by David Gumpert | Jan 18, 2016 | What's New |
One big positive to emerge from the Joyce Brown situation I described in my last post was her report that the Ohio Department of Agriculture appears to have washed its hands of the raw milk political piñata that other regulators can’t get enough of. In one of her...
by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2016 | What's New |
There are all kinds of reasons members leave a raw milk herdshare—perhaps they aren’t drinking as much milk as they once did, or they find an alternative source of milk closer to home, or they don’t like the farmer’s sanitation practices, or they are moving to another...
by David Gumpert | Jan 2, 2016 | What's New |
Suddenly, in mid November, the story about fermented cod liver oil seemed to go silent. It was almost as if the FCLO controversy—some had turned to calling it a scandal—had simply ended. But, of course, that wasn’t the case. Green Pasture, the only known commercial...
by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2015 | What's New |
Just what is going on with Chipotle Mexican Grill, the 1,800-plus-outlet chain of Mexican-style food? And what might be the impact of its food-safety problems on its local-food model, along with many thousands of smaller producers of sustainable local food? Since last...
by David Gumpert | Dec 20, 2015 | What's New |
Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker got some strange holiday greetings from his state’s Department of Natural Resources late last week: a search warrant, served by regulators accompanied by state police. The warrant apparently had to do with a packaging issue discovered...
by David Gumpert | Dec 15, 2015 | What's New |
“I know the truth—don’t bother me with the facts.” We see this truism play out ever more frequently in our ever more fractured political culture. It’s one of the reasons our elected officials seem to agree on ever less. Reality is so clear, in their view, that they...
by David Gumpert | Dec 7, 2015 | What's New |
The Michael Schmidt legal situation has gotten so tangled that Ontario courts are having difficulty scheduling his court appearances. As for Schmidt, he’s gunshy about even leaving a courtroom: “It’s gotten so when I walk out of court, they arrest me,” or so it...
by David Gumpert | Dec 4, 2015 | What's New |
In the 11 long years it’s taken the FDA’s dairy chief, John Sheehan, to concoct a program to rid the U.S. of raw milk cheese, the product has become extremely popular around the country. So popular that it is an industry unto itself in a number of states, like Oregon,...
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