by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2012 | Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
Why would the U.S. Food and Drug Administration feel so threatened by a scientific assessment of research on raw milk out of Europe that it would bully a dairy group into forcing the article’s removal from a major university’s web site? After all, the...
by David Gumpert | Oct 22, 2012 | Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Raw Milk |
Okay class, pay attention. Today’s subject of discussion: academic freedom. Enough with the groans, everyone. I know it’s not the sexiest topic when it comes to food issues, but you may change your attitude when you hear the story I’m...
by David Gumpert | Oct 18, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
In the end, Michael Hartmann made the best deal he could–if he was going to save his family–when he pleaded guilty Monday to two misdemeanors in connection with sales of raw milk and other foods, and agreed to pay a fine of $585. Seven other...
by David Gumpert | Oct 16, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Research |
There is quite a remarkable article in the October issue of Readers Digest Canada, which credits Michael Schmidt’s nearly twenty-year struggle on behalf of raw milk with helping usher in the new scientific fascination with the “microbiome.” In...
by David Gumpert | Oct 11, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What were the key factors that swayed the Minnesota jury to acquit food club operator and farmer Alvin Schlangen three weeks ago? Schlangen’s lawyer, Nathan Hansen, told me he thought the fact that Minnesota Department of Agriculture investigators in their...
by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
When I spoke with Alvin Schlangen a few days ago, I asked him how he felt about having been in the shadows of the food rights movement the last couple of years, prior to his trial. Yes, there had been a demonstration on his behalf last May, but the lion’s...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2012 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
One of the most incisive scientific assessments on all that European research on raw milk of the last few years has just appeared, of all places, on a web site backed by the conventional dairy industry and academe. In a footnoted article by an experienced ...
by David Gumpert | Sep 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Resistance |
On Tuesday, James Stewart, the jailed founder and principal of Rawesome Food Co., was offered a deal by the Ventura County prosecutor: Plead guilty to 14 of 37 counts of fraud and securities violations, and you’ll receive a six-month jail sentence. The two...
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