by David Gumpert | May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Even the most despotic regimes hate to impose martial law and put soldiers into the streets to back up the police in putting down citizen uprisings. Despots worry that, when push comes to shove, and protesting citizens don’t do as they’re told, soldiers...
by David Gumpert | May 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The big surprise today wasn’t that Mark Nolt was found guilty on four citations of selling raw milk without a permit, and fined $1,051 on each citation. That was nearly a foregone conclusion, since Mark refused to engage a lawyer. No, the big surprise was the...
by David Gumpert | May 4, 2008 | Uncategorized |
It’s tempting for many producers of raw milk to think that if they stay far enough under the radar, or off the grid, that they can escape the clutches of super-zealous regulators like Bill Chirdon of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. That’s what...
by David Gumpert | May 1, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been harping on the likelyabuse of Mark Nolt’s rights via execution of a search warrant at his Pennsylvania dairy last Friday when he was hauled off to court—the theft of a book, and other equipment possibly unrelated to the search warrant....
by David Gumpert | Apr 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture must feel on solid ground. The press person there was cordial and forthcoming to my requests for information. The only question he had some trouble dealing with was about why Bill Chirdon, the PDA food safety guy, confiscated...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2008 | Uncategorized |
One of Mark Nolt’s lasting images from last Friday’s raid of his farm by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, is of Bill Chirdon, the top PDA food safety official, walking off with a copy of Joel Salatin’s book, “Everything I Want to Do...
by David Gumpert | Apr 26, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Today was supposed to be the day a California superior court judge decided heard arguments on whether to turn a temporary restraining order barring implementation of AB1735’s coliform standard into a more extended preliminary injunction. After more than four...
by David Gumpert | Apr 26, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The State finally came for Mark Nolt, the Pennsylvania dairyman who refused to obtain a raw milk permit, and continued selling raw dairy products from his Nature’s Sunlight Farm.A constable dispatched by a Pennsylvania District Court served Mark with an arrest...
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