by David Gumpert | May 2, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk |
When I testified before the Vermont House of Representatives about raw milk risk, I presented annualized data and risk data that I and others had calculated. I pointed out that the legislators would never, ever, receive data about raw milk in an annualized,...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2014 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
What are we to make of an academic conference in Canadathe most anti-raw-milk country on the planet that actually included serious and open discussion from a wide range of attendees about the benefits of raw milk and ways to make it legal? Im not sure....
by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2014 | News Media, Regulation |
Dont underestimate the importance of Vermonts passage of a GMO-labeling law. Tiny Vermont (population 626,000) is the first of what will likely be a number of states to confront Americas food oligarchy and try to force these cartels to actually do something...
by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Resistance |
Michael Schmidt has decided to appeal his conviction for violating Ontarios dairy laws to the Canadian Supreme Court. In doing so, he may well have begun another chapter, The New 20-Year Raw Milk War Against Michael Schmidt. In Europe, they fought a 100-Year...
by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The Vermont legislature is considering very narrow legislation (S 70) that would allow the two largest raw dairies in the state to deliver raw milk to customers at farmers markets. Not sell it, mind you, just drop it off to customers, so they dont have to trek...
by David Gumpert | Apr 14, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The late Aajonus Vonderplanitz used to tell me, when one or another state launched an unexpected campaign against raw milk, that he was never surprised. Even if it seems they have moved on, they havent, he explained on one occasion, after Wisconsin had renewed its...
by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation |
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says raw milk is inherently unsafe, it means inherently unsafe. As in nothing to discuss about Californias so-called Home Dairy Bill (AB2505), which is intended to formalize private sale arrangements for the states...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2014 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Some years ago, I took a vacation in Costa Rica, and while traveling back roads, I got to see lots of corporate banana plantations. What I noticed first and foremost about these vast agricultural preserves was that most of the banana bunches were covered with blue...
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