This Food Fight Isn’t Over By a Long Shot

by | Oct 8, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Organic Pastures may have humiliated California agriculture and public health bureaucrats by aggressively, and successfully, resisting their harassment and intimidation techniques designed to put the dairy out of business, but Mark McAfee, the dairy’s...

Big Mo’ Shifts to Organic Pastures

by | Oct 6, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Mark McAfee is breathing a lot easier today than he was just 24 hours ago. So much so, in fact, that he’s predicting with a "high level of confidence" that Organic Pastures’ raw milk will pass the second, and deciding, test tomorrow carried...

It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over for Raw Milk Dairy

by | Oct 5, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Last Friday, when a spokesperson for the California Department of Food and Agriculture told me the agency had lifted its quarantine of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. raw milk, I took that to mean the dairy was back in business. So did Mark McAfee, the co-owner, who...

Raw Milk Dairy Stays on the Offensive

by | Oct 4, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

You can tell in Mark McAfee’s rapid-fire-staccato speaking style that the head of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. is a no-nonsense type. He doesn’t take well to being screwed with, as California’s Department of Food and Agriculture did in closing his...