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As Raw Milk Moves Into Mainstream, Scrutiny ExpandsIs That a Good Thing? FDA and Sustainability–an Oxymoron?

by David Gumpert | Nov 7, 2009 | Uncategorized | 18 comments

There’s an interesting phenomenon going on now around raw milk. It is gradually, but very definitely, moving more toward the mainstream. Increasingly, the media are writing more objectively, the latest example being Jill Richardson’s even-handed assessment...

The Raw Milk Outsourcing Issue Forces Us to Face Up to Serious Safety Qs Around Policing, Confidence and Standards

by David Gumpert | Nov 4, 2009 | Uncategorized | 18 comments

The question of whether Organic Pastures Dairy Co. outsources dairy products has been lurking on this blog like an old sore that won’t heal. Each time it looks as if it’s resolved, it really isn’t, and it reappears. It’s been a pet issue...

Industry-Regulator Pile-on at Trautman Farm in WI May Offer Us a Peek Into Next Phase of Raw Milk War

by David Gumpert | Nov 3, 2009 | Uncategorized | 16 comments

Scott Trautman and family. Among the array of tactics the federal-state regulatory authorities have trotted out in their war on raw milk—sting operations, harassment, questionable pathogen findings, legal initiatives—one potentially devastating tactic has...

Buyers Club Crackdown Continues: WI Moves on 5th Amendment Rights Illustrate Need for Clarity on Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Oct 30, 2009 | Uncategorized | 46 comments

The buyers club crackdown, which saw members of a Georgia buyers club being forced to pour out their own milk, has now moved to Wisconsin. There, Max Kane, the head of the Belle’s Lunchbox buyers club that supplies raw milk customers in Chicago, has a court date...

Which Side in the Raw Milk Debate Most Values Human Life? If That Is the Question, We Have a Long Road Ahead

by David Gumpert | Oct 26, 2009 | Uncategorized | 43 comments

The concept of “beginner’s mind” in Zen Buddhism advises us that, no matter how advanced we might think our knowledge of any subject, we should always seek to approach it from the perspective of the beginner. I felt as if I was being pushed to adopt...

Even If It Isnt Conciliation, the Tone Is Changing in Milk Debate; Food Activist Kathryn Russell Dead in Car Accident

by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2009 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price FoundationChange often comes in funny ways. Take the debate about raw milk. Earlier this week, food poisoning lawyer Bill Marler, who has close ties to the public health and regulatory communities, issued a diatribe of sorts against...

Watch GA Raw Milk Victims Complete the Humiliation of Punishment; What Exactly Do Opponents Want of Us?

by David Gumpert | Oct 22, 2009 | Uncategorized | 23 comments

A favorite tactic of jailers is to make prisoners clean up their mess after rebellious behavior. The idea is to humiliate them, in hopes they won’t ever again contemplate standing up to their jailers. You get that feeling of the inmates being humiliated when you...

Just When I Think I See Opportunities for Conciliation, a Raw Milk Opponent Goes and Proves Me Wrong

by David Gumpert | Oct 20, 2009 | Uncategorized | 8 comments

Cliff Hatch leads a tour of his Upinngil Farm. Lots of fun yesterday at the fund-raising event for the Raw Milk Network of the Northeast Organic Farming Association. Delicious home-cooked food (egg nog, quiches, salad, an array of homemade desserts) and wonderful...
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