raw milk
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In New Legal Initiative Against Cheese Maker, FDA Seeks Oversight Over Entirely Local Operation
At first glance, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-year legal assault on Estrella Family Creamery in Washington state appears entirely vindictive. The FDA seems intent on using its enormous enforcement powers to cruelly stomp on and obliterate a tiny business that serves as the livelihood of the Estrella family, and a source of eating […]
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Raw deal: Maine residents’ fight for unregulated food draws crackdown
Official "food sovereignty" ordinances in eight Maine towns haven't stopped local officials from suing an area farmer for selling raw milk.
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The raw milk martyr
Schmidt in January 2010, after winning his court case.For nearly a month now, Canadian rancher Michael Schmidt has been engaged in a hunger strike. For over 17 years, Schmidt has been crusading for the right to distribute raw milk to a few hundred Ontario consumers who own shares in his herd of cows. He says […]
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As Obama pushes for rural jobs, his regulators obliterate them
FDA crackdowns on food clubs across the country intimidate producers at a time when our country can least afford to be trashing jobs and opportunity.
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Moms rally to defend raw food club after federal raid
After members of California's Rawesome Food Club were thrown in jail, raw-food proponents, many of them mothers, are uniting in their defense.
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Would the FDA let raw milk politics influence its food safety alerts?
The suspicious timing of a press release about tainted raw milk suggests the FDA hypes concerns over this product more than others.
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Don't ban raw milk because of the E. coli outbreak
Why is CNN trying to tie the recent European E. coli outbreak to raw milk?
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FDA agents launch covert ops against D.C.-area raw-milk buying club
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just filed a complaint in federal court, seeking a permanent injunction against Amish farmer Dan Allgyer in Pennsylvania. It accuses him of violating a federal prohibition on interstate sales of raw milk by shipping unpasteurized milk to a Maryland buying club’s members. As part of its complaint, the […]
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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 […]