by David Gumpert | Oct 9, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The Michigan Department of Agriculture at long last force-tested and tagged Greg Niewendorp’s twenty head of cattle today. About twenty supporters and six media representatives were in attendance, Charlevoix County Sheriff George Lasater told me late this...
by David Gumpert | Oct 8, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Greg Niewendorp says he’s been told to expect the county sheriff, George Laseter, to serve him tomorrow (Monday) with a warrant allowing the Michigan department of agriculture to test his cattle for bovine tuberculosis.Niewendorp, who has refused until now to...
by David Gumpert | Oct 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
We’re coming on the one-year anniversary of the sting operation against Richard Hebron and the Family Farms Cooperative, and I thought it would be appropriate to consider how things have changed over the past year. That event was a watershed event in...
by David Gumpert | Oct 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The comments on my Tuesday posting (at least, the ones I didn’t delete; more on that below) had me recalling a conversation I had with the owner of a large family-run farm stand outside Boston that has evolved into a large fruit and vegetable market. He recalled...
by David Gumpert | Oct 4, 2007 | Uncategorized |
For nearly ten years, Barbara Smith held a New York state permit to sell raw milk. But because her Meadowsweet Farm is located a half hour drive from the nearest substantial town, Ithaca, and New York regulations require each customer to come to the farm for milk, she...
by David Gumpert | Oct 3, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. sent me a quote that seems apropos to the discussion currently ongoing about the integrity of the food system : “It is not organic to produce milk organically, and then to pasteurize it.”The quote...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I keep seeing this girl, Samantha Safranek, interviewed in the television news stories about how she got sick from E.coli 0157:H7 in a Topps hamburger she bought at Wal-Mart. I don’t know if she’s the only person sickened willing to come forward or just...
by David Gumpert | Oct 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’m traveling for a few days, visiting my mother in Sarasota. (Her condition has deteriorated significantly since I wrote about her last spring and she’s now in a nursing home.) I’m staying at a hotel, so I headed to a supermarket for a few...
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