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...
by David Gumpert | Apr 12, 2008 | Uncategorized |
California Sen. Dean Florez is beginning to sound like some of us here at this blog. Except he has a little more clout, and right now, it’s running into a brick wall known as the California Department of Food and Agriculture. In a scathing letter to A.G....
by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Thanks to Gary Cox, the defense lawyer, for filling in detail about the infiltration of the Meadowsweet Dairy LLC by an undercover agent of the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets. I hadn’t been aware of the entrapment dynamic underlying...
by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized |
There’s actually yet another story about undercover agents and raw milk. I was going to write about it a few weeks ago when Eliot Spitzer was being undone (you remember him, the former governor of New York), but various court decisions and other events in...
by David Gumpert | Apr 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
For the last ten days or so, Mark McAfee has been building up the April 15 hearing before a joint California Senate committee as “the biggest raw milk event in history,” something akin to the shootout at OK Corral. Top guns from the California Department...
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Secret agent man, secret agent manThey’ve given you a number and taken away your name *I keep thinking of the song made famous in the 1960s by Johnny Rivers as I try to make sense of the latest news out of Modesto, CA, home of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. Nearly...
by David Gumpert | Apr 2, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I guess I should feel honored. The barfblog, also known as “musings from the International Food Safety Network,” took notice of my article in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. As you might imagine, Doug Powell, the author, wasn’t too pleased about...
by David Gumpert | Mar 31, 2008 | Uncategorized |
A state judge has declined, for now, to hold raw-milk producers Barb and Steve Smith in contempt of court for refusing to unlock their coolers last December for inspectors from the NY Department of Agriculture and Markets. The ruling is a small victory, but a victory...
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