by David Gumpert | Dec 14, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Now we’re told the Minnesota Department of Agriculture agent with the beret seizing people’s milk last Tuesday is a disabled veteran. His name is Jim Roettger, and he’s also the guy who signed the search warrant that allowed the seizure of milk, and...
by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Before I explore the latest controversy to have come out of Tuesday’s highly public raid of the Hartmann Farm delivery, I should report that the Hartmann Farm, half a dozen of its customers, and the Foundation for Consumer Free Choice have filed suit in state...
by David Gumpert | Dec 10, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been monitoring some of the reactions coming out of Minnesota from the raid Tuesday on the Hartmann milk, and this one is typical: “I am just shocked. I can’t believe this happened. If this would have happened at my milk pick-up, it would have...
by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2010 | Uncategorized |
People are starting to get worked up about regulators taking away their food. As you’ll see on the video here, about thirty people confronted two agents from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture yesterday outside Minneapolis when the agents confiscated raw...
by David Gumpert | Dec 7, 2010 | Uncategorized |
There are lots of reasons to be upset by S510, the so-called food safety bill. But none of those reasons justifies my lashing out and impugning the intellect or motives of those fighting for the Tester-Hagan amendment to exempt some smaller producers and farms from...
by David Gumpert | Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I keep asking myself, how did we ever get to this point, where political and economic control of America’s food system is on the verge of being turned over to a government agency whose leaders declared early this year we have “no absolute right” to...
by David Gumpert | Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The Tester-Hagan Amendment was supposed to be the savior of S510, giving smaller producers an exemption from the worst requirements of the so-called food safety legislation. Now, it turns out, the amendment may be the great black hole of the entire food safety...
by David Gumpert | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The U.S. Senate passed S510 by a large majority, including the provisions of the Tester-Hagan amendment exempting small food producers. It’s looking ever more likely that the U.S. House will approve the Senate’s version and, presto, the U.S. Food and Drug...
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