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Will WI DATCP Jail Max Kane on Patriots’ Day? DATCP Tries Its Hardest, But Activist Wins Reprieve…Again…See Video

by David Gumpert | Apr 19, 2010 | Uncategorized | 25 comments

The Minute Man statue in Lexington. (From Wikipedia)Wisconsin’s milk regulators are determined to force dairy buying club owner Max Kane to turn stool pigeon. They’re hauling him into court tomorrow, terming him “an immediate danger to the...

Can a New Raw Milk Web Site Stem the Stampede for Raw Milk…or Is It Courting Danger?

by David Gumpert | Apr 16, 2010 | Uncategorized | 24 comments

I was reading the “Raw Milk News” on the just-launched realrawmilkfacts web site, and noticed some missing items. There’s a big proposal just in the last few days by Massachusetts to change its dairy regulations to ban raw milk buying...

Struggle Over Food Rights Has Become Life or Death Matter, Argues Michael Schmidt; Update on Raw Milk Troublemakers

by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2010 | Uncategorized | 17 comments

Mark McAfee and Michael Schmidt present “permit” to Scott Trautman.Michael Schmidt, the Canadian dairy farmer who’s been fighting the Ontario government’s campaign to put his raw dairy out of business for the last 17 years, came up with a...

Report from the Raw Milk Symposium: European Envy, Health Benefits, Researching People and Calves

by David Gumpert | Apr 12, 2010 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

Attendees at the Second Annual Raw Milk Symposium Saturday in Madison, WI.As I was departing the Raw Milk Symposium in Madison last evening, a member of the production crew recording the sessions, a middle-aged man, approached me to say he had never realized how...

Raw Milk Symposium Preview: How a Video and Book Will Help Focus Attention on Raw Milk Safety

by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2010 | Uncategorized | 10 comments

Tim Wightman, president of the Farm-to-Consumer FoundationThe topic of raw milk safety isn’t on the formal agenda of the Second Annual Raw Milk Symposium opening tomorrow in Madison, WI. But the announcement by the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation, sponsor of the...

The FDAs Latest Drug Marketing Campaign; That Pesky Meadowsweet Search Warrant; Countering Food-Borne Illness; Upcoming Raw Milk Symposium

by David Gumpert | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized | 31 comments

I sometimes feel as if I’ve become callous to U.S. Food and Drug Administration outrages. The agency approves drugs later discovered to have life-threatening side effects, it approves fancy medical devices similarly found to have serious problems and, as we all...

A Federal Judge Worries that FDA Wants to Hang (OPDC) Until DeadBut What Does He Think About Pathogens?

by David Gumpert | Apr 4, 2010 | Uncategorized | 23 comments

One question underlies the recent debate about outbreaks of illness over the last year that seem to be from raw milk: What is the long-term practical importance of these illnesses? It might be said that the people who have become sick over the last year, likely from...

What Does the Midwest Campylobacter Outbreak Prove? A Crisis of Confidence May Be Brewing for Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Apr 1, 2010 | Uncategorized | 65 comments

Earth to Houston–we have a raw dairy problem.I used to think Kathy, the farmer who supplies my raw milk, was just making conversation when she’d tell me the details of her “family” of cows—which cows were pregnant, which had given birth,...
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