by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2009 | Uncategorized |
A couple weeks back, a debate flared up following my posting about the “poo duel.” It was a recurrence of a discussion that comes up from time to time, namely, how do pathogens fare in raw milk? Or more to the point, do pathogens actually become...
by David Gumpert | Mar 31, 2009 | Uncategorized |
A few updates from the legislative and market fronts on raw milk: –Connecticut appears to have backed away from a legislative ban on retail sales. Legislation pushed by the Connecticut Department of Agriculture would have pulled raw milk from state grocery and...
by David Gumpert | Mar 27, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I want to probe a little further on the issue of my last post, about the brickbats being tentatively tossed by an ally at dairy chief John Sheehan and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. What struck me is that his friend, consultant Roy Costa, was expressing...
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I was driving today to Oake Knoll Ayrshires Farm in Foxboro, MA, to pick up some raw milk, feeling a tad resentful. I didn’t really have the time to drive an hour back and forth. Why couldn’t I just buy it at the grocery store? Adding to my irritation,...
by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2009 | Uncategorized |
For about two years, a debate has flared on and off on this blog over whether raw milk produced by Organic Pastures Dairy Co. made six California children ill in September 2006. Mary McGonigle-Martin has pushed most insistently that OPDC’s milk was the culprit....
by David Gumpert | Mar 21, 2009 | Uncategorized |
In most cases, if two bloggers here decided to settle their philosophical differences via a duel or competition of some kind, I’d offer to referee. But for a “Poo Duel” of the sort described by Ken Conrad and Lykke? I’m pretty sure I...
by David Gumpert | Mar 17, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’m fairly recent to the food safety debate, relatively speaking. I think I really began looking at it seriously when six children in California became ill during September 2006, and raw milk produced by Organic Pastures Dairy Co. was blamed as the culprit. I...
by David Gumpert | Mar 14, 2009 | Uncategorized |
It would be nice to think that Michelle Obama’s interest in nutritious food possibly portends good things for the future of sustainable agriculture. I worry, though, because of the swelling hysteria over food safety. From what I can see, there are two political...
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