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How Raw Milk Producers Should View the E.coli Challenge

by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 21 comments

There has been some excellent discussion to provide guidance to Marcie McBee, the Tennessee raw-milk farmer who had an outbreak of illness traced to E.coli O157:H7. What makes pieces of this discussion exciting is that it begins to lift the veil of silence that...

A Small MA Town’s Misinformation Campaign About Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 40 comments

The public health profession is terribly inept when it comes to public communication. Some of the problem–the tendency to talk in “scientific” terminology and to limit public access to information–stems from ignorance about how to communicate with the...

After Nearly 300 Years, Can Lawton’s Farm Survive Local Regulators Out to Crush Raw Milk?

by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 45 comments

Lawton’s Family Farm in Foxborough, MA, is one of the oldest farms in the U.S., the only remaining dairy of any kind in the Boston area’s Norfolk county. As such, it has survived revolution, hurricanes, economic depression.But can it survive local...

What Happens When Food Corps Mess with Raw Juice? The Same As When They Mess With Milk

by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Regulation | 126 comments

I am a big raw juice fan, have been for many years. After I make the juice, usually a couple of cups or more, I store the leftover juice in a wine bottle, and use a vacuum device to reduce the air supply. Raw juice, like raw milk, is a fragile food because its many...

NY Times Explores Huge Raw Milk Health Benefits, But Hesitates on That Final Leap

by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2013 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk | 70 comments

So I’m reading the lengthy lead article in the Sunday Review section of today’s New York Times, headed, “A Cure for the Allergy Epidemic?” It’s by a science writer, Moises Velasquez-Manoff. It begins by asking, “Will the cure for allergies come from the cowshed?”...

Caught in the Middle: A TN Raw Milk Farmer Agonizes About Serving Multiple Masters

by David Gumpert | Nov 9, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 226 comments

“It’s frustrating,” says Marcie McBee. “I can’t fix something I can’t find. I can’t fix something they can’t find.” The 36-year-old owner of McBee Dairy in Mascot, TN, is referring to the allegations that her dairy’s milk was responsible for nine illnesses from...

Good News in Fight Over GMO Labeling–It Helps Unite Communities for Real Food

by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation | 58 comments

I’ve been reading a lot about GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in preparation for the debate I am moderating Thursday evening between Virginia farmer Joel Salatin and holistic physician  Joseph Mercola in Atlanta. The debate, a fund-raiser for the...

Overreach: MN Judge Puts Crimp in MDA’s 10-Year Pursuit of Raw Dairy Farmer Hartmann

by David Gumpert | Oct 31, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance | 122 comments

Minnesota’s relentless decade-long pursuit of dairy farmer Michael Hartmann finally ran off the road, when a state judge ruled earlier this month that the state conducted an illegal search of the farmer’s truck.In a strongly worded 30-page opinion, Minnesota Judge...
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