by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Lawyers for Maine farmer Dan Brown say a judge who issued an injunction last April barring him from selling raw milk completely overlooked that he would have had to spend $62,500 to comply with regulations to obtain a state permit for his one-cow dairy. As a...
by David Gumpert | Feb 13, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Corporate hog producers and state agriculture regulators around the country are understood to be watching closely the legal case of Michigan hog farmer Mark Baker. What they are seeing is a highly tentative Michigan Department of Natural Resources,...
by David Gumpert | Jan 20, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Gradually, ever so gradually, public health and medical professionals are moderating their tone against raw milk. There is nothing en masse going on, no official policy change by organizations like the Intnernational Association for Food Protection (IAFP) or the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 4, 2013 | Legal, News Media |
For some weeks now, Ive been following the treatment and custody battle over Sarah Hershberger, the 10-year-old Ohio Amish girl with leukemia. It is a heart-breaking story–her parents brought her to begin a two-year round of conventional treatment at a...
by David Gumpert | Nov 26, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
“In Russia, we can’t say what we want, but we can eat what we want. In the U.S., we can say what we want, but we can’t eat what we want.” ~ From an attendee at the postponed hearing in Foxborough considering tough raw milk regulations for...
by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The public health profession is terribly inept when it comes to public communication. Some of the problem–the tendency to talk in scientific terminology and to limit public access to information–stems from ignorance about how to communicate with the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Lawton’s Family Farm in Foxborough, MA, is one of the oldest farms in the U.S., the only remaining dairy of any kind in the Boston areas Norfolk county. As such, it has survived revolution, hurricanes, economic depression.But can it survive local...
by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Regulation |
I am a big raw juice fan, have been for many years. After I make the juice, usually a couple of cups or more, I store the leftover juice in a wine bottle, and use a vacuum device to reduce the air supply. Raw juice, like raw milk, is a fragile food because its many...
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