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“Public Health” Takes Precedence over All, Maine Supreme Court Says in Blow to Food Sovereignty

by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 50 comments

The Maine Supreme Court dealt a blow to those hoping for legal backing of locally sanctioned private food sales, outside government regulatory auspices, by upholding farmer Dan Brown’s conviction last year of violating state dairy and food laws.  In the end,...

Will MA Health Board Relent to Residents’ Clamor for Regulated Raw Milk? Updates on Hartmann, Schmidt Cases

by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 1 comment

I love when raw milk drinkers educate nervous regulators about dairy safety and benefits. And when the raw milk advocates are clamoring for a regulated solution that the regulators are resisting. That’s what happened last evening at a hearing in Massachusetts...

Food Safety Dispute Over Listeria Certain to Keep FDA Pursuing Small Cheese Producers

by David Gumpert | Jun 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 10 comments

One of the tests used by Salem, MA, authorities back in the late 1600s to determine if a suspicious person was a witch was to repeatedly dunk the individual under water until he or she confessed. Not surprisingly, many of those “tested” in this way were convicted at...

The Corporate Agenda Behind FDA’s 10-Year Assault on Artisanal Cheese

by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 19 comments

The mainstream media has been full of handwringing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seemed a few days ago to be banning the centuries-old practice of aging cheese on wood boards. A Forbe magazine writer said the decision “has rattled hundreds of small...

Raw Dairy Farmers Wait for the Other Shoe to Drop

by David Gumpert | Jun 6, 2014 | Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 33 comments

It’s been a year since the criminal trial of Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger, and his acquittal by a jury of all licensing charges.  Things have been very quiet on the enforcement front since then….almost as quiet as the recent discussion on...

In Official Reports, You’d Never Know It Was Pasteurized Dairy Making People Sick

by David Gumpert | Jun 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk | 16 comments

It seems that almost any outbreak of illnesses potentially involving raw milk products prompts handwringing by the media, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), not to mention state and local public health agencies. I...

What Do Aspirin and Raw Milk Have in Common?

by David Gumpert | May 26, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 62 comments

I heard from Walid Abdul-Wahab, the California camel milk guy, and he says he’s just doing what any red-blooded entrepreneur would do—he’s out there hustling his product.  “We actually sell raw camel milk in California, from Missouri, (and) we are in nine...

The Promise of Raw Camel’s Milk, and Its Admirers at the FDA

by David Gumpert | May 21, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 40 comments

The ongoing controversy about raw milk generally has to do with cow’s or goat’s milk. But every once in a while, the controversy ratchets up in its exotica quotient when camel’s milk moves into the picture, as it has just recently, via a young...
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