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Why Is the Debate Over Raw Milk So Emotional, When the Facts Are So Clear? Here’s a New Theory

by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2008 | Uncategorized | 53 comments

It’s interesting that so many discussions here about the benefits of raw milk seem eventually to revert to the emotionally-laden matter of safety, to the argument that raw milk is somehow a special class of food that is inherently unsafe. It happens again...

I Can’t Wait to Learn What New Tricks Ralph Nader Has Up His Sleeve This Time Around

by David Gumpert | Feb 25, 2008 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

Perhaps it’s apropos that, at this time when our right to access the food of our choice is under frontal attack in New York and California, Ralph Nader should declare himself a candidate for president. This is the same Ralph Nader whose Public Citizen’s...

At Last, Data on Raw Milk and Lactose Intolerance; Raw-Milk Legislation; A Pre-Internet Recollection

by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2008 | Uncategorized | 24 comments

One of the benefits to emerge from the trauma of the Michigan “sting” of October 2006–when Richard Hebron was stopped, his raw-milk products confiscated, and his home searched–was an activist community of raw-milk consumers. Hundreds wrote the...

NY Ag & Markets Contempt Case Looking Ever More Like Swiss CheeseSmiths Allege 4th Amendment and Other Search Warrant Violations

by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2008 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

I’m glad to learn that many of you want to know the details of the proceedings in the raw-milk legal cases, because those details are becoming more intriguing literally by the day. That “slam dunk” Bob Hayles is looking for? Well, I think...

The Smiths Fire Back in Contempt of Court Action: Did NY Ag & Markets Shoot Itself in the Foot?

by David Gumpert | Feb 20, 2008 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

The legal confrontation initiated by New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets against Barb and Steve Smith is turning into more of a lengthy chess match by the day. Part of me hesitates to provide as much detail as I’ve provided—sorting...

Are the Bureaucrats at NY Ag & Markets Worried About a Possible “Check Mate”?

by David Gumpert | Feb 18, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

The more I think about it, especially in light of the comments on my previous post, the more I think New York’s latest move, to have Barb and Steve Smith held in contempt of court, reflects nervousness by the bureaucrats. It’s when bureaucrats (like people...

Why It Takes More Than a Little Outrage to Stir Up Civil Disobedience; Another MI “Disease” Issue

by David Gumpert | Feb 16, 2008 | Uncategorized | 13 comments

I was speaking recently with Greg Niewendorp, the Michigan farmer who engaged in civil disobedience last year by refusing to have his cows tested for bovine tuberculosis. (Search under his name for past posts and discussions about his confrontation with law...

NY Ag and Markets Asks Judge: Lock Herd Share Dairy Operators Up and Throw Away the Key

by David Gumpert | Feb 15, 2008 | Uncategorized | 36 comments

New York state continues to tighten the screws on Barb and Steve Smith, the operators of Meadowsweet Dairy in Lodi. Over what? Over their decision to establish a herd share organized as a limited liability company, and make raw milk dairy products available...
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