by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The public health profession has its marching orders from the dairy industry and its puppet U.S. Centers for Disease Control: We need higher numbers of illnesses attributed to raw milk. Use every means you can think of to stir up fear, even if it means making up...
by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Regulation of raw milk is nearly entirely a state matter. You have fifty states, and fifty different variations of laws and regulations; only when it is sold or shipped across state lines does the federal government have any jurisdiction. Regardless of the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I always sensed youth football was a dangerous proposition, but I never realized just how dangerous. Recent studies show that at least 9,000 children each year suffer concussions–potentially serious brain injuries–playing youth football like Pop...
by David Gumpert | Nov 26, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
“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...
by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
There has been some excellent discussion to provide guidance to Marcie McBee, the Tennessee raw-milk farmer who had an outbreak of illness traced to E.coli O157:H7. What makes pieces of this discussion exciting is that it begins to lift the veil of silence that...
by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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...
by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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...
by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2013 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk |
So Im reading the lengthy lead article in the Sunday Review section of todays New York Times, headed, A Cure for the Allergy Epidemic? Its by a science writer, Moises Velasquez-Manoff. It begins by asking, Will the cure for allergies come from the cowshed?...
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