by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Tim Wightman, president of the Farm-to-Consumer FoundationThe topic of raw milk safety isn’t on the formal agenda of the Second Annual Raw Milk Symposium opening tomorrow in Madison, WI. But the announcement by the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation, sponsor of the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I sometimes feel as if I’ve become callous to U.S. Food and Drug Administration outrages. The agency approves drugs later discovered to have life-threatening side effects, it approves fancy medical devices similarly found to have serious problems and, as we all...
by David Gumpert | Apr 4, 2010 | Uncategorized |
One question underlies the recent debate about outbreaks of illness over the last year that seem to be from raw milk: What is the long-term practical importance of these illnesses? It might be said that the people who have become sick over the last year, likely from...
by David Gumpert | Apr 1, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Earth to Houston–we have a raw dairy problem.I used to think Kathy, the farmer who supplies my raw milk, was just making conversation when she’d tell me the details of her “family” of cows—which cows were pregnant, which had given birth,...
by David Gumpert | Mar 29, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The campylobacter outbreak in Michigan and possibly other states affecting Family Farms Co-op just keeps getting worse and worse. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put out an alert saying that 12 people have been confirmed ill from campylobacter...
by David Gumpert | Mar 26, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Forget all that talk about Whole Foods developing raw milk standards and bringing unpasteurized milk back to its stores in California, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Connecticut. Dairies in California and Pennsylvania were told today that the ban is indefinite, likely...
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Mary Martin with husband Tony and son Chris.The reminder from Mary Martin (in a comment following my March 19 post) that it’s been three years since she first posted on this blog, got me thinking about how much things have changed in the world of raw milk over...
by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Sometimes agendas are clear and upfront, such as in well-run businesses. Sometimes, though, they are vague or hidden. The matter of agendas becomes ever more important as regulatory, legislative, and media attention is focused increasingly intensively on raw...
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