by David Gumpert | Apr 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Dave Milano made a telling observation in a comment following my previous post: The simple notion of basic human rights gets lost in tangles of misunderstanding, and as a result, States are given more power than they ought to have, or are tacitly or directly given...
by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For years, the public health, medical, regulator, and conventional dairy communities have marched in lockstep against raw milk. Collaborating with these forces of government and business have been the farmer communities, via their trade groups, the American Farm...
by David Gumpert | Mar 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What should raw milk consumers do when they suspect one or more farmers of producing possibly dangerous raw milk? Its a dilemma that faces at least some raw dairy consumers at one time or another. The big tipoff of potential danger is that the milk sours...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk |
My tour bus last week was just passing Tiananmen Square where, in one of the huge official buildings, The Peoples Congress was being held to address Chinas major issues, such as pollution and agriculture expansion. I expected a respectful assessment from our...
by David Gumpert | Mar 7, 2013 | Food Safety, News Media |
Ive long wanted to visit China before the new completely overwhelms the old. So last Sunday night, my wife, Jean, and I arrived in Beijing. Our first stop was to be a food tour of Beijings Hutongs–one of the fast-disappearing areas of traditional homes, shops,...
by David Gumpert | Mar 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’m still amazed about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accusation that most raw milk drinkers welcome pathogens in their food (described in my previous post. Aside from personal views we may have about the role of bacteria in our food...
by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Back in December 2008, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. filed a citizens petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that the agency lift its prohibition on interstate shipments of raw milk on a very limited basis–for milk moving from one...
by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
You might think that after half a dozen years of intense debate and a procession of legal cases in the U.S. and Canada over raw milk and food rights, that there might be some softening, some moves to compromise and acceptance– live and let live, as it...
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