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In Appeal, Dan Brown Says Judges Raw Milk Injunction Drove Him Out of Farming

by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 42 comments

Lawyers for Maine farmer Dan Brown say a judge who issued an injunction last April barring him from selling raw milk completely overlooked that he would have had to spend $62,500 to comply with regulations to obtain a state permit for his one-cow dairy. As a...

Hog Farmer Mark Baker to MI DNR: One More Time, Explain Genetic Purification

by David Gumpert | Feb 13, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 66 comments

Corporate hog producers and state agriculture regulators around the country are understood to be watching closely the legal case of Michigan hog farmer Mark Baker. What they are seeing is a highly tentative Michigan Department of Natural Resources,...

Answer to This Q Is Litmus Test About Progress on Raw Milk Acceptance; MD Campaign; Upcoming Talks

by David Gumpert | Jan 20, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 90 comments

Gradually, ever so gradually, public health and medical professionals are moderating their tone against raw milk. There is nothing en masse going on, no official policy change by organizations like the Intnernational Association for Food Protection (IAFP) or the...

When the State Becomes the Parent of Force

by David Gumpert | Dec 4, 2013 | Legal, News Media | 69 comments

For some weeks now, Ive been following the treatment and custody battle over Sarah Hershberger, the 10-year-old Ohio Amish girl with leukemia. It is a heart-breaking story–her parents brought her to begin a two-year round of conventional treatment at a...

Raw Milk a Tough Sell in an NFL Town’s Burgers-and-Fries Culture

by David Gumpert | Nov 26, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 129 comments

“In Russia, we can’t say what we want, but we can eat what we want. In the U.S., we can say what we want, but we can’t eat what we want.” ~ From an attendee at the postponed hearing in Foxborough considering tough raw milk regulations for...

A Small MA Town’s Misinformation Campaign About Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 40 comments

The public health profession is terribly inept when it comes to public communication. Some of the problem–the tendency to talk in scientific terminology and to limit public access to information–stems from ignorance about how to communicate with the...

After Nearly 300 Years, Can Lawtons Farm Survive Local Regulators Out to Crush Raw Milk?

by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 45 comments

Lawton’s Family Farm in Foxborough, MA, is one of the oldest farms in the U.S., the only remaining dairy of any kind in the Boston areas Norfolk county. As such, it has survived revolution, hurricanes, economic depression.But can it survive local...

What Happens When Food Corps Mess with Raw Juice? The Same As When They Mess With Milk

by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Regulation | 126 comments

I am a big raw juice fan, have been for many years. After I make the juice, usually a couple of cups or more, I store the leftover juice in a wine bottle, and use a vacuum device to reduce the air supply. Raw juice, like raw milk, is a fragile food because its many...

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