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FDA Rejects Organic Pastures Petition to Lift Interstate Raw Milk Ban, Accuses Advocates of Welcoming Pathogens

by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 73 comments

Back in December 2008, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. filed a citizens petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that the agency lift its prohibition on interstate shipments of raw milk on a very limited basis–for milk moving from one...

Even As Hostility Over Raw Milk and Food Rights Rises, the Real Stakes Become Clearer

by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 75 comments

You might think that after half a dozen years of intense debate and a procession of legal cases in the U.S. and Canada over raw milk and food rights, that there might be some softening, some moves to compromise and acceptance– live and let live, as it...

If I Didnt Know Better, Id Say All The Complexity Around Raw Milk, Raw Cheese, and Food Safety Rules Was Intentional

by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 23 comments

This may sound like a silly question, but why does the assault on nutrient-dense foods need to be cloaked in so much complexity? Consider… * Im thinking, first, about that FDA-Health Canada study on soft raw milk cheeses (discussed in my previous post),...

FDA Hones in On Limiting Raw Milk Camembert, Brie, Despite Absence of a Single Documented Illness in 23 Years

by David Gumpert | Feb 15, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 39 comments

(I have spent much of the last week reading a 189-page report issued jointly by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada, with the dry title, Joint FDA/Health Canada Quantitative Assessment of the Risk of Listeriosis from Soft-Ripened Cheese...

For Schmidt, Schlangen, Hershberger, Its Pick Your Legal Poison Time, and We’re Not Talking About Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Feb 8, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 37 comments

When you follow the tedium of the legal justice system, you begin to understand why some defendants, even though they are innocent, decide to cop pleas rather than follow the process through to completion. It can be a maddening process that is often difficult for the...

Gaining Control of Our Food: The Radical Underpinnings of Food Sovereignty

by David Gumpert | Feb 6, 2013 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 5 comments

For the first time since it began quizzing Americans nearly two decades ago, Pew Research Center has found that a majority of Americans feel the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedom. That finding begins to explain why increasing numbers...

With Straight Face, MN Prosecutor Argues Any Unregulated Food a Controlled Substance; Settlement of Maine Food Sovereignty Case?

by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 46 comments

An unlicensed organization like a food club is not only distributing contraband, but a controlled substance, in the view of a Minnesota prosecutor fighting to prevent dismissal of three misdemeanor food allegations against farmer Alvin Schlangen. In other words,...

“We Are All Farmers,” Mark Baker Tells Foodies in His 1st Traveling Butchering Class; Bad Cheese Aftertaste at Morningland

by David Gumpert | Jan 29, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 21 comments

Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his states prohibition on raising so-called feral pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesnt want to see produced. The high-end restaurants he formerly...

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