by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
This article has been updated since it was originally posted. Last May, Robert Tauxe, a food safety bigwig at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (I know hes a bigwig because he has lots of initials after his name and a 16-word title) wrote a letter to state...
by David Gumpert | Nov 9, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
When battles over raw milk regulation break out in one state or another, public health professionals invariably argue it is entirely about food safety and protecting the public. Yet sometimes the political and business realities that underlie much of the battle over...
by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
The discussion following my previous post about the role of pre-pasteurized milk isnt just a theoretical debate. That is because the data that are accumulated about raw milk illnesses are used as part of an ongoing propaganda campaign to discredit the idea...
by David Gumpert | Oct 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Do a Google search under Wisconsin raw milk illnesses, football team, and up pop ten headings from media outlets and product liability lawyers, all proclaiming pretty much the same thing: Raw Milk Blamed for Illnesses
It all seems pretty cut and dry. Some...
by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2014 | News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
You read through The Wall Street Journal article yesterday about the European efforts to reign in raw milk vending machines, and you realize that raw milk is, indeed, becoming a worldwide issue. It’s an issue in Canada, New Zealand, England, and now in Italy,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 18, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its not often that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are in agreement about happenings in Washington, but on the CDCs Ebola-related performance, the two papers came out Saturday slamming the agency. According to the NY Times’ lead article,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 15, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
For upwards of a decade, Wisconsins small raw-milk producers have been doing battle with the states Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, as well as the courts and politicians. DATCP has refused to allow the farms to distribute milk privately,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 11, 2014 | Legal, Nutrition, Regulation |
Baseball has long been Americas national pastime. As baseball has declined in popularity, football was poised to replace it. But the violence that seems to enshroud football has made the transition difficult. No worries. Weve got a new national pastime, and it is...
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