The Post-Partisan Emporium

  An Amish Farmer’s Food Rights Battle The Constitutional Right to Food Choice JOHN KLAR The January 4th raid on Amish farmer Amos Miller’s Pennsylvania establishment, reflects a growing tension between government regulation of food safety and liberty-minded individualists distrusting industrial food production.  Pennsylvania State Police secured Miller’s farming premises for search by the state’s Department of Agriculture for “illegal raw milk and raw milk products, including eggnog,” following reported cases of E. coli in New York and Michigan, allegedly linked to Miller’s products.  This curious dispute has far-reaching implications for Americans’ food rights. Miller déjà vu? Farmer Miller has been in and out of the food rights limelight since 2015, when the USDA alleged his raw milk products sickened a person in California and caused another person’s death in Florida by listeria (which Miller denies).  Miller has negotiated fines and regulatory conformance to app...

Clarkson’s Farm: Another Front in the War on Food   Tom Luongo While I’ve been a big fan of Jeremy Clarkson over the years, I’ve never been proud of him before. Hero worship and celebrity go hand in hand and it’s a dangerous game to ascribe motives beyond self-interest to any celebrity. But in Clarkson’s case he may have just done something worthy of that. Clarkson is now on the other side of another cancellation campaign against him for a dig at Queen Narcissist herself, Meghan Markle, in one of his recent columns. And, normally, I would just pass the whole thing off as another of Clarkson’s attempts at controversy because if anyone lives by the adage that controversy is good for ratings it’s Jeremy Clarkson. The guy is a six-foot-four-inch Streisand Effect with bad teeth. But in this dustup with Queen Meghan, Clarkson did something completely out of the ordinary for him. He apologized. Twice. James Delingpole and I roasted Clarkson for apologizing  on a recent podcast we did...