by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
No way around it, the issue of food rights, responsibilities, and standards is complicated when it comes to raw dairy. That helps explain why the discussion here sometimes exasperates. It certainly helps to discuss the issue in terms of specific situations, because...
by David Gumpert | Jan 22, 2011 | Uncategorized |
My three-week-old kefir, post-explosion. I was just opening a container of raw milk kefir I purchased about three weeks ago, to make a smoothie with some mango and blueberries, when there was this explosion. A pop, like a small firecracker. The kefir was everywhere,...
by David Gumpert | Jan 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Relax. No one’s in control.” A Buddhist teacher, speaking about our insatiable desire for predictability, made that off-hand remark during a talk I attended recently. He was arguing that such a desire for guarantees is unattainable, a mirage in a world...
by David Gumpert | Jan 16, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 13, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 11, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
by David Gumpert | Jan 8, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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...
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