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An Exasperated CA Senator Asks: What Does CDFA Have to Hide?; CDPH Comes Around

by David Gumpert | Apr 12, 2008 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

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....

Confessions of a Raw-Milk Undercover Agent, Part 2: Sowing Distrust on the Farm

by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

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...

Confessions of a Raw-Milk Undercover Agent: Behind the Scenes with Investigator Brandow in NY State

by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

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...

CA Legislator Learns a Hard Lesson: Raw-Milk Bureaucrats Will Bite the Hands That Feed Them

by David Gumpert | Apr 5, 2008 | Uncategorized | 44 comments

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...

Maybe Those FDA Agents Have Moved On to Investigate Tainted Food from China

by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2008 | Uncategorized | 13 comments

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...

If You Can’t Say Something Nice About Me…What the Heck, Say It Anyway

by David Gumpert | Apr 2, 2008 | Uncategorized | 21 comments

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...

Small Victories: NY Judge Sides with Smiths–Issues Stay on State’s Contempt Move

by David Gumpert | Mar 31, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

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...

The Real Poop from FDA on Lactose Intolerance; New CA Raw Milk Hearing, Factory Fish, Milk Distribution

by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2008 | Uncategorized | 9 comments

I want to catch up on a few odds and ends from the past couple weeks: I suppose I should take it as a compliment that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration appears to be reading my articles. Two days after my article on raw milk appeared in the Boston Globe Sunday...
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