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...
by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Mar 27, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The crackdown by state and federal authorities on raw-milk dairies, and the generally inhospitable environment for sustainable agriculture, is assuming a new sense of irony as global shortages of food commodities take hold. For all those who’ve been worrying...
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
If you look through the web site of the Centers for Disease Control for statistics on the number of food-borne illness occurring each year, you find different numbers—6 million, 14 million, 76 million. I was trying to pin the number down in connection with an...
by David Gumpert | Mar 22, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Last September 20, I posted an item that seemed humorous at the time, about Mark McAfee’s encounter with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the issuance of a press release concerning the recall of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. cream contaminated with...
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