by David Gumpert | Oct 16, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Eric Wagoner’s refrigerated raw milk truck.Every week for the last five years, Eric Wagoner, a Georgia farmer, has been delivering raw milk to members of a buyers club he organized. Because he is bringing the milk from dairies in neighboring South Carolina, he...
by David Gumpert | Oct 12, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been thinking a lot over the last few weeks about illnesses from foodborne pathogens, in particular how they’re portrayed for raw milk. Two recent articles—one about the safety of mass-produced ground beef and the other about the safety of raw...
by David Gumpert | Oct 10, 2009 | Uncategorized |
A California milk processing plant, from the California Dairies Inc. web site. Whenever you hear business executives blame poor profits and sales on their customers’ lack of intelligence, you know there’s a serious underlying management problem. In fact,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The empty confinement area at The Family Cow farm.It’s almost eerily quiet in the huge holding area that was once the center of Edwin Shank’s confinement dairy in central Pennsylvania. In the adjoining photo, you can see the empty structure, where hundreds...
by David Gumpert | Oct 1, 2009 | Uncategorized |
A farm illustration from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, And Consumer Protectin web site.The latest word out of Wisconsin (as Lykke points out following my previous post) is that a prosecutor there is considering filing criminal charges in the case of...
by David Gumpert | Sep 29, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Say what you will about food poison lawyer Bill Marler, he’s done an impressive job of establishing his main blog (his law firm runs some dozens) as a scientific resource that is cited by public health and regulatory officials in the same breath with academic...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’ve always thought that, if nothing else, lawyers are precise. You may not agree with their interpretations, but their legal briefs and reports are presumably linked strongly to real facts. Of course, I’ tvehought the same about public health...
by David Gumpert | Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The five members of the board of the Alachua County Farmers Market in Gainesville, FL, all love to drink the raw goat’s milk sold at the market by one of the farmers, Joe Pietrangelo of Glades Ridge farm. But now that same board has banned Glades Ridge...
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