by David Gumpert | Jan 31, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’m glad to see Mark McAfee so upbeat. “The power resides with the people,” he says in his comment on my previous post. “By April new legislation will be introduced and the Blue Ribbon Commission will have made its recommendations. We will have...
by David Gumpert | Jan 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
No one can accuse the fine public servants of California’s Department of Food and Agriculture of sitting on their hands, and letting raw milk coliforms threaten the health and safety of California consumers. No, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. The junior...
by David Gumpert | Jan 28, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I keep thinking about Barb and Steve Smith, and how they took six of their children to the court hearing last week seeking a temporary injunction in their suit against New York’s Department of Food and Agriculture. They school their children at home. (Six live...
by David Gumpert | Jan 26, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t we back to where we were on the first of this month? For all the hearings, and blistering legislator criticism of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and reassurances from this politician and that...
by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Six days ago, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures proclaimed after the well-attended Sacramento hearing on AB 1604, “We all won!… Thanks to last minute ‘hallway negotiations,’ Assembly Bill AB 1604 passed with unanimous consent during Ag Assembly...
by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The vagaries of our legal system were on full display for Barbara and Steve Smith and members of Meadowsweet Dairy LLC yesterday afternoon at the Seneca County courthouse in tiny Waterloo, NY. About 25 of their supporters were on hand—a good deal fewer...
by David Gumpert | Jan 22, 2008 | Uncategorized |
For author Ron Schmid, the recent problems in California regarding raw milk have a familiar ring to them. The consumer outrage. The hearings. The hope that public officials will relent and begin to listen to reason. “This is old hat in California....
by David Gumpert | Jan 20, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The New York hearing over the legality of the Meadowsweet Dairy and its distribution of raw milk products to owners of its limited liability company seems to have been a knock-down affair, with no punches pulled.We won’t know for at least a month the outcome of...
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