by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2009 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Mar 8, 2009 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2009 | Uncategorized |
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...
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...
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