March 2010

Doug Powell, master of the “Barf Blog,’ posted on the ongoing “discussion” happening in Wisconsin surrounding raw milk.

“We just don’t see that as an issue.”

That’s what Kathy Kramer, a so-called nutritionist and office manager at the Weston A. Price Foundation in Washington, D.C., told Mike Nichols of the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel Online when

For all my clients who suffered severe illness due to food poisoning, like Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Guillain-Barre Syndrome or Reiter’s Syndrome, Thank you President Obama and Senate and House Democrats for passing a comprehensive Health Care Bill.  My clients facing being dropped from insurance coverage, being excluded for pre-existing medical conditions or facing

And, I do not even get quoted in "Is raw, unpasteurized milk safe?"  The pictures are worth a few millions of words:

Interesting article on raw milk risks, politics and emotions.  I think what was missing in the article was a longer discussion on the number of the outbreaks that have in fact happened:

https://www.marlerblog.com/2009/10/articles/legal-cases/raw-milk-outbreaks-do-happen-despite-what-the-weston-a-price-foundation-and-the-complete-patient-aka-david-gumpert-say/

Awhile ago I posted, "Raw Milk Outbreaks do happen despite what the Weston A. Price Foundation and The Complete Patient (a.k.a. David Gumpert) say," and rightly got slapped for being a bit too harsh. 

I tend to be remembered, and reviled, by sellers and consumers of raw milk (affectionately, a.k.a "raw milkies’) for suing raw

Campylobacter Outbreak in Michigan Linked to Consumption of Raw Milk Products

The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is issuing a public health alert regarding illness from Campylobacter infections among people who have reported consuming raw milk products obtained from the Family Farms Cooperative in Vandalia, Michigan. Family Farms Cooperative operates a cow share program

According to Meating Place:

USDA plans to propose rules that would mandate test-and-hold practices at meat plants as well as labels alerting consumers when they are buying non-intact meat subjected to mechanical tenderization, according to Deputy Assistant Administrator for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service Daniel Engeljohn.

Engeljohn told participants at a one-day seminar

The Department of Justice, in an action initiated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is seeking a permanent injunction against A Chau Sprouting Co., a sprout grower in Gretna, La., company owner and manager Quang “Mike” Trinh, and Hue Nguyen, the company production manager.

The complaint, filed on March 16, 2010, in the U.S.