by David Gumpert | Aug 14, 2016 | What's New |
Like many Jewish survivors of Germany’s Nazi period, my father didn’t like to talk about his experiences back then. But from a couple of conversations I had with him before he died in 1997, I extracted this story: In 1933, shortly after Adolph Hitler assumed power, my...
by David Gumpert | Aug 2, 2016 | What's New |
Amos Miller isn’t certain how many times the agents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been back to his Pennsylvania farm since that first highly public visit three weeks ago (chronicled in my July 11 blog post). It’s probably been five or six times, he...
by David Gumpert | Jul 22, 2016 | What's New |
For more than a decade, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had an undeclared war on raw milk cheese, until this week, when the FDA finally beat a retreat. At the conclusion of its latest assault against raw milk cheese–a research study of more than 1,600...
by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2016 | What's New |
No one really wanted to be there at the end of the Pennsylvania farm driveway this morning—neither the two agents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in ill-fitting bulletproof vests under their sport shirts, nor the armed local police detective who accompanied...
by David Gumpert | Jul 10, 2016 | What's New |
As Amos Miller is about to watch USDA inspectors invade his farm, under a federal court order, it seems like a good time to re-visit how another farmer went through a similar crisis. Beginning nearly a decade ago, the state of Wisconsin began an inspection campaign...
by David Gumpert | Jul 2, 2016 | What's New |
U.S. District Court Judge Edward G. Smith used the start of the Independence Day weekend to issue an inspection order that Miller’s Organic Farm allow federal regulators in, accompanied by law enforcement, beginning July 11. The inspection, by agents from the U.S....
by David Gumpert | Jun 28, 2016 | What's New |
At one point at Tuesday’s three-hour hearing about whether agents should be allowed to inspect Amos Miller’s Pennsylvania farm, federal judge Edward Smith made this pronouncement: “Government is at its best when it is sensitive to the people’s needs.” At another...
by David Gumpert | Jun 22, 2016 | What's New |
A seemingly minor request last March by U.S. Department of Agriculture agents to inspect Amos Miller’s Pennsylvania farm has exploded into a full-court press on private food rights. Justice Department lawyers argue in more than 60 pages of briefs designed to convince...
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