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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 7, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Sylvia Gibson poses a recurring question following my previous post: Why is it that our regulators and legislators come down so hard in following up on illnesses from raw milk, but do nothing when people become sick and even die from other foods like cold cuts,...
by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2009 | Uncategorized |
There is a provocative debate-discussion going on following my Dec. 29 post about Regulator (who seems to have thrown his/her grenade, and departed to watch the explosions). The discussion, I think, is about the nature of warning labels and signs that raw milk might...
by David Gumpert | Jan 3, 2009 | Uncategorized |
It’s always tempting at the start of a New Year to attempt predictions about upcoming news and trends. In the arena of raw milk, one thing I can say with a good deal of confidence is that 2009 will almost certainly be a dynamic year. The subject has attracted a...
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