by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For years, the public health, medical, regulator, and conventional dairy communities have marched in lockstep against raw milk. Collaborating with these forces of government and business have been the farmer communities, via their trade groups, the American Farm...
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2013 | Raw Milk, Regulation |
Barack Obama gave a remarkable speech in Israel last week. Remarkable not just because he challenged Israeli young people to push for peace with the Palestinians, but because he was cheered by the young Israelis in the audience. One of his statements...
by David Gumpert | Mar 20, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What to make of the latest legal twists in the Vernon Hershberger raw milk saga? I thought about trying to doctor a photo of Hershberger to put on the site so it would look like a human pretzel, because that’s what he seems to have become–a legal...
by David Gumpert | Mar 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What should raw milk consumers do when they suspect one or more farmers of producing possibly dangerous raw milk? Its a dilemma that faces at least some raw dairy consumers at one time or another. The big tipoff of potential danger is that the milk sours...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk |
My tour bus last week was just passing Tiananmen Square where, in one of the huge official buildings, The Peoples Congress was being held to address Chinas major issues, such as pollution and agriculture expansion. I expected a respectful assessment from our...
by David Gumpert | Mar 7, 2013 | Food Safety, News Media |
Ive long wanted to visit China before the new completely overwhelms the old. So last Sunday night, my wife, Jean, and I arrived in Beijing. Our first stop was to be a food tour of Beijings Hutongs–one of the fast-disappearing areas of traditional homes, shops,...
by David Gumpert | Mar 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’m still amazed about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accusation that most raw milk drinkers welcome pathogens in their food (described in my previous post. Aside from personal views we may have about the role of bacteria in our food...
by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Back in December 2008, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. filed a citizens petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that the agency lift its prohibition on interstate shipments of raw milk on a very limited basis–for milk moving from one...
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