by David Gumpert | May 24, 2009 | Uncategorized |
A little over a year ago, California Sen. Dean Florez showed himself to be an astute student of the controversy over raw milk when he single-handedly directed a six-hour hearing to consider approaches to altering AB 1735’s coliform standard. The hearing, during...
by David Gumpert | May 22, 2009 | Uncategorized |
It’s been two days since Lykke posed that intriguing question following my previous post: “If one of you drank raw milk from a rabid cow, would you opt for the treatment?” I’ve been trying to draw some conclusions from the many answers, and am...
by David Gumpert | May 18, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The very word “rabies” arouses strong feelings in most of us. I can remember as a child being told that if I got bitten by a squirrel or stray dog, I’d have to endure a series of painful shots. Otherwise, I’d risk an agonizing death that would...
by David Gumpert | May 16, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The agriculture regulators who work so hard to prevent us from obtaining raw milk, or try insanely to register every chicken, goat, and horse in the country, like to think they hold the power to make us follow whatever crazy rules they come up with. To a certain...
by David Gumpert | May 15, 2009 | Uncategorized |
As long as we’re discussing our fear-based culture, I should mention the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). A dairy farmer wrote recently to gently remind me I hadn’t written much of late about NAIS, and to urge me to do so because it’s...
by David Gumpert | May 13, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The television show “20/20” did a segment last Friday about the use of steroids by athletes. Ho hum, I thought. Another of those slam jobs on professional baseball players using performance enhancers. But before long, I was paying close attention, because...
by David Gumpert | May 9, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been wrestling with a raw-milk dilemma of sorts. Not a huge dilemma, and not something in which my decision will have a lot of impact. But the more I think about it, the more agitated I find myself becoming. Here’s the situation: A few days ago a...
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...
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