by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The fear-mongering echo chamber that is the Internet’s food safety arena is abuzz with news about a Massachusetts raw milk drinker who contracted brucellosis. The MarlerClark law firm’s Food Poison Journal headlines, “Twin Rivers Farm Raw Milk Linked...
by David Gumpert | Jan 20, 2012 | What's New |
The California Department of Public Health has genetically matched E.coli 0157:H7 that sickened five children, ages one to five years old, with water and manure samples taken from a calf holding area at Organic Pastures Dairy Co. The agency speculates that...
by David Gumpert | Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The unsettling news about questionable factory foods just keeps coming.A few days ago, it was Coca Cola saying it found a fungicide in orange juice it produces in Brazil for sale in the U.S. A few days before that, the USDA was proposing to approve GMO corn that will...
by David Gumpert | Jan 11, 2012 | Uncategorized |
I’ve had some trouble writing this post. I keep starting it, and then someone posts an intriguing comment that takes me off in yet another direction, and I start over again. I started off wanting to relate the Obama Administration’s response to a petition...
by David Gumpert | Jan 7, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The Raw Milk Institute has already in its young life raised a number of provocative questions. Should it be about lobbying or not? How will its standards be developed? Is it about publicly or privately available milk…or both? It is the last question that is...
by David Gumpert | Jan 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
What is the mark of a vibrant movement? For the food rights movement in 2011, at least, it seems to be the frequency of major disruptions, or what I would call “shock events.” These include court decisions, government enforcement actions, and internal...
by David Gumpert | Jan 1, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is asking a federal judge to intervene and halt three separate efforts to enforce the ban on interstate raw milk shipments. The organization has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Food and Drug...
by David Gumpert | Dec 29, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The fledgling Raw Milk Institute is in trouble. The grandiose plan for a national organization that will at once establish raw milk production standards, educate farmers on improving their safety protocols, lobby for raw milk legislative expansion, and back research...
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