by David Gumpert | Mar 1, 2011 | Uncategorized |
It’s our way of the highway. That’s essentially been the position of New York’s Department of Agriculture & Markets over the last nearly five years, when New York raw dairy farmers have questioned the agency’s testing procedures for...
by David Gumpert | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Our politicians and policy makers are amazingly adept at creating scapegoats so as to avoid dealing with real problems that might affect entrenched interests. The ongoing Wisconsin protests are a case in point. The governor, Scott Walker, has made public workers the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
It’s kind of amazing, when you think about it, that we’re still debating–as Milky Way and Ken Conrad were, following my previous post–whether milk comes through a cow’s udder sterile or having picked up certain beneficial bacteria. Our...
by David Gumpert | Feb 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In this age of the Internet, it’s amazing how quickly certain statistics can catch on. Take the statistic I came up with in my Feb. 11 post, after having assessed data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control–that there have been on average 39 illnesses...
by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Jared Carter, director of Rural Vermont, has some difficult decisions to make about holding dairy prep classes in Vermont. At the Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Sen. Tom Coburn posed this situation: supposing Congress passed a...
by David Gumpert | Feb 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Photo from Waleg.comAs a media event, the Egyptian uprising has been exhilirating. In all the hoopla and celebrating, though, it’s easy to lose sight of some fundamentals. One is the important role of food lurking in the background. Egypt has been wracked by...
by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Well, surprise, surprise, no one came forward to take up my challenge to explore the data on illnesses from raw milk cheese during the period after 2005. In my Feb. 6 post about the big push by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to trash the minimum 60-day aging...
by David Gumpert | Feb 9, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Morningland Dairy’s cheese storage room, where product awaits a Missouri judge’s decision on whether it should be destroyed. Suppose the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its various local ag and public health minions had to show detailed laboratory...
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