by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2015 | Legal, News Media, Raids, Raw Milk, What's New |
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...
by David Gumpert | Sep 16, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Regulation |
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...
by David Gumpert | Apr 22, 2015 | News Media, Nutrition, Regulation |
Ive been trying to figure out what the campaign to demonize Dr. Mehmet Oz is all about. In the latest effort to marginalize the television personality/surgeon as a quack as opposed to an open-minded medical expert, ten prominent physicians wrote a letter to Columbia...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
So, David, it is a strong value of yours that accurate information should be reported by journalists? Thank you, Mary McGonigle Martin, for that question. I presume, from the tone and the personal way it is phrased (it is a strong value of yours),...
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
As he reports in a comment following my previous blog post, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. sent a letter to Pat Kennelly, food safety chief at the California Department of Public Health, expressing upset about the agencys press release related...
by David Gumpert | Mar 28, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Last week, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced that raw milk from Claravale Dairy had tested positive for campylobacter, forced a recall of all its milk, and quarantined the dairy. Claravale, one of Californias two largest raw milk...
by David Gumpert | Mar 22, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I had the good fortune to spend last week in the Florida sunshine, far from the igloo that is New England. It was an opportunity not just to luxuriate in the warmth of 80-degree sunshine, but also to do some catching up on recent food-related news...
by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Regulation |
With a prosecutor upset about disclosures on this blog about the scrapie-related sheep-napping case, a Canadian judge earlier today took the extraordinary step of imposing a news blackout on the case. The effect of the blackout was immediate: The National...
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