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If I Didn’t Know Better, I’d Say All The Complexity Around Raw Milk, Raw Cheese, and Food Safety Rules Was Intentional

by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 23 comments

This may sound like a silly question, but why does the assault on nutrient-dense foods need to be cloaked in so much complexity? Consider… * I’m thinking, first, about that FDA-Health Canada study on soft raw milk cheeses (discussed in my previous post),...

FDA Hones in On Limiting Raw Milk Camembert, Brie, Despite Absence of a Single Documented Illness in 23 Years

by David Gumpert | Feb 15, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 39 comments

(I have spent much of the last week reading a 189-page report issued jointly by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada, with the dry title, “Joint FDA/Health Canada Quantitative Assessment of the Risk of Listeriosis from Soft-Ripened Cheese...

With Straight Face, MN Prosecutor Argues Any Unregulated Food a “Controlled Substance”; Settlement of Maine Food Sovereignty Case?

by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 46 comments

An unlicensed organization like a food club is not only distributing “contraband,” but a “controlled substance,” in the view of a Minnesota prosecutor fighting to prevent dismissal of three misdemeanor food allegations against farmer Alvin Schlangen. In other words,...

“We Are All Farmers,” Mark Baker Tells Foodies in His 1st Traveling Butchering Class; Bad Cheese Aftertaste at Morningland

by David Gumpert | Jan 29, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 21 comments

Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his state’s prohibition on raising so-called “feral” pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesn’t want to see produced. The high-end restaurants he formerly...

Can Homestead Creamery Raw Milk Cheese Case Be Resolved Sensibly? Possibly, If Lawyers Move Away

by David Gumpert | Jan 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 22 comments

It’s always dangerous from a journalistic perspective to write about a particular food safety situation in the midst of the regulatory process, especially when it involves raw milk. But in the case of the tiny Missouri raw milk cheese maker, Homestead Creamery, I’m...

As Missouri Milk Board Plans Morningland Dairy’s Funeral, Possible Encore At 2nd MO Raw Milk Cheese Maker

by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 18 comments

Missouri is turning out to not be a great place for raw milk cheese makers to be operating. On Friday, the sad final scene of a two-and-a-half year tragedy will play out for Morningland Dairy. It is the once-thriving raw-cheese-making business that came under...

Here Come FDA Compost Technicians; Flagstaff, AZ, Feels Urgency for Food Sovereignty Ordinance; Hershberger Trial Update

by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 29 comments

“Take peanuts. To be safe, I want them tested as they leave the fields. I want them processed at temperatures high enough to kill salmonella. I want to store them covered so birds can’t contaminate them with their droppings. I want them tested before they are released...

In 2012 Food Rights Became Legal Issue–Can A Movement Emerge in 2013?

by David Gumpert | Jan 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research, Resistance | 25 comments

A year ago I summarized the key themes for 2011 as “rising shock events” and “rising stress levels,” thanks to highly public raids on food clubs and farms.I’d say 2012 was the year these shock events played out in a number of ways, primarily...
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