by David Gumpert | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 28, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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,...
by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The fear-mongering echo chamber that is the Internet’s food safety arena is abuzz with news about a Massachusetts raw milk drinker who contracted brucellosis. The MarlerClark law firm’s Food Poison Journal headlines, “Twin Rivers Farm Raw Milk Linked...
by David Gumpert | Jan 20, 2012 | What's New |
The California Department of Public Health has genetically matched E.coli 0157:H7 that sickened five children, ages one to five years old, with water and manure samples taken from a calf holding area at Organic Pastures Dairy Co. The agency speculates that...
by David Gumpert | Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The unsettling news about questionable factory foods just keeps coming.A few days ago, it was Coca Cola saying it found a fungicide in orange juice it produces in Brazil for sale in the U.S. A few days before that, the USDA was proposing to approve GMO corn that will...
by David Gumpert | Jan 11, 2012 | Uncategorized |
I’ve had some trouble writing this post. I keep starting it, and then someone posts an intriguing comment that takes me off in yet another direction, and I start over again. I started off wanting to relate the Obama Administration’s response to a petition...
by David Gumpert | Jan 7, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The Raw Milk Institute has already in its young life raised a number of provocative questions. Should it be about lobbying or not? How will its standards be developed? Is it about publicly or privately available milk…or both? It is the last question that is...
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