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...
by David Gumpert | Jul 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As long as we’re on the subject of natural feeding, you’d think something as simple as “pasture fed” would be easy to define, and pretty straightforward to carry out. But when everything related to food and agriculture needs to be sized,...
by David Gumpert | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The discussion on my previous post about registering nursing moms and pasteurizing mother’s milk may not be as far fetched as they sound. The agriculture regulators in places like New York, Pennsylvania, and California have been stung by the court actions and...
by David Gumpert | Jul 10, 2008 | Uncategorized |
There’s a move afoot in New York state to allow raw milk to be sold via retail outlets. When I noted the possibility in a recent posting, I made mention of the fact that New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets wants to ensure it keeps a tight rein...
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