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A New Act in Raw Milk (Im) Morality Play, Brought to You By America’s Dairyland

by David Gumpert | Oct 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 74 comments

Do a Google search under “Wisconsin raw milk illnesses, football team,” and up pop ten headings from media outlets and product liability lawyers, all proclaiming pretty much the same thing: “Raw Milk Blamed for Illnesses…” It all seems pretty cut and dry. Some...

Simmering Cod Liver Oil Imbroglio Heats Up for WAPF Conference

by David Gumpert | Oct 28, 2014 | Nutrition, Research | 28 comments

When the Weston A. Price Foundation Wise Traditions conference convenes in Indianapolis late next week, there will be sessions on bone broth, nutrient-dense vegetables, re-building the gut, raw milk safety, and traditional diets, among many others. But possibly the...

When the Italians Start Clamping Down on Raw Milk, Something’s Up

by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2014 | News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 52 comments

You read through The Wall Street Journal article yesterday about the European efforts to reign in raw milk vending machines, and you realize that raw milk is, indeed, becoming a worldwide issue. It’s an issue in Canada, New Zealand, England, and now in Italy,...

Are the Chickens Finally Coming Home to Roost for CDC Incompetence and Arrogance?

by David Gumpert | Oct 18, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 73 comments

It’s not often that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are in agreement about happenings in Washington, but on the CDC’s Ebola-related performance, the two papers came out Saturday slamming the agency. According to the NY Times’ lead article,...

Will WI Supreme Court Do Its Duty to Uphold U.S. Constitution in Food Rights Cases?

by David Gumpert | Oct 15, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 52 comments

For upwards of a decade, Wisconsin’s small raw-milk producers have been doing battle with the state’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, as well as the courts and politicians. DATCP has refused to allow the farms to distribute milk privately,...

Ebola Watching: Has Fearmongering Finally Become Our Official National Pastime?

by David Gumpert | Oct 11, 2014 | Legal, Nutrition, Regulation | 81 comments

Baseball has long been America’s national pastime. As baseball has declined in popularity, football was poised to replace it. But the violence that seems to enshroud football has made the transition difficult. No worries. We’ve got a new national pastime, and it is...

Silver Lining? KY Illnesses Could Change Raw Milk “Narrative”

by David Gumpert | Oct 4, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 93 comments

The “narrative” on raw milk from the public health community has been heavily negative, going something like this: Raw milk producers skimp on safety. They are just in it for the money, selling raw milk at high prices to line their pockets. The raw milk community is...

Will the Key Mystery Surrounding Kentucky Illnesses Blamed on Raw Milk Be Solved?

by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 21 comments

In its 730-word press release yesterday on the status of its investigation into five illnesses tied to raw milk, the Kentucky Department of Public Health spent most of its verbiage warning of the dangers of raw milk. It  said almost nothing about its most vexing...

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