by David Gumpert | Nov 22, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
As the Illinois raw milk turmoil has dragged on through endless discussions and hearings and recriminations, my big question has been this: Why doesnt the state just end the misery and ban raw milk? Thats clearly what Big Dairy wants, what the regulators want,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 19, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
Extension has been a powerful force in much of agriculture education, but not for producers of raw dairy. It’s been ignored by universities and state agriculture agencies intent on limiting raw dairy. But as raw dairy enjoys a resurgence in recent years,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
This article has been updated since it was originally posted. Last May, Robert Tauxe, a food safety bigwig at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (I know hes a bigwig because he has lots of initials after his name and a 16-word title) wrote a letter to state...
by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
The discussion following my previous post about the role of pre-pasteurized milk isnt just a theoretical debate. That is because the data that are accumulated about raw milk illnesses are used as part of an ongoing propaganda campaign to discredit the idea...
by David Gumpert | Oct 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Do a Google search under Wisconsin raw milk illnesses, football team, and up pop ten headings from media outlets and product liability lawyers, all proclaiming pretty much the same thing: Raw Milk Blamed for Illnesses
It all seems pretty cut and dry. Some...
by David Gumpert | Oct 18, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its not often that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are in agreement about happenings in Washington, but on the CDCs Ebola-related performance, the two papers came out Saturday slamming the agency. According to the NY Times’ lead article,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 4, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The narrative on raw milk from the public health community has been heavily negative, going something like this: Raw milk producers skimp on safety. They are just in it for the money, selling raw milk at high prices to line their pockets. The raw milk community is...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
In its 730-word press release yesterday on the status of its investigation into five illnesses tied to raw milk, the Kentucky Department of Public Health spent most of its verbiage warning of the dangers of raw milk. It said almost nothing about its most vexing...
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