by David Gumpert | Dec 5, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
The 31 famous rare sheep suspected by Canadian public health authorities of harboring the feared scrapie disease have all been found, slaughtered, and tested free of disease. But the affair of the missing Shropshire sheep–kidnapped earlier this year...
by David Gumpert | Dec 1, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Last February, a Wisconsin judge imposed a temporary injunction prohibiting Arlin Bender from slaughtering cattle and pigs on behalf of neighboring farmers, at the request of the state’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). In July,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 24, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Resistance |
You wonder what sitting in jail for four months–all for running a private food club–does to a guy. You wonder what it does to the people around him who were supposedly watching his back. I’ve certainly wondered, especially with James Stewart...
by David Gumpert | Sep 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Resistance |
On Tuesday, James Stewart, the jailed founder and principal of Rawesome Food Co., was offered a deal by the Ventura County prosecutor: Plead guilty to 14 of 37 counts of fraud and securities violations, and you’ll receive a six-month jail sentence. The two...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, News Media, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The 250 or so people attending my presentation Saturday on “America’s Underground Food War” at the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania broke into applause when I told them, near the end of the talk, that Alvin Schlangen had been acquitted of all...
by David Gumpert | Sep 18, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Alvin Schlangen began his first day in court by rejecting a settlement offer from the prosecutor and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that would have had him pleading guilty to one misdemeanor, paying $200 court costs, and possibly going to jail. He has...
by David Gumpert | Jul 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance |
(Additional information and links have been added to this article since it was first posted.)Just when it seemed as if the Rawesome Food Club case couldn’t get any more bizarre…it got more bizarre, a lot more bizarre. A case that has seen brutal infighting...
by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2012 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The food rights movement is entering a new phase. We might best think of it as the “legal phase.” All those raids on food clubs and farms (mostly over raw milk distribution) over the last few years–the “crackdown phase”, if you...
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