by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2016 | What's New |
For years now, farmers have borne the brunt of government efforts to interfere with food rights and consumer access to the foods of their choice. That may be about to change, as consumers launch actions to take the burden of government harassment off farmers’ backs. A...
by David Gumpert | Sep 12, 2016 | What's New |
It was just about a year ago that the fermented-cod-liver-oil scandal exploded onto the foodie scene via an officer of the Weston A. Price Foundation scolding her organization for endorsing and promoting the only known commercial brand of FCLO, from Nebraska company...
by David Gumpert | Aug 24, 2016 | What's New |
During a federal court hearing in late June, there was soothing talk from a USDA inspector that the forced inspection being sought on Amos Miller’s Pennsylvania farm was intended to “educate him about safety.” Federal Judge Edward Smith approved the inspection order...
by David Gumpert | Aug 14, 2016 | What's New |
Like many Jewish survivors of Germany’s Nazi period, my father didn’t like to talk about his experiences back then. But from a couple of conversations I had with him before he died in 1997, I extracted this story: In 1933, shortly after Adolph Hitler assumed power, my...
by David Gumpert | Aug 2, 2016 | What's New |
Amos Miller isn’t certain how many times the agents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been back to his Pennsylvania farm since that first highly public visit three weeks ago (chronicled in my July 11 blog post). It’s probably been five or six times, he...
by David Gumpert | Jul 22, 2016 | What's New |
For more than a decade, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had an undeclared war on raw milk cheese, until this week, when the FDA finally beat a retreat. At the conclusion of its latest assault against raw milk cheese–a research study of more than 1,600...
by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2016 | What's New |
No one really wanted to be there at the end of the Pennsylvania farm driveway this morning—neither the two agents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in ill-fitting bulletproof vests under their sport shirts, nor the armed local police detective who accompanied...
by David Gumpert | Jul 10, 2016 | What's New |
As Amos Miller is about to watch USDA inspectors invade his farm, under a federal court order, it seems like a good time to re-visit how another farmer went through a similar crisis. Beginning nearly a decade ago, the state of Wisconsin began an inspection campaign...
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