by David Gumpert | Jun 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had no hesitancy about spending taxpayer dollars to promote its viewpoint that raw milk is a mortal danger. A couple years back, I called the FDA on its practice, after it spent nearly $2,500 with a press release...
by David Gumpert | May 13, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The criminal misdemeanor trial of Vernon Hershberger is a week off, and I find myself wondering…Is there any other country (aside from Canada) in todays crazy mixed-up world that would devote the resources the U.S. is devoting to punishing a farmer for selling...
by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk |
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a food writer I have long admired–Tom Philpott, who produces the great Mother Jones food blog. Ive known him for probably five or six years, beginning when I wrote for Grist when he was the editor, but we had never...
by David Gumpert | Jan 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research, Resistance |
A year ago I summarized the key themes for 2011 as “rising shock events” and “rising stress levels,” thanks to highly public raids on food clubs and farms.Id say 2012 was the year these shock events played out in a number of ways, primarily...
by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2012 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
The International Milk Genomics Consortium (IMGC) continues to challenge the conventional wisdom about milk. After deleting one of its articles from the October issue about the potential benefits of raw milk, it now has an intriguing article in its November...
by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2012 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
Why would the U.S. Food and Drug Administration feel so threatened by a scientific assessment of research on raw milk out of Europe that it would bully a dairy group into forcing the article’s removal from a major university’s web site? After all, the...
by David Gumpert | Oct 22, 2012 | Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Raw Milk |
Okay class, pay attention. Today’s subject of discussion: academic freedom. Enough with the groans, everyone. I know it’s not the sexiest topic when it comes to food issues, but you may change your attitude when you hear the story I’m...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2012 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
One of the most incisive scientific assessments on all that European research on raw milk of the last few years has just appeared, of all places, on a web site backed by the conventional dairy industry and academe. In a footnoted article by an experienced ...
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