by David Gumpert | Oct 21, 2015 | What's New |
There are a lot of things I thought I’d see before I saw raw milk being sold in Maryland. Like peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. Or North Korea give up its nuclear weapons. Or the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. But here it is, October 21, 2015, Back to...
by David Gumpert | Oct 15, 2015 | What's New |
About five years ago, when I heard an Amish farmer describe how a relative had been “shunned” by the community, I realized it was the first time I had even heard the term since I was a kid in religious school, learning Biblical stories. As I came to know a number of...
by David Gumpert | Oct 12, 2015 | What's New |
Someone wrote on a Facebook food site about what a relief it’s been the last couple of weeks to have a break in the fermented cod liver oil controversy. While there definitely has been less discussion, on this blog and elsewhere, it’s not as if the problems associated...
by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2015 | Legal, News Media, Raids, Raw Milk, What's New |
If you want to understand the power of people organizing and standing up for what they believe in, I strongly suggest you watch the video segment below. It shows raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt negotiating with an official of the Ontario Department of Natural...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2015 | What's New |
Something very important happened at Michael Schmidt’s Glencolton Farm in Northern Ontario today. Some twenty or so enforcers, from a half-dozen Canadian regulatory agencies and local police, descended on the farm at mid-day Friday, and began confiscating milk and...
by David Gumpert | Sep 29, 2015 | What's New |
Six weeks ago, I published an article by Canadian lawyer Karen Selick about the government “sheep-napping” case against food-rights activist and dairy farmer Michael Schmidt and sheep farmer Montana Jones. That article described how the Canadian government, via the...
by David Gumpert | Sep 26, 2015 | What's New |
It was such a wonderful narrative that Green Pasture had going for its fermented cod liver oil over previous years. That it was produced from cod from the arctic. That solar heating activated the fermentation. That all suppliers had the so-called “Good Housekeeping”...
by David Gumpert | Sep 21, 2015 | What's New |
In the wake of Sunday evening’s ouster of Kaayla Daniel as a Weston A. Price Foundation director, a major exhibitor is pulling out of the WAPF conference upcoming in Anaheim. Vital Choice Wild Seafood, which was slated to be a $5,000 gold sponsor and to donate several...
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