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Is a MI Raw Milk Regulatory Initiative Progress, or Just Another Way to Interfere? Upcoming NOFA Conference

by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2009 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

Greg Niewendorp (left) with Joel Salatin at a VICFA event in 2007.Michigan may be in the process of establishing a new regulatory standard for states that currently outlaw raw milk sales. That’s the word I get from Greg Niewendorp, the Michigan cattle farmer who...

Its Difficult to See Reason for Optimism on Food Front When Legislators Keep Giving Away Our Rights

by David Gumpert | Aug 1, 2009 | Uncategorized | 22 comments

It’s been a tough week for anyone concerned about food rights. And a cheery week for the technocrat enforcers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, who can see the way clear to harass owners of small farms and small...

Were Still in Business, Says Determined Wilderness Family Naturals, Despite FDAs Determination to Bleed Firm

by David Gumpert | Jul 29, 2009 | What's New | 27 comments

What follows is a fairy-tale-turned nightmare that, for some reason, has me thinking about leeches. After you’ve read the story, see if you can figure out why. Or maybe you’ll have your own image. Once upon a time, in the year 2000, Annette and Ken Fischer decided to...

Sneak Attack? Raw Milk Advocates Fear FDA Could Use Food Safety Bill to Require Pasteurization; Farming’s Future

by David Gumpert | Jul 26, 2009 | Uncategorized | 14 comments

American battleships burn during Japanese sneak attack on Pear Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.As HR 2749 moves through Congress, there is a growing sense of unease among raw milk advocates that the new legislation, being driven by growing panic over foodborne illness, could be...

Why Won’t the WAPF Just Admit the Problems? Two Radically Different Views of Health and Risk

by David Gumpert | Jul 22, 2009 | Uncategorized | 12 comments

There have been more than a few shots taken at the Weston A. Price Foundation over the last few days—by Amanda Rose at Ethicurean, by me in my July 14 post, and by various speakers at the American Veterinary Medical Association, not to mention individuals who...

Further Reflections on Raw Milk Symposium: You Have to Hope Theres Benefit in Seeing Each Other As People

by David Gumpert | Jul 18, 2009 | Uncategorized | 22 comments

Clowning around at raw milk symposium: from l, Michael Payne of UC Davis, Amanda Rose, yours truly, and Mary McGonigle-Martin doing the rabbit ear honors.There’s a temptation when people with opposing views on a divisive topic get together to think that the...

Participants at Raw Milk Symposium Dump on the Weston A. Price Foundation; What Is Its Responsibility?

by David Gumpert | Jul 15, 2009 | Uncategorized | 35 comments

Last Thursday, I highlighted food poisoning lawyer Bill Marler’s seeming suggestion in his planned presentation to the American Veterinary Medical Association’s raw milk symposium that the Weston A. Price Foundation could be in his line of sight for legal...

Lots of Frank Talk at AVMA Raw Milk SymposiumAn Opening of Minds and Attitudes?

by David Gumpert | Jul 14, 2009 | Uncategorized | 5 comments

Amanda Rose addresses the AVMA raw milk symposium.There was talk among a number of participants and organizers of the all-day raw milk symposium yesterday at the American Veterinary Medical Association that it was “a historic occasion” because both...
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