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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...

Screwy Data Beget Screwy Results: Unveiling That Mysterious Pasteurized Milk Study

by David Gumpert | May 6, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research | 17 comments

A business expert I worked with some years ago while writing a book about business planning used to remark, “If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there.”  I feel a little like I’m descending further into that...

The Shameful State of American Food Safety Data

by David Gumpert | May 2, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk | 82 comments

When I testified before the Vermont House of Representatives about raw milk risk, I presented annualized data and risk data that I and others had calculated. I pointed out that the legislators would never, ever, receive data about raw milk in an annualized,...

That Canadian Raw Milk Symposium: Seismic Shift, or a Blip on the Radar?

by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research | 7 comments

What are we to make of an academic conference in Canada—the most anti-raw-milk country on the planet— that actually included serious and open discussion from a wide range of attendees about the benefits of raw milk and ways to make it legal? I’m not sure....

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...

A Farmer, and Mom, Pleads for “Common Sense” Raw Milk Regs

by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 39 comments

The  Vermont legislature is considering very narrow legislation (S 70) that would allow the two largest raw dairies in the state to deliver raw milk to customers at farmers markets. Not sell it, mind you, just drop it off to customers, so they don’t have to trek...

How New Body-Bag Strategy on Raw Milk Racked Up a Dairy Industry Win in CA

by David Gumpert | Apr 14, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 76 comments

The late Aajonus Vonderplanitz used to tell me, when one or another state launched an unexpected campaign against raw milk, that he was never surprised. “Even if it seems they have moved on, they haven’t,” he explained on one occasion, after Wisconsin had renewed its...
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