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In Appeal, Dan Brown Says Judge’s Raw Milk Injunction Drove Him Out of Farming

by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 42 comments

Lawyers for Maine farmer Dan Brown say a judge who issued an injunction last April barring him from selling raw milk “completely overlooked” that he would have had to spend $62,500 to comply with regulations to obtain a state permit for his one-cow dairy. As a...

Hog Farmer Mark Baker to MI DNR: One More Time, Explain Genetic Purification

by David Gumpert | Feb 13, 2014 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 66 comments

Corporate hog producers and state agriculture regulators around the country are understood to be watching closely the legal case of Michigan hog farmer Mark Baker.  What they are seeing is a highly tentative Michigan Department of Natural Resources,...

Can Debate Over Raw Milk and Food Rights Move Beyond Stereotypes?

by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2014 | Food Safety, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation | 13 comments

Holding onto expectations can be a setup for disappointment. You start exercising, expecting you will improve your health, and instead you sprain an ankle and are out forced off your feet for a couple weeks, getting even more out of shape. You go on a diet...

The Negotiating on Raw Milk Standards Has Begun

by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 166 comments

“If you wanna complain….I’m not the complaint department.”From song, “Complaint Department” by Likki Li Maybe I am the complaint department, since I run this blog. Certainly the complaints keep coming. There was Mark McAfee’s comment, that,...

Michael Schmidt “Upbeat” As He Readies Himself for Appeals Court Date over Raw Milk in Canada

by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 74 comments

Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt has been in legal limbo for about twenty years now. It’s difficult to even make that statement without wondering, first, about the system that allows such ongoing official pressures on one farmer, and second, about what it is...

Anatomy of a USA Today Correction: How CDC, Pediatricians Used Mainstream Media to Blast Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Jan 31, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 80 comments

Shortly after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics issued their one-two punch against raw milk in December—with widespread media attention— I was talking with a couple of dairy farmers about the course of events. Someone...

Role Reversal: MD Legislators Put Public Health Officials on the Hot Seat Over Legalizing Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Jan 30, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 29 comments

I have been watching legislative and court hearings about raw milk for a number of years now, and the scenario runs something like this: Raw milk proponents parade up to the stand to describe how drinking raw milk helped them resolve chronic illnesses and generally...

Wherein My Food Conference Skit Works So Well, I Am Put on the Hot Seat; MD Hearing

by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Regulation | 69 comments

I got a taste Sunday of what it is like to be a government food policy official in enemy territory.  I spoke at the NOFA-NJ Winter Conference in Lincroft, NJ, and decided to assume the role of David Edwards, a high-ranking (and fictitious) food policy...
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