by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Food safety regulators in New Zealand stuck their collective fingers in the air and concluded that maybe there is something to this raw milk thing. Beginning next March, raw milk will be legal to sell directly from farms to consumers, including via home deliveries,...
by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2015 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Its not often that a judge steps in to protect a farmer claiming a violation of his constitutional rights from aggressive state regulators, but thats exactly what has happened in the northeast corner of Minnesota. In a 19-page decision, state judge Michael Cuzzo...
by David Gumpert | Jun 6, 2015 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
Surely there must be a gut-friendly food that can help reduce the risk of asthma and allergies. So suggests the current issue of Fortune Magazine, its Food Issue, which has an article entitled A Food Revolutionin Your Gut? Feeding the Microbiome. (The actual...
by David Gumpert | May 29, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I was talking with a veteran raw milk producer a few days ago, who was telling me that his dairys raw milk sales seemed to have leveled off for the first time in years. Now, it was meat sales that were climbing rapidly. He wasnt sure what was behind the shift away...
by David Gumpert | May 22, 2015 | Food Clubs, Nutrition |
The news just gets worse and worse for the corporate processed food makers. Earlier this week, Target Corp., a major retailer of food, clothing, and such served notice on the factory-food producers to take their processed stuff and, well, stuff it. In a radical move,...
by David Gumpert | May 14, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
The recent deaths and illnesses from pasteurized-milk ice cream emphasize, yet again, how much less we know about food safety than the people in charge would care to admit. In the span of a few months, five ice cream companies have recalled potentially tainted...
by David Gumpert | May 5, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
When I saw the news heading Dozens now sick with E. coli after Milk Makers FestI thought, uh-oh, milk, E.coli, and kids dropping like flies. Talk about a made-to-order story for the public health fear mongers for whom raw milk is Public Enemy Number 1. As I read...
by David Gumpert | May 4, 2015 | What's New |
Finally, a serious and candid conversation about raw milk, unlike any that has ever occurred in the many years since raw milk became a subject of contentious debate. The Raw Milk Answer Book raises the most difficult questions surrounding our most controversial...
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