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In OPDC-Girl Scout Alliance, U of CA Busybody Is the Anti-Educator, But Indicative of a Worrisome Trend

by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2010 | Uncategorized | 45 comments

I was curious what all this commotion about the California Girl Scouts and Organic Pastures was all about, so I asked Mark McAfee to send me some background info. As soon as I saw the illustration for the Girl Scout “Raw Milk Badge”, all I could do was...

Big Victory for “Hammer” FDA As Federal Food Safety Legislation Clears Senate Hurdle; MN Food Club Re-opens

by David Gumpert | Nov 18, 2010 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

“If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”  Thomas Jefferson Kelli and Anthony Estrella of Estella Family...

At Weston A. Price Gathering, Grumbling Over Raw Milk, and Fears Over Government Raids; Michael Schmidts Crackdown; Rational Thinking from Academia?

by David Gumpert | Nov 14, 2010 | Uncategorized | 24 comments

A sign posted at a farm store run by a C.A.R.E. buying club farm member. Been pretty quiet the last few days here in blogsville. Almost feels like a holiday or, more likely, lots of people are attending the Weston A. Price Wise Traditions conference near Philadelphia....

“This Case Is About Cheese”…and About Listeria Policy—FTCLDF Challenges MO Milk Board (and FDA) As Feds Open New Front in Dairy War; Max Kane Appeal

by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized | 11 comments

Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund lawyer, Gary Cox.The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has filed a brief in a Missouri court challenging the state’s efforts to confiscate and destroy Morningland Dairy’s $250,000 worth of inventory. The FTCLDF’s...

The Mystery of the Morningland Dairy Garlic Colby CheeseSloppy CDFA and FDA Reports Raise More Doubts About Pathogen Findings; Drumbeat Against Raw Cheese

by David Gumpert | Nov 7, 2010 | Uncategorized | 55 comments

The case of Morningland Dairy in Missouri has been one of the more outrageous in The State’s continuing campaign against nutritionally-dense foods, especially such foods sold privately. Morningland has effectively been shuttered, ordered to destroy its entire...

Election Aftermath: Tough to Know Whom You Can Trust When It Comes to Food; Processing’s Nutritional Dangers

by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2010 | Uncategorized | 17 comments

Francis Thicke, who ran unsuccessfully as Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture. The election results provide some insights into how a variety of issues–like taxes and spending on education, for example–could go. But they tell us very little about how food...

What Went Wrong with Stanford Study? Seems There’s Lactose Intolerance, and Maybe Something Else; What Cheesemaker Shutdowns Tell Us About Food Safety

by David Gumpert | Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized | 27 comments

That pioneering, scientifically rigorous study of raw milk’s impact on lactose intolerance I described last April has been completed. I have to admit, I was surprised by the results. I’ve spoken with so many raw milk drinkers who say their lactose...

MA Resumes War Footing with Threats Against One-Cow Herdshare–How Much Does Raw-Milk-Drinking Guv Know?

by David Gumpert | Oct 30, 2010 | Uncategorized | 14 comments

President Barack Obama with MA Gov. Deval Patrick. (Photo from MSNBC)When I try to make sense out of what is happening to Estrella Family Creamery and Morningland Dairy, about all I can conclude is that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is on a vendetta to...
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