by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2015 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I fought the law and the law won, I fought the law and the law won.from song by The Bobby Fuller Four, 1965 Prosecutors like to make a statement about the importance of a particular criminal case by coming up with as many felony charges as possible against the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
So, David, it is a strong value of yours that accurate information should be reported by journalists? Thank you, Mary McGonigle Martin, for that question. I presume, from the tone and the personal way it is phrased (it is a strong value of yours),...
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
As he reports in a comment following my previous blog post, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. sent a letter to Pat Kennelly, food safety chief at the California Department of Public Health, expressing upset about the agencys press release related...
by David Gumpert | Mar 28, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Last week, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced that raw milk from Claravale Dairy had tested positive for campylobacter, forced a recall of all its milk, and quarantined the dairy. Claravale, one of Californias two largest raw milk...
by David Gumpert | Mar 22, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I had the good fortune to spend last week in the Florida sunshine, far from the igloo that is New England. It was an opportunity not just to luxuriate in the warmth of 80-degree sunshine, but also to do some catching up on recent food-related news...
by David Gumpert | Mar 13, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has become something like those obnoxious relatives many of us have, and whom we dont want around, not just on Thanksgiving, but any time. In Minnesotas Cook County, in the northeast part of the state, ever more of...
by David Gumpert | Mar 9, 2015 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Last month, while visiting at a small ag and liberal arts school in upstate New York to give a talk, I got to tour its well-run conventional dairy of more than 300 cows (and a 5,000-gallon bulk tankpictured at left). It serves as an on-campus training facility for...
by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Regulation |
With a prosecutor upset about disclosures on this blog about the scrapie-related sheep-napping case, a Canadian judge earlier today took the extraordinary step of imposing a news blackout on the case. The effect of the blackout was immediate: The National...
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