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CDC As the Tokyo Rose of the War on Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Dec 18, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 20 comments

I don’t know of another food that gets as much attention from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as raw milk. Round and round the agency goes, presenting “research” that slams raw milk, arguing, yet again, that raw milk should be banned, never presenting helpful...

Australian Mystery: Was Child Who Died from E.coli Complications Ill Before Raw Milk?

by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 63 comments

The vultures are circling in force with news that an Australian three-year-old may have died from drinking raw milk.  This is news raw milk opponents have lusted after for many years, and now they mean to use it for full effect, tying it to a new study from...

Can American Farmers Learn from Uber?

by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 2 comments

The emergence of the ride-sharing company Uber from nowhere to become an enterprise valued at $40 billion in five years of existence is astounding in its own right.  What’s even more astounding is how Uber achieved such a hugely successful business in the...

What Ferguson and Staten Island Cop Cases Tell Us About Aborted Raw Milk Case

by David Gumpert | Dec 5, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 28 comments

It was just three years ago that the U.S. Justice Department abruptly ended the grand jury investigation of Indiana dairy farmer David Hochstetler, the day before he was due to testify. Under grand jury rules, he wouldn’t have been allowed to have a lawyer present,...

Here’s a First: FDA Says Possible “Protective Immune Markers” in Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Dec 3, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 15 comments

There has been lots of upbeat news about raw milk over the last 18 months or so. Research out of Europe and the U.S. continues to suggest that raw milk strengthens the immune system so as to provide a protective effect against allergies, asthma, and other illnesses....

Can Super Processed Coke Milk Become the New Real Milk?

by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 51 comments

So Coca-Cola is getting into the milk business. Not the milk business as commodity milk, but the milk business as super-adulterated, premium-priced, “healthy” milk.   The Coke marketing people looked at their deteriorating sales in an increasingly...

What Do IL Raw Milk Regulators Fear? “Massive” Demand, Reluctant Prosecutors

by David Gumpert | Nov 22, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 48 comments

As the Illinois raw milk turmoil has dragged on through endless discussions and hearings and recriminations, my big question has been this: Why doesn’t the state just end the misery and ban raw milk?  That’s clearly what Big Dairy wants, what the regulators want,...

Extension’s Exciting New Role in Raw Milk Education

by David Gumpert | Nov 19, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 19 comments

Extension has been a powerful force in much of agriculture education, but not for producers of raw dairy. It’s been ignored by universities and state agriculture agencies intent on limiting raw dairy. But as raw dairy enjoys a resurgence in recent years,...
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