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Why Raw Milk Producers Should Care About Quality, Safety Standards, Even If “Public Health” Community Doesn’t

by David Gumpert | Jan 16, 2011 | Uncategorized | 34 comments

Wisconsin dairy farmer Scott Trautman, who is seeking to developing a set of safety and quality standards for raw milk.Why should we care about raw milk producers abiding by some set of quality and safety standards?A number of people raised that question when I...

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose…In New Twist, FDA Says Illnesses from Pasteurized Milk Really Fault of Raw Milk

by David Gumpert | Jan 13, 2011 | Uncategorized | 45 comments

I’m beginning to understand why the dairy group at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration usually declines to comment publicly about controversies over raw milk. Because on the few occasions when it has commented, it’s come up looking either totally...

In the Wake of Humboldt County’s Rejection of Raw Milk, a Possible Local Workaround? Indeed, Local Workarounds Will Increasingly Become the New…Workaround

by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized | 20 comments

No big surprise, Humboldt County’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously accepted the report of its Department of Public Health and Environment (described in my previous post) and refused to overturn the county’s ban on raw milk sales. Even though 2,600...

Why Is Humboldt County Having More Difficulty Accepting Raw Milk Than Marijuana?

by David Gumpert | Jan 11, 2011 | Uncategorized | 8 comments

Northern California’s Humboldt County seems to have adjusted well to being the marijuana capital of America, but raw milk is an entirely different story. While the rest of California allows raw milk and other raw dairy products to be sold at retail, making it...

The Laws on Raw Milk Are Vague for a Reason…So They Can Be Used to Harass and Intimidate–Why the Private Option Is Looking Ever More Attractive; Morningland Case Salvo

by David Gumpert | Jan 8, 2011 | Uncategorized | 69 comments

Where vague food laws are stored for safe keeping. There was an article in the Washington Post a few days ago saying that the new food safety legislation passed by Congress last month and just signed into law could well not be funded enough to allow the U.S. Food and...

Colorado Public Health Officials Go On the Warpath–A Farm Store Shut Down, Milk Producers Receive Cease-and-Desist Orders, Customers “In Tears” Over Food Losses

by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2011 | Uncategorized | 35 comments

For 18 years, Phil Haynes has been selling his ranch’s buffalo meat through a store at the ranch, Rocky Plains Quality Meats, outside the northern Colorado town of Dacono. Over the years, he opened a second store in nearby Loveland and added pork and chicken...

NY Ag Officials Dance and Shuffle–Anything to Avoid Having Their Lab Workers Publicly Quizzed About Listeria Findings

by David Gumpert | Jan 3, 2011 | Uncategorized | 63 comments

Chuck PhippenIt’s often said the wheels of justice turn slowly. In the case of Chuck Phippen, a New York producer of raw milk, they turn not only slowly, but in convoluted fashion as well. I first wrote about Chuck Phippen’s strange encounters with the New...

Out of the Loop: Proposed Raw Milk Standards Are Nearly Ready for Review, Says Tim Wightman–Beyond “Food Inc.”

by David Gumpert | Dec 30, 2010 | Uncategorized | 86 comments

?”It’s all about risk and it’s all about letting adults take risks and it’s all about us as a society being willing to do the things that made this country great. I’m worried about us.” Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania expressing his...

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