by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2011 | Uncategorized |
?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...
by David Gumpert | Dec 10, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Dec 8, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn its subpoena of Indiana raw dairy farmer David Hochstetler to appear before a federal grand jury.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,...
by David Gumpert | Dec 6, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Dec 3, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Dec 1, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I know a lot of people here don’t much care for Food Safety News, feeling that it is biased in many respects, particularly against raw dairy, but I’ve just had an uplifting experience with the publication, and its publisher, Bill Marler. He encouraged me...
by David Gumpert | Nov 28, 2011 | Uncategorized |
It’s difficult not to notice that the pace of state and federal actions against raw milk producers and distributors is intensifying, not only in quantity, but in terms of the charges being sought. The feds began the current spree with the suit against Amish...
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