Articles by David Gumpert
David Gumpert is the author of The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights (Chelsea Green, 2009). He is also a journalist who specializes in covering the intersection of health and business. Read more on his blog.
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Maine towns reject one-size-fits-all regulation, declare ‘food sovereignty’
Photo: Chewonki Semester SchoolIn 2009, Maine farmer Heather Retberg learned that new regulations prohibited her from bringing her chickens to a neighbor’s approved slaughtering facility. She’d have to invest some $30,000 she didn’t have to build her own facility. So Retberg shifted her focus to raw dairy instead, selling directly to local neighbors. When she […]
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FDA’s crackdown on raw-milk cheese based on flawed data analysis
Italy’s celebrated Pecorino di Farindola, pictured here, is now and has always been made from raw milk. We can get this right, peopleHas there been a serious jump in illnesses from raw-milk cheese recently? You might think so if you’ve read recent major pieces in The New York Times and The Washington Post — or […]
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Raw-milk producers take the initiative on pathogen testing [UPDATED]
A week ago, Pennsylvania dairy farmer Edwin Shank did something no other producer of raw milk in recent memory has seen fit to do: he halted sales to his more than 1,800 customers, without any urging by local regulators. He made his decision based on private lab tests — tests over and above those periodically […]
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Weed is OK but raw milk is not, says one California county
Humboldt County may be the marijuana capital of America, but it has no intention of becoming a mecca for another controversial natural product: unpasteurized milk.
