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 | Nov 2, 2012 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I want to thank Jilly B for sharing with us at least some of the difficulties she has faced since her two-year-old daughter became seriously ill from raw milk. We don’t know the whole story, but we know enough to appreciate that her daughter and entire...
by David Gumpert | Oct 29, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The toughest part of launching any new business or organization is getting those first few believers to come on board, and then talk you up to the bulk of other prospective customers or members. Now, more than a year into its launch, the Raw Milk Institute...
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 18, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
In the end, Michael Hartmann made the best deal he could–if he was going to save his family–when he pleaded guilty Monday to two misdemeanors in connection with sales of raw milk and other foods, and agreed to pay a fine of $585. Seven other...
by David Gumpert | Oct 16, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Research |
There is quite a remarkable article in the October issue of Readers Digest Canada, which credits Michael Schmidt’s nearly twenty-year struggle on behalf of raw milk with helping usher in the new scientific fascination with the “microbiome.” In...
by David Gumpert | Oct 11, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What were the key factors that swayed the Minnesota jury to acquit food club operator and farmer Alvin Schlangen three weeks ago? Schlangen’s lawyer, Nathan Hansen, told me he thought the fact that Minnesota Department of Agriculture investigators in their...
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