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Gaining Control of Our Food: The “Radical” Underpinnings of Food Sovereignty

by David Gumpert | Feb 6, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 5 comments

For the first time since it began quizzing Americans nearly two decades ago, Pew Research Center has found that a majority of Americans feel the federal government threatens their personal  rights and freedom. That finding begins to explain why increasing numbers...

With Straight Face, MN Prosecutor Argues Any Unregulated Food a “Controlled Substance”; Settlement of Maine Food Sovereignty Case?

by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 46 comments

An unlicensed organization like a food club is not only distributing “contraband,” but a “controlled substance,” in the view of a Minnesota prosecutor fighting to prevent dismissal of three misdemeanor food allegations against farmer Alvin Schlangen. In other words,...

“We Are All Farmers,” Mark Baker Tells Foodies in His 1st Traveling Butchering Class; Bad Cheese Aftertaste at Morningland

by David Gumpert | Jan 29, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 21 comments

Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his state’s prohibition on raising so-called “feral” pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesn’t want to see produced. The high-end restaurants he formerly...

Can Homestead Creamery Raw Milk Cheese Case Be Resolved Sensibly? Possibly, If Lawyers Move Away

by David Gumpert | Jan 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 22 comments

It’s always dangerous from a journalistic perspective to write about a particular food safety situation in the midst of the regulatory process, especially when it involves raw milk. But in the case of the tiny Missouri raw milk cheese maker, Homestead Creamery, I’m...

As Missouri Milk Board Plans Morningland Dairy’s Funeral, Possible Encore At 2nd MO Raw Milk Cheese Maker

by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 18 comments

Missouri is turning out to not be a great place for raw milk cheese makers to be operating. On Friday, the sad final scene of a two-and-a-half year tragedy will play out for Morningland Dairy. It is the once-thriving raw-cheese-making business that came under...

When Poop Becomes a “Drug,” Docs Better Watch How They Speak to the FDA

by David Gumpert | Jan 18, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Research | 30 comments

There appears to be a little hangup in all the good news about poop helping cure intestinal infections. You see, when you discover that something, anything, acts as a cure for disease, well, that something becomes, in the parlance of the U.S. Food and Drug...

What Do Guns and Raw Milk Have in Common…or Why Do So Many People Have So Little Trust in Government’s Pronouncements?

by David Gumpert | Jan 16, 2013 | News Media, Raw Milk | 58 comments

I was watching President Obama at his press conference yesterday trying to explain why it is that every time there is talk about measures to reign in firearms, thousands of people rush out and stock up on guns and ammo. He looked serious and perplexed, said it was a...

Words That Define Us—Are We “Under the Radar”, “Food Handlers”… or “Grassroots”, “Sustainable”?

by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 19 comments

By Heather RetbergHeather Retberg is a Maine farmer, and one of the organizers of the Food Sovereignty movement that launched in Maine in 2009 and 2010, and has evolved into a national movement. Eight towns in Maine and an unknown number as far west as California have...
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