by David Gumpert | Dec 18, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As I began reading through the court suit that Jacqueline and John Stowers have filed against various Ohio officials, I kept wondering about the retail licensing provision that supposedly prompted the entire affair. How was it that the Manna Storehouse was...
by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
We used to have a saying when I was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal a number of years back. One incident is curious, two is interesting, and three is a trend. I think it’s safe to say we are witnessing a trend, or shall we say an assault, by the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 15, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Now, if Mark McAfee can just tell us how much raw milk and cream correlate with how much Viagra…Talk about a wonderful way to get the regulators and raw milk producers on the same page. (If you can’t figure what I’m talking about, take a look at the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The movement to convince President-elect Barack Obama to name a reformer as secretary of agriculture (or a re-named “secretary of food”) just got some clout, with a New York Times columnist now pushing it. It could be he will—he seems very much the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized |
It looks as if we won’t get to see the modern-day version of the 1920s Scopes Monkey Trial over evolution that Mark McAfee envisioned for raw milk. In an email with the subject line, “We surrender,” and in a comment following my previous post, Mark...
by David Gumpert | Dec 7, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Given the upset about the Manna Storehouse incident and other such infringements on our food rights, I had to savor my latest experience purchasing raw milk. It had been a while since I placed an order for milk with Kathy in New Hampshire, what with being away in...
by David Gumpert | Dec 6, 2008 | Uncategorized |
When officers from the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio arrived last Monday at the Manna Storehouse food cooperative in LaGrange with weapons drawn and trained on Katie Stowers and her children, along with her in-laws, there was one member of the family...
by David Gumpert | Dec 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The latest legal news on the raw milk front isn’t encouraging. Raw milk producer Michael Schmidt has been fined $55,000 on contempt of court charges in Canada in connection with legal moves against him and his cowshare. He vows not to pay the fine, but...
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