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The IA Egg Producers Are Making Lots of People Sick, But a MN Raw Milk Producer Taking Lots More Heat; An Apology

by David Gumpert | Sep 11, 2010 | Uncategorized | 31 comments

The Hartmann dairy, from a Minnesota Department of Agriculture photo. Minnesota raw dairy producer Michael Hartmann has been in state court this week, pursuing a suit that would allow him to re-open his dairy. He’s been shut down for about three months by the...

John Sheehan’s Latest FDA Job Evaluation: “Tell Me Again, Why Are We Going After Someone Who Craves Orgasms?”

by David Gumpert | Sep 7, 2010 | Uncategorized | 38 comments

John Sheehan, FDA’s head of Plant and DairyIt’s been more than six months since John Sheehan last met with Margaret Hamburg, the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She’s called the head of Plant and Dairy in for a rare Labor Day...

As Pressure Builds on Rawesome, Its Manager Tries to Make Sense of Endless State-Sanctioned Body Blows

by David Gumpert | Sep 3, 2010 | Uncategorized | 48 comments

James Stewart, manager of Rawsome Foods in Los Angeles’ Venice district, has been having a nightmare–“that they’ll come and bulldoze this property.” “This property” consists of one forty-foot and two twenty-foot shipping...

The State Fingers a Missouri Cheesemaker with Rawesome Role: Have the Goons Got Their Scapegoat? Bad Dreams Come True on U.S. Trains and Buses

by David Gumpert | Sep 1, 2010 | Uncategorized | 27 comments

Cheesemaking at Morningland Dairy in Missouri. Gradually, the various follow-up assault roles of The State agencies involved in the raid on Rawesome Foods are becoming clear. A few days ago, we learned that the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety was...

Wars Don’t Take Time Off for Vacation–Fighting The State on Three Fronts Last Week; WI DATCP “Mafiosos”

by David Gumpert | Aug 29, 2010 | Uncategorized | 40 comments

I spent last evening reading through a week’s worth of emails. I had figured late August would be a good time to take a week off, as in completely off everything–not only email, but cell phone, Internet, radio, television, etc., etc. More about what I did...

Beyond Pathogens: The Question Around Raw Milk That Few in the Scientific Community Want to Consider

by David Gumpert | Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized | 32 comments

I am away this week. Steve Bemis has written a guest blog post. Steve is a Michigan lawyer active in local agriculture and food-rights issues, and a member of the board of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. He comments here about the larger questions that rarely...

The CDC Wouldn’t Cook the Books on Raw Milk Illnesses, Hospitalizations, Deaths…Or Would It?

by David Gumpert | Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized | 41 comments

We’ve seen a steady stream of articles about raw milk in the major media over the last few months. And many of them include some variation of this statement from the CDC about raw milk’s dangers, such as was contained in an article in The Economist:...

NOFA-MA Moves to Take Offensive in Opposing MDAR’s Herdshare Crackdown; The Museum Approach to Learning About Food; Join in On a Salatin-Led Farm Tour

by David Gumpert | Aug 17, 2010 | Uncategorized | 27 comments

It’s lonely standing up to the might of the State. So Brigitte Ruthman was understandably buoyed today by a letter of sharp protest sent today by the Massachusetts chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association to the state’s agriculture...
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