by David Gumpert | May 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Government scientists have examined an outbreak of 148 illnesses from campylobacter last year at The Family Cow dairy in Pennsylvania, and concluded its impossible to produce raw milk safely. This supposedly scientific report, by scientists of the U.S....
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Maines food sovereignty movement took a hit when a state judge ruled earlier this week that farmer Dan Brown must have a license to sell raw milk, despite his towns ordinance exempting local farmers from state food regulations. The judge was ruling in response...
by David Gumpert | Apr 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Raw Milk |
Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on his behalf, his trial looks likely to go forward as scheduled beginning May 20.As proceedings draw closer, we will no...
by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk |
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a food writer I have long admired–Tom Philpott, who produces the great Mother Jones food blog. Ive known him for probably five or six years, beginning when I wrote for Grist when he was the editor, but we had never...
by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For a long time, I have argued that the state and federal judges hearing food rights cases are living on a different planet than the people. The judges nearly always come down entirely on the side of the regulators. The people, in the form of a jury, see things much...
by David Gumpert | Apr 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Dave Milano made a telling observation in a comment following my previous post: The simple notion of basic human rights gets lost in tangles of misunderstanding, and as a result, States are given more power than they ought to have, or are tacitly or directly given...
by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For years, the public health, medical, regulator, and conventional dairy communities have marched in lockstep against raw milk. Collaborating with these forces of government and business have been the farmer communities, via their trade groups, the American Farm...
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2013 | Raw Milk, Regulation |
Barack Obama gave a remarkable speech in Israel last week. Remarkable not just because he challenged Israeli young people to push for peace with the Palestinians, but because he was cheered by the young Israelis in the audience. One of his statements...
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