by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 9, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research |
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 Monsantos Roundup weed killer, they are impossible to ignore. Seneff is a research...
by David Gumpert | Jun 6, 2014 | Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Its 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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk |
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...
by David Gumpert | May 26, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
I heard from Walid Abdul-Wahab, the California camel milk guy, and he says hes just doing what any red-blooded entrepreneur would dohes out there hustling his product. We actually sell raw camel milk in California, from Missouri, (and) we are in nine...
by David Gumpert | May 21, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
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...
by David Gumpert | May 16, 2014 | Legal, News Media, Regulation |
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...
by David Gumpert | May 13, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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 todays hearing). Even...
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