by David Gumpert | Apr 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture must feel on solid ground. The press person there was cordial and forthcoming to my requests for information. The only question he had some trouble dealing with was about why Bill Chirdon, the PDA food safety guy, confiscated...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2008 | Uncategorized |
One of Mark Nolt’s lasting images from last Friday’s raid of his farm by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, is of Bill Chirdon, the top PDA food safety official, walking off with a copy of Joel Salatin’s book, “Everything I Want to Do...
by David Gumpert | Apr 26, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Today was supposed to be the day a California superior court judge decided heard arguments on whether to turn a temporary restraining order barring implementation of AB1735’s coliform standard into a more extended preliminary injunction. After more than four...
by David Gumpert | Apr 26, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The State finally came for Mark Nolt, the Pennsylvania dairyman who refused to obtain a raw milk permit, and continued selling raw dairy products from his Nature’s Sunlight Farm.A constable dispatched by a Pennsylvania District Court served Mark with an arrest...
by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Does the fact that raw milk is a much different product from pasteurized milk mean that it must distributed and sold differently as well? That question seems to underlie the debate about Organic Pastures Dairy Co. and its use of unpasteurized cream and colostrum from...
by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2008 | Uncategorized |
When I traveled to Oak Knoll Ayrshires Farm in Foxboro, MA, yesterday to pick up some milk, I was feeling a little frustrated. Not only did I have to travel a half hour each way, on a day when I had many other things to do, but I wouldn’t be able to get all the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2008 | Uncategorized |
One of the most important ideas to come out of the California raw milk hearing last week is that raw milk is an entirely different product from pasteurized milk. This is pretty obvious to those of us who consume raw milk, and appreciate the differences in its...
by David Gumpert | Apr 19, 2008 | Uncategorized |
On the flight from San Francisco back to Boston last evening, I had written a further update about the California Senate’s hearing on raw milk—about how Mark McAfee has been on the phone nearly non-stop lobbying on behalf of the changes to AB1735 that I...
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