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....
by David Gumpert | Feb 24, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Wisconsin’s Attorney General has signaled his willingness to go ahead with the possibly provocative step of throwing dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger into jail. In a package of documents sent to Hershberger, the Wisconsin Department of Justice included a letter...
by David Gumpert | Feb 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |
During the raw milk debate at Harvard Law School last Thursday, I criticized our opponents for their failure to present data, as in real understandable numbers. I had gone to the trouble of analyzing data from official statistics provided by the U.S. Centers for...
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