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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation |
The comments on the Cheerios Facebook page have become much more positive since the announcement a few days ago that the cereal brand would use only non-genetically-modified ingredients in its original cereal. Said one: Thank you Cheerios for...
by David Gumpert | Jan 1, 2014 | Food Safety, Regulation, Resistance |
I was going to write a year-end top food rights stories of 2013 and rank the events that seemed most important. The criminal trial of Wisconsin farmer Vernon Hershberger, the second trial of Minnesota farmer Alvin Schlangen, the legislative clashes over food...
by David Gumpert | Dec 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just informed raw cheese producers to expect fun and games in 2014: It will begin a pilot program lasting all of next year, during which it will test at least 1,700 samples of raw milk cheese. All this testing is in addition...
by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2013 | News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For companies of all sizes, marketing is, at its most fundamental, about being in synch with the pulse of your customers, and working to provide products and services to keep growing your customer base. Companies that stay in synch, like Google and Amazon, can...
by David Gumpert | Dec 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
When I saw news Monday that the American Academy of Pediatrics had issued a major warning about raw milk, I thought it sounded familiar. The warning was picked up widely, by the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, ABC News, and other mainstream media, as if it was hot...
by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Ed Lawton began to get good vibes when he went for a haircut hours before the Foxboro Board of Health meeting Monday evening. The barber told me I had one hundred per cent support in the town. And then he didnt charge me for the haircut.As he strategized with...
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