by David Gumpert | Aug 30, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
The principle of private food should get a test in front of a jury of ordinary citizens when raw dairy farmer Vernon Hershbeger goes on trial in Wisconsin on Jan. 7. I should say the principle should get a test, because initial indications are that the...
by David Gumpert | Jul 15, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research |
Once upon a time, I naively expected that if there were new credible scientific evidence that raw milk showed health benefits over pasteurized milk, the health and regulatory communities might relax their negative attitudes. But a couple years ago, when I gave a...
by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Nutrition, Regulation, Research |
Even veteran farmers occasionally receive cruel unexpected reminders about the dangers of handling livestock. Ron Klein, a Michigan dairy farmer who comments here, barely survived repeated attacks by one of his bulls late last month. In fact, when you read the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Research |
In Nazi Germany during the 1930s, the big challenge among Germans was to prove they weren’t Jewish. They scrambled to produce certificates of baptism and show family trees that documented they weren’t Jewish. It didn’t take much to fail–a...
by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2012 | News Media, Nutrition, Research |
There’s a big disclosure today of another animal cruelty undercover investigation, this one involving egg-laying hens. The Humane Society of the United States says it is “shining a light on the dark world of suffering for millions of egg-laying...
by David Gumpert | Apr 8, 2012 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research |
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...
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