by David Gumpert | Jul 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
So, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s tomato investigators are back to square one, it seems. Nearly 900 people have become ill, and the investigators are even suggesting the cause may not be tomatoes at all. How about if the agency simply admitted,...
by David Gumpert | Jul 1, 2008 | Uncategorized |
There’s a lot of legislative and regulatory activity going on around the country concerning raw milk. There’s the California situation, which has occupied a lot of attention here. In addition, there are legislative initiatives either just completed, in...
by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2008 | Uncategorized |
It’s looking ever more likely that SB 201 will make its way through the California legislature and be signed by the governor—probably within the next month or two. I know I should be exulting, along with Mark McAfee and California’s raw milk...
by David Gumpert | Jun 27, 2008 | Uncategorized |
At the California Assembly’s Health Committee hearing Tuesday, several legislators allowed as how their offices had been inundated with calls on SB 201. The legislators didn’t say it, but presumably there were few or no calls against the proposed...
by David Gumpert | Jun 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday was a good day for proponents of food rights. The California Assembly’s Health Committee unanimously passed SB 201 and its provisions for pathogen testing and HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control point) programs instead of a coliform standard....
by David Gumpert | Jun 24, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As I watch this whole tomato contamination fiasco unfold—more than 500 people are reported to have become ill from salmonella in tomatoes—I can’t help but think that an important educational event is also taking place. The media act out what Ken...
by David Gumpert | Jun 21, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Watching farmers in Pennsylvania, New York, and California take big hits from regulators intent on putting the farmers out of business and scaring the public away from raw milk, it’s been tempting to become despairing about the cause of food rights. But a few...
by David Gumpert | Jun 19, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I took some time yesterday to stop in at a small organic farm just a few miles from where I live, and pick strawberries. The strawberry season here is about two weeks long, maybe three weeks if we get lucky. Then it will move north to New Hampshire and Vermont, and...
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