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,...
by David Gumpert | Jul 15, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research |
Once upon a time, I naively expected that if there were new credible scientific evidence that raw milk showed health benefits over pasteurized milk, the health and regulatory communities might relax their negative attitudes. But a couple years ago, when I gave a...
by David Gumpert | Jul 12, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Prosecutors seeking to jail Vernon Hershberger for distributing his farm’s food privately to members of a food club betrayed their nervousness yesterday when they filed motions intended to limit the evidence the Wisconsin farmer can present to a jury. The...
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