by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2016 | What's New |
Many sustainable farmers have privately railed against state and federal rules that require cattle to be slaughtered in regulated beef slaughtering facilities. Now, Vermont farmer John Klar has resolved to do something about his personal frustration, describing his...
by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2016 | What's New |
by David Gumpert and Liz Reitzig The U.S. Centers for Disease Control last week issued a report accusing Miller’s Organic Farm in Pennsylvania of producing raw milk that was “the likely source” of listeria that killed a Florida individual. It was an open-and-shut...
by David Gumpert | Mar 18, 2016 | What's New |
Federal health regulators claim to have linked two serious illnesses in elderly individuals from listeria in 2014—one in California and one in Florida that resulted in a death—with Miller’s Organic Farm in Pennsylvania. Irony of ironies, the feds’ key evidence came...
by David Gumpert | Mar 16, 2016 | What's New |
When Michael Schmidt arrived at the Ontario Superior Court in Newmarket at about 8 Wednesday morning, a court security guard greeted him like an old friend. “I’ve been coming here for ten years, and know some of these people well. The security guy told me that each...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2016 | What's New |
Days after West Virginia became one of the most anti-raw-milk states to reverse itself and allow herdshares, news reports began appearing that legislators who had helped pass the legislation were sick from drinking raw milk. In a television news scene that looks as if...
by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2016 | What's New |
Those January illnesses in California from E.coli O157:H7 linked to Organic Pastures Dairy Co. raw milk are continuing to stir controversy. The latest controversy is being sparked by a new summary report on the illnesses issued by the California Department of Public...
by David Gumpert | Feb 29, 2016 | What's New |
When I think about Ontario’s latest legal steps to stamp out Michael Schmidt and raw milk, I think about the Shakespeare play, “Macbeth”. “Out, damned spot,” Lady Macbeth demanded in frustration about imagined blood on her dress. It was really her guilt at work over...
by David Gumpert | Feb 20, 2016 | What's New |
Is raw milk a scalable business? In other words, can a single dairy keep increasing production to meet growing demand, without limits? As a number of people have argued here, it could well be that the E.coli O157:H7 problem that, yet again, reared its ugly head at...
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