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Planning for Debate About Raw Milk and Immunity: The Issues Clarify, But Is There Anyone to Talk To?

by David Gumpert | Feb 27, 2009 | Uncategorized | 39 comments

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...

Which States Have the Most Illnesses from Raw Milk? Hint: This Is Not a Trick Question

by David Gumpert | Feb 24, 2009 | Uncategorized | 37 comments

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...

Worried About Melamine in Raw Milk? Pasteurization of Mothers Milk? Dont Worry, the Regulators Are On It

by David Gumpert | Feb 22, 2009 | Uncategorized | 29 comments

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...

MarlerClark Tests Its Closing Argument in OPDC Case: A Sign of Confidence, or Desperation?

by David Gumpert | Feb 19, 2009 | Uncategorized | 30 comments

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...

Chicken! FDAs John Sheehan Pisses Off His Food Protection Pals with Disappearing Act from Raw Milk Symposium

by David Gumpert | Feb 18, 2009 | Uncategorized | 5 comments

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...

A New Solution for the Raw Milk Problem? Make Dairies Pay for the Privilege

by David Gumpert | Feb 16, 2009 | Uncategorized | 50 comments

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...

Chuck Phippens Germ War with N.Y. Ag & Markets: How Many Listeria Does It Take to Make a Raw Dairy Dangerous?

by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized | 33 comments

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...

Connecticut’s Raw Milk Proponents Mount a Counter-Offensive to State Ag’s Anti-Retail Campaign

by David Gumpert | Feb 10, 2009 | Uncategorized | 30 comments

Connecticut’s Department of Agriculture is mounting a full-court press to eliminate retail sales of raw milk, via legislation that would confine sales to farms. Connecticut is one of just a handful of states that allow retail sales, and the state’s...
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