by David Gumpert | Apr 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The proposed legislation to rescind or liberalize the federal ban on interstate raw milk sales holds out the prospect of a national debate on raw milk. How so? There will need to be one or more hearings on the legislation before the House committee...
by David Gumpert | Mar 28, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its only Thursday, and I find myself planning my food club order, to be entered Sunday and delivered late next week. Actually, Ive been planning it for several days already. How many dozen eggs should I order? How much kefir? How many beef livers? How much raw...
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2014 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
One of the things that always amazes me about the raw milk controversy is how public health and medical professionals come to definitive conclusions with little or no research basis. A classic example involves the recent flap over whether raw milk helps...
by David Gumpert | Mar 21, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Licensing. It is an issue that lurks in the background for many small dairy farms that sell or distribute raw milk and other dairy products. People frequently assume that licensing is not only straightforward and doable, but essentiala governmental stamp of approval...
by David Gumpert | Mar 17, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The most significant raw milk legislation in memoryaffecting 1,000 or more California home dairieshas begun a journey toward consideration, with an impressive head of steam behind it. The Home Dairy Farm bill (AB 2505) grows out of three years of negotiation...
by David Gumpert | Mar 13, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Youd think food regulators throughout North America would be celebrating the emphatic endorsement they received from Ontarios Court of Appeal in the Michael Schmidt raw milk case. The three justices agreed with everything their government told them to agree...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation |
You knew when the Ontario Court of Appeal came back in a month with a decision in Michael Schmidts appeal of his conviction for violating the provinces dairy laws, it wouldnt be good news. Judges and their courts dont work that quickly
.unless they see...
by David Gumpert | Mar 7, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
This blog has chronicled seemingly endless abuses of power against farmers merely trying to do what farmers have done for centuriesgrow food and sell it to friends and neighbors. It seems at times as if few beyond those directly affected are paying attention,...
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