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Presto! From 21 Raw Milk Illnesses to 20,000-Plus, CDC Math Carries Dark Message for the RAWMI Safety Agenda

by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 75 comments

The public health profession has its marching orders from the dairy industry and its puppet U.S. Centers for Disease Control: We need higher numbers of illnesses attributed to raw milk. Use every means you can think of to stir up fear, even if it means making up...

How’s This for Raw Milk Two-fer–Foxborough, MA, Threatens Food Rights, and Safety

by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 52 comments

Regulation of raw milk is nearly entirely a state matter. You have fifty states, and fifty different variations of laws and regulations; only when it is sold or shipped across state lines does the federal government have any jurisdiction. Regardless of the...

What Is Real Agenda Behind NFL Town’s Continued Harassing of Tiny Raw Milk Dairy? It Isn’t Public Health

by David Gumpert | Dec 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 30 comments

I always sensed youth football was a dangerous proposition, but I never realized just how dangerous.  Recent studies show that at least 9,000 children each year suffer concussions–potentially serious brain injuries–playing youth football like Pop...

Raw Milk a Tough Sell in an NFL Town’s Burgers-and-Fries Culture

by David Gumpert | Nov 26, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 129 comments

““In Russia, we can’’t say what we want, but we can eat what we want. In the U.S., we can say what we want, but we can’’t eat what we want.”” ~ From an attendee at the postponed hearing in Foxborough considering tough raw milk regulations for...

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...

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...

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...
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