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Special Digest: Have a raw milk shake, “he said/she said” style
These are frothy days for the debate over access to unpasteurized milk. Business-reporter-turned-raw-milk-blogger David Gumpert has a new book out, "The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's
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Memo to raw-milk advocates: Improve information, or get sued
Fifty veterinarians and others concerned with food safety gathered at a raw milk symposium last Sunday in Seattle. Sponsored by the American Veterinarian Medical Association (AVMA), “The Raw Milk Conundrum” featured speakers from nearly
Take the Raw Milk Consumer Survey
As many as 3% of consumers may prefer their milk unpasteurized, a growing trend that has spurred federal legislation to allow raw milk to cross state lines. As demand grows, we have
Schwarzenegger goaded into raw milk veto, dairies may have to lose to win
Interest groups across California got their feathers ruffled this week as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger systematically vetoed a record number of bills — including the Farm Fresh Milk Act. Authored by food-safety-conscious
A whole lot of drama: Raw milk, Hollywood celebrities, and a politically suicidal senator
The raw milk debate is heating up in California -- and pasteurization has nothing to do with it. California’ raw milk community is continuing the fight to reform a draconian
California’s raw-milk bill — skimmed?
California’s ongoing drama about permitting raw (unpasteurized) milk to be sold in stores has turned sour once again this week. Just when it looked like proposed legislation palatable to the raw dairy industry — that would allow those that implemented a more holistic food-safety program to opt out
Digest - News: GM soy underperforms conventional, food riots, raw-milk development
OK, please bear with us while we catch up on the last few weeks' worth of news and remember how to pun. The links in the Digest that got deleted are gone forever, however; apologies to readers who'd sent in tips. We did go back and hunt down a few of the biggest stories for the Re-Digest below. Obviously
California raw milk: Headed for a HACCP?
California legislators, food safety experts, and raw milk advocates met this evening in Sacramento to discuss improving raw milk safety. Legislators passed new language in October that required producers to meet much stricter bacteria
Digest - News: So Monsanto, going to take on Wal-Mart? Meanwhile, raw milk’s losing
It ain't over until the biotech giant screams: Wal-Mart says its private-label milk will be produced with no artificial growth hormones, aka Monsanto's rBST drug Posilac. (Globe and Mail) Related: Kroger
Digest - Features: Farming San Francisco, 0157’s mutant bastard, mo’ milk
Question for Digest readers; Does it annoy you when a Digest is really long like this one and we don't break it with a More jump? How bout when we do? Locavore locus: The Chronicle's Farming the City package features Kevin
Two lawsuits filed against raw-milk dairy Organic Pastures
The Ethicurean has learned that California's leading raw-milk dairy, Organic Pastures, has been named in two personal-injury lawsuits related to a 2006 outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7. Meanwhile, California’s Assembly Agriculture Committee is currently establishing a "blue ribbon commission"
California raw milk update: A new commission, instead of a reversal
The hopes of more than 700 California raw-milk supporters following last week's seeming victory in Sacramento were dashed today in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The issue of raw-milk safety and California bacteria standards
Some good news from California on raw milk — and genetically modified crops
Raw, raw, raw milk!: Hundreds of people showed up in Sacramento Wednesday to support the rolling back or amending of AB 1735, the sneaky amendment to the California code that would likely have put the state's two raw-milk suppliers out of business. Most encouragingly, the Assembly Agriculture Committee
Calling all Californians who believe in our right to real food
On Wednesday, January 16, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 4202 of the State
Digest - News: WA pushes farm-to-table for schools, CA to preserve raw milk, VA to help farmers earn more income
Growing back to school: Proposed legislation would put Washington State at the forefront of efforts to get more farm-fresh, locally grown food into lunches at schools and at other institutions — but there are many, many hurdles to be overcome, not least of which is defining "local."
