by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2024 | What's New |
Sometimes it seems as if Pennsylvania Amish farmer Amos Miller is doomed to spend much of his adult life in food regulator hell. After fighting the U.S. Department of Agriculture for half a dozen years, and finally coming to a settlement this past fall of a dispute...
by David Gumpert | Sep 26, 2023 | What's New |
Could it possibly be that dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s near-30-year journey through Canada’s legal system over alleged violations of the country’s strict raw dairy laws is finally at an end? After all he’s dealt with in terms of police stakeouts,...
by David Gumpert | Jul 6, 2023 | What's New |
I launched this blog 16 years ago to report on raids by state and federal regulators on small farms in Ohio and Michigan for illegal sale of raw milk. As a business journalist, I was puzzled as to why regulators were intent on forcing small farms out of business for...
by David Gumpert | Jan 25, 2023 | What's New |
Back in 2017, an idealistic young farmer and his wife took over a Wisconsin dairy farm that had been run for years by a raw dairy farming couple, Wayne and Kay Craig. If you’ve read this blog long enough, you might recall that the Craigs and their Grassway Organics...
by David Gumpert | Nov 16, 2022 | What's New |
The International Milk Genomics Consortium doesn’t mention raw milk on its web site or its conference promotional materials. But for Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy and chairman of the Raw Milk Institute, a regular at its annual conferences, its research...
by David Gumpert | Sep 27, 2022 | What's New |
One of the few things Amish farmer Amos Miller has had going for him in the legal sphere over the last seven years of his regulatory skirmishes is that he’s been politically nondenominational – not associated with either political party. In fact, it could be argued...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2022 | What's New |
I’ve long been gunshy about inviting discussion on the health impact of vaccines. It’s become such a polarizing issue—you’re either all in on vaccines as the be-all and end-all of public health, including for getting past Covid, or you are anti-vax, riding on every...
by David Gumpert | Aug 27, 2022 | What's New |
Most MAGA supporters reinforce their bitter views of the world vicariously, via the thrill of Alex Jones conspiracy theories or the grievance of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson or the anger of Donald Trump. For a few, though, the ongoing alienation is the result of lived...
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