by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2020 | What's New |
There was a lot of legal and public health talent on display at the hearing on the legal challenge by Ontario raw milk drinkers to get the long-standing ban on raw dairy declared unconstitutional. Shaun O’Brien, justice of the OntarioSuperior Court, who presided...
by David Gumpert | Nov 18, 2020 | What's New |
For nearly three days, the court proceedings in the Ontario raw-milk-rights case had been a model of Canadian civility. The judge and lawyers each referred to the other as “my friend,” rather than “colleague” or “opponent.” Opposing lawyers never once interrupted the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 16, 2020 | What's New |
The time has come for Canada to begin allowing the sale of raw milk to those ready to risk consuming it, and in the process put an end to “a peculiar form of Canadian exceptionalism,” a lawyer argued in an Ontario court Monday . An image of Michael Schmidt and his son...
by David Gumpert | Nov 8, 2020 | What's New |
I found myself challenged a couple days ago on Facebook by an ardent Canadian food rights supporter after I disputed her suggestion that Joe Biden won the American presidency because of voter fraud. “You’ve tossed your lot in with a strange crowd, David. You...
by David Gumpert | Oct 19, 2020 | What's New |
The Weston A. Price Foundation’s annual conference in Atlanta in three weeks was envisioned as something akin to the White House Rose Garden introduction of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a few weeks back–-no masks, people sitting close together, and...
by David Gumpert | Oct 17, 2020 | What's New |
The first significant outbreak of illness from raw milk this century occurred in late 2005 from milk produced by a small dairy in Washington state, Dee Creek Dairy. At least 18 people, most of them children, were sickened by E.coli O157:H7, and a few were...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2020 | What's New |
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve repeatedly challenged the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for what I have argued are their highly alarmist positions condemning raw milk. As just one example, last year...
by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2020 | What's New |
I need to make a confession about my coverage here of Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt over the last dozen years or so. I had assumed any number of times that his struggle with the courts and public health establishment would recede when the establishment...
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