by David Gumpert | Aug 4, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’m beginning to wonder if the Almond Board of California may be regreting its decision to require pasteurization of almonds (discussed in a previous posting). There has been lots of zigging and zagging going on in the almond world in anticipation of the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 3, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Reporters and editors are supposed to be cynical questioning people by nature, yet it’s amazing how often many of them take the government’s word as final. If you read the articles Don Neeper links to (following my previous posting) that have published...
by David Gumpert | Aug 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
A few odds and ends stemming the research discussion of the last few days: –A reader alerted me to inconsistencies in the data presented to Pete Kennedy from the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) under the Freedom of Information Act, compared to other...
by David Gumpert | Jul 31, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’m not through with my “Illusionist”-driven effort to re-visit milk data. (Don, afraid I’m a little slow on the uptake, so I didn’t figure the ending out till…the end.) Last month, when I first inquired about the case of Dawn...
by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I saw a very clever movie this weekend, “The Illusionist”. That movie, together with comments on my previous posting—citing evidence suggesting that potential dangers from listeria monocytogenes may be overstated—got me thinking. Since last...
by David Gumpert | Jul 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The press release about listeria contamination of the farm’s raw milk has been posted online and sent to local newspapers. The calls have gone out to the three customers who purchased the milk, warning them to dispose of it. The farm has “voluntarily...
by David Gumpert | Jul 26, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Something about the comment from Jenny @ Sagehill about colostrum (following my previous post) touched me. For a good while, I couldn’t figure it out, but then I realized I was awestruck with the reality that the high-colostrum milk I have been consuming is...
by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The discussion about raw milk standards, following my post of July 19, besides being extremely informative, brings to mind a couple of recent conversations I had with dairy farmers who produce raw milk. One of the farmers produces raw milk in New York state, and among...
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