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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...

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...

The Promise of Raw Camel’s Milk, and Its Admirers at the FDA

by David Gumpert | May 21, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 40 comments

The ongoing controversy about raw milk generally has to do with cow’s or goat’s milk. But every once in a while, the controversy ratchets up in its exotica quotient when camel’s milk moves into the picture, as it has just recently, via a young...

The Best Revenge? Farmers Running for, and Winning, Elected Office

by David Gumpert | May 16, 2014 | Legal, News Media, Regulation | 28 comments

One of the things that most impressed me about the Tuesday Maine Supreme Court hearing for Dan Brown was the happenings outside the courtroom.  Before the hearing, Dan Brown supporters gathered on the steps of the Portland courthouse to hear not only from...

At Intense Maine Supreme Court Hearing, Justices Divided on Farmer Dan Brown’s Raw Milk Rights

by David Gumpert | May 13, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 15 comments

How will the Maine Supreme Court rule on the Dan Brown food sovereignty case?  If the intense 30-minute hearing today is any indication, it could be quite a sharp debate among the seven justices (six of whom were in attendance at today’s hearing). Even...

Dan Brown Court Appeal Articulates Food Safety Genius of Food Sovereignty

by David Gumpert | May 11, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk | 32 comments

In its pursuit of Dan Brown, the state of Maine has made much about “public health” and the state’s raw milk permit program that his one-cow dairy didn’t register for, to justify the case. But at its heart, the case is about the Food Sovereignty ordinances adopted by...

India Watches Our Raw Milk Wars with Concern

by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance | 11 comments

Michael Schmidt has decided to appeal his conviction for violating Ontario’s dairy laws to the Canadian Supreme Court. In doing so, he may well have begun another chapter, “The New 20-Year Raw Milk War Against Michael Schmidt.” In Europe, they fought a 100-Year...
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