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...
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...
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