by David Gumpert | Oct 4, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The narrative on raw milk from the public health community has been heavily negative, going something like this: Raw milk producers skimp on safety. They are just in it for the money, selling raw milk at high prices to line their pockets. The raw milk community is...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
In its 730-word press release yesterday on the status of its investigation into five illnesses tied to raw milk, the Kentucky Department of Public Health spent most of its verbiage warning of the dangers of raw milk. It said almost nothing about its most vexing...
by David Gumpert | Sep 28, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its been more than two weeks since the media began reporting on five Kentucky children hospitalized with E.coli O157:H7. The reporting was straightforward, with no mention of the possibility that raw milk might be the cause of the illnesses. Since those...
by David Gumpert | Sep 23, 2014 | Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
Back in 2010, Canadian agriculture authorities launched a campaign to kill and test for scrapie a herd of rare Shropshire sheep owned by Ontario farmer Montana Jones. By 2012, after the Canadian authorities refused all Jones compromise offers and were set to remove...
by David Gumpert | Sep 18, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its been nearly a half-dozen years since I last visited Europe, and I wondered this time if the continents vaunted decline might also include its food. The economic problems of Greece, Spain, and Portugal are well known, as are the continents demographic...
by David Gumpert | Sep 14, 2014 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research, Safety |
I like to think that some day in the not-too-distant future people will look back on the official hysteria surrounding raw milk and shake their heads in wonderment. One prime example of the hysteria would be found in a just-completed Public Broadcasting System (PBS)...
by David Gumpert | Sep 10, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its one of those problems no one wants to talk about. Something only discussed at food conferences or other gatherings in quiet side conversations. No names, please, whatever you do, is the request at the end of the discussions. The problem? Raw milk as a...
by David Gumpert | Sep 7, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The first-ever, and hopefully first annual, Food Freedom Fest brought together about 200 food rights advocates from around the country on Saturday to farmer Joel Salatins scenic home town in the Shenandoah Valley. The focus was on overcoming the sense of an...
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