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Hershberger Victory for Private Food Rights Sends Message That People Can, and Will, Fight Overbearing Regulators

by David Gumpert | May 26, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk | 71 comments

Make no mistake, Vernon Hershberger won a huge victory in today’s early morning hours in Baraboo, WI.  “It’s a beautiful day,” Hershberger told me this morning, after a few hours of sleep following the 1 a.m. jury decision that acquitted him of three of four criminal...

In a Wisconsin Courtroom, Forget Even Talking About Healthy Food

by David Gumpert | May 24, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk | 37 comments

There were times today in a Baraboo, WI, courtroom, when I wondered if I was still living in the United States of America.It started first thing when one of the prosecutors in the Vernon Hershberger case, Eric DeFort, complained to the judge that the lead defense...

Much Like a Prize Fight, Hershberger Trial Participants Slug It Out Over Retailing, Vendettas

by David Gumpert | May 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk | 4 comments

I’ve seen the video at least twice now, the one of Wisconsin food inspector Cathy Anderson throwing blue dye into a vat containing hundreds of gallons of Vernon Hershberger’s raw milk that fateful second day of June, 2010. But each time, as the ribbon of...

On First Day of Hershberger Trial, Lawyers Tangle Over Retailing, As Raw Milk Issue Lurks

by David Gumpert | May 21, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 35 comments

I had assumed that the tension and drama in the Vernon Hershberger raw milk trial would build gradually over the expected five days of the proceedings, culminating in a verdict that would either acquit him or possibly send him to jail for up to two-and-a-half...

Could Wide Coverage of Hershberger Trial Presage a Shift in Media Attitudes Toward Raw Milk and Food Rights?

by David Gumpert | May 18, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 4 comments

The trial of raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger, due to begin Monday in Baraboo, WI, is becoming not just a big legal and political event, but a big media event as well.  The Wisconsin media have picked up on the plans for a major gathering of food rights...

Did Food Fears Prompt Hershberger Judge to Give DATCP Carte Blanche on Condemning Food?

by David Gumpert | May 15, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 17 comments

A chapter in my new book on food rights is entitled, “Since When Are We Afraid of Food?” I detail some of the reasons for the sometimes irrational concerns about food dangers that have developed over the last twenty years, resulting in what sometimes seems like...

Could the “Food Violence” of a Hershberger-like Prosecution Be Happening Elsewhere in the World?

by David Gumpert | May 13, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation | 14 comments

The criminal misdemeanor trial of Vernon Hershberger is a week off, and I find myself wondering…Is there any other country (aside from Canada) in today’s crazy mixed-up world that would devote the resources the U.S. is devoting to punishing a farmer for selling...

Hershberger “Raw Milk Trial,” Sans Raw Milk; Ed Shank Speaks Up About That Dairy Study; FDA Rep on the Hot Seat in IL

by David Gumpert | May 8, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 25 comments

For those people expecting the upcoming trial of Vernon Hershberger to provide a jury verdict on the benefits of raw milk, there’s been a glitch. The judge in the case, Guy Reynolds, said yesterday at a pretrial hearing that the words “raw milk” can’t be uttered...
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