by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2016 | What's New |
A USDA investigation of Pennsylvania farmer Amos Miller’s meat production practices has taken an ominous turn in recent days, apparently morphing into a national dragnet to collect the food purchase records of thousands of food club members around the country. One ray...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2016 | What's New |
For years now, farmers have borne the brunt of government efforts to interfere with food rights and consumer access to the foods of their choice. That may be about to change, as consumers launch actions to take the burden of government harassment off farmers’ backs. A...
by David Gumpert | Aug 2, 2016 | What's New |
Amos Miller isn’t certain how many times the agents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been back to his Pennsylvania farm since that first highly public visit three weeks ago (chronicled in my July 11 blog post). It’s probably been five or six times, he...
by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2016 | What's New |
No one really wanted to be there at the end of the Pennsylvania farm driveway this morning—neither the two agents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in ill-fitting bulletproof vests under their sport shirts, nor the armed local police detective who accompanied...
by David Gumpert | Jul 2, 2016 | What's New |
U.S. District Court Judge Edward G. Smith used the start of the Independence Day weekend to issue an inspection order that Miller’s Organic Farm allow federal regulators in, accompanied by law enforcement, beginning July 11. The inspection, by agents from the U.S....
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