by David Gumpert | Mar 20, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What to make of the latest legal twists in the Vernon Hershberger raw milk saga? I thought about trying to doctor a photo of Hershberger to put on the site so it would look like a human pretzel, because that’s what he seems to have become–a legal...
by David Gumpert | Mar 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What should raw milk consumers do when they suspect one or more farmers of producing possibly dangerous raw milk? Its a dilemma that faces at least some raw dairy consumers at one time or another. The big tipoff of potential danger is that the milk sours...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk |
My tour bus last week was just passing Tiananmen Square where, in one of the huge official buildings, The Peoples Congress was being held to address Chinas major issues, such as pollution and agriculture expansion. I expected a respectful assessment from our...
by David Gumpert | Mar 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’m still amazed about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accusation that most raw milk drinkers welcome pathogens in their food (described in my previous post. Aside from personal views we may have about the role of bacteria in our food...
by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Back in December 2008, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. filed a citizens petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that the agency lift its prohibition on interstate shipments of raw milk on a very limited basis–for milk moving from one...
by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
You might think that after half a dozen years of intense debate and a procession of legal cases in the U.S. and Canada over raw milk and food rights, that there might be some softening, some moves to compromise and acceptance– live and let live, as it...
by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
This may sound like a silly question, but why does the assault on nutrient-dense foods need to be cloaked in so much complexity? Consider… * Im thinking, first, about that FDA-Health Canada study on soft raw milk cheeses (discussed in my previous post),...
by David Gumpert | Feb 15, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
(I have spent much of the last week reading a 189-page report issued jointly by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada, with the dry title, Joint FDA/Health Canada Quantitative Assessment of the Risk of Listeriosis from Soft-Ripened Cheese...
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