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Who Says Another Country’s Oligarchs Can’t Outdo Ours on Food Safety?

by David Gumpert | Aug 22, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Regulation | 10 comments

Russia shut down four McDonald’s outlets in Moscow. on Wednesday.  The stated reason, according to The Wall Street Journal report? Food safety violations.  What a laugh. And no, it wasn’t the hassling given to one of America’s largest food...

Where Does Michigan’s Complicated History of Raw Milk Crackdowns and Romance Leave Us?

by David Gumpert | Aug 16, 2014 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation | 19 comments

Sometimes, it’s important not to lose sight of the forest for the trees.  One of those times is occurring in Michigan right now, where there seem to be a lot of trees—in the form of different people with different understandings about what is and isn’t...

Screw-Tightening Time on Michigan Raw Milk Herdshares

by David Gumpert | Aug 12, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 47 comments

In the month-long game between Michigan agriculture regulators and raw milk distributor My Family Co-Op, the regulators today put down the “Gotcha!” card. If you’ll remember, last month the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development forced My Family...

Appeals Court Prohibits Two WI Farm Families from Distributing Raw Milk, Unless…

by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2014 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 15 comments

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released a couple days ago showed that more than 70% of Americans feel the country is “headed in the wrong direction.”  Now, “headed in the wrong direction” can mean different things to different people—failure to deal...

There IS Another Promising Option for Countering Autism

by David Gumpert | Aug 4, 2014 | News Media, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research | 25 comments

The Sunday New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy article, “The Kids Who Beat Autism”.  The article is focused mainly on how intensive behavioral therapy has helped cure about 10% of autistic kids. The scientists interviewed basically said they didn’t know...

Is FDA Becoming Internationally Isolated on Raw Milk?

by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 27 comments

A few weeks ago, the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency came out with an eye-opening report on raw milk. This agency, the UK’s equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, acknowledged and accepted, at least on a minimal basis, the reality of raw milk,...

All’s Well That Ends Well, in MDARD’s Version of Events at My Family Co-Op

by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation | 22 comments

A number of people have asked me why Jenny Samuelson didn’t just defy the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development last Sunday and cut the red seizure tape on her co-op members’ food….in much the same way as Vernon Hershberger did in Wisconsin in 2010....

Michigan Food Dump Meant to Send Us All a Message

by David Gumpert | Jul 22, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 69 comments

The government-sponsored dump of nearly $5,000 of milk, eggs, butter, and cream from Michigan’s My Family Co-Op yesterday carried a very clear and powerful political message to all Americans: We control your food and we don’t like you buying your food outside...
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