by David Gumpert | Dec 31, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Squarespace test
by David Gumpert | Dec 30, 2007 | Uncategorized |
This is the time of year when prognosticators look ahead and try to make predictions. One of the more interesting ones I read recently was a Reuters prediction of the top health issues of 2008. Guess which was #1. You’ve got it, raw milk. I had kind of put the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 29, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s web site prominently features a 64-slide presentation, “Raw Milk: Associated Public Health Risks”. It is full of statistics and descriptions of illness from raw milk–many of them questionable. It...
by David Gumpert | Dec 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Why is it that there are “no standards in place for other food providers, for example, beef, poultry, pork, eggs, vegetables, bakers, or fin or shell fish, to comply with a coliform limit in the food stuffs they produce”? That is one of the key questions...
by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2007 | Uncategorized |
What will the New Year bring raw milk drinkers in California? Next Monday night, of course, comes the midnight hour, when new coliform standards take effect, and raw milk in California could turn into the proverbial pumpkin. Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy...
by David Gumpert | Dec 26, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The future of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is clarifying itself much more quickly than I ever could have imagined. One of the premises of the article I recently co-authored for The Nation about NAIS is that the identification program is...
by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Barbara and Steve Smith had bad news and good news on the legal front in their suit against officials of New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets yesterday. The bad news was that their lawyers were rejected in their effort to obtain a temporary...
by David Gumpert | Dec 22, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’d like to horn in on the very interesting discussion going on concerning my previous post about the problems facing Barbara and Steve Smith, and add a few points: –There is legal precedent for what the Smiths are doing. There was a case in...
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