By Susie Zahratka and Kathryn Niflis Johnson BACKGROUND The case the State of Minnesota has built against Alvin Schlangen dates back to June 2010, when the Schlangen farm was searched following the raid and subsequent closure of the Traditional Foods...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Winter 2012 In a great victory for freedom of food choice, a six-member jury found Freeport, Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen not guilty on three criminal misdemeanor counts for violations of the state food and dairy...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Fall 2012 On July 31 Armand and Teddi Bechard entered into a consent agreement with the State of Missouri, ending a case that began in 2009. On two occasions in the spring of 2009, undercover agents from the Springfield-Greene...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Spring 2012 On February 2 Federal District Court Judge Lawrence F. Stengel ordered a permanent injunction against dairy farmer Dan Allgyer prohibiting Allgyer from distributing raw milk and raw milk products across...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Winter 2012 One of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the government against a raw dairy producer continued when a federal district court judge, Benjamin H. Settle, granted a motion for summary judgment filed...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Fall 2011 California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) enforcement actions weren’t limited to Rawesome . The agency sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Mendocino County herdshare operation and worked with t...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Fall 2008 On August 2 Pennsylvania State Senator Mike Folmer hosted the “Real Deal About Real Milk” Freedom and Liberty Seminar in Lebanon; approximately three hundred raw milk consumers and farmers heard presentations on ...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Winter 2008 Hendricks Farm and Dairy (HFD) is a grass-based organic raw milk dairy in Telford. The dairy boasts a state-of-the-art facility and has an impeccable track record with not a single positive pathogen test...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Summer 2009 A hearty thank you for all your support during our recent raw milk episodes (see Wise Traditions, Summer and Fall, 2008. Thank you for all the cards, letters and phone calls, for participating at the rallies...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Winter 2008 On November 18, 2008, Albany County Supreme Court Judge John C. Egan, Jr. dismissed the petition of Meadowsweet Dairy, LLC, for a declaratory judgment that the LLC’s distribution of raw dairy products t...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Winter 2012 On October 15, Gibbon dairy farmer Mike Hartmann pled guilty in Sibley County court to two misdemeanor counts of illegally selling raw milk and raw milk products and selling other foods without a food...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Winter 2011 – Michael Schmidt Appellate Decision and Hunger Strike On September 29 Justice Peter Tetley of the Ontario Court of Justice reversed the most favorable court decision on cow share agreements in North A...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has escalated its campaign to restrict access to raw milk by stepping up enforcement actions against farmers Alvin Schlangen and Mike Hartmann (see their case update pages for background). Already...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Winter 2012 On September 27, a Missouri appellate court affirmed the judgment of the Howell County Circuit Court in ordering that all cheese at Morningland Dairy’s facility should be destroyed. The dairy’s cheese man...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Summer 2012 On May 10 the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) issued a press release announcing that raw milk, raw skim milk, raw cream and raw butter produced by Organic Pastures Dairy Company (OPDC)...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Fall 2011 On August 3, 2011 federal, state and local government officials raided the Rawesome Foods store in Venice, seizing food, records, computers and cash from the store. The officials seized almost the entire...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Summer 2007 The Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) has reached a settlement with Richard Hebron of Family Farms’ Cooperative after their cops-and-robbers showdown and confiscation of his property last year. The g...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Fall 2011: See update within Rawesome Updates Update, Fall 2010 : See update within Rawesome Updates Update, Summer 2009 Good news from California. Sharon Palmer appeared at an arraignment before the Ventura...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Spring 2012 On January 27 the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PDH) issued a press release advising consumers who purchased raw milk produced by the Family Cow dairy in Chambersburg that “the department confirmed t...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. [You can also follow the case on the family's website, vernonhershberger.com ] Update, Winter 2012 On November 27, a hearing was held in the Sauk County Courthouse to determine whether three reporters would be forced to...

White Egret Farm (WEF) has been supplying Grade A raw goat milk, raw milk cheeses, goat yogurts, and natural beef, pork, goat and turkey from its location in Austin, Texas to health conscious consumers and babies with wise parents since 1992. In August...

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Update, Summer 2011 On May 27 an inspector from the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness stopped off at a dropsite for the Whole Life Buying Club (WLBC), issuing the coordinator for the site an order to...