by David Gumpert | Mar 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I had the good fortune Friday evening of meeting personally a number of individuals who regularly add to this blog via their incisive comments. The meeting came about thanks to Linda Diane Feldt, an Ann Arbor, MI, holistic practitioner, who organized a community...
by David Gumpert | Mar 8, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Greg Niewendorp and several of his supporters have set up an unusual kind of charitable fund growing out of the Michigan farmer’s refusal to abide by regulations related to the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). A number of readers of this blog and...
by David Gumpert | Mar 7, 2007 | Uncategorized |
When I try to explain Greg Niewendorp’s civil disobedience to friends or acquaintances who aren’t familiar with the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), I usually get this response: So what’s so bad about tracking farm animals?...
by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Greg Niewendorp, the Michigan farmer whose land is now under quarantine because of his refusal to go along with the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), wants to correct a statement I made in yesterday’s posting, in which I said civil disobedience grows...
by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Greg Niewendorp’s act of civil disobedience–and that is what is going on here–has stimulated a great deal of emotion, witness the comments from my original Thursday posting. Which is as it should be, since civil disobedience is at once an...
by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It’s easy in our celebrity- and money-crazed society to forget the fundamental battle for individual rights that drove our country’s drive for independence in 1776 and the Revolutionary War years that followed. Greg Niewendorp’s stand (see previous...
by David Gumpert | Mar 2, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It’s been only a few hours since the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) made its voluntary-to-required debut in Michigan, and already a farmer is challenging its underpinnings. The Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) quickly responded by...
by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
You’d think that after taking nearly four months to answer a few questions posed by Michigan Sen. Carl Levin about the Family Farms Cooperative (FFC) case, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would at least provide some clarification. Instead, it only...
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