by David Gumpert | Mar 13, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids |
I received a text message this morning from a friend, asking, “Is James Stewart dead?” What?!! Well, not since last evening he wasn’t, I replied.It turned out that radio personality Joyce Riley had reported the “news” Monday morning on...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2012 | Uncategorized |
James Stewart was feeling “disoriented” when I caught him on his phone this morning in Los Angeles. He had just been released from a Ventura County jail last evening, finally, on $100,000 bail. “I feel like I just got off an amusement park...
by David Gumpert | Mar 9, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The latest news out of Ventura Thursday evening was that a California judge reduced Sharon Palmer’s bail to $500,000 (from $2 million) and James Stewart’s to $100,000 (from $1 million). Before the end of the evening, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy...
by David Gumpert | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized |
James Stewart and Sharon Palmer spent a fifth night in a Ventura County jail. The two, who are associated with the Rawesome Food Club–Stewart as its owner-manager and Palmer as a provider of milk (via a herdshare since discontinued) and chickens and...
by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2012 | Resistance |
I didn’t fully appreciate while I was sitting in court waiting for Vernon Hershberger’s hearing to begin Friday afternoon in Baraboo, WI, that the delay was due to some important negotiations taking place outside the courtroom. It was over whether...
by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Did Vernon Hershberger dodge a bullet, or did the two prosecutors from the Wisconsin Attorney General’s office shoot themselves in the foot on Friday, when a judge refused to act on a state request that Hershberger be penalized for allegedly violating the terms...
by David Gumpert | Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized |
If Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger goes to jail Friday, he can take comfort that his farm will be well tended to. First, there is his family, including his wife and nine children. “I would not do what I am doing without having my family behind...
by David Gumpert | Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Eating is something we do so naturally, so routinely, we tend not to think all that much about it. We make choices–white or dark meat chicken, almond butter or peanut butter, apple or pear, broccoli or chard–nearly unconsciously, so plentiful is the food....
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