by David Gumpert | Oct 31, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Over the last two weeks, Andrea Elliott has been writing emails to farm associations, her Congressman, and members of the U.S. House and Senate agriculture committees—all urging that the upcoming farm bill not include funding for the National Animal...
by David Gumpert | Oct 30, 2007 | Uncategorized |
A few words in some dry state legislation on dairy standards seem to have stirred up a hornet’s nest in California. California legislative representatives who met for an hour-and-a-half yesterday with Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy Co., the...
by David Gumpert | Oct 29, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The serious consumer trying to fully understand the raw milk coliform situation doesn’t have it easy. As Ted Beals points out in a comment following yesterday’s post, the California Department of Food and Agriculture has a link from its press release to a...
by David Gumpert | Oct 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The new California dairy standards, including the coliform bacteria limits, were signed into law October 8, yet it wasn’t until yesterday, three weeks after the fact, that the California Department of Food and Agriculture got around to putting out a press...
by David Gumpert | Oct 27, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I hate to cast the assault on Organic Pastures Dairy Co. and nutritional rights in California in terms of warfare. But what else can you do? You have to assume that the authorities did advance planning about their decision to go after the largest seller of raw milk,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 26, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Like others, I’m glad to learn that Anna and her home survived the California conflagration. (See her tale in a comment following my recent posting about Steve Atkinson.) It’s interesting that she mentions taking her raw milk and butter along with...
by David Gumpert | Oct 25, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I have this sneaking suspicion that the more successful a farmer becomes in the raw milk market, the more likely he or she is to be targeted by regulatory authorities. I’ve written about many of these cases. Richard Hebron and David...
by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Last seek, Steve Atkinson, owner of Greenwood Farms in Newburg, MO, received a letter from the Missouri State Milk Board. It stated, he says, that “it was illegal to sell raw milk” from his four cows without a permit, as he had been doing for a few years,...
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