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The Corporate Agenda Behind FDA’s 10-Year Assault on Artisanal Cheese

by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 19 comments

The mainstream media has been full of handwringing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seemed a few days ago to be banning the centuries-old practice of aging cheese on wood boards. A Forbe magazine writer said the decision “has rattled hundreds of small...

It’s Everywhere: MIT Scientist Presents Dire Portrait of Damage from Monsanto’s Roundup

by David Gumpert | Jun 9, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research | 51 comments

Correlations are not causation, but when they plot out as clearly as Stephanie Seneff has plotted them out with regard to autism and glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer,  they are impossible to ignore.  Seneff is a research...

Raw Dairy Farmers Wait for the Other Shoe to Drop

by David Gumpert | Jun 6, 2014 | Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 33 comments

It’s been a year since the criminal trial of Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger, and his acquittal by a jury of all licensing charges.  Things have been very quiet on the enforcement front since then….almost as quiet as the recent discussion on...

In Official Reports, You’d Never Know It Was Pasteurized Dairy Making People Sick

by David Gumpert | Jun 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk | 16 comments

It seems that almost any outbreak of illnesses potentially involving raw milk products prompts handwringing by the media, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), not to mention state and local public health agencies. I...

What Do Aspirin and Raw Milk Have in Common?

by David Gumpert | May 26, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 62 comments

I heard from Walid Abdul-Wahab, the California camel milk guy, and he says he’s just doing what any red-blooded entrepreneur would do—he’s out there hustling his product.  “We actually sell raw camel milk in California, from Missouri, (and) we are in nine...

The Promise of Raw Camel’s Milk, and Its Admirers at the FDA

by David Gumpert | May 21, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 40 comments

The ongoing controversy about raw milk generally has to do with cow’s or goat’s milk. But every once in a while, the controversy ratchets up in its exotica quotient when camel’s milk moves into the picture, as it has just recently, via a young...

The Best Revenge? Farmers Running for, and Winning, Elected Office

by David Gumpert | May 16, 2014 | Legal, News Media, Regulation | 28 comments

One of the things that most impressed me about the Tuesday Maine Supreme Court hearing for Dan Brown was the happenings outside the courtroom.  Before the hearing, Dan Brown supporters gathered on the steps of the Portland courthouse to hear not only from...

At Intense Maine Supreme Court Hearing, Justices Divided on Farmer Dan Brown’s Raw Milk Rights

by David Gumpert | May 13, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 15 comments

How will the Maine Supreme Court rule on the Dan Brown food sovereignty case?  If the intense 30-minute hearing today is any indication, it could be quite a sharp debate among the seven justices (six of whom were in attendance at today’s hearing). Even...
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