by David Gumpert | Apr 17, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Regulation |
Like a lot of people, I appreciated Tim Wightman’s comment following my previous post. Especially his observation: “To blame health authorities for an outright bias and or ‘conspiracy’ allows those who make the claim to ignore their own...
by David Gumpert | Apr 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Back in the days of the Old South early last century, there’d be this awful cycle of violence that went something like this: A black man would be accused of snatching a purse or stealing food or, God forbid, smiling or making eye contact with a white woman. This...
by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2012 | News Media, Nutrition, Research |
There’s a big disclosure today of another animal cruelty undercover investigation, this one involving egg-laying hens. The Humane Society of the United States says it is “shining a light on the dark world of suffering for millions of egg-laying...
by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
There’s no escaping the power of the social media. If anyone harbored any doubts, yesterday’s news that a small one-and-a-half-year-old photo-sharing company launched by a couple of twenty-somethings is being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion should wipe...
by David Gumpert | Apr 8, 2012 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research |
Losing her prized calf, Titanic, has Brigitte Ruthman thinking a little differently about dairy-producing priorities. Ruthman, owner of a tiny dairy, has been on this blog before in connection with her clashes with Massachusetts agriculture regulators, who have tried...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration caught a big break from U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett, when he dismissed the suit by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund against the agency (as described in my previous post). But we shouldn’t be surprised. The...
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The two-year-old legal challenge to the ban on interstate shipments of raw milk ended with a whimper late last week when a federal judge dismissed the suit. U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett threw out the suit filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund on behalf...
by David Gumpert | Apr 2, 2012 | Uncategorized |
You listen to Mark Baker of Bakers Green Acres vent about his run-in with the state of Michigan over its plan to ban heritage breeds of pigs, and he could be a raw dairy producer. There’s the same amazement-turned-outrage that his own government could be coming...
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