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At Long Last, MA Town Accedes to Residents’ Desire for Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Jul 8, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 31 comments

I have to admit, I went into the Groton Board of Health hearing last evening—its fifth session on a farmer’s request to eliminate a 60-year ordinance essentially banning raw milk—with less than overflowing optimism.  My concern stemmed from a posting by the...

Where the Real Action Is on Food Independence

by David Gumpert | Jul 2, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 28 comments

Getting ready to take some time off for July 4, Independence Day. I find myself thinking about our economic independence, in light of a number of recent news developments in the food arena.  * I saw a report that the U.S. Supreme Court has, over the last...

Will MA Health Board Relent to Residents’ Clamor for Regulated Raw Milk? Updates on Hartmann, Schmidt Cases

by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 1 comment

I love when raw milk drinkers educate nervous regulators about dairy safety and benefits. And when the raw milk advocates are clamoring for a regulated solution that the regulators are resisting. That’s what happened last evening at a hearing in Massachusetts...

Food Safety Dispute Over Listeria Certain to Keep FDA Pursuing Small Cheese Producers

by David Gumpert | Jun 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 10 comments

One of the tests used by Salem, MA, authorities back in the late 1600s to determine if a suspicious person was a witch was to repeatedly dunk the individual under water until he or she confessed. Not surprisingly, many of those “tested” in this way were convicted at...

The Corporate Agenda Behind FDA’s 10-Year Assault on Artisanal Cheese

by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 19 comments

The mainstream media has been full of handwringing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seemed a few days ago to be banning the centuries-old practice of aging cheese on wood boards. A Forbe magazine writer said the decision “has rattled hundreds of small...

It’s Everywhere: MIT Scientist Presents Dire Portrait of Damage from Monsanto’s Roundup

by David Gumpert | Jun 9, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research | 51 comments

Correlations are not causation, but when they plot out as clearly as Stephanie Seneff has plotted them out with regard to autism and glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer,  they are impossible to ignore.  Seneff is a research...

In Official Reports, You’d Never Know It Was Pasteurized Dairy Making People Sick

by David Gumpert | Jun 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk | 16 comments

It seems that almost any outbreak of illnesses potentially involving raw milk products prompts handwringing by the media, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), not to mention state and local public health agencies. I...

What Do Aspirin and Raw Milk Have in Common?

by David Gumpert | May 26, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 62 comments

I heard from Walid Abdul-Wahab, the California camel milk guy, and he says he’s just doing what any red-blooded entrepreneur would do—he’s out there hustling his product.  “We actually sell raw camel milk in California, from Missouri, (and) we are in nine...
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