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Deja Vu All Over Again? Mix OPDC, CDFA, Raw Milk, and You Get Potent Brew of Political Drama…in 2006 and 2011

by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2011 | What's New | 30 comments

Back in the fall of 2006, the California Department of Food and Agriculture shut down Organic Pastures Dairy Co. after the state identified six children it said were sickened by E.coli O157:H7. Inspectors invaded the dairy and carried out hundreds of manure and...

Accusing FDA of “Quasi-Criminal Action,” Amish Farmer Seeks “Public Court Forum”; Those in Favor of Raw Milk…

by David Gumpert | Dec 15, 2011 | Uncategorized | 23 comments

The Amish are reluctant participants in the legal system, no matter what the occasion. They prefer to stay very much within their own communities, and avoid conflict with the outside world.  But Dan Allgyer has put together a credible and cogent response to the...

Why Consumers Need to Take the Lead in Organizing Against the FDA and Its Lackeys; Farmageddon DC Showing; FDA Mustn’t “Waiver”; More Blog Musings

by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2011 | Uncategorized | 26 comments

?As I was putting up the video of Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger being served with a court summons, I wondered to myself: What purpose does putting this little video, which just shows an officer handing a guy a sheaf of papers, quipping “just doing my...

Red Ribbon Isn’t All That’s Missing from Fed’s Package Against PA Farmer; WI Farmer Seeks to Promote His Sheriff

by David Gumpert | Dec 10, 2011 | Uncategorized | 37 comments

When you go to buy a car or insurance, the sales people nearly instantaneously print out all the documentation you need. All you have to do is sign on the bottom line. No need to bother with all the fine print. Well, the U.S. Department of Justice has kind of done the...

While Demonstrators Flout FDAs Interstate Raw Milk Ban, Feds and WI Officials Focus on Subduing Defiant Farmers

by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2011 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

The Raw Milk Freedom Riders were organized to shift the legal heat of the federal and state war against raw milk from farmers to consumers. Committing a crime? Max Kane, at Chicago rally, pays “agent” Mary Bercke for raw milk she has just brought from...

Amid Sheriff-DofJ Warnings, Pullback on Grand Jury Investigation of IN Dairy Farmer; Raw Milk Freedom Riders Push Further on Interstate Milk Prohibition

by David Gumpert | Dec 8, 2011 | Uncategorized | 16 comments

The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn its subpoena of Indiana raw dairy farmer David Hochstetler to appear before a federal grand jury. He was scheduled to testify tomorrow in Detroit, in connection with an outbreak of illnesses linked by public health officials,...

What’s Goin’ On, What’s Goin’ On…Beyond a Whole Lot of Bickering; A New Guide for Launching a Private Food Club

by David Gumpert | Dec 6, 2011 | Uncategorized | 49 comments

I’m a little behind most of the rest of you. I was still yesterday digesting the intense comments from two posts ago (November 30). Deborah Stockton’s insightful analysis of how farmers have been betrayed over the last half-century-plus, by their own...

OPDC Inches Toward Resuming Shipments; A New Rawesome Three Prosecutor; Clarity on Epidemiology

by David Gumpert | Dec 3, 2011 | Uncategorized | 39 comments

The nearly three-week shutdown of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. may be nearing an end. Mark McAfee, the owner, reported that the Fresno, CA, dairy has been cleared to begin production. Additional testing of the products by the California Department of Food and...
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