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How I Look Past the Negativity, and Stay Positive, and Committed, in the Food Rights Struggle

by David Gumpert | Aug 21, 2012 | Uncategorized | 55 comments

By Liz ReitzigThis is Part 2 of Liz Reitzig’s guest post.One of the things I do to help people access real foods in my area is I help run a buying club that makes local deliveries of real, non-GMO foods. About two and a half years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug...

A Salute to the Real Heroes of the Food Rights Struggle–And How to Back Them Up

by David Gumpert | Aug 16, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Regulation | 52 comments

Liz Reitzig has, over the last few years, become a national leader of America’s rapidly expanding food rights movement. She is the co-coordinator of Grassfed on the Hill buying club serving the greater Washington, DC, area, and co-founder of the Farm Food Freedom...

Straight Talk about Outsourcing, and Where It Fits in to the Food Rights Movement

by David Gumpert | Aug 13, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 26 comments

Aajonus Vonderplanitz and Amanda Rose don’t at first glance have a lot in common when it comes to food politics. Vonderplanitz is adamant about private food rights, while Rose seems much less politically oriented on the issue.  But interestingly, both have...

Maine Food Sovereignty Prosecutors: If Private Food Sales Are Allowed, Why, There’ll Be….There’ll Be…There’ll Be…

by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 18 comments

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....

On His Expected Conspiracy Charges, Raw Milk Farmer Michael Schmidt Asks: “Who Is in Fact Conspiring?”

by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk | 23 comments

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...

Michael Schmidt’s Ontario Farm Hit By Raid in Connection with Scrapie Sheep Case

by David Gumpert | Aug 3, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids | 12 comments

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...

Raw Milk and Food Rights Opponents Will Work Like the Devil to Scare and Confuse–Can Those Who Care Stay Focused on What’s Most Important?

by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2012 | Food Clubs, Raids, Raw Milk | 54 comments

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...

James Stewart Arrested for Skipping Bail in Rawesome Raw Milk, Farm Cases; Michael Schmidt Legal Gain

by David Gumpert | Jul 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance | 84 comments

(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...
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