by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized |
No big surprise, Humboldt County’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously accepted the report of its Department of Public Health and Environment (described in my previous post) and refused to overturn the county’s ban on raw milk sales. Even though 2,600...
by David Gumpert | Jan 11, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Northern California’s Humboldt County seems to have adjusted well to being the marijuana capital of America, but raw milk is an entirely different story. While the rest of California allows raw milk and other raw dairy products to be sold at retail, making it...
by David Gumpert | Jan 8, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Where vague food laws are stored for safe keeping. There was an article in the Washington Post a few days ago saying that the new food safety legislation passed by Congress last month and just signed into law could well not be funded enough to allow the U.S. Food and...
by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
For 18 years, Phil Haynes has been selling his ranch’s buffalo meat through a store at the ranch, Rocky Plains Quality Meats, outside the northern Colorado town of Dacono. Over the years, he opened a second store in nearby Loveland and added pork and chicken...
by David Gumpert | Jan 3, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Chuck PhippenIt’s often said the wheels of justice turn slowly. In the case of Chuck Phippen, a New York producer of raw milk, they turn not only slowly, but in convoluted fashion as well. I first wrote about Chuck Phippen’s strange encounters with the New...
by David Gumpert | Dec 30, 2010 | Uncategorized |
?”It’s all about risk and it’s all about letting adults take risks and it’s all about us as a society being willing to do the things that made this country great. I’m worried about us.” Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania expressing his...
by David Gumpert | Dec 26, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Let’s see, if I was going to be involved in a real-life conspiracy to alter government behavior, what would I want to do? For starters, I might arrange for Mark McAfee to become head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Then, I might work on getting...
by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The Hartmann Farm. Michael Hartmann’s legal challenge to Minnesota authorities over confiscation of his dairy farm’s products last May was totally rejected by a state judge. The case was tried over several weeks last August, but the judge only yesterday...
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