by David Gumpert | Dec 14, 2017 | What's New |
It’s not often that the medical and public health establishments express concern about vaccination, but in Pennsylvania, authorities are now advising raw milk producers to “stop immunizing their cattle for Brucella.” The advisory came in the form of a November 30...
by David Gumpert | Dec 12, 2017 | What's New |
Those of you old enough to have watched “The Lone Ranger” on television growing up in the 1950s will recognize the heading here—it was the question often asked after the masked Texas ranger had gotten retribution or cured an injustice of some sort. Immigrant targets...
by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2017 | What's New |
(This post has been updated since it was originally posted.) It’s highly unusual for food regulators in a raw milk enforcement crackdown to visit private homes and threaten consumers. The only place I know of where this has happened is Minnesota. Back in 2012, state...
by David Gumpert | Dec 7, 2017 | What's New |
In what may be the most extensive academic article about the modern raw milk movement, Rutger University professor Joseph Heckman provides what he describes as “an historical account of the raw milk movement and its long association with the organic farming movement.”...
by David Gumpert | Nov 18, 2017 | What's New |
It’s sometimes said that a picture is worth a thousand words. That is certainly the case with the photo of Michael Schmidt at left, taken after Schmidt stripped down as required upon entering an Ontario prison yesterday, where he is spending his second of 13 weekends....
by David Gumpert | Nov 13, 2017 | What's New |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is trying a new tack, using an obscure regulation, to limit availability of raw milk, and make life miserable for many raw dairy farmers across the country. It has apparently put its lawyers to work scouring dairy regulations, and...
by David Gumpert | Nov 8, 2017 | What's New |
There’s a very old joke that some economists and business school professors like to use for how dairy cows explain different economic systems. It goes like this: Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives one to your neighbor. Communism: You have...
by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2017 | What's New |
Earlier this year, I wrote about ominous noises coming from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about raw camel milk. The agency had warned the owner of a small Missouri farm, which accounts for the bulk of raw camel milk production in the U.S., to refrain from...
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