by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Many dairies that would love to sell raw milk have opted instead for the attractive income, and seeming security, of producing raw milk cheeses instead. They figure they can still get the equivalent of $10 to or more a gallon of milk by producing artisinal cheese, and...
by David Gumpert | Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, the target of a suit by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, on behalf of Iowa cow-share owners. Can the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund find a judge in this country willing to take a strong stand endorsing the right...
by David Gumpert | Feb 9, 2010 | Uncategorized |
One of the sad realizations I’ve come to over the last few years in writing about raw milk is that proponents can’t let their guards down in battling with government officials. Farmers and consumers alike want so badly to believe that public officials are...
by David Gumpert | Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee and Scott Trautman rally demonstrators outside courthouse in Viroqua, WI, for Max Kane last December 21. Nearly two months ago, I reported on an imaginary job review of the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Division of Plant and Dairy...
by David Gumpert | Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
A few weeks ago, with lots of fanfare, the head of Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced a “working group” on raw milk, “to decide whether raw milk sales should be allowed in Wisconsin, and if...
by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Joseph Heckman of Rutgers University.Joseph Heckman often feels very lonely in his position as a professor specializing in soil fertility at Rutgers University in New Jersey. That’s because he’s a big believer in the virtues of raw milk, and in what he...
by David Gumpert | Jan 31, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Scott Soares, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.For years, Massachusetts has epitomized a sensible approach to raw milk. It provides permits to dairies selling raw milk directly from the farm. And it’s tolerated buying groups...
by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Ontario Judge Paul KowarskyI spoke last evening before a group of about 35 attendees at the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Princeton, NJ, chapter. I try in my talks, as I do here on the blog, to emphasize my belief that raw milk is a proxy issue for food rights....
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