by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2010 | Uncategorized |
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, a defendant in the FTCLDF suit against the agency.When I spoke a couple weeks ago in New Jersey–before groups at Rutgers University, the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Princeton Chapter, and the Northeast Organic Farming...
by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The more I write about the raw milk wars, the more convinced I am that the issue has as much to do with economic development (read “jobs”) as it does rights…and has very little to do with food safety and public health. The unfolding saga on the new...
by David Gumpert | Feb 18, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The onslaught against private food buying groups continue unabated in states from Georgia to Massachusetts to Wisconsin. The latest blow comes in Ohio, where a state judge ruled a few days ago that Manna Storehouse, the cooperative that was raided in December 2008 by...
by David Gumpert | Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Connecticut entrepreneur Ed Hartz, with his two children, following my talk at Rutgers University last month. He is starting a milk delivery service. The news that Ontario’s food police are challenging the exoneration of raw dairy producer Michael...
by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Many dairies that would love to sell raw milk have opted instead for the attractive income, and seeming security, of producing raw milk cheeses instead. They figure they can still get the equivalent of $10 to or more a gallon of milk by producing artisinal cheese, and...
by David Gumpert | Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, the target of a suit by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, on behalf of Iowa cow-share owners. Can the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund find a judge in this country willing to take a strong stand endorsing the right...
by David Gumpert | Feb 9, 2010 | Uncategorized |
One of the sad realizations I’ve come to over the last few years in writing about raw milk is that proponents can’t let their guards down in battling with government officials. Farmers and consumers alike want so badly to believe that public officials are...
by David Gumpert | Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee and Scott Trautman rally demonstrators outside courthouse in Viroqua, WI, for Max Kane last December 21. Nearly two months ago, I reported on an imaginary job review of the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Division of Plant and Dairy...
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