by David Gumpert | Sep 6, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Once again, we learn the power of all those regulator warnings about the dangers of raw milk–they just seem to expand the market for raw milk and other dairy products. According to Edwin Shank, owner of The Family Cow in Pennsylvania, which re-opened last...
by David Gumpert | Sep 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For much of August, the nations second-largest raw dairy, The Family Cow in Pennsylvania, was shut down. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, as part of its regular testing of licensed dairies, had discovered campylobacter in several samples. There...
by David Gumpert | Aug 29, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Food rights activist Aajonus Vonderplanitz died in Thailand yesterday, and the circumstances of his demise reflect the way he lived–on the edge and shrouded in mystery and controversy. The 66-year-old nutritionist was, in some ways, the father...
by David Gumpert | Aug 26, 2013 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Its going to become more difficult for pols to simply trample food rights, and then walk away as if nothing happened. A classic case in point is emerging in Maine. There, the states Republican governor, thought to be supportive of small farmers and...
by David Gumpert | Aug 16, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Despite my disparaging view of the prosecution in the Alvin Schlangen case, the six-person jury had its own view, and it wasn’t the same as mine or others on this blog. After nearly four hours of deliberation on Thursday, it convicted the Minnesota farmer of...
by David Gumpert | Aug 15, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Regulation |
Were Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen’s eggs unsafe because they were sitting out at room temperature for some hours?On Day 2 of Schlangen’s criminal trial yesterday, that was one of the key questions under consideration, as Schlangen took the stand...
by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Theres something weird….no, make that sinister….going on in the Minnesota prosecution of raw dairy farmers. Ive written a number of times about the apparent prosecution effort to link a single uninvestigated illness from campylobacter to Alvin...
by David Gumpert | Aug 5, 2013 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
At the end of the Q&A following my presentation at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT, last Thursday evening, one woman among the 25 or so people in attendance raised her hand. I was expecting an uplifting presentation, and what I got was just the opposite,...
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