by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2012 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
One of the most incisive scientific assessments on all that European research on raw milk of the last few years has just appeared, of all places, on a web site backed by the conventional dairy industry and academe. In a footnoted article by an experienced ...
by David Gumpert | Sep 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Resistance |
On Tuesday, James Stewart, the jailed founder and principal of Rawesome Food Co., was offered a deal by the Ventura County prosecutor: Plead guilty to 14 of 37 counts of fraud and securities violations, and you’ll receive a six-month jail sentence. The two...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, News Media, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The 250 or so people attending my presentation Saturday on “America’s Underground Food War” at the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania broke into applause when I told them, near the end of the talk, that Alvin Schlangen had been acquitted of all...
by David Gumpert | Sep 20, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
A jury of six ordinary Americans did something no judge, federal or state, has been willing to do anywhere in the country, whether in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maryland, or Wisconsin–it ruled in favor of a farmer-food club operator...
by David Gumpert | Sep 19, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Former Rawesome Food Club manager James Stewart received bad news today when a Ventura County judge rejected his request that charges against him in connection with the acquisition of Sharon Palmer’s farm in 2008 be dropped. Even though ...
by David Gumpert | Sep 18, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Alvin Schlangen began his first day in court by rejecting a settlement offer from the prosecutor and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that would have had him pleading guilty to one misdemeanor, paying $200 court costs, and possibly going to jail. He has...
by David Gumpert | Sep 13, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation |
Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen goes on trial beginning Monday in Minneapolis in what could be a test case for farmers who make raw milk and other food available privately to members. The case is comprised of four misdemeanor counts alleging that...
by David Gumpert | Sep 11, 2012 | Legal, Raids |
Last May, Sen. Rand Paul proposed an amendment to a spending bill for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce the agency’s police powers. He was especially concerned about “sending armed FDA agents into peaceful farmers land and telling them they...
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