by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I spent some time over the last couple of days watching a DVD of a hearing put on in early January by commissioners of the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) seeking public comment about the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Michigan is due to become...
by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I take heart from comments on my most recent posting, suggesting that individuals who go to the trouble of shining a light on arrogant regulators can make a difference. Don Neeper’s comment about Arlie Stutzman, an Ohio raw milk farmer, is particularly...
by David Gumpert | Feb 20, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The first legal repercussion from the Michigan raw milk sting has me asking questions. Here is my latest: What should members of Family Farms Cooperative (FFC) do to help David Hochstetler, the Indiana farmer who supplies its raw milk, who is now threatened by a Food...
by David Gumpert | Feb 19, 2007 | Uncategorized |
What should David Hochstetler, the Amish Indiana dairy farmer who supplies the Family Farms Cooperative’s raw milk, do about the warning letter he received from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?Well, when I posted the previous item about...
by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2007 | Uncategorized |
During the four months I’ve been writing about the strange case of the Michigan and federal government campaigns against Michigan’s Family Farm Cooperative, there is one person who has remained carefully situated in the background: the Indiana Amish farmer...
by David Gumpert | Feb 16, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Four months after the sting operation against Richard Hebron and the Family Farms Cooperative in Michigan over distribution of raw milk, co-op members are experiencing the first legal reverberation from the case.It comes in the form of a “warning letter”...
by David Gumpert | Feb 15, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I figured I was scratching the surface in my post on the role of factory farming in fostering “super bugs,” but I didn’t realize how much until I read Miguel’s treatise (originally posted on Facing South blog by Marek Kryda of Waterkeeper...
by David Gumpert | Feb 14, 2007 | Uncategorized |
If you want a sense of the tenor of the debate over mandatory vaccination, and the media biases in health care, take a look at a segment on this morning’s Today Show. (Go to the link, and on the list of stories, click on, “Should HPV vaccines be...
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