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...
by David Gumpert | Apr 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The legislative process to change California’s AB1735 and its coliform standard is rapidly moving forward. I expected progress from the hearing, but I didn’t think that less than 24 hours after the late-night California Senate hearing on raw milk...
by David Gumpert | Apr 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Now that I’ve had a few hours to reflect, I feel reasonably confident that something will come out of the California hearing. However, it won’t be a repeal of the 10-coliform-per-milliliter standard of AB1735. Sen. Dean Florez, who chaired...
by David Gumpert | Apr 16, 2008 | Uncategorized |
It’s been a long, but stimulating—no, make that exciting—day at the California Senate’s raw milk hearing. The session was two hours late in getting going at 5 p.m. California time (thanks to some seemingly interminable transportation hearings),...
by David Gumpert | Apr 15, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I am on my way to the California Senate hearing about raw milk safety. It’s a long trip for me, from the East, and I’ve been wondering since I began making the arrangements a couple weeks ago whether it is really worth doing. Will it be serious and...
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