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“Michael Schmidt Paralysis” Is Proving Contagious: The Emergence of a Moral Authority

by David Gumpert | Jun 14, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Resistance | 23 comments

 There’s a new strain of illness making the rounds of Canada’s rulers. Call it “Michael Schmidt Paralysis.” You don’t wish health problems on your enemies, but news that a second British Columbia prosecutor has bowed out of a major raw milk hearing against dairy...

MO Farmer Plans Public Distribution of Raw Milk, in Defiance of Cease and Desist

by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2012 | Legal, Nutrition, Regulation, Resistance | 84 comments

The latest tactic in impeding raw milk distribution–harassing farmers using drop sites–seems to be spreading from Minnesota to Missouri.  And like in Minnesota, where many of the ten consumer drop site hosts warned by regulators recently are...

Lessons from John Edwards Case: Why Prosecutors in Rawesome and MN Food Rights Cases Are Desperate to Avoid Juries

by David Gumpert | Jun 4, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation | 78 comments

The pathetic case of the former senator and vice presidential candidate, John Edwards, is one most of us would just as soon forget about, preferring to file it away as just another sad episode in our political system’s steady descent into tawdriness and...

The Defeat of Sen. Rand Paul’s Amendment on FDA Cops Serves As Another American Civics Teaching Moment

by David Gumpert | May 29, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 37 comments

Lots of people were discouraged because Sen. Rand Paul’s proposed amendment to reign in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was overwhelmingly defeated last week. It would have prohibited FDA agents from carrying weapons and making arrests as well as liberalized the...

Where Will the First Case of Child Abuse for Serving “Dangerous” Food Originate?

by David Gumpert | May 24, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Nutrition, Regulation, Resistance | 43 comments

When I wrote about the case of parents suing Minnesota farmer Michael Hartmann in connection with their child’s alleged illness from raw milk, and the judge’s suggestion the parents might bear  some responsibility for their child’s illness, I assumed the...

Lots of Bobbing and Weaving Going on in MN, As MDA Gets Delay in Schlangen Trial; OPDC Cleared to Sell Dairy Products

by David Gumpert | May 17, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 48 comments

  Food rights proponents got another civics lesson today when Alvin Schlangen’s jury trial on four misdemeanor charges, due to begin next Monday, was put off indefinitely.It is easy for food rights proponents who participated in protest activities in...

More MN Consumers Threatened by MDA—And A New Kind of Chess Game Takes Shape

by David Gumpert | May 8, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 27 comments

 The Minnesota  Department of Agriculture’s campaign against consumers is significantly more widespread than I first reported. And it is stirring up a hornet’s nest of outrage, and promises of defiance.It turns out the MDA actually sent its love letters...

In Search of Aryan Hogs; Financial Backing for Heritage Pigs; Rights Workshop Filling Up

by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Research | 43 comments

In Nazi Germany during the 1930s, the big challenge among Germans was to prove they weren’t Jewish. They scrambled to produce certificates of baptism and show family trees that documented they weren’t Jewish. It didn’t take much to fail–a...
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