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.
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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 bacteria standard passed last year. They’ve proposed new legislation that would allow raw-milk dairies to develop a custom food safety program — essentially a HACCP plan […]
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 of draconian bacterial counts — would flow smoothly through the legislature, some new twists threaten to shut off the tap once again.
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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 standards — legislation strongly opposed by the raw-milk community. The Senate Select Committee is showing strong support for a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points Plan (HACCP) approach.
Digest - News: So Monsanto, going to take on Wal-Mart? Meanwhile, raw milk’s losing
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Digest - Features: Farming San Francisco, 0157’s mutant bastard, mo’ milk
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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” to examine whether California’s latest, more stringent coliform requirement has any basis in food-safety science.
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 — instead of being revoked — will now be taken up by a "blue ribbon" commission charged to research and recommend a […]
Some good news from California on raw milk — and genetically modified crops
Bills to support raw-milk production and to protect farmers from GMO patent-holders are on their way to the California legislature.
Calling all Californians who believe in our right to real food
On Wednesday, January 16, at 12 p.m., the California state legislature is holding a hearing to consider reversing — or at least amending — AB 1735, the sneaky Oct. 8 change to California’s Food and Agricultural Code that would basically shut down the production of raw-milk in the state. It is absolutely critical that everyone who cares about real food show up.
Digest - News: WA pushes farm-to-table for schools, CA to preserve raw milk, VA to help farmers earn more income
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Go goat: Finding goat dairy products
Since goats have provided almost all of our dairy for the last year or so — thank goodness for goats! — when I read Elanor’s resolution to go goat in 2008, I felt inspired to offer tips for finding great-tasting goat dairy products.
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