by David Gumpert | Apr 27, 2022 | What's New |
Like many health-minded Americans, I’ve long sought out organic food as much as possible, especially vegetables, fruits, and dairy. Even the corporate organic produce, I figured, had lower odds of contamination from pesticides and other chemicals than conventional...
by David Gumpert | Mar 26, 2022 | What's New |
Minnesota raw dairy farmer Michael Hartmann died in January. Hartmann became a folk hero in the Minneapolis area for standing up to state public health regulators who raided his delivery truck and farm on numerous occasions between 2010 and 2014 to halt his raw milk...
by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2022 | What's New |
The photos of ill-equipped Ukrainian soldiers saying sad good-byes to their fleeing wives and children and going off to fight the invading armies of one of the world’s most powerful militaries conjure up a time in American history when something similar was happening...
by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2022 | What's New |
Canadian raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt reports he is being pursued, yet again, by regulators in Ontario. “After 28 years in court, my friend Glen Jarvie investigator for the Government returned with court papers and charged us once again,” Schmidt posted on Facebook...
by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2022 | What's New |
The attempted insurrection last January 6 was a traumatic event for many Americans. We have all had the good fortune to live in a country that has known only political stability for many generations. Few of us appreciate that we are in the world’s minority—in much of...
by David Gumpert | Dec 15, 2021 | What's New |
Over the past summer and fall, at farmers markets and food coops in New Hampshire and Vermont, I kept seeing small packages of “microgreen” products, with names like ‘black oil sunflower microgreens’ and ‘pea microgreens.’ I bought a few and found them delicious...
by David Gumpert | Oct 22, 2021 | What's New |
For a decade now, judges, regulators, and even some media have ridiculed the notion of ‘food rights,’ the idea that Americans have a right to grow, buy, and consume the foods of our own choosing. FDA lawyers in 2010 argued in a brief defending against a suit filed by...
by David Gumpert | Oct 1, 2021 | What's New |
Uncle Sam doesn’t like to lose in court, especially when the winner is a legally clumsy Amish farmer selling healing food via private food clubs around the country. That much became clear during a phone hearing before federal judge Edward Smith Friday, following up on...
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