by David Gumpert | May 11, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Regulation |
The West Coast people got a little bit of a head start in discussing the recall of Organic Pastures Dairy Co.s products (following my previous post). A recall, and quarantine, was ordered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, alleging that...
by David Gumpert | May 8, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
The Minnesota Department of Agricultures campaign against consumers is significantly more widespread than I first reported. And it is stirring up a hornets nest of outrage, and promises of defiance.It turns out the MDA actually sent its love letters...
by David Gumpert | May 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is rapidly challenging its Wisconsin cousin as the FDAs poster boy for how to threaten and intimidate producers and consumers of nutrient-dense foods.In the latest episode in a two-year-long series of aggressive punitive...
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2012 | News Media, Nutrition |
Now that Vermont farmer Walter Jeffries has raised $25,000 on Kickstarter to complete a new butcher shop at his Sugar Mountain Farm, hes working on the next $5,000to pour the concrete for
the abattoir where we’ll be able to do on-farm slaughter. Hes...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Research |
In Nazi Germany during the 1930s, the big challenge among Germans was to prove they weren’t Jewish. They scrambled to produce certificates of baptism and show family trees that documented they weren’t Jewish. It didn’t take much to fail–a...
by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Raids, Resistance |
It is painful to read some of the comments following my previous post, especially the back-and-forth accusations between Califarmer and Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. about herdshares in California. (Please note, you need to go to the bottom of the first...
by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation, Resistance |
The outbreak of raw-milk-linked illnesses at Foundation Farm in Oregon has the potential to be a watershed event–an event that changes people’s fundamental views on raw milk safety and production. By any measure, it’s a serious situation. The Oregon...
by David Gumpert | Apr 19, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation |
Positions seem to be hardening in Maine’s effort to challenge food sovereignty ordinances passed by at least half a dozen towns. That became clear during demonstrations yesterday by several dozen supporters of Dan Brown, a farmer in one of the towns, who has...
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