From David E. Gumpert, at the Complete Patient blog:
Some of Alvin Schlangen’s suporters at a rally. Complete Patient photo.
“When I spoke with Alvin Schlangen a few days ago, I asked him how he felt about having been in the shadows of the food rights movement the last couple of years, prior to his trial.
Yes, there had been a demonstration on his behalf last May, but the lion’s share of the attention from the media and from people like me who follow the expanding food rights movement had gone to people like Daniel Allgyer, the Pennsylvania Amish farmer who served a Maryland food club, James Stewart and Sharon Palmer in California of Rawesome Food Club fame, and Michael Schmidt, the Canadian raw dairy farmer under on-again-off-again legal pressure from the Ontario government. Continue reading →