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The Turbulence Around the Oregon Raw Milk Outbreak: Watch Out for the Crashing Jet

by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation, Resistance | 81 comments

The outbreak of raw-milk-linked illnesses at Foundation Farm in Oregon has the potential to be a watershed event–an event that changes people’s fundamental views on raw milk safety and production. By any measure, it’s a serious situation. The Oregon...

Maine Farmer’s Food Sovereignty Suit Appears Headed for Court Test, as Raw Milk Safety Rears Its Head

by David Gumpert | Apr 19, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation | 34 comments

Positions seem to be hardening in Maine’s effort to challenge food sovereignty ordinances passed by at least half a dozen towns. That became clear during demonstrations yesterday by several dozen supporters of Dan Brown, a farmer in one of the towns, who has...

The Reality of Raw Milk Illnesses, and How They Allow the Debate to Be Hijacked; Pig Slaughter in MI

by David Gumpert | Apr 17, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Regulation | 98 comments

Like a lot of people, I appreciated Tim Wightman’s comment following my previous post. Especially his observation: “To blame health authorities for an outright bias and or ‘conspiracy’ allows those who make the claim to ignore their own...

Confessions of a Striving Social Media Creature; Law Firm Hustles Raw Milk Clients; A Mom Takes Aim

by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance | 17 comments

There’s no escaping the power of the social media. If anyone harbored any doubts, yesterday’s news that a small one-and-a-half-year-old photo-sharing company launched by a couple of twenty-somethings is being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion should wipe...

A Dairy Owner Grieves Over a New-born Calf, and Worries About What It Tells Us

by David Gumpert | Apr 8, 2012 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research | 20 comments

Losing her prized calf, Titanic, has Brigitte Ruthman thinking a little differently about dairy-producing priorities. Ruthman, owner of a tiny dairy, has been on this blog before in connection with her clashes with Massachusetts agriculture regulators, who have tried...

Despite Long Odds, FTCLDF Appeals Federal Judge’s Dismissal of Raw Milk Case; Deception in ME Sovereignty Case?

by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance | 12 comments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration caught a big break from U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett, when he dismissed the suit by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund against the agency (as described in my previous post). But we shouldn’t be surprised. The...

Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds You and Abandon Rawesome

by David Gumpert | Mar 16, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 45 comments

There are lots of people who justifiably wish all the conflict and legal stuff associated with Rawesome Food Club would just go away. Even those who are sympathetic wish it weren’t so messy. If only Sharon Palmer wasn’t involved. If only Aajonus...

When You Penetrate John Sheehan’s Veil of Secrecy, You Find a Pizza Cheese Quality Control Guy Running FDA’s War on Raw Milk–And Turning All Disclosure into Struggle

by David Gumpert | Sep 2, 2011 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Rights | 26 comments

You have to wonder: What has John Sheehan been trying so hard to hide in refusing to disclose information about himself? When I was researching my book, The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights, one of the items on my check list...

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