by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Farmers and food club managers who come under attack by government enforcers are often at a loss about what to do next. Will they invite government retribution if they try to publicize what has happened? What do they tell food club members? Should they hire a lawyer...
by David Gumpert | Feb 18, 2012 | Uncategorized |
It’s a tad awkward writing an assessment of a debate in which I was a participant…so here are a few random reactions to the raw milk debate at Harvard Law School Thursday evening. (If you missed it, you can view the recording on YouTube; it should be up...
by David Gumpert | Feb 14, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Pennsylvania Amish farmer Dan Allgyer has decided to shutter his farm, ending his ordeal with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Justice Department. He made his decision after Judge Lawrence Stengler went along with the agencies, and imposed a...
by David Gumpert | Feb 13, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Feb 9, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
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