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CDC Misconduct? Raw Milk “Death” Victim Was Treated for Advanced Cancer

by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2016 | What's New | 39 comments

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...

CDC Revels in Possible Linkage of PA Raw Dairy to Two Serious Listeria Illnesses….in 2014

by David Gumpert | Mar 18, 2016 | What's New | 55 comments

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...

Big Demonstration Buoys Michael Schmidt in Ontario’s Latest Raw Milk Case

by David Gumpert | Mar 16, 2016 | What's New | 17 comments

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...

Will Sick W.VA Joke Hamper Other Raw Milk Initiatives?

by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2016 | What's New | 25 comments

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...

Continuing Controversy Over OPDC-Connected Raw Milk Illnesses

by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2016 | What's New | 22 comments

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...

Why Is Canada So Obsessed with Michael Schmidt and Raw Milk?

by David Gumpert | Feb 29, 2016 | What's New | 13 comments

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...

Is OPDC Bumping Scalability Limits, to Detriment of Raw Milk Nationally?

by David Gumpert | Feb 20, 2016 | What's New | 91 comments

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...

McAfee Says OPDC Testing Averted Potentially Huge E.coli Disaster

by David Gumpert | Feb 11, 2016 | What's New | 72 comments

Mark McAfee credits Organic Pastures’ “test-and-hold” protocol with having averted a potentially huge  E.coli O157:H7 disaster last month. As it is, at least four children appear to have been sickened directly by OPDC milk, and possibly two others became ill on a...
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