by David Gumpert | Apr 20, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, News Media |
I go away for a week and what happens? All hell breaks loose in my home of Boston and environs, and it becomes the news center of the world as a horrible example of urban terrorism in action. Having been glued yesterday to the television coverage of the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For a long time, I have argued that the state and federal judges hearing food rights cases are living on a different planet than the people. The judges nearly always come down entirely on the side of the regulators. The people, in the form of a jury, see things much...
by David Gumpert | Mar 20, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What to make of the latest legal twists in the Vernon Hershberger raw milk saga? I thought about trying to doctor a photo of Hershberger to put on the site so it would look like a human pretzel, because that’s what he seems to have become–a legal...
by David Gumpert | Mar 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’m still amazed about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accusation that most raw milk drinkers welcome pathogens in their food (described in my previous post. Aside from personal views we may have about the role of bacteria in our food...
by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Back in December 2008, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. filed a citizens petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that the agency lift its prohibition on interstate shipments of raw milk on a very limited basis–for milk moving from one...
by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
You might think that after half a dozen years of intense debate and a procession of legal cases in the U.S. and Canada over raw milk and food rights, that there might be some softening, some moves to compromise and acceptance– live and let live, as it...
by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
This may sound like a silly question, but why does the assault on nutrient-dense foods need to be cloaked in so much complexity? Consider… * Im thinking, first, about that FDA-Health Canada study on soft raw milk cheeses (discussed in my previous post),...
by David Gumpert | Feb 8, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
When you follow the tedium of the legal justice system, you begin to understand why some defendants, even though they are innocent, decide to cop pleas rather than follow the process through to completion. It can be a maddening process that is often difficult for the...
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