by David Gumpert | Dec 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
When I saw news Monday that the American Academy of Pediatrics had issued a major warning about raw milk, I thought it sounded familiar. The warning was picked up widely, by the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, ABC News, and other mainstream media, as if it was hot...
by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Ed Lawton began to get good vibes when he went for a haircut hours before the Foxboro Board of Health meeting Monday evening. The barber told me I had one hundred per cent support in the town. And then he didnt charge me for the haircut.As he strategized with...
by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The public health profession has its marching orders from the dairy industry and its puppet U.S. Centers for Disease Control: We need higher numbers of illnesses attributed to raw milk. Use every means you can think of to stir up fear, even if it means making up...
by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Regulation of raw milk is nearly entirely a state matter. You have fifty states, and fifty different variations of laws and regulations; only when it is sold or shipped across state lines does the federal government have any jurisdiction. Regardless of the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 4, 2013 | Legal, News Media |
For some weeks now, Ive been following the treatment and custody battle over Sarah Hershberger, the 10-year-old Ohio Amish girl with leukemia. It is a heart-breaking story–her parents brought her to begin a two-year round of conventional treatment at a...
by David Gumpert | Dec 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I always sensed youth football was a dangerous proposition, but I never realized just how dangerous. Recent studies show that at least 9,000 children each year suffer concussions–potentially serious brain injuries–playing youth football like Pop...
by David Gumpert | Nov 26, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
“In Russia, we can’t say what we want, but we can eat what we want. In the U.S., we can say what we want, but we can’t eat what we want.” ~ From an attendee at the postponed hearing in Foxborough considering tough raw milk regulations for...
by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
There has been some excellent discussion to provide guidance to Marcie McBee, the Tennessee raw-milk farmer who had an outbreak of illness traced to E.coli O157:H7. What makes pieces of this discussion exciting is that it begins to lift the veil of silence that...
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