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Food Budget Stress–What Is the Role of Expensive Food in the Egyptian Uprising?

by David Gumpert | Feb 15, 2011 | Uncategorized | 14 comments

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...

And Now for the Rest of the Story on Illnesses from Raw Milk Cheese–What Is Message of Upward Trend?

by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2011 | Uncategorized | 31 comments

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...

Morningland Challenges Standard Food Police Practices–Will a MO Judge Go Where No Judge Has Dared Go?

by David Gumpert | Feb 9, 2011 | Uncategorized | 38 comments

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...

The One Question the FDA and Its Media and Legal Apologists Are Afraid to Address in Their March to Trash Cheese Rule

by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized | 24 comments

When large government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration want to make controversial policy changes, they often use the major media to launch trial balloons to see how different options play with key constituencies. That helps explain why both the New...

Ed Shank Celebrates Being Back in Business Selling Raw Milk, and Becomes the “Ambassador’ Scott Trautman Envisions

by David Gumpert | Feb 4, 2011 | Uncategorized | 37 comments

Ed Shank at his farm, The Family Cow. Ed Shank of The Family Cow in Pennsylvania, reported “good news” to his customers this afternoon. “We just got the test results back from the lab literally minutes ago. Both samples taken different...

As Raw Milk and Food Rights Initiatives Spread, It Becomes More Important to Watch Your Back; Food “Sovereignty” in VT?; How Much Am I Bid for Those Good-Looking Guys?

by David Gumpert | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized | 14 comments

The bidding for this original oil painting starts at…For details, see the last item in this post. During the question-and-answer period following my talk at the Northeast Organic Food Association-NY conference in Saratoga last month–about the...

Setting Its Own Standards: The Family Cow Gets a Positive Campylobacter Reading, and Shuts Down Raw Milk Sales

by David Gumpert | Jan 29, 2011 | Uncategorized | 60 comments

A little over a year ago, I described Edwin Shank’s conversion of The Family Cow from feedlot to the East’s largest raw dairy. It took more than three years, and required extraordinary commitment to producing high-quality nutrient-dense food. I’ve...

Why Not Try to Learn from Tragedies Involving Raw Milk? Because That Would Involve True Scientific Inquiry

by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2011 | Uncategorized | 49 comments

There is lots not to like about the new web site about raw milk from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It is nearly totally one-sided in painting raw milk as dangerous. It is intellectually dishonest in not acknowledging large-scale journal-published research that...

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