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In This Raw Milk Prizefight, the AB 1604 “Victory” May Be Just the First Round

by David Gumpert | Jan 19, 2008 | Uncategorized | 19 comments

Here are the facts in the California raw milk situation:  –Prior to January 1, 2008, consumers could buy all the raw milk they wanted, so long as the milk passed two categories of long-established tests for total bacteria and pathogens.   –As of...

With Nearly 1,000 At Hearing, Likely Compromise in CA Raw-Milk Coliform Standard Is Due

by David Gumpert | Jan 17, 2008 | Uncategorized | 28 comments

It was "a very exciting day" in Sacramento today, reports Mark McAfee, owner of California’s largest raw milk dairy. The California Assembly’s Agriculture Committee voted unanimously to support compromise legislation that will allow for a...

Are Organic Pastures and Claravale Walking Into a Trap at CA Assembly’s Raw Milk Hearings?

by David Gumpert | Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized | 16 comments

Expect to hear a fair amount in the next few days and weeks about AB 1604. This is the legislation that will be considered in Wednesday’s hearing before the California Assembly’s Agriculture Committee—it provides for removing the...

Miles to Go: Why the Public Outcry Over California’s AB 1735 Must Be Sustained

by David Gumpert | Jan 13, 2008 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

It’s a balance political candidates are up against all the time: How do you keep the troops’ spirits up over the course of a long struggle, especially when the chances of victory aren’t guaranteed?  I think that’s the challenge Organic...

Behind the Scenes, the Raw-Milk Struggles in CA and NY Pit Regulators Versus Politicians and Judges

by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2008 | Uncategorized | 12 comments

I was in a hurry last evening to get the news posted about the California and New York raw milk developments, so I didn’t attempt much in the way of analysis.  But Robin Anderson’s comments on that posting raise some important questions that I’d...

A CA Raw-Milk Legislative Compromise in the Works; NY to Hold Hearing on Meadowsweet Dairy LLC After Compromise Offer Falls Through

by David Gumpert | Jan 11, 2008 | Uncategorized | 12 comments

Next week should provide interesting bi-coastal legislative and regulatory action for raw milk advocates.  On the West Coast, so-called “emergency legislation” is being drawn up that would change or eliminate the 10-coliform-per-milliliter standard...

Wondering About the Unintended Consequences in the Rapidly-Approaching Cloned-Animal Phase

by David Gumpert | Jan 10, 2008 | Uncategorized | 16 comments

We are rightfully absorbed in the immediate legal challenges to the availability of raw milk in California and New York.  But when I read recently that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will declare any day now that milk and meat from cloned animals and their...

The More Time That Passes, The Bigger This OPDC E.coli Fish Story Gets

by David Gumpert | Jan 8, 2008 | Uncategorized | 38 comments

There’s a game teachers and camp counselors sometimes play with groups of children. The kids gather in a circle and the teacher whispers a simple statement to one of the children, something very simple, like, “We milk the cows with special machines.”...
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