by David Gumpert | Jan 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 13, 2008 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2008 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 11, 2008 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 10, 2008 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 8, 2008 | Uncategorized |
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.”...
by David Gumpert | Jan 7, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Gee, I’ll go to bed tonight feeling a lot more secure that food poisoning lawyer Bill Marler is out there protecting my loved ones and me. “The fact is that if a producer of a food product kills a kid or causes them to lose their kidneys, I am coming...
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