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Old-Fashioned Power Grab? FTCLDF Argues in New Court Brief That FDA Push to Eliminate Raw Milk Amounts to Illegal Mandate Forcing Pasteurized Milk on Americans

by David Gumpert | Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized | 30 comments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking a lot of heat about its undercover investigation and court action against Pennsylvania Amish farmer Daniel Allgyer. The FDA’s number-two , Michael (Son of Monsanto) Taylor, was even asked about the matter at a...

FDA to the Rescue on Arsenic in Chicken…60-Plus Years Late; Maine Legislature Opts for Food Sovereignty; MA Raw Milk Hearings; Former Regulator Pushes for “Choice”

by David Gumpert | Jun 10, 2011 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

I’ve long avoided chicken and beef when eating in restaurants. I’ve just assumed the meat comes from animals loaded with antibiotics and other things I’d rather not know about. We’re learning more about those “other things.” The...

Learning to Live on a “War” Footing: Louisville Buying Club Knows Better Than to Revel in Its Success; New Theory on Europe Outbreak; FDA “Evidence” on Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized | 31 comments

When an inspector from the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness slapped a quarantine on 76 half gallons of raw milk about to be picked up by members of a local buying club ten days ago, the action seemed to come out of the blue. But John Moody,...

Emergence of Monster Pathogens Prompt New Question: Can FDA Force Us to Eat Contaminated Food?

by David Gumpert | Jun 5, 2011 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

Here’s a prediction: the price of raw milk from reliable sources is going to be rising sharply over coming years. In fact, the prices of many nutrient-dense foods obtained from known safe farms are going to be heading sharply upward. That’s because the...

FDA, on a Legal Roll, Argues There’s No “Plausible” Constitutional Protection of Food Rights

by David Gumpert | Jun 1, 2011 | Uncategorized | 35 comments

Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the FDAI was going to make an attempt at humor by suggesting that the new Raw Milk Institute being organized by Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. designate Margaret Hamburg, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s...

Defiance in KY, As Food Club Members Grab “Quarantined” Raw Milk; Allgyer Claims FDA Search Warrant “Null and Void” Because Agency Lacked Farm Authority

by David Gumpert | May 30, 2011 | Uncategorized | 44 comments

On Friday afternoon, as the administrator of a Kentucky buying club was setting out raw milk and other food for pickup by members, an inspector for the Louisville Metro Department of Health and Wellness appeared at the church basement storage site. He presented two...

The Move to Locally-Mandated Food Rights and Standards May Be Gaining Momentum Before Our Eyes; Beyond the Legalities of Food Sovereignty

by David Gumpert | May 26, 2011 | Uncategorized | 46 comments

The move to locally produced food is becoming ever more local in myriad ways beyond production. I couldn’t help but get this feeling reading the insightful comments about raw dairy standards and dairy cow feeding practices–the feeling that we’re...

Can a MO Judge Be Persuaded to Reverse Himself on Mastitis? Two More Towns Approve Food Sovereignty; A Poem from Amish Country

by David Gumpert | May 23, 2011 | Uncategorized | 42 comments

When last I reported on the case of Morningland Dairy–the Missouri cheesemaker with listeria monocytogenes in a few cheese samples, but no illnesses–a judge had sided with the state in arguing that the entire $250,000 of inventory should be...

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