by David Gumpert | Mar 14, 2011 | Uncategorized |
(Note: a few regular visitors have complained to me recently that they have had intermittent difficulty posting comments here. I have been in contact with the blog hosting service, and its support people have asked for specifics on error messages or the URL of the...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2011 | Uncategorized |
He’s back! MDA agent Jim Roettger shown last December hauling food and holding a search warrant at a suburban Minneapolis dropoff site for the Hartmann farm. “I’m new to this community and…get food from Alvin (Schlangen),” writes Elisa on...
by David Gumpert | Mar 10, 2011 | Uncategorized |
A view from the Blue Hill peninsula, where Sedgwick, Penobscot, and Brooksville are located. I think because the “Food Sovereignty” ordinance described in my previous post passed so easily in Sedgwick, Maine, last Saturday–without obvious pushback...
by David Gumpert | Mar 8, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Town hall in Sedgwick, MaineMaybe the citizens of tiny Sedgwick on the Maine coast were listening to the calls of Dave Milano, Ken Conrad, and others for more trust and community, and less rigid one-size-fits-all food regulation. On Saturday morning, Sedgwick...
by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. The raw dairy/food rights movement has had three cases come up for serious judicial consideration over the last three years, and it’s lost each one. And not just lost by a whisker, but lost...
by David Gumpert | Mar 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Cheddar cheese being produced at Morningland Dairy during happier times. A few weeks ago I asked in a post whether a Missouri judge might be willing to explore new directions suggested by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund before condemning $250,000 worth of...
by David Gumpert | Mar 1, 2011 | Uncategorized |
It’s our way of the highway. That’s essentially been the position of New York’s Department of Agriculture & Markets over the last nearly five years, when New York raw dairy farmers have questioned the agency’s testing procedures for...
by David Gumpert | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Our politicians and policy makers are amazingly adept at creating scapegoats so as to avoid dealing with real problems that might affect entrenched interests. The ongoing Wisconsin protests are a case in point. The governor, Scott Walker, has made public workers the...
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