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Marler Says His Experts Have Explained the Absence of a Smoking Gun in the OPDC Court Suits

by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2009 | Uncategorized | 15 comments

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....

What a “Poo Duel” Tells Us About Different Philosophies of Food and Health

by David Gumpert | Mar 21, 2009 | Uncategorized | 25 comments

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...

Bring on the Sick Kids: Why the Food-Safety Zealots Prefer Fear Mongering to Real Debate or Research

by David Gumpert | Mar 17, 2009 | Uncategorized | 34 comments

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...

Why the Building Hysteria Over Food-Borne Illness May Well Overwhelm Sustainable Agriculture, and Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Mar 14, 2009 | Uncategorized | 24 comments

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...

The Second Time Around, the Michael Schmidt Documentary Gives a Highly Political Tone to the Raw Milk Struggle

by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2009 | Uncategorized | 46 comments

I had a chance to watch the documentary about Canadian raw dairy producer Michael Schmidt on Sunday, again. I was participating as a panelist at a screening of the documentary put on by Slow Food Boston. I had seen the documentary (“Michael Schmidt: Organic Hero...

Wherein I Let Myself Be Intimidated: Pushing Forward to Defeat Those Who Would Rob Us of Our Freedom

by David Gumpert | Mar 8, 2009 | Uncategorized | 27 comments

I’ve felt myself in an awkward position the last couple weeks. There are a number of promising developments on the raw milk front, and I’ve been loathe to report them. As one example, I was in New Hampshire a few weeks ago, at The Co-op Food Store in...

Whether in Health or Economics, the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2009 | Uncategorized | 31 comments

There are two news stories that relate directly to recent discussion topics here. The first, reported by USA Today, is that flu viruses are quickly becoming resistant to the seeming miracle drug Tamiflu. That’s creating all kinds of concerns in the medical...

What Happens When Regulators Contradict Each Other? In Pennsylvania, a Farmer Finally Benefits

by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2009 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

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...
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