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Simmering Cod Liver Oil Imbroglio Heats Up for WAPF Conference

by David Gumpert | Oct 28, 2014 | Nutrition, Research | 28 comments

When the Weston A. Price Foundation Wise Traditions conference convenes in Indianapolis late next week, there will be sessions on bone broth, nutrient-dense vegetables, re-building the gut, raw milk safety, and traditional diets, among many others. But possibly the...

When the Italians Start Clamping Down on Raw Milk, Something’s Up

by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2014 | News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 52 comments

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,...

How CDC-Inspired Fearmongers Nearly Derailed a PBS Raw Milk Documentary

by David Gumpert | Sep 14, 2014 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research, Safety | 7 comments

I like to think that some day in the not-too-distant future people will look back on the official hysteria surrounding raw milk and shake their heads in wonderment. One prime example of the hysteria would be found in a just-completed Public Broadcasting System (PBS)...

There IS Another Promising Option for Countering Autism

by David Gumpert | Aug 4, 2014 | News Media, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research | 25 comments

The Sunday New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy article, “The Kids Who Beat Autism”.  The article is focused mainly on how intensive behavioral therapy has helped cure about 10% of autistic kids. The scientists interviewed basically said they didn’t know...

It’s Everywhere: MIT Scientist Presents Dire Portrait of Damage from Monsanto’s Roundup

by David Gumpert | Jun 9, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research | 51 comments

Correlations are not causation, but when they plot out as clearly as Stephanie Seneff has plotted them out with regard to autism and glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer,  they are impossible to ignore.  Seneff is a research...

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...

Screwy Data Beget Screwy Results: Unveiling That Mysterious Pasteurized Milk Study

by David Gumpert | May 6, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research | 17 comments

A business expert I worked with some years ago while writing a book about business planning used to remark, “If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there.”  I feel a little like I’m descending further into that...
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