by David Gumpert | Mar 7, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I appreciate the concerns a number of people (okay, a lot of people) have about the report issued by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in connection with the campylobacter outbreak last spring. Science and statistics are not my areas of...
by David Gumpert | Mar 4, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Scott Freeman, owner of Kiniker Dairy in Colorado.One of the most emotional issues around the anti-raw-milk campaign by federal and many state authorities is that of illnesses. I guess the question boils down to this: Should we believe the authorities, who are...
by David Gumpert | Mar 1, 2010 | Uncategorized |
David Lynch, president of the Raw Milk Association of Colorado, speaks to attendees at its annual meeting on Saturday. The stories of regulator and legislator resistance to food rights continue unabated. The latest sad tale comes out of Wyoming, where a state Senate...
by David Gumpert | Feb 26, 2010 | Uncategorized |
In Florida, we now have a proposed “Food Freedom Act” that would allow small farms to sell cracked pecans, lettuce, eggs, and chickens direct to consumers such as via farmers markets, free of burdensome regulation covering facilities, packaging, and...
by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2010 | Uncategorized |
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, a defendant in the FTCLDF suit against the agency.When I spoke a couple weeks ago in New Jersey–before groups at Rutgers University, the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Princeton Chapter, and the Northeast Organic Farming...
by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The more I write about the raw milk wars, the more convinced I am that the issue has as much to do with economic development (read “jobs”) as it does rights…and has very little to do with food safety and public health. The unfolding saga on the new...
by David Gumpert | Feb 18, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The onslaught against private food buying groups continue unabated in states from Georgia to Massachusetts to Wisconsin. The latest blow comes in Ohio, where a state judge ruled a few days ago that Manna Storehouse, the cooperative that was raided in December 2008 by...
by David Gumpert | Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Connecticut entrepreneur Ed Hartz, with his two children, following my talk at Rutgers University last month. He is starting a milk delivery service. The news that Ontario’s food police are challenging the exoneration of raw dairy producer Michael...
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