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...
by David Gumpert | Jul 27, 2008 | Uncategorized |
What were the circumstances at the Simsbury Town Farm Dairy in Connecticut that might have led to four children becoming ill from E.coli 0157:H7? One of the farmers who helped run the dairy through this past spring, Theresa, provides a lengthy account of the nonprofit...
by David Gumpert | Jul 24, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Theres a powerful need by those opposed to consumers having free access to raw milk to say, I told you so. Each time there is a report of illness potentially associated with raw milk, these people go ballistic. Its the old gotcha routine. The latest example comes from...
by David Gumpert | Jul 23, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Bingo! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration thinks its finally found the culprit in all the salmonella cases, and it says its jalepeno peppers. And where would we be in all this attention given to foodborne illnesses, without a word from Bill Marler, the lawyer germ...
by David Gumpert | Jul 19, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’ve had a hard time buying pastured chickens over the last couple years. The only place they seem to appear in my experience is at a Vermont farmers market I frequent, and it seems whenever I find a farmer who sells them, he or she has just sold out or is...
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