by David Gumpert | Jan 28, 2021 | What's New |
A few American sheriffs will always hold an important spot in food rights lore, even if they wound up getting sucked into Donald Trump’s “big lie” that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Brad Rogers back in 2011, as an Indiana county sheriff. One of the most important...
by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2021 | What's New |
So the word is Vice President Pence has finally spoken with President Trump. I’ve been trying to imagine how that conversation went. Maybe something like this: Insurrectionists in the Capitol, one wearing an anti-Semitic t-shirt. (From British television channel ITV)...
by David Gumpert | Jan 7, 2021 | What's New |
This is the time of year to make resolutions….and predictions. I long ago gave up on New Year’s resolutions (just don’t work well in real life), but I love predictions. Not necessarily to make them, but to read about them. I remember all those wild predictions from...
by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2020 | What's New |
The stain of racism continues making itself felt in all corners of our culture. There have been widely publicized examples in areas from sports broadcasting to high tech and places in between. Even among American Buddhist meditation centers, there have been...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2020 | What's New |
There was a lot of legal and public health talent on display at the hearing on the legal challenge by Ontario raw milk drinkers to get the long-standing ban on raw dairy declared unconstitutional. Shaun O’Brien, justice of the OntarioSuperior Court, who presided...
by David Gumpert | Nov 18, 2020 | What's New |
For nearly three days, the court proceedings in the Ontario raw-milk-rights case had been a model of Canadian civility. The judge and lawyers each referred to the other as “my friend,” rather than “colleague” or “opponent.” Opposing lawyers never once interrupted the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 16, 2020 | What's New |
The time has come for Canada to begin allowing the sale of raw milk to those ready to risk consuming it, and in the process put an end to “a peculiar form of Canadian exceptionalism,” a lawyer argued in an Ontario court Monday . An image of Michael Schmidt and his son...
by David Gumpert | Nov 8, 2020 | What's New |
I found myself challenged a couple days ago on Facebook by an ardent Canadian food rights supporter after I disputed her suggestion that Joe Biden won the American presidency because of voter fraud. “You’ve tossed your lot in with a strange crowd, David. You...
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