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...
by David Gumpert | Jul 21, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
This post has been revised and updated since it was first posted. Blogger Kimberly Hartke’s presentation about raw milk in the Minneapolis area Thursday evening came off without a hitch. So did her ice-cream-making demonstration, using fresh milk, cream, and...
by David Gumpert | Jul 17, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
If you want a sense of how the atmosphere around obtaining raw milk and other nutrient-dense foods has changed over the last couple years in a state like Minnesota, which has featured no-holds-barred enforcement and intimidation against farmers and consumers alike,...
by David Gumpert | Jul 15, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research |
Once upon a time, I naively expected that if there were new credible scientific evidence that raw milk showed health benefits over pasteurized milk, the health and regulatory communities might relax their negative attitudes. But a couple years ago, when I gave a...
by David Gumpert | Jul 12, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Prosecutors seeking to jail Vernon Hershberger for distributing his farm’s food privately to members of a food club betrayed their nervousness yesterday when they filed motions intended to limit the evidence the Wisconsin farmer can present to a jury. The...
by David Gumpert | Jul 8, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Sally Fallon has long been the whipping girl of raw milk opponents, portrayed as uncaring of victims of illness from raw dairy and an advocate of crazy safety ideas, like the one that the good bacteria in raw milk from grass-fed cows kills off pathogens. When...
by David Gumpert | Jul 7, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation |
Sometimes it’s possible to infer important clues about a legal case from a judge’s seemingly negative opinion. The articles about Wisconsin Judge Guy Reynolds rejecting a motion by farmer Vernon Hershberger to dismiss the case against him suggested...
by David Gumpert | Jul 3, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I want to be the first to wish the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund a happy fifth anniversary. The FTCLDF launched, quite appropriately, on July 4, 2007. It sprang up in response to the coordinated crackdown launched the previous year by state and...
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