by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The vultures are circling in force with news that an Australian three-year-old may have died from drinking raw milk. This is news raw milk opponents have lusted after for many years, and now they mean to use it for full effect, tying it to a new study from...
by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The emergence of the ride-sharing company Uber from nowhere to become an enterprise valued at $40 billion in five years of existence is astounding in its own right. Whats even more astounding is how Uber achieved such a hugely successful business in the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 5, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
It was just three years ago that the U.S. Justice Department abruptly ended the grand jury investigation of Indiana dairy farmer David Hochstetler, the day before he was due to testify. Under grand jury rules, he wouldnt have been allowed to have a lawyer present,...
by David Gumpert | Dec 3, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
There has been lots of upbeat news about raw milk over the last 18 months or so. Research out of Europe and the U.S. continues to suggest that raw milk strengthens the immune system so as to provide a protective effect against allergies, asthma, and other illnesses....
by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
So Coca-Cola is getting into the milk business. Not the milk business as commodity milk, but the milk business as super-adulterated, premium-priced, healthy milk. The Coke marketing people looked at their deteriorating sales in an increasingly...
by David Gumpert | Nov 22, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
As the Illinois raw milk turmoil has dragged on through endless discussions and hearings and recriminations, my big question has been this: Why doesnt the state just end the misery and ban raw milk? Thats clearly what Big Dairy wants, what the regulators want,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 19, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
Extension has been a powerful force in much of agriculture education, but not for producers of raw dairy. It’s been ignored by universities and state agriculture agencies intent on limiting raw dairy. But as raw dairy enjoys a resurgence in recent years,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
This article has been updated since it was originally posted. Last May, Robert Tauxe, a food safety bigwig at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (I know hes a bigwig because he has lots of initials after his name and a 16-word title) wrote a letter to state...
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