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...
by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The public health community would like us to think that it goes after small dairies and food clubs in the interests of food safety. But in more places, regulatory and enforcement actions are looking like nationally coordinated grudge matches, a settling of old scores....
by David Gumpert | Mar 28, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Wisconsin raw milk producers, who have long faced opposition from regulators, judges, and the factory milk establishment, now have another opponent: Rural Mutual Insurance Co., which is owned by Farm Bureau.The insurer recently sent out a letter to its Wisconsin farm...
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2012 | Uncategorized |
A third sizable raw dairy in the last four months has been temporarily shuttered–in addition to Organic Pastures Dairy Co. in California and The Family Cow in Pennsylvania. Lots of frustration, and unpleasant questions, are coming up as a result. The biggest...
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