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...
by David Gumpert | Sep 21, 2009 | Uncategorized |
It’s gotten so we aren’t surprised any more when the regulators go after producers of raw milk with a vengeance not seen with other foods. We’ve seen case after case after case, in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and California, among other...
by David Gumpert | Sep 18, 2009 | Uncategorized |
What are we to make of the latest outbreak of illnesses attributed to raw milk? In Wisconsin, some 35 illnesses from campylobacter seem to have been linked via testing on consumers and cows to raw milk provided to consumers who are leaseholders at Zinniker Family...
by David Gumpert | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Much of the discussion here in recent weeks, whether about the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) or competitive exclusion, is really about food safety. Many of the comments on those topics are penetrating and insightful. But while food safety is a hot...
by David Gumpert | Sep 10, 2009 | Uncategorized |
What is the real meaning of the debate over “competitive exclusion” as it affects raw milk? When last I wrote about this subject —the theory that good bacteria overwhelm bad bacteria in milk from grass-fed cows and thus protect the milk from...
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