by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2014 | News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
You read through The Wall Street Journal article yesterday about the European efforts to reign in raw milk vending machines, and you realize that raw milk is, indeed, becoming a worldwide issue. It’s an issue in Canada, New Zealand, England, and now in Italy,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 18, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its not often that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are in agreement about happenings in Washington, but on the CDCs Ebola-related performance, the two papers came out Saturday slamming the agency. According to the NY Times’ lead article,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 15, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
For upwards of a decade, Wisconsins small raw-milk producers have been doing battle with the states Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, as well as the courts and politicians. DATCP has refused to allow the farms to distribute milk privately,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 11, 2014 | Legal, Nutrition, Regulation |
Baseball has long been Americas national pastime. As baseball has declined in popularity, football was poised to replace it. But the violence that seems to enshroud football has made the transition difficult. No worries. Weve got a new national pastime, and it is...
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...
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