by David Gumpert | Oct 28, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I slept a lot better last night, as did Richard and Annette Hebron. Richard didn’t get home to Vandalia, MI, until about 11:30 last evening (Friday), dead tired after having been stuck in Detroit traffic for two hours, and Annette was nearly asleep,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 27, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I slept badly last night. I know the reason, and it has to do with the raw milk problem in Michigan. Since mid-day yesterday (Thursday), I’ve been in possession of information about the details of the distribution of raw milk scheduled for today (Friday) to Ann...
by David Gumpert | Oct 27, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Once a war gets going, the combatants often forget what sparked the whole thing. Usually, when they do remember, it turns out to be something pretty minor in the context of the fight at hand–some insult or suspected aggression. And if you probe the actual...
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...
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