Slow food movement catches on quickly (South Korea)
“It may seem uncomfortable at times, but there is nothing that makes me happier than when I harvest the food that I have cultivated.” – Choi Geum-ok Kim Young-jun, 46, […]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Government intends to ban the sale of raw milk in Ireland (An inside news from boards.ie member)
Legislation has been drafted without Public Consultation and it could become law in autumn 2011 OUR POSITION We in Sheridans believe that everyone has a right to drink one of […]
Sri Lanka rickshaw drivers say no to Nano taxis: “We will lose our livelihood if Nano taxis are allowed to flood the market”
COLOMBO (AFP) – Hundreds of rickshaw drivers blocked streets in Sri Lanka’s capital on Tuesday to protest against the entry of India’s Tata Nano, billed as the world’s cheapest car, […]
Chasing French Cheese – by Llewellyn Toulmin
Charles de Gaulle once famously said, “How can anyone be expected to govern a country with 325 cheeses?” Luckily for us, France is now even more ungovernable, with over 700 […]
Fighting the cottage cheese wars (Israel)
Israelis, the veterans of so many wars, have lately been enlisting in a new one: the cottage cheese war. The main combatants in this war are the consumers versus the […]
A look at Thailand’s iconic tuk-tuk and other forms of transportation throughout the country.
Eat it Raw: The pro cheese choice movement
Since 1949, we the people of the United States, a country that prides itself on the freedom to choose, have been denied the most basic of human rights. More […]
The Surprisingly Colorful History Of Milk
Listen to the show here “Got milk?” What the history of milk tells us about our society. For all humans, for all mammals, it is […]
Israel faces Cottage Cheese revolution
By Gavin Rabinowitz (AFP) JERUSALEM — With revolution sweeping the Middle East, Facebook-inspired protests have come to Israel in an unlikely form, in a carton of cottage cheese. Prime Minister […]
Louie PASTEUR’s deathbed words: “Bernard was right; the pathogen is nothing; the terrain is everything.”
“Bernard was right; the pathogen is nothing; the terrain is everything.” — Louis Pasteur’s deathbed words Winifred found an excellent source of background info about that quote on the […]
First Cow Share Canada accredited raw milk farm targeted by Gov’t agents
Press Statement [from Michael Schmidt] regarding recent inappropriate anti raw milk actions by Government agents in Ontario: Farm of Cathy and Paul Noble, near Arthur, Ontario. Photos from yesterday’s meeting. […]
Raw milk legal in India and Mexico?
Holy cow forages for edible cardboard in the streets while an Indian milkman makes his rounds on a motorbike. Quick, send them some Aid, so they can be just like […]
Raw Milk fight reaches out to Hindi speakers
Sri Lanka rickshaw versus Nano taxis
Hundreds of rickshaw drivers blocked streets in Sri Lanka’s capital yesterday to protest the entry of India’s Tata Nano, billed as the world’s cheapest car, into the island’s taxi market. […]
Countryside of Minas Gerais, Brasil (Calciolandia & Canastra) – short film
Serra da Canastra is located in the Southwest of the state of Minas Gerais where numerous springs, rivers, mountains, plains, valleys and Species of Wild Fauna and Flora are found. […]
‘Farmageddon’: Factory farms vs. local fo
A new documentary aims to expose the food policies that stack the cards against local, sustainable farmers. Remember those news articles about government regulators seizing raw milk and gouda from […]
All about The Federal Government’s War Against Raw Milk
The federal government, in using its illegitimate and unconstitutional authority to regulate various industries — such as food, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and other commodities — has raised the ire of producers […]
Dairy UK calls for unpasteurised milk retail sales ban
By Rick Pendrous, 14-Jun-2011 Dairy UK, which represents the UK’s milk supply chain, has called on the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to support a ban on the retail sale of […]
Obama’s Food safety chief defends raw milk raids
Obama food safety chief and former Monsanto lawyer Michael R. Taylor today defended the FDA’s sting operations and armed raids against raw milk producers, including Pennsylvania Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, […]
Tuk tuk arrives in Glasgow, Scotland
By Alastair Dalton and Jane Bradley THEY are a common sight on the streets of Mumbai and Bangkok. But now the iconic tuk tuk could be coming to Scotland for […]
Wheels on Wheels – Mobile Cheese Shop
At the age of nine, Andrea Itin learned the art of entrepreneurship from her father. Every summer, he asked her to come up with an idea for a new product—and […]
Reviving Hungarian Cheesemaking
During Hungary’s Communist era, quality cheese was in short supply. Some hobby cheesemakers made it at home, but it was prohibited for sale at markets, where fewer than a dozen […]
Terroir Exchange a Success: lineup of cheeses in attendance
Hosted by Culture and held in downtown Napa’s Taste at Oxbow, French and California cheesemakers gathered for the second annual Terroir Exchange. In attendance were 8 makers from California and […]
Controlling Risks in Specialty Cheese Processing Course for small to medium sized dairy processors
Oregon State University will present a course for cheesemakers titled “Controlling Risks in Specialty Cheese Processing” on Tuesday June 11, 2011. The course is designed for small to medium sized […]
Stichelton vs. Tofu: Tasting Cheese in China
Slate’s Fuchsia Dunlop takes some of Britain’s most distinctive cheese to China’s fermented-food heartland, for a taste test pitting nai lao (“aged milk”) against chou doufu (“stinky tofu”): Cheese is […]
Tuk Tuk : Germany
After many trips to India and different parts of Asia over the years, American adventurer, entrepreneur, and environmentalist, Adam Rice, was struck by the challenges that faced the overcrowded, third-world countries he […]
House of Representatives receives 2 e-trikes (Philippines)
The House of Representatives received two solar and battery-powered tricycles (e-trikes) yesterday as part of efforts to wean the country away from using noisy and polluting gasoline-driven tricycles. The […]
Scotland: Cheese Firm Forced To Close Over Failure to Comply With European Union Rules On Using Raw Milk
By Anna Gault A CHEESE firm has been forced to close over a failure to comply with European Union rules on using raw milk. Independent company SS dei Naufragati, […]
Baby, I Like It Raw (VIDEO): Mark McAfee, founder of Organic Pastures an organic dairy farm, sat down to talk raw milk
Mark McAfee, founder of Organic Pastures an organic dairy farm, sat down with Qiana and John Calvin Byrd to talk raw milk. In this podcast, Mark demystifies the history of […]
Two Raw Milks
All milk starts off raw, that which is for people… …versus that which goes to be pasteurized and processed… Download a pdf showing the difference
Movie Trailer for “Milk Men”
OFFICIAL VIDEO: Trailer for “Milk Men” A sneak preview of “Milk Men”. Based on a true story. A young man takes on an arduous 50 day bike trip across the […]
List of Raids Against America’s Small Farms
Aggressive and forceful raids against America’s small farms, farmers, co-ops and private buying clubs by state and federal regulatory agencies Updated as new information becomes available Spring 2004—Organic Pastures–California Without […]
Guerrilla milk: an underground group spreads the gospel of unpasteurized milk (Chicago): By Mike Sulas
One warm evening last month I showed up at a cluttered Humboldt Park basement apartment with an empty Ball jar. There I was met by a 23-year-old musician and […]
Living Raw – the French Revolt Against Pasteurized Cheeses
Raw Milk Cheese with Veronique Richez-Lerouge I attended Cheese Connection this past weekend in Miami and met one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever met in the cheese industry […]
Green Cheese Presidium, Bulgaria
The goal of the Presidium is to preserve Tcherni Vit Green Cheese, which is in grave danger of extinction because the last traditional producer, who is almost 80-years old, has […]
