by David Gumpert | May 13, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
How will the Maine Supreme Court rule on the Dan Brown food sovereignty case? If the intense 30-minute hearing today is any indication, it could be quite a sharp debate among the seven justices (six of whom were in attendance at todays hearing). Even...
by David Gumpert | May 11, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk |
In its pursuit of Dan Brown, the state of Maine has made much about public health and the states raw milk permit program that his one-cow dairy didnt register for, to justify the case. But at its heart, the case is about the Food Sovereignty ordinances adopted by...
by David Gumpert | May 6, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research |
A business expert I worked with some years ago while writing a book about business planning used to remark, If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there. I feel a little like Im descending further into that...
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk |
When I testified before the Vermont House of Representatives about raw milk risk, I presented annualized data and risk data that I and others had calculated. I pointed out that the legislators would never, ever, receive data about raw milk in an annualized,...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
What are we to make of an academic conference in Canadathe most anti-raw-milk country on the planet that actually included serious and open discussion from a wide range of attendees about the benefits of raw milk and ways to make it legal? Im not sure....
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2014 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Some years ago, I took a vacation in Costa Rica, and while traveling back roads, I got to see lots of corporate banana plantations. What I noticed first and foremost about these vast agricultural preserves was that most of the banana bunches were covered with blue...
by David Gumpert | Apr 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The proposed legislation to rescind or liberalize the federal ban on interstate raw milk sales holds out the prospect of a national debate on raw milk. How so? There will need to be one or more hearings on the legislation before the House committee...
by David Gumpert | Mar 21, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Licensing. It is an issue that lurks in the background for many small dairy farms that sell or distribute raw milk and other dairy products. People frequently assume that licensing is not only straightforward and doable, but essentiala governmental stamp of approval...
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