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Political Theater at Michael Schmidt’s Dairy

by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2015 | Legal, News Media, Raids, Raw Milk, What's New | 21 comments

If you want to understand the power of people organizing and standing up for what they believe in, I strongly suggest you watch the video segment below. It shows raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt negotiating with an official of the Ontario Department of Natural...

Out of Ongoing WAPF Carnage, a New “Ancestral” Foundation Takes Shape

by David Gumpert | Sep 16, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Regulation | 227 comments

This past weekend, we saw the first rumblings that the federal government may become involved in the fermented cod liver oil conflict that has created an uproar within the Weston A. Price Foundation. Food Safety News, an influential online publication about tainted...

Processor Battle: Coke’s Claim its Fairlife is “Better Milk” has CA Dairy Industry Gagging

by David Gumpert | Jun 22, 2015 | Legal, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation | 20 comments

The California dairy industry, the country’s largest, is in a tizzy about Coca Cola’s new ultra-processed milk product, known as Fairlife. It’s pitched as “better milk” that commands premium prices because it goes through special processing to reduce lactose and...

Seeking “Right Balance,” New Zealand Legalizes Farm-to-Consumer Raw Milk Sales, Deliveries

by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 40 comments

Food safety regulators in New Zealand stuck their collective fingers in the air and concluded that maybe there is something to this raw milk thing. Beginning next March, raw milk will be legal to sell directly from farms to consumers, including via home deliveries,...

Back Off from Bugging Raw Dairy, MN Judge Tells MDA

by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2015 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 13 comments

It’s not often that a judge steps in to protect a farmer claiming a violation of his constitutional rights from aggressive state regulators, but that’s exactly what has happened in the northeast corner of Minnesota. In a 19-page decision, state judge Michael Cuzzo...

When Does Food Transparency Trump Privacy, and Vice Versa?

by David Gumpert | May 2, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 64 comments

(This post has been updated since it was originally published May 1.) So Claravale is back on the market with its wonderful raw milk. In a candid report, it says that the campylobacter problem it experienced was traced to a single cow that otherwise seemed completely...

On Verge of Collapse, Claravale Finally Reaches Out to Community

by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 135 comments

Can The People save Claravale Dairy as it teeters on the edge of insolvency? After weeks of silence, Claravale Dairy, one of two substantial producers of raw milk for retail sale in California (Organic Pastures is the other), is reaching out to its large...

Who’s More Dangerous, James Stewart or the Marathon Bomber?

by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2015 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation | 69 comments

I fought the law and the law won, I fought the law and the law won.”from song by The Bobby Fuller Four, 1965 Prosecutors like to make a statement about the importance of a particular criminal case by coming up with as many felony charges as possible against the...
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