by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’ve spent the last few days reading through the most recent filings in the Maine Food Sovereignty case. If the potential importance of a food rights case could be measured in the heavy weight of the many pages of these initial arguments, this is a serious case....
by David Gumpert | Aug 3, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids |
A raiding party of twenty agents from three different agencies descended on Michael Schmidt’s Ontario Farm at 7 this morning with a simple message: he could be looking at 14 years in jail in connection with conspiracy charges associated with the scrapie...
by David Gumpert | Jul 15, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research |
Once upon a time, I naively expected that if there were new credible scientific evidence that raw milk showed health benefits over pasteurized milk, the health and regulatory communities might relax their negative attitudes. But a couple years ago, when I gave a...
by David Gumpert | Jul 8, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Sally Fallon has long been the whipping girl of raw milk opponents, portrayed as uncaring of victims of illness from raw dairy and an advocate of crazy safety ideas, like the one that the good bacteria in raw milk from grass-fed cows kills off pathogens. When...
by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation |
The good-cop-bad-cop routine is one of the oldest in law enforcement. Talk with me, goes the advice to the criminal suspect from the nice-guy cop, or I’ll send in our junk yard dog, and you don’t want to deal with him. Lord knows what...
by David Gumpert | Jun 26, 2012 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Regulation |
Sometimes I wonder if our expanding inclination to ban foods says something about our do-gooder nature, or our bullying nature. Last month, I wrote about how Massachusetts PTAs were so upset about sugary-food bans they got the state legislature...
by David Gumpert | Jun 23, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Over nearly two decades of fighting for the right to access raw milk, Michael Schmidt has become legendary for his persistent promotion of dialog with reluctant regulators and politicians. He went on a hunger strike last fall that he ended after five weeks when his...
by David Gumpert | Jun 22, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation |
Cryptosporidium, or “crypto,” as it’s commonly known, is a nasty parasite that causes diarrhea and other stomach upset. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says that, “While this parasite can be spread in several different ways,...
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