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...
by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I figured my previous posting about the middle road wouldn’t sit well with some readers. Actually, it doesn’t sit well with me in important ways. I agree with Sylvia that asking questions about a food-borne illness doesn’t necessarily equate with...
by David Gumpert | Apr 16, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’ve not been able to partake as much as I would like in the fascinating conversation following my previous post about Scott Freeman and the possibility his Colorado dairy’s milk has been a source of campylobacter illness. There’s this book I am...
by David Gumpert | Apr 12, 2009 | Uncategorized |
There have been a couple of very interesting glimpses into the real world of suspected pathogens and regulation around raw milk this weekend. First and foremost, there is Scott Freeman’s disarmingly candid account (on the second page of comments, following my...
by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I have to chuckle at the notion that there is some kind of financial or other conspiracy at work to promote raw milk. That notion is strongly suggested in comments by Concerned Person following my previous post, with the evidence being the goals expressed by Sally...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2009 | Uncategorized |
On the heels of the failure of Connecticut legislation that would have pulled raw milk off the retail shelves in the metropolitan New York City area, a state regulator has come out with what can only be characterized as a tirade against raw milk. And an irresponsible...
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