by David Gumpert | Nov 2, 2011 | What's New |
Participants in the Raw Milk Freedom Riders caravan stop at the Maryland state line, showing raw milk they had just purchased in Pennsylvania. The scene at the Maryland-Pennsylvania border was almost surrealistic. There, in a beautifully sunny pastoral countryside,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The Tuesday “Raw Milk Freedom Riders–Milk and Cookies Rally” is shaping up as a national event. There are car caravans coming from Minnesota and Illinois, as well as protesters flying in from Wisconsin, Michigan, and California, among many other...
by David Gumpert | Oct 27, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Ontario’s premier, Dalton McGuinty, may well be wondering if meeting with Michael Schmidt might involve a loss of “face”…that he will look weak if he accedes to the dairy farmer’s request. He might want to take a look at the photo here....
by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
As he enters the fourth week of a hunger strike, Michael Schmidt’s life still hangs in the balance. This from Jon Duschinsky, a Canadian organizer: Michael Schmidt”Spent an awe-inspiring afternoon with Michael & Elisa and other campaigners today....
by David Gumpert | Oct 22, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The rumbles from Ontario dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s hunger strike are spreading quickly and widely. As just one quantitative indication, the “Support Michael Schmidt” Facebook page has nearly 1,300 members, and that number will be out of date no...
by David Gumpert | Oct 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
There’s one sentence in Michael Schmidt’s letter to Ontario’s Premier McGuinty, published as my previous post, that I can’t get out of my head. “In return, my farm has been raided by armed officers, my family has been terrorized and I...
by David Gumpert | Oct 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt personally delivered a letter to Ontario’s premier, Dalton McGuinty, today. In it, he explains why he is carrying on his hunger strike, and what it will take for him to end it. Schmidt states his position more clearly...
by David Gumpert | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The enormity of Michael Schmidt’s hunger strike is sinking in with more and more people. For one person to put his life on the line so that others might re-gain or keep the right to eat the foods of their choosing–not the government’s...
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