by David Gumpert | May 15, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
A chapter in my new book on food rights is entitled, Since When Are We Afraid of Food? I detail some of the reasons for the sometimes irrational concerns about food dangers that have developed over the last twenty years, resulting in what sometimes seems like...
by David Gumpert | May 13, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The criminal misdemeanor trial of Vernon Hershberger is a week off, and I find myself wondering…Is there any other country (aside from Canada) in todays crazy mixed-up world that would devote the resources the U.S. is devoting to punishing a farmer for selling...
by David Gumpert | May 8, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For those people expecting the upcoming trial of Vernon Hershberger to provide a jury verdict on the benefits of raw milk, theres been a glitch. The judge in the case, Guy Reynolds, said yesterday at a pretrial hearing that the words raw milk cant be uttered...
by David Gumpert | May 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Government scientists have examined an outbreak of 148 illnesses from campylobacter last year at The Family Cow dairy in Pennsylvania, and concluded its impossible to produce raw milk safely. This supposedly scientific report, by scientists of the U.S....
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Maines food sovereignty movement took a hit when a state judge ruled earlier this week that farmer Dan Brown must have a license to sell raw milk, despite his towns ordinance exempting local farmers from state food regulations. The judge was ruling in response...
by David Gumpert | Apr 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Raw Milk |
Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on his behalf, his trial looks likely to go forward as scheduled beginning May 20.As proceedings draw closer, we will no...
by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk |
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a food writer I have long admired–Tom Philpott, who produces the great Mother Jones food blog. Ive known him for probably five or six years, beginning when I wrote for Grist when he was the editor, but we had never...
by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Resistance |
When I first heard about the Boston Marathon bombing, I assumed it was likely a case of domestic terrorism. Foreigners tend not to be so aware of the historical relevance of the Boston Marathon–that it takes place on Patriots Day, the commemoration of the start...
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