by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
An unlicensed organization like a food club is not only distributing contraband, but a controlled substance, in the view of a Minnesota prosecutor fighting to prevent dismissal of three misdemeanor food allegations against farmer Alvin Schlangen. In other words,...
by David Gumpert | Jan 29, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his states prohibition on raising so-called feral pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesnt want to see produced. The high-end restaurants he formerly...
by David Gumpert | Jan 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its always dangerous from a journalistic perspective to write about a particular food safety situation in the midst of the regulatory process, especially when it involves raw milk. But in the case of the tiny Missouri raw milk cheese maker, Homestead Creamery, Im...
by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Missouri is turning out to not be a great place for raw milk cheese makers to be operating. On Friday, the sad final scene of a two-and-a-half year tragedy will play out for Morningland Dairy. It is the once-thriving raw-cheese-making business that came under...
by David Gumpert | Jan 18, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Research |
There appears to be a little hangup in all the good news about poop helping cure intestinal infections. You see, when you discover that something, anything, acts as a cure for disease, well, that something becomes, in the parlance of the U.S. Food and Drug...
by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
By Heather RetbergHeather Retberg is a Maine farmer, and one of the organizers of the Food Sovereignty movement that launched in Maine in 2009 and 2010, and has evolved into a national movement. Eight towns in Maine and an unknown number as far west as California have...
by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2013 | Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
Imagine leaving the military after a long career, enthusiastically launching a new business, and then, after much business trauma, concluding that the system you spent years defending with your life is corrupt. That kind of summarizes Mark Bakers experience over...
by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Take peanuts. To be safe, I want them tested as they leave the fields. I want them processed at temperatures high enough to kill salmonella. I want to store them covered so birds cant contaminate them with their droppings. I want them tested before they are released...
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