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Raw Milk in the News

• Wisconsin Raw Milk Association Lobbies Wisconsin Legislature Today, February 22 (Wisconsin Ag Connection, 1/31)
  
• Raw Milk Freedom Riders Plan Workshop and Rally to Support Vernon Herschberger March 1-2 in Sauk County, Wisconsin (The Bovine, 2/21 and 2/15)
• “Study Says Raw Milk Poses Risks,” Seems not to Reflect Corrected Numbers: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article (2/21) quotes a new CDC study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Read David Gumpert’s excellent analysis of the study here. The article also quotes a death toll, which doesn’t seem to reflect the correction the CDC made last year.
• Pennsylvania Amish Raw Milk Dairy Farmer Dan Allgyer Shuts Down Farm in Reponse to Court Decision (Philadelphia Daily Enquirer, 2/15; MSNBC, 2/15; and San Francisco Chronicle, 2/14)
• “Indiana Panel to Consider Sale of Raw Milk” (Courier-Journal, 2/14)
• “Iowa House Panel OKs Sale of Raw Milk” (Quad-City Times, 2/13)
• Canadian Raw Milk Dairy Farm Michael Schmidt will Appeal Sentence and Fine (Bayshore Broadcasting News Center, 2/10)
• Rural Vermont Submits Raw Milk Report to Vermont Legislature (Rural Vermont report and announcement, 2/9)
• New Hampshire House Committee OKs Raw Milk Bill (New Hampshire News, 2/7)
• “Kentucky Bill would Allow Herd-Sharing for Raw Milk Products” (Dairy Herd Network, 2/6)
• California Herd Shares “Fight for Survival . . . Despite ‘Buy Local’ Trend’” (San Mateo County Daily Journal, 2/2)

Leave a Comment February 22, 2012

Food News You Can Use

Hello again, Food Rights Network, and happy new year! There’s been a lot of food news in the last two weeks, more than can fit in one post, so here are the highlights of what’s been happening:

• “EPA Weighs Nixing ‘Non-Crop’ Term To Better Tailor Pesticide Risk Studies“ (Inside EPA, 1/13/12)
• EPA Lists Gulf Waters as Impaired for Low Oxygen Levels, Iowa Department of Agriculture Says Move Undermines ‘Credibility’ With Big Farm Groups (Inside EPA, 1/13/12)
• CDC Says Shale Gas Drilling a Danger to Public Health and Food Supply (Slope Farms blog, 1/9/12 (full text of CDC email), and AP, 1/5/12). See the Center for Media and Democracy’s Fracking Portal on SourceWatch for more.
• Farm Land Grabs by Foreign Investors May “Compromise” Australia’s Food Security (Daily Telegraph, 1/4/12)
• “Ubiquitous Bisphenol A Linked to Adult Obesity, Insulin Resistance“ (Environmental Health News, 1/4/12)
• “FDA Takes a Baby Step on Factory Farm Antibiotics“  (Mother Jones, 1/4/12, and Guardian UK, 12/29/11)
• “FDA Sued Over Lack of Nanotech Petition Response“ (Food Navigator, 1/3/12) (more…)

Leave a Comment January 17, 2012