by David Gumpert | Jul 6, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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....
by David Gumpert | Jul 4, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 26, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The matter of people organizing privately to obtain their food is clearly a sensitive one to the judiciary, as was clear in my previous post. And for good reason: it gets to the issue of control. Who controls people, and what they buy? If they are organized privately,...
by David Gumpert | Jun 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Denise Dixon of Morningland Dairy, outside Howell County Courthouse.For those seeking hints for how the judicial winds might be blowing on go-private approaches to distributing nutrient-dense food, a Missouri judge provided some strong ones yesterday. Unfortunately,...
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