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Finally, We Get the Real Story of the FDA’s Role in the 2009 GA Raw Milk Pour-out–Let Your Imagination Go

by David Gumpert | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized | 28 comments

When the full history of the raw milk revolution is completed, one incident that will stand out as a low point will be the Georgia raw milk “pour-out”. That was Oct. 19, when dozens of consumers gathered at the farm of Eric Wagoner in Georgia, and carried...

Last Stand on Food Rights: Why Private Food Groups Can’t Cut and Run in the Face of Cease-and-Desist Orders

by David Gumpert | Jul 9, 2011 | Uncategorized | 27 comments

The AlamoIf we lose the right to organize private organizations to share food, then the food rights war war will be over sooner than you can say “raw milk.” Why? Because the food regulators and politicians have full control of the public realm, and are...

As CA Herdshare Dragnet Expands, Has Time Come for Shareholders to Pass the Hat, Assume Risk in Fighting Back?

by David Gumpert | Jul 6, 2011 | Uncategorized | 52 comments

California’s Department of Food and Agriculture has targeted a second goat-milk-producing herdshare for shutdown. Green Uprising, a farm with eight milking goats and 27 shareholders, in Mendocino County, said it received a cease-and-desist order last week....

Musing About Rebellion and Civil Disobedience: Are They Really So Far-Fetched for Producers, Consumers?

by David Gumpert | Jul 4, 2011 | Uncategorized | 14 comments

This is the time of year when we are supposed to celebrate a moment when outrage and revolution were in the air. It’s easy to forget, amidst the fireworks and cookouts and easy living, that the issuance of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, was...

Why Are Regulators & Prosecutors Trying to Run San Jose’s Last Farm Out of Town? The Raw Milk Obsession, Of Course; Further Thoughts on RAWMI

by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized | 60 comments

Demonstrators yesterday in support of Evergreen Acres Goat Farm herdshare in San Jose.Herdshares have been sprouting like grass in a well-watered pasture out in California. No one knows exactly how many there are, but by some estimates, there are 65, or possibly even...

How FDA and State Regulators Have Turned into “Bouncers,” Just With Better Benefits; Misusing WI Illnesses

by David Gumpert | Jun 26, 2011 | Uncategorized | 60 comments

If you’ve ever been in a restaurant or club patrolled by bouncers, you know the system of justice is uneven. If you somehow violate the club rules–maybe are a little unruly, or try to converse with the entertainers–the punishment usually varies...

Amazing…Just As Story of WI Kids Sickened By Raw Milk Gets Interesting, the Food Safety Hysterics Fade Into the Woodwork…Did I Hear Someone Say “Hypocrisy”?

by David Gumpert | Jun 23, 2011 | Uncategorized | 60 comments

In golf, when you slice the ball into the other fairway, or dribble it into a pond, you may decide to take a “mulligan”–pretend the errant shot didn’t happen and just take another shot. The state of Wisconsin seems to have decided to take a...

A Look at Food Safety Through the Prism of a Dumpster Diver (Hint, He’s Not Afraid of Too Much)

by David Gumpert | Jun 21, 2011 | Uncategorized | 21 comments

Given the intensity of political discussion of late, I think it’s time for a change of pace. We get that change from northern Vermont author-farmer Ben Hewitt in an excerpt from his new book, “Making Supper Safe”. Reading through it, I was...

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