by David Gumpert | May 14, 2008 | Uncategorized |
If you want to get a sense of the double-talk that passes for science around the raw-milk issue, take a look at the transcript from the California Senate hearing on raw milk held April 15 in Sacramento. Organic Pastures Dairy Co. has just published the complete...
by David Gumpert | May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized |
One of the reasons I’ve been so fascinated with the issue of raw milk—I didn’t, after all, launch this blog as a “raw milk blog”—is that it is a proxy issue affecting a variety of food and health issues. The debate taking place on...
by David Gumpert | May 9, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As I drove around on country roads in central Pennsylvania earlier this week, I felt envious of the people who live near Mount Holly Springs and Elizabethtown. I saw lots of cows grazing on open pasture—a sight you don’t see in most parts of the country....
by David Gumpert | May 7, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As strong as the stench coming from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture was yesterday in Mark Nolt’s trial, it actually intensified today, in a tiny Elizabethtown courtroom, about 50 miles down the road, where Glen Wise went on trial for selling raw dairy...
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....
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