by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Research |
Media people love juicy data suggesting an untended-to crisis, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has the perfect juicy data for anyone wanting to write about the supposed crisis in food safety. The scary data go like this: every year, millions of...
by David Gumpert | Dec 7, 2012 | News Media, Research |
In the midst of the recent spate of sometimes-less-than-encouraging developments on the food rights front, I haven’t had a chance to post about an uplifting event I attended in suburban Boston more than a week ago. It was an event that made me feel at least a...
by David Gumpert | Nov 30, 2012 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
In October, I expressed the view that an academic article favorable to raw milk, and posted on a web site of the University of California, Davis, was removed at the orders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s director of Plant and Dairy Food Safety, John...
by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2012 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
When last we left the mystery of the disappearing article in an academic newsletter highlighting raw milk’s benefits, it seemed we had been witness to a serious encroachment on academic freedom.Last month, I described the article’s eye-popping statements...
by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2012 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
The International Milk Genomics Consortium (IMGC) continues to challenge the conventional wisdom about milk. After deleting one of its articles from the October issue about the potential benefits of raw milk, it now has an intriguing article in its November...
by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2012 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
Why would the U.S. Food and Drug Administration feel so threatened by a scientific assessment of research on raw milk out of Europe that it would bully a dairy group into forcing the article’s removal from a major university’s web site? After all, the...
by David Gumpert | Oct 16, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Research |
There is quite a remarkable article in the October issue of Readers Digest Canada, which credits Michael Schmidt’s nearly twenty-year struggle on behalf of raw milk with helping usher in the new scientific fascination with the “microbiome.” In...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2012 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
One of the most incisive scientific assessments on all that European research on raw milk of the last few years has just appeared, of all places, on a web site backed by the conventional dairy industry and academe. In a footnoted article by an experienced ...
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