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...
by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
It’s kind of amazing, when you think about it, that we’re still debating–as Milky Way and Ken Conrad were, following my previous post–whether milk comes through a cow’s udder sterile or having picked up certain beneficial bacteria. Our...
by David Gumpert | Feb 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In this age of the Internet, it’s amazing how quickly certain statistics can catch on. Take the statistic I came up with in my Feb. 11 post, after having assessed data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control–that there have been on average 39 illnesses...
by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Jared Carter, director of Rural Vermont, has some difficult decisions to make about holding dairy prep classes in Vermont. At the Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Sen. Tom Coburn posed this situation: supposing Congress passed a...
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