by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2014 | Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt has been in legal limbo for about twenty years now. Its difficult to even make that statement without wondering, first, about the system that allows such ongoing official pressures on one farmer, and second, about what it is...
by David Gumpert | Jan 31, 2014 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Shortly after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics issued their one-two punch against raw milk in Decemberwith widespread media attention I was talking with a couple of dairy farmers about the course of events. Someone...
by David Gumpert | Jan 30, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I have been watching legislative and court hearings about raw milk for a number of years now, and the scenario runs something like this: Raw milk proponents parade up to the stand to describe how drinking raw milk helped them resolve chronic illnesses and generally...
by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Regulation |
I got a taste Sunday of what it is like to be a government food policy official in enemy territory. I spoke at the NOFA-NJ Winter Conference in Lincroft, NJ, and decided to assume the role of David Edwards, a high-ranking (and fictitious) food policy...
by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
I love eucalyptus trees, both their smell and their look. But I didnt like learning about how they are being used to supposedly fight global warming. Vast eucalyptus forests have been planted in Brazil, and the trees are harvested for charcoal. Same...
by David Gumpert | Jan 20, 2014 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Gradually, ever so gradually, public health and medical professionals are moderating their tone against raw milk. There is nothing en masse going on, no official policy change by organizations like the Intnernational Association for Food Protection (IAFP) or the...
by David Gumpert | Jan 15, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Research |
Take me to your leader. I couldnt help thinking of that cliche from old cowboy-Indian-style movies, as I listened to a recent podcast by two professors of food safety discussing raw milk (this is the podcast Joseph Heckman originally provided a link to;...
by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2014 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
(Note: The American Cheese Society requested I remove its logo, which had originally accompanied this post, from my blog.)In a war, you are either a collaborator, or a resister. A journalist who has been writing about the Russian rock group, Pussy Riot, made...
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