by David Gumpert | Nov 7, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It’s not been an easy year for Ronald Garthwaite, the owner of Claravale Farm, California’s “other” producer of raw milk, with about 50 cows and five per cent of the market after Organic Pastures. Last June, he had to sell his Santa Cruz...
by David Gumpert | Nov 6, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I hesitated momentarily in reporting the suspicions last week of Weston A. Price Foundation attorney Pete Kennedy that the Food and Drug Administration and state regulators monitor the realmilk.org site for the names of dairies selling raw milk. I didn’t want to...
by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
You say your child still has diarrhea, two weeks after getting E.coli 0157:H7 from one of our pepperoni pizzas? No problem. We hope you kept the box, because all you have to do is cut out the bar code, send it in to our special E.coli redemption center, and guess...
by David Gumpert | Nov 2, 2007 | Uncategorized |
A few readers have raised simple, innocent questions about the California assault on raw milk that boil down to this: Why are the authorities coming down do hard on a few oddballs producing and drinking unpasteurized milk? “What is the big deal about...
by David Gumpert | Nov 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures may have thought his Monday Sacramento meeting designed to overturn AB 1735 went well, but two days later, the most important legislative target in his campaign remains unconvinced. In an email to individuals who wrote her protesting...
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...
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