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“Addressing Food Safety Concerns… Takes the Teeth Out of the Anti-Raw-Milk Arguments”

by David Gumpert | Mar 22, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 39 comments

I had the good fortune to spend last week in the Florida sunshine, far from the igloo that is New England. It was an opportunity not just to luxuriate in the warmth of 80-degree sunshine, but also to do some catching up on recent food-related news...

Sure Getting Uncomfortable in MN Countryside for Ag Regulators

by David Gumpert | Mar 13, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 75 comments

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has become something like those obnoxious relatives many of us have, and whom we don’t want around, not just on Thanksgiving, but any time.   In Minnesota’s Cook County, in the northeast part of the state, ever more of...

Pols Increasingly Embrace a Raw Milk Future

by David Gumpert | Mar 9, 2015 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 31 comments

Last month, while visiting at a small ag and liberal arts school in upstate New York to give a talk, I got to tour its well-run conventional dairy of more than 300 cows (and a 5,000-gallon bulk tank—pictured at left). It serves as an on-campus training facility for...

Prosecuting Raw Dairy Farmers Becoming Unfashionable, Except in Minnesota

by David Gumpert | Feb 27, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 21 comments

Around the country, signs are mounting of a growing refusal by law enforcement officials to mount legal actions against small producers of raw milk. Consider: In Illinois,  where tough new regulations on raw milk were being prepared over the previous two years,...

Good News on FDA Raw-Milk Cheese Inspections? Does It Matter?

by David Gumpert | Feb 10, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 46 comments

It’s been more than a year since the FDA announced a year-long “pilot program” to examine 1600 samples from producers of raw milk cheese, to check for the presence of pathogens.  Actually, it’s inaccurate to say the FDA announced anything. Rather, it...

Why I’m Asking Friends for Money for My New Book

by David Gumpert | Feb 4, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 46 comments

I’d like to try to answer the unspoken question that comes up when I explain to people I know that I am doing a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to complete and promote my new book, The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You REALLY Need to Know About Our Most...

Are Australian Regulators Playing With Fire in Raw Milk Crackdown?

by David Gumpert | Jan 31, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 36 comments

You look at what’s going on in Australia over raw milk, and you can’t help but get a feeling of deja vu. A farm couple on trial for distributing raw milk via a cow share arrangement. A protest, complete with raw milk being served outside public health offices, by raw...

When Will Government Scientists Include Real Raw Dairies in Their Research?

by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 36 comments

For years, federal and state public health officials have told us that the evidence of raw milk’s susceptibility to contamination by pathogens is irrefutable. For example, here is what a Maryland public health report on the state’s dairy industry from 2009...
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