by David Gumpert | Oct 16, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Research |
There is quite a remarkable article in the October issue of Readers Digest Canada, which credits Michael Schmidt’s nearly twenty-year struggle on behalf of raw milk with helping usher in the new scientific fascination with the “microbiome.” In...
by David Gumpert | Oct 11, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What were the key factors that swayed the Minnesota jury to acquit food club operator and farmer Alvin Schlangen three weeks ago? Schlangen’s lawyer, Nathan Hansen, told me he thought the fact that Minnesota Department of Agriculture investigators in their...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2012 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
One of the most incisive scientific assessments on all that European research on raw milk of the last few years has just appeared, of all places, on a web site backed by the conventional dairy industry and academe. In a footnoted article by an experienced ...
by David Gumpert | Sep 20, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
A jury of six ordinary Americans did something no judge, federal or state, has been willing to do anywhere in the country, whether in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maryland, or Wisconsin–it ruled in favor of a farmer-food club operator...
by David Gumpert | Sep 18, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Alvin Schlangen began his first day in court by rejecting a settlement offer from the prosecutor and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that would have had him pleading guilty to one misdemeanor, paying $200 court costs, and possibly going to jail. He has...
by David Gumpert | Sep 3, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation |
The Center for Food Safety has filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its alleged failure to enforce the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). You may remember the FSMA–it’s the contentious law enacted in early 2011 that gives...
by David Gumpert | Aug 30, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
The principle of private food should get a test in front of a jury of ordinary citizens when raw dairy farmer Vernon Hershbeger goes on trial in Wisconsin on Jan. 7. I should say the principle should get a test, because initial indications are that the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 27, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
At first glance, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-year legal assault on Estrella Family Creamery in Washington state appears entirely vindictive. The FDA seems intent on using its enormous enforcement powers to cruelly stomp on and...
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