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The Goons Are Back: MN Adds Its Own Special Touches to the Time-Honored Tradition Against Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized | 53 comments

Any politician or regulator worth his previous year’s pension credits knows how to take a minor incident, or even create an incident out of nothing, so as to rile up the masses and divert them from their real problems. Russian and Polish politicians were experts...

Now Whole Foods Gets Rid of Raw Kombucha…But Wait, Pasteurized Variety Still Available; FDA Challenges GA Raw Milk Seizure Allegation

by David Gumpert | Jun 25, 2010 | Uncategorized | 36 comments

Six months ago I wrote a post wondering how long my access to commercially produced kombucha would last. Now I have the answer: six months. This morning, I went to a local Whole Foods looking to replenish my supply of GT’s multigreen kombucha. (In light of Whole...

Is There a Warning Sign Big Enough to Satisfy Raw Milk Opponents, Or Are Some Just Hard-Wired to Say No?

by David Gumpert | Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized | 17 comments

I had a special treat on Sunday, spending time with Margaret and Stuart Osha, owners of the Turkey Hill Farm in Randolph, VT (as well as with Cathy Raymond of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, who was visiting). And it wasn’t just the amazing food they...

Revenge of the Regulators in MN? Wilting of the Regulators in WI?

by David Gumpert | Jun 19, 2010 | Uncategorized | 43 comments

The struggle over raw milk is intensifying in two neighboring states–Minnesota and Wisconsin–in different scenarios.  First, Minnesota, where authorities have launched a quick and aggressive counter-blitz against raw milk consumers. I’ll admit,...

In Case Over Bringing Raw Milk Across State Lines, FTCLDF Says It’s About Both Fundamental Rights and Health

by David Gumpert | Jun 17, 2010 | Uncategorized | 22 comments

In April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was dismissive of any claims consumers might think they have on so-called “food rights.” Consumers have “no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular kind of food,” the...

Fuzzy Logic: Is the Goal Here to Broaden Access to Raw Milk or to Change Scientific Thinking?

by David Gumpert | Jun 16, 2010 | Uncategorized | 27 comments

I’d like to make a few further comments in regard to the discussion following my previous post giving credence to the Minnesota Department of Health’s conclusions about illnesses from the Hartmann farm’s raw milk. What’s fundamentally being...

Let’s Get Real–the Hartmann Dairy’s Problem Is Every Raw Dairy’s Problem, and It Threatens to Undo Lots of Hard Work

by David Gumpert | Jun 13, 2010 | Uncategorized | 55 comments

Scott Trautman’s planned raw milk group can’t get here soon enough for me–“an alternate – FUNCTIONAL – SAFE – system, without DATCP, without FDA,” he wrote following my previus post. “Inspect ourselves, train...

Why the WI Civil Disobedience Isn’t Just the Hershbergers’ Problem; Is the MA AG Legally Challenged?

by David Gumpert | Jun 11, 2010 | Uncategorized | 27 comments

Erma Hershberger was explaining to me today’s episode of “Life on an Idyllic Wisconsin Dairy Farm”. Around 8 a.m., she and her husband, Vernon, were finishing up a late breakfast, when a couple of cop cars and a car with two inspectors from the...
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