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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...

The Serious Message Behind the Dr. Oz Blowup

by David Gumpert | Apr 22, 2015 | News Media, Nutrition, Regulation | 60 comments

I’ve 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...

Why Media and CDC Distortions About Raw Milk Are So Dangerous

by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 81 comments

  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”),...

It’’s Time America’’s Media Challenge Government Scientists Who Distort Raw Milk Info

by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 37 comments

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 agency’s press release related...

When Do “Mild” Raw-Milk Illnesses Become “Serious” Ones?

by David Gumpert | Mar 28, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 89 comments

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 California’s two largest raw milk...

“Addressing Food Safety Concerns… Takes the Teeth Out of the Anti-Raw-Milk Arguments”

by David Gumpert | Mar 22, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 39 comments

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...

Read All About It! News Blackout on Sheep-napping Case

by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Regulation | 19 comments

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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