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A Food Regulator’s View of the Dangers of Raw Milk, Part 2: A Possible Way to Get the Regulators to “Walk Away” from the Mess They’ve Created?

by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2008 | Uncategorized | 18 comments

I always appreciate hearing the world views of people who live in different worlds than I do. I’m still in Germany and tonight I rode with a middle-aged Pakistani taxi driver who expressed dismay that German churches are “so lifeless,” while the...

A Food Regulator’s View of California’s Raw Milk Mess, Part 1: Coliform Standard Could Be Revised Upward Next Year, OPDC’s Regulatory Challenge

by David Gumpert | Nov 13, 2008 | Uncategorized | 28 comments

Before I got sidetracked with my Holocaust experience, I had a few things still to report from the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Wise Traditions conference. One was a report on a lengthy conversation I had with a well-placed California food regulator about raw...

“A Reminder of How Totally Deranged Our Country Once Was”–Further Thoughts on Michael Schmidt Case

by David Gumpert | Nov 11, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

I departed the Weston A. Price Foundation conference early to travel to Germany and attend special ceremonies in my deceased mother’s hometown, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht–the night Germany burned nearly all the...

Michael Schmidt’s Lonely Journey: A New Documentary Chronicles His Civil Disobedience Over Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

It’s difficult to imagine that there might be a country that is more inhospitable to raw milk than the U.S., but there is, and it is just across to the north–Canada. That becomes clear in a chilling documentary just out, “Michael Schmidt: Organic...

A Tutorial on How to Reach Out and Influence Legislators on Food-Related Issues

by David Gumpert | Nov 9, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

I’ve been at the Weston A. Price Foundation annual conference the last couple days, and yesterday participated on a panel about the legal issues around the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and raw milk (more on the latter in an upcoming post). One of...

A Special Evening in U.S. History, and Some Personal Memories of Growing Up in Chicago

by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized | 17 comments

No matter what your political persuasion, it was hard not to be moved by watching Barack Obama give his victory speech last evening in Chicago. So many Americans have one or another bad memory about racial relations in the U.S., be it personal or via the media, that...

Is a Herdshare or Food Co-Op the Same as Costco or a Country Club?

by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

The notion of a private club of raw-foods consumers outside the purview of health and agriculture officials’ clutches doesn’t cut it with law enforcement officials. In following up on my previous post, I spoke with an assistant state’s attorney for...

You Thought the Food Troopers Would Be Satisfied with Raw Milk Herdshares? Now Theyre After a Raw Juice Co-Op

by David Gumpert | Nov 4, 2008 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Some well meaning opponents of raw milk have argued on this blog that the seemingly endless legal problems swirling around raw milk could be easily resolved if consumers would only switch to other probiotic products that have the same benefits—things like raw...
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