by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Every once in a while, regulators contradict themselves, or each other, publicly over raw milk issues. Even then, though, it usually ends badly for farmers. It happened most notably in California in October 2007, when the California Department of Food and Agriculture...
by David Gumpert | Feb 27, 2009 | Uncategorized |
At the raw milk symposium last week sponsored by the International Association for Food Protection, there was brave talk about “continuing the dialog” between those opposing raw milk consumption and the handful of individuals there, including Sally Fallon...
by David Gumpert | Feb 24, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Imagine for a moment that sales of luncheon meats like salami, bologna and hot dogs were prohibited in half the states beginning in 1993, because such products cause more than 6,000 illnesses each year (see page 13 of the publication, which is actually about illnesses...
by David Gumpert | Feb 22, 2009 | Uncategorized |
What makes raw milk different from raw spinach? In a comment following my previous post about the MarlerClark presentation, Lykke picks up on the suggestion by Bruce Clark that the spinach industry has been motivated by court suits to work extra hard to correct its...
by David Gumpert | Feb 19, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Probably the most curious presentation at yesterday’s raw milk symposium was by Bruce Clark, the “Clark” of the food poisoning law firm MarlerClark. His session at the International Association of Food Protection symposium (discussed in my previous...
by David Gumpert | Feb 18, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Back in August 2007 I wrote about how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration refused an invitation to participate in a Washington, DC, radio program promising a debate on raw milk. “This is not a debatable issue,” explained the FDA. The FDA took the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 16, 2009 | Uncategorized |
If those weirdo foodies want unpasteurized milk so badly, we’ll give them raw milk…We’ll just make them pay $50 a gallon. It sounds a little crazy, I know, but over the last couple weeks, I’ve developed this crazy idea. What if federal and...
by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized |
When I sat down in the hearing room for the opening of the raw milk testimony in Connecticut (described in my previous post), there in the row behind me was New York raw dairy producer Chuck Phippen. (He’s the third from the left in the photo at right.) I first...
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