Consumers and farmers are uniting on two fronts this week, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. to speak out for consumer freedom of choice and food safety.
India activist, Vandana Shiva, speaks to the insidious ways our food laws are used to control production and force unhealthy foods on the public.
A video interview with a Virginia herbalist dramatically shows the heavy burden too many laws and overlapping bureaucracies puts on cottage industry in the U.S.
Clare Hamilton goes to the head of her class on food safety. This farm girl is growing up on a sustainable farm in Colorado, and one can only hope the politicians listen to her words of wisdom.
A rainbow of good intentions may be creating a nightmarish future for locavores and the farms they love. Michael Schmidt is the perfect role model for the resistance we should mount.
The most visited Hartkeisonline.com blog posts about sustainable farming, raw milk and natural cures in 2009.
A new book by David Gumpert goes behind the scenes of the raw milk battle. The author will be coming to Charlottesville, VA and doing an event with famous farmer, Joel Salatin as part of his book tour.
Cheryl Hadden reads between the lines of a new FDA missive on improving enforcement. Parsing the gooblydegook, Cheryl maintains it is a lot of words and not much substance.
Cattlemen tell the U.S. Senators that three weaknesses in our food policies are causing food safety crisis: industrial production, international standards, and the HACCP strategy.
Sound U.S. Food Safety Standards were Weakened When Congress Acquiesced to International Standards that Prohibit It From Targeting Food Safety Problems Originating in Foreign Countries with Stricter Standards says Max Thornsberry, President of R-CALF.
