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Here’s a First: FDA Says Possible “Protective Immune Markers” in Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Dec 3, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 15 comments

There has been lots of upbeat news about raw milk over the last 18 months or so. Research out of Europe and the U.S. continues to suggest that raw milk strengthens the immune system so as to provide a protective effect against allergies, asthma, and other illnesses....

Can Super Processed Coke Milk Become the New Real Milk?

by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 51 comments

So Coca-Cola is getting into the milk business. Not the milk business as commodity milk, but the milk business as super-adulterated, premium-priced, “healthy” milk.   The Coke marketing people looked at their deteriorating sales in an increasingly...

What Do IL Raw Milk Regulators Fear? “Massive” Demand, Reluctant Prosecutors

by David Gumpert | Nov 22, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 48 comments

As the Illinois raw milk turmoil has dragged on through endless discussions and hearings and recriminations, my big question has been this: Why doesn’t the state just end the misery and ban raw milk?  That’s clearly what Big Dairy wants, what the regulators want,...

Extension’s Exciting New Role in Raw Milk Education

by David Gumpert | Nov 19, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 19 comments

Extension has been a powerful force in much of agriculture education, but not for producers of raw dairy. It’s been ignored by universities and state agriculture agencies intent on limiting raw dairy. But as raw dairy enjoys a resurgence in recent years,...

Yet Another CDC Data Screwup–This One Provides Window into Assault on Raw Milk in IL

by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 60 comments

This article has been updated since it was originally posted. Last May, Robert Tauxe, a food safety bigwig at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (I know he’s a bigwig because he has lots of initials after his name and a 16-word title) wrote a letter to state...

Proposed IL Raw Milk Regs: Can FDA-Dean Foods Wrecking Crew Be Halted?

by David Gumpert | Nov 9, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 119 comments

When battles over raw milk regulation break out in one state or another, public health professionals invariably argue it is entirely about food safety and protecting the public. Yet sometimes the political and business realities that underlie much of the battle over...

Why Those Illnesses from Pre-Pasteurized Milk Are Too Hot for CDC to Handle

by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 40 comments

The discussion following my previous post about the role of pre-pasteurized milk isn’t just a theoretical debate.  That is because the data that are accumulated about raw milk illnesses are used as part of an ongoing propaganda campaign to discredit the idea...

A New Act in Raw Milk (Im) Morality Play, Brought to You By America’s Dairyland

by David Gumpert | Oct 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 74 comments

Do a Google search under “Wisconsin raw milk illnesses, football team,” and up pop ten headings from media outlets and product liability lawyers, all proclaiming pretty much the same thing: “Raw Milk Blamed for Illnesses…” It all seems pretty cut and dry. Some...
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