by David Gumpert | May 21, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
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...
by David Gumpert | May 16, 2014 | Legal, News Media, Regulation |
One of the things that most impressed me about the Tuesday Maine Supreme Court hearing for Dan Brown was the happenings outside the courtroom. Before the hearing, Dan Brown supporters gathered on the steps of the Portland courthouse to hear not only from...
by David Gumpert | May 13, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
How will the Maine Supreme Court rule on the Dan Brown food sovereignty case? If the intense 30-minute hearing today is any indication, it could be quite a sharp debate among the seven justices (six of whom were in attendance at todays hearing). Even...
by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2014 | News Media, Regulation |
Dont underestimate the importance of Vermonts passage of a GMO-labeling law. Tiny Vermont (population 626,000) is the first of what will likely be a number of states to confront Americas food oligarchy and try to force these cartels to actually do something...
by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The Vermont legislature is considering very narrow legislation (S 70) that would allow the two largest raw dairies in the state to deliver raw milk to customers at farmers markets. Not sell it, mind you, just drop it off to customers, so they dont have to trek...
by David Gumpert | Apr 14, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The late Aajonus Vonderplanitz used to tell me, when one or another state launched an unexpected campaign against raw milk, that he was never surprised. Even if it seems they have moved on, they havent, he explained on one occasion, after Wisconsin had renewed its...
by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation |
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says raw milk is inherently unsafe, it means inherently unsafe. As in nothing to discuss about Californias so-called Home Dairy Bill (AB2505), which is intended to formalize private sale arrangements for the states...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2014 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Some years ago, I took a vacation in Costa Rica, and while traveling back roads, I got to see lots of corporate banana plantations. What I noticed first and foremost about these vast agricultural preserves was that most of the banana bunches were covered with blue...
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