raw milk
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How to milk goats in freezing weather — and make chevre [VIDEO]
On the coldest day of the year (-25 degrees F), I went milking goats with my friend Lisa Ringer from Two Pony Gardens. The milk froze to the side of the pail in an instant, but the rest came inside for cheese making. Milking on that cold morning, I never thought that holding the warm […]
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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.
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The 10 most popular Grist posts of 2010
From Audi ads to BP coffee spills, with locavore ball-busting and Obama-baiting in between, here are the stories you loved to debate this year.
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Helpful raw-milk-drinking mom threatened with prosecution
For the last seven years, Rae Lynn Sandvig, a mother of four, has been helping a local dairy farmer distribute unpasteurized milk to 35 or 40 friends and neighbors in the Minneapolis suburbs. Then she got busted by the food police.
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The FDA's crackdown on small cheesemakers fails to turn up many bugs
While the FDA has forced the shutdown of small cheese makers Estrella and Morningland, most of its pathogen hunts have come up empty-handed.
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Who took your cheese? Could be the FDA
The government's war on unpasteurized milk was something most people could comfortably ignore as being about the fringe. But when the FDA starts messing with people's $22-per-pound raw-milk Camembert ... well, now that's serious.
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Shutdown of two small cheesemakers raises more doubts about food-safety legislation
The FDA has a long history of going after small food producers for seemingly minor problems, and leaving the big ones to do their thing -- no matter how serious their transgressions. Perhaps that's why worries about the food-safety legislation are expanding.
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New study says raw milk not panacea for the lactose intolerant
For many years, raw-milk advocates have claimed that unpasteurized milk counters lactose intolerance -- the upset stomach many people feel after consuming dairy products. A Stanford study says otherwise.