by David Gumpert | May 6, 2009 | Uncategorized |
When California’s proposed SB 201 legislation substituting a quality-control process for the ten-coliform-per-milliliter standard was vetoed by the governor last September, the coliform standard was locked in as the law of the Golden State. With that veto, the...
by David Gumpert | May 4, 2009 | Uncategorized |
There’s been a tendency on the part of some of us ne’er-say-die types to hope that, once President Obama got past this economic crisis stuff (and forgetting about whatever giveaways he’s engaged in on the financial front), he’d be ready to...
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2009 | Uncategorized |
You put the news on the back burner for a few days and what happens? Pots boiling over all over the place. I had an April 30 deadline for my book about raw milk, so have been singularly focused the last few days. (I did meet the deadline, whew.) But like everyone...
by David Gumpert | Apr 27, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I completed Amanda Rose’s survey for raw milk drinkers, and could only marvel that this effort might be considered controversial. With no slight intended to Amanda, because the survey is an interesting effort, what I am suggesting is that its thrust mainly...
by David Gumpert | Apr 24, 2009 | Uncategorized |
In the ongoing debate over raw milk safety that simmers on this blog, I’ve been struck by a subtle change in tone and approach of late. This change is epitomized by two items: the barely civil exchange between Mark McAfee and Concerned Person over a so-called...
by David Gumpert | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I didn’t mean to suggest, with my little photo shoot experience Sunday involving FDA milk czar John Sheehan, that all the regulators at the National Council for Interstate Milk Shipments conference were, shall we say, difficult. I suspect the FDA reps were in a...
by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2009 | Uncategorized |
You knew Mark McAfee was probably not going to score a lot of points when silence greeted his opening line to a group of dairy regulators and industry bigwigs, that his appearance was “like someone coming to a gathering of priests and saying, “There is no...
by David Gumpert | Apr 20, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I traveled 2,500 miles in large measure to snap a photo of a reclusive bureaucrat. Well, I guess I can blame it on TPTB–they drove me to it. Here’s the story. For many months I’ve been trying to obtain...
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