by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Each time a major media outlet reports on raw milk, demand rises. And when demand rises, more farmers become involved in production, and some of the existing farmers expand their capacity. I experienced the dynamic first-hand a couple months ago when I reported in an...
by David Gumpert | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Last week, the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund sponsored a teleseminar about the National Animal Identification System. One of the speakers was John Carter, a fifth-generation Australian cattleman, who spoke about the Australian experience with its equivalent of...
by David Gumpert | Jun 1, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Why do I get this feeling, as the saying goes, of déjà vu all over again? This situation with new California legislation SB 201 to fix AB 1735’s obsession with coliforms feels too much like AB 1604 last January, which was supposed to fix the same...
by David Gumpert | May 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Expect the focus in California’s raw milk battle to move from the now-familiar AB 1735 to the new SB 201. (AB stands for Assembly Bill, SB for Senate Bill.) In the process, opponents of AB 1735 hope to shift the milk-safety focus from coliforms to...
by David Gumpert | May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday I was trying to explain the raw milk situation to Julie, the woman who has been cutting my hair the last 15 years or so. Julie and I usually chat during the time she is cutting and trimming about movies or new restaurants in the area, but the last couple of...
by David Gumpert | May 27, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Count me as another re-thinker following the California court decision reinforcing AB 1735. I have frequently made the argument that the incidence of illness from raw milk is so tiny compared to other food-borne illnesses that the opponents should leave raw milk...
by David Gumpert | May 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
All we have to do is consider the government’s arguments in preserving California’s ten-coliform-per-milliliter standard to appreciate how far out the Human Microbiome Project really is. As several readers pointed out following my previous post, a...
by David Gumpert | May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Lo and behold, the U.S. government is sponsoring a huge project to investigate the role of bacteria in our bodies. It’s the Human Microbiome Project, and there’s an article about it in today’s New York Times. Reading through both descriptions,...
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