by David Gumpert | Oct 26, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I just completed a followup column about Michigan’s raw milk war that’s been posted at BusinessWeek.com, and in certain respects, it’s more chilling than my initial column last week reporting on the raids, searches, and confiscations in Vandalia and...
by David Gumpert | Oct 25, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Back in the late 1920s, local and federal law enforcement officials struggled with how to put gangster Al Capone behind bars. They were having trouble linking Capone with the murders and shakedowns he was clearly a part of. So they became creative: in 1931, they...
by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The Amish farmer whose dairy produces the raw milk distributed to Family Farms Cooperative members in Michigan is actually located just over the state’s southern border, in Indiana. So while Michigan agriculture authorities can interfere...
by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Lots of people aren’t taking well to the Michigan Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) strong-arm tactics against the Family Farms Cooperative, as well as to being deprived of the right to consume the foods of their choice. Since my BusinessWeek.com...
by David Gumpert | Oct 21, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I just returned from the post office, where I dropped in the mail to Richard Hebron of Family Farms Co-op a couple copies of my BusinessWeek.com column about Michigan’s assault on his farming business. I promised him I’d send the copies, since the...
by David Gumpert | Oct 20, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Some further thoughts from my BusinessWeek.com column about the sting operation against a Michigan co-op of three farms…As Annette Hebron described the experience of having five agents combing through her family’s papers and personal belongings in...
by David Gumpert | Oct 19, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The day after my rant about ideology comes a refreshing report from Pennsylvania that actually suggests a pragmatic approach to the matter of raw milk. The Philadelphia Inquirer has a major article today with the heading, "Sales of Raw Milk Growing in PA"....
by David Gumpert | Oct 18, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I always become uncomfortable when I see issue debates–whether about health care, politics, economics, or whatever–turn into ideological debates. My problem is that ideology requires a rigid view of the world, and as a result tends to lead people, and...
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