by David Gumpert | Aug 16, 2008 | Uncategorized |
If the New York Ag & Markets decision about herdshares described in my previous post has you worried about the growing intrusiveness of regulators into our private lives, then you may want to read about Robin Countryman-Velk and her Kiddin Korral Animal and...
by David Gumpert | Aug 13, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The notion that a hearing officer engaged by New Yorks Department of Agriculture and Markets would recommend a ruling in favor of the agency, and against Barb and Steve Smith, is no big surprise. What is surprising is the logic the officer, Susan Weber, used in her...
by David Gumpert | Aug 11, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Agriculture and public health regulators seem to be coming up with ever increasing numbers of false positives in their tests of raw milk, according to Ted Beals, in his comment on my August 4 posting about the split sample testing discrepancies experienced by...
by David Gumpert | Aug 8, 2008 | Uncategorized |
We really are nice people here at this blog. Here these regulators in New York, and elsewhere, are crapping all over dairy farmers, and Amanda Rose is wondering if absolutely positively every step in the lab test done for Lori and Darren McGrath is the same as that...
by David Gumpert | Aug 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Practically a year to the day after I wrote about the suspicious finding by New Yorks Department of Agriculture and Markets of listeria monocytogenes in the raw milk produced by Lori and Darren McGraths Autumn Valley Farm in Worcester, the agency has come up with a...
by David Gumpert | Aug 4, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Late yesterday afternoon, I turned on the TV, hoping to catch the end of the Red Sox-Oakland As game. There was a rain delay, however, and to fill up the time, the station was broadcasting something called Sox Appeal. It struck me as the Red Sox equivalent of reality...
by David Gumpert | Aug 2, 2008 | Uncategorized |
So now we have reports that illnesses in Connecticut and Missouri are closely linked to contaminated raw milk. While the evidence may not be conclusive, Im willing to accept the likelihood these particular illnesses were caused by raw milk. From what weve learned...
by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
When last I saw Glen Wise,a Mennonite dairy farmer, it was early May, just after he had been exonerated on two of three citations from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture for selling raw milk without a license. He said he would appeal his one conviction to a...
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