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Wisconsin’s DATCP Turns Up Pressure on Vernon Hershberger; MN Moves to Put Farmer, Food Club Owner, Alvin Schlangen on Trial–He Could Face Fines, Year in Jail

by David Gumpert | Feb 13, 2012 | Uncategorized | 15 comments

The video below seems almost mundane in its discussion about dairy rules and regulations. But it’s what is not said that is most important here. Ostensibly, Jackie Owens was at the farm last Thursday to carry out an inspection. Part of her regulatory duty, since...

No Raw Milk for Your “Subterfuge” Food Club, Federal Judge Tells MD Members in Slapping Permanent Injunction on PA Amish Farmer Dan Allgyer

by David Gumpert | Feb 9, 2012 | Uncategorized | 39 comments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-year undercover investigation of a Maryland food club has led a federal District Court judge to impose a permanent injunction against the Pennsylvania Amish farmer who supplied the club with raw milk. Federal Judge...

Three Reasons Why The Family Cow Campylobacter Illnesses Could Turn Out to Be a Positive Development

by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2012 | Uncategorized | 34 comments

The outbreak of 38 illnesses attributed to milk from The Family Cow has been a bad scene in any number of ways, from the ill consumers to the voluntary shutdown of milk from the dairy to the bad press. On this latter point, the Associated Press, the largest wire...

The Public Agony of Edwin Shank–“It Was Us,” He Says, in Accepting MD Findings of Campylobacter in His Dairy’s Milk

by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2012 | Uncategorized | 94 comments

The last week or so has been a terrible time for Edwin Shank and his family, along with twenty or more of his raw milk customers. The suspicions that his dairy’s milk was behind an outbreak of campylobacter were confirmed when the Maryland Department of Health...

How’s This for a Change of Pace: Sheriff Who Challenged Feds for Amish Raw Dairy Farmer Receives Award for “Meritorious Valor”; CA Sheriff Vows to Protect Herdshares

by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2012 | Uncategorized | 28 comments

One of the best ways to get elected county sheriff these days is to campaign against the encroachments by the federal government on basic rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. And then, to act on your campaign agenda…well, that could win you an award. A...

Vernon Hershberger to Judge: “I Would Much Rather Spend the Rest of My Life Behind Bars or Even Die Than To Be Found Guilty of Such a Gross Sin…”

by David Gumpert | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized | 26 comments

I obtained a text of Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger’s full statement to the judge in criminal court on Friday. It explains more clearly how he realized he erred by signing a bail agreement to discontinue supplying his food club, and where he is headed...

Hurry Up and Wait: Rawesome Three Get Used to Criminal Justice System; FTCLDF Rejected on Prelim Injunction

by David Gumpert | Jan 28, 2012 | Uncategorized | 8 comments

Whatever happened to the Rawesome Three (James Stewart, Sharon Palmer, Victoria Bloch)? Whatever happened to the felony case against the Rawesome Three? Whatever happened to Rawesome Food Club?The door is locked and a protest sign adorns Rawesome Food Club in Venice,...

Will Herdshares Be Legalized in CA? CDFAs Chief Vet Expresses Optimism About Continuing Negotiations; False Alarm on Brucellosis in MA

by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2012 | Uncategorized | 36 comments

There are any number of reasons why the negotiations over herdshares taking place in California—between owners of small dairies and the state’s Department of Food and Agriculture– over the last few months should not work. Many tiny dairies dispensing...
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