by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2013 | News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For companies of all sizes, marketing is, at its most fundamental, about being in synch with the pulse of your customers, and working to provide products and services to keep growing your customer base. Companies that stay in synch, like Google and Amazon, can...
by David Gumpert | Dec 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
When I saw news Monday that the American Academy of Pediatrics had issued a major warning about raw milk, I thought it sounded familiar. The warning was picked up widely, by the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, ABC News, and other mainstream media, as if it was hot...
by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Ed Lawton began to get good vibes when he went for a haircut hours before the Foxboro Board of Health meeting Monday evening. The barber told me I had one hundred per cent support in the town. And then he didnt charge me for the haircut.As he strategized with...
by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The public health profession has its marching orders from the dairy industry and its puppet U.S. Centers for Disease Control: We need higher numbers of illnesses attributed to raw milk. Use every means you can think of to stir up fear, even if it means making up...
by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Regulation of raw milk is nearly entirely a state matter. You have fifty states, and fifty different variations of laws and regulations; only when it is sold or shipped across state lines does the federal government have any jurisdiction. Regardless of the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I always sensed youth football was a dangerous proposition, but I never realized just how dangerous. Recent studies show that at least 9,000 children each year suffer concussions–potentially serious brain injuries–playing youth football like Pop...
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 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
There has been some excellent discussion to provide guidance to Marcie McBee, the Tennessee raw-milk farmer who had an outbreak of illness traced to E.coli O157:H7. What makes pieces of this discussion exciting is that it begins to lift the veil of silence that...
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