by David Gumpert | Sep 11, 2012 | Legal, Raids |
Last May, Sen. Rand Paul proposed an amendment to a spending bill for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce the agency’s police powers. He was especially concerned about “sending armed FDA agents into peaceful farmers land and telling them they...
by David Gumpert | Sep 8, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
Almost like a mirage, the Rawesome Food Club case seems to be disappearing before our eyes. A big chunk of it vaporized Friday when two defendants–Sharon Palmer and Victoria Bloch–settled the charges filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney...
by David Gumpert | Sep 6, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
For months, tedious negotiations have dragged on between the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and a group of dairy farmers over the protocol for herdshares in the state. Some hundreds of tiny California dairies offer herdshare arrangements,...
by David Gumpert | Aug 30, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
The principle of private food should get a test in front of a jury of ordinary citizens when raw dairy farmer Vernon Hershbeger goes on trial in Wisconsin on Jan. 7. I should say the principle should get a test, because initial indications are that the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 16, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Regulation |
Liz Reitzig has, over the last few years, become a national leader of Americas rapidly expanding food rights movement. She is the co-coordinator of Grassfed on the Hill buying club serving the greater Washington, DC, area, and co-founder of the Farm Food Freedom...
by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
I am the first to admit I know little about best practices for dealing with potentially serious widely-spreading diseases among farm animals. The image that pops into my mind when this subject comes up is of the huge piles of dead cows in England during the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 3, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids |
A raiding party of twenty agents from three different agencies descended on Michael Schmidt’s Ontario Farm at 7 this morning with a simple message: he could be looking at 14 years in jail in connection with conspiracy charges associated with the scrapie...
by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2012 | Food Clubs, Raids, Raw Milk |
Last March, there was a three-day preliminary hearing in Ventura County about the allegations of fraud against James Stewart and two other principles in the Rawesome affair–Sharon Palmer and Larry Otting. The allegations mostly concern a mortgage transaction and...
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