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...
by David Gumpert | Feb 27, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Around the country, signs are mounting of a growing refusal by law enforcement officials to mount legal actions against small producers of raw milk. Consider: In Illinois, where tough new regulations on raw milk were being prepared over the previous two years,...
by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Resistance |
(This post has been edited since it was originally posted. In particular, the letter from the defense lawyer to the prosecutor, referred to in the second paragraph–originally included with the post and then removed shortly after at the request of the defendants...
by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2015 | Food Safety, Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
That sheep-napping case involving Canadian farmers Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones is turning into a major criminal and political drama. If youll remember, this case stems from a 2010 dispute between the Canadian government and farm owner Montana Jones...
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