by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’ve spent the last few days reading through the most recent filings in the Maine Food Sovereignty case. If the potential importance of a food rights case could be measured in the heavy weight of the many pages of these initial arguments, this is a serious case....
by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
I am the first to admit I know little about best practices for dealing with potentially serious widely-spreading diseases among farm animals. The image that pops into my mind when this subject comes up is of the huge piles of dead cows in England during the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 3, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids |
A raiding party of twenty agents from three different agencies descended on Michael Schmidt’s Ontario Farm at 7 this morning with a simple message: he could be looking at 14 years in jail in connection with conspiracy charges associated with the scrapie...
by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2012 | Food Clubs, Raids, Raw Milk |
Last March, there was a three-day preliminary hearing in Ventura County about the allegations of fraud against James Stewart and two other principles in the Rawesome affair–Sharon Palmer and Larry Otting. The allegations mostly concern a mortgage transaction and...
by David Gumpert | Jul 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance |
(Additional information and links have been added to this article since it was first posted.)Just when it seemed as if the Rawesome Food Club case couldn’t get any more bizarre…it got more bizarre, a lot more bizarre. A case that has seen brutal infighting...
by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2012 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The food rights movement is entering a new phase. We might best think of it as the “legal phase.” All those raids on food clubs and farms (mostly over raw milk distribution) over the last few years–the “crackdown phase”, if you...
by David Gumpert | Jul 21, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
This post has been revised and updated since it was first posted. Blogger Kimberly Hartke’s presentation about raw milk in the Minneapolis area Thursday evening came off without a hitch. So did her ice-cream-making demonstration, using fresh milk, cream, and...
by David Gumpert | Jul 17, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
If you want a sense of how the atmosphere around obtaining raw milk and other nutrient-dense foods has changed over the last couple years in a state like Minnesota, which has featured no-holds-barred enforcement and intimidation against farmers and consumers alike,...
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