategorized |
As long as the subject of intolerance of minorities has come up, with the confluence of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, it’s a good time to address intolerance with regard to comments following my...
by David Gumpert | Jan 18, 2009 | Uncategorized |
A little free association here: Shortly after the Sharon Palmer situation broke, and the snapping about her past began appearing here, a dairy farmer I know wrote me a note, “This shows how those of us producing alternative foods need to be squeaky clean.”...
by David Gumpert | Jan 15, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I have suggested a couple of times that the story of California dairy farmer Sharon Palmer—arrested, handcuffed in front of her children, and jailed overnight nearly a month ago– isn’t as neat and tidy as we might like. She’s come under highly...
by David Gumpert | Jan 13, 2009 | Uncategorized |
In all the he-said-she-said around the Sharon Palmer case, one little factoid that is difficult to put out of mind is the use of undercover agents. State agriculture agencies use agents to pose as consumers buying products, often seeking to convince farmers to sell...
by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Okay, let’s get a few things out into the open here. There’s an exchange following my Thursday posting about Sharon Palmer in which Joe Slow brings up a run-in with the law that Sharon Palmer had back in 1999. I was aware when I wrote about her that Sharon...
by David Gumpert | Jan 10, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. has been pretty upfront about what he thinks of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Earlier today, during a 45-minute hearing in front of a federal magistrate in Fresno, CA, Mark got a sense of what the FDA thinks of him....
by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Copyright Fillmore GazetteOn the morning of December 18, a week before Christmas, a woman showed up at Sharon Palmer’s Healthy Family Farms in Santa Paula, CA, wanting to purchase some goat cheese—for an upcoming holiday party, she said. What happened next...
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