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No Matter How You Slice the Data (and There’s Lots of It), Its Difficult to Condemn Raw Milk As a Significant Source of Pathogens

by David Gumpert | Jul 19, 2007 | Uncategorized | 6 comments

My goal in yesterday’s post was to provide a quick overview of the data Pete Kennedy obtained from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Just to clarify, this data came from the CDC, not from the Weston A. Price Foundation. Kennedy initiated a request under the...

Finally, Some Hard Data on Illnesses from Raw Milk: The Government Is Cracking Down Over This?

by David Gumpert | Jul 18, 2007 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

How many Americans do you think have become ill in an average year from raw milk contamination, be it E.coli 0157:H7 or campylocacter or salmonella or listeria? I’m not talking about deaths, I’m talking about illnesses. Try 54. And if you take out the...

The Powerful Effects on My Psyche of Eating Locally-Grown Food

by David Gumpert | Jul 17, 2007 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

Each of the last two weekends, I’ve had the good fortune to have been treated to meals that are completely locally produced—lettuce, kale, rutabaga, steak (grass-fed), and peach pie washed down with raw milk. (Okay, the peaches in the pie weren’t...

Why Fooling Around with the Trust Factor Is Such a Dangerous Game, for Whole Foods and Government Regulators

by David Gumpert | Jul 14, 2007 | Uncategorized | 5 comments

There’s a kindly older gentleman, Bill, who often bags my groceries at the Whole Foods in Newton, MA, where I usually shop. For a number of years, we used to banter about the company and its stock. “This is a great company,” he would say. “They...

It’s Tough to Make Sense of All the Strange Coincidences in the New York Raw Milk Case

by David Gumpert | Jul 13, 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

One of my challenges in writing about the case of Dawn Sharts, the New York farmer fighting the state’s allegation that her raw milk was contaminated with listeria, was that there were so many weird occurrences I couldn’t fit them all into the article I...

The Raw Milk Wars Enter the Fear Phase, But One Farmer Stands Up and Fights Back

by David Gumpert | Jul 12, 2007 | Uncategorized | 5 comments

Is the government out to get Dawn Sharts? Dawn is a dairy farmer in upstate New York trying to sell, you guessed it, raw milk, and the state’s agriculture department has come down hard against her…giving her the modern-day version of tarring and...

The Tedious Search for a Doctor Who Both Knows and Cares

by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

I received an email from someone who read a recent article I wrote, and wondered if I could provide information about “how to find a primary care physician that will look at both my husband and me in a ‘whole’ way. “I would like...

Guilt-Tripping About the Less Fortunate, and Appreciating What We Dont Know About E.coli in Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2007 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

I want to respond to two very well articulated, and provocative, comments on recent posts. They have in common the subject of pathogens in our food, but come at the subject in completely different ways. They kind of got me going. First, Laurie Girand, the head of Safe...
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