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Odds and Ends: Eucalyptus and Climate; That CDC MN Raw Milk Study; Dairy Footprints; NOFA-NJ Conference

by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 70 comments

I love eucalyptus trees, both their smell and their look. But I didn’t like learning about how they are being used to supposedly fight global warming.  Vast  eucalyptus forests have been planted in Brazil, and the trees are harvested for charcoal. Same...

Here’s a Public Health Plan to Save Raw Milk Drinkers from Themselves

by David Gumpert | Jan 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research | 95 comments

“Take me to your leader.”  I couldn’t help thinking of that cliche from old cowboy-Indian-style movies, as I listened to a recent podcast by two professors of food safety discussing raw milk (this is the podcast Joseph Heckman originally provided a link to;...

For American Cheese Society, When Does Cooperation with FDA Become Complicity?; Special Online Food “Summit”

by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 69 comments

(Note: The American Cheese Society requested I remove its logo, which had originally accompanied this post, from my blog.)“In a war, you are either a collaborator, or a resister.” A journalist who has been writing about the Russian rock group, Pussy Riot, made...

There’s More to the Cheerios GMO News Than Good PR

by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation | 48 comments

The comments on the Cheerios Facebook page have become much more positive since the announcement a few days ago that the cereal brand would use only non-genetically-modified ingredients in its original cereal.  Said one:  “Thank you Cheerios for...

Top Food Rights Story of 2013? More People Waking Up

by David Gumpert | Jan 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation, Resistance | 68 comments

I was going to write a year-end “top food rights stories of 2013” and rank the events that seemed most important. The criminal trial of Wisconsin farmer Vernon Hershberger, the second trial of Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen, the legislative clashes over food...

Happy New Year from FDA: Testing Program Takes Novel Tack to Discredit Raw Milk Cheese

by David Gumpert | Dec 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 56 comments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just informed raw cheese producers to expect fun and games in 2014: It will begin a “pilot program” lasting all of next year, during which it will test at least 1,700 samples of raw milk cheese. All this testing is in addition...

Strange Timing of Pediatricians’ New, New, Old, Old, Slam of Raw Milk; Same Old Cheap-Chicken Story

by David Gumpert | Dec 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 31 comments

When I saw news Monday that the American Academy of Pediatrics had issued a major warning about raw milk, I thought it sounded familiar.  The warning was picked up widely, by the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, ABC News, and other mainstream media, as if it was hot...

Foxboro, MA, Rallies Behind Lawton’s Family Farm, Defeats Questionable Local Raw Milk Regs

by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 43 comments

Ed Lawton began to get good vibes when he went for a haircut hours before the Foxboro Board of Health meeting Monday evening. “The barber told me I had one hundred per cent support in the town. And then he didn’t charge me for the haircut.”As he strategized with...
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