Canadian Agri-Culture (Today): By Michael Schmidt
Via The Bovine Agriculture has been the backbone of Canada. History has taught us that a healthy Agri-culture is able to feed all the people and therefore creates a healthy […]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Ontario farmer convicted in raw milk case launches hunger strike
By Derek Abma Farmer and raw-milk crusader Michael Schmidt has launched another hunger strike in his nearly five-year legal battle to make Ontario the only province to legalize the […]
Sour ruling for raw-milk farmer Michael Scmidt
A crusader for the right to drink raw milk has been convicted of more than a dozen provincial offences relating to the sale of unpasteurized milk and could face hundreds […]
Motorized tricycles to improve rural transportation (Ghana)
At least 1,000 youth from the Volta Region are to acquire tricycle riding skills in a new scheme called Rural Transportation Model under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP). After […]
Here’s Why Just Breaking Even on Pasteurized Milk Sales Is Crucial to Dairy Industry, and Blinds Regulators to the Raw Milk Benefits Shown in New Study
Why does the dairy industry push the U.S. Food and Drug Administration so hard to crack down on raw dairy producers? The dairy industry seems to be mostly in the […]
What to us was simply milk and cheese, or real milk and real cheese
Robin Geld recalls her farm life experience, where she grew up having raw milk, raw milk cheeses and where food safety was a primary concern. I grew up on Fazenda […]
A Batalha pelo Leite Cru e Queijo de Leite Cru: Especialistas descrevem a situação nos próprios países
Slow Food vem lutando pelos direitos dos consumidores de comprar leite cru e dos produtores de queijo de produzir queijo de leite cru há quase duas décadas, e seu evento […]
Decision put off in Michael Schmidt raw milk case
A Newmarket court has once again delayed releasing a decision in an appeal in the case of raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt, who was earlier cleared of 19 charges related […]
Farmers, Advocates Launch Raw Milk Institute
The much-anticipated Raw Milk Institute has gone live. The brainchild of Mark McAfee, co-owner of Organic Pastures near Fresno, CA, the institute introduced its website — http://www.rawmilkinstitute.org — on Tuesday. Simply […]
The tuk-tuk: Egyptian gem or urban blight?
It has been about four years since tuk-tuks became commonplace on Egyptian streets and reactions to the cheap three-wheeled motorised rickshaw rangefrom outright contempt to breathless praise. Their drivers are […]
Sen. Grothman Still Pushing to Legalize Raw Milk (Wisconsin)
A Wisconsin lawmakers who believes local dairy producers should have the right to sell their raw milk says he’s not giving up on his proposal to make it legal. State […]
Raw Milk Cheese-lovers have little to cheer: Food Safety Aus NZ has recommended leaving things as they are.
CHEESE-LOVERS took heart when Food Standards Australia New Zealand agreed to take a second look at if it would allow cheese to be made with raw milk in Australia. The resulting […]
Arrest Does Not Stop Food and Freedom Ride
When we took the Freedom Rides as inspiration, we didn’t actually expect to have a run-in with Mississippi police. Our journey, the Food and Freedom Ride, was about honoring the anniversary of a heroic […]
Wisconsin Judge to Zinniker, FTCLDF: No “Fundamental Right” to Own a Cow, or Consume Its Milk…Am I Making Myself Clear?
Those raw milk proponents advocating “teach, teach, teach” may want to enroll Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler in their first class–in the kindergarten section. In response to a request from […]
Slow Food helps diehard cheese makers hang onto tradition
Taking cows to pastures high in the Italian Alps and then making cheese by hand in a nearby tent while the milk is still warm may all seem a bit […]
Judge’s Ruling Against Raw Milk Producer Flares Divide (Wisconsin-TV)
A decision by a Dane County judge to block a northeastern Wisconsin farm from selling raw milk might have reignited a longstanding debate over free taste and health safety. Kay […]
A cheese so good people ‘attack’ it
I was at a bustling food fair in Italy when a cheese stopped me in my tracks. All other enticements—white truffles, rare molluscs, champagne—blurred into the background. Gouda would […]
A proibição do leite cru na Irlanda (Carta ao governo publicada no Irish Times)
Senhor, O governo irlandês intenciona proibir a venda de leite cru antes do final de 2011. A Campanha pelo Leite Cru na Irlanda (CRM) é iniciativa de empresários, produtores, chefs, […]
Australia’s raw-milk-cheese image sours
Australia’s harsh legislation against raw-milk cheese has been highlighted as an example of what could happen in other countries where authorities are reassessing unpasteurised milk and cheese production. Australia was […]
Let’s legalize it: The Real Milk Song
Four Days of Cheese: Eating and Smuggling at a Slow Food Festival
Like everyone who traveled to get to the event in Bra, Italy, I came with an empty bag, which was stuffed with heavy blocks of cheese when I left […]
Land-grabbing causes hunger! Let small-scale farmers feed the world!
Land-grabbing by private investors and governments has increased massively over the last few years, therefore preventing access to land by current small food producers and future ones as well as […]
“Perigos do Provincialismo”: Queijo de Leite Cru (Francês e Americano)
Às vezes só nos resta sacudir as cabeças em perplexidade diante dos burocratas da FDA (Administração Regulamentar de Alimentos e Medicamentos). Artigos recentes no New York Times and até mesmo […]
The Battle for Raw Milk and Raw Milk Cheese: Experts describe the situation in their own countries
Slow Food has been fighting for the rights of consumers to buy raw milk and the rights of cheesemakers to make cheese from raw milk for almost two decades, and […]
Raw milk has to go underground despite a lack of negative proof
“Raw milk” is a phrase where neutrality is as small as Vatican City or San Marino. Either you are intrigued by the value of what it can bring into your […]
Slow Food Internacional apóia a campanha pelo leite cru na Irlanda
Slow Food Internacional está do lado da Slow Food Irlanda na luta pela liberdade de escolha dos consumidores e para garantir a produção e venda de leite cru. A Slow […]
Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds
By Vandana Shiva We are in a food emergency. Speculation and diversion of food to biofuel has contributed to an uncontrolled price rise, adding more to the billion already denied […]
Not your grandma’s milk
BY KRISTIN WARTMAN Milk is truly one of the oldest, simplest whole foods – and we certainly drink a lot of it. According to the USDA, Americans consumed an average of 1.8 […]
Pasteurization: “your nanny state boils the milk but you don’t have to drink it”
“It’s banned in Canada and 18 US states, but it’s legal in Europe and always has been. Three in California were recently arrested for selling it. In other states, […]
European Cheeses 101 (Via Slowfood)
From English Cheddar to the cheeses of the alpine pastures of Germany, from Portuguese Queijo Terrincho to the celebrated Roquefort d’Aveyron, students from the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) last […]
Kids who drink raw milk have less asthma, allergies
By Frederik Joelving NEW YORK | Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:16pm EDT (Reuters Health) – Children who drink raw milk are less likely to develop asthma and allergies than those who stick to […]
More than 1000 submissions on the Government’s review of the Raw Milk Regulations flood in (New Zealand)
Agriculture Ministry policy analysts expect it will take the next four weeks to plough through more than 1000 submissions on the Government’s review of the Raw Milk Regulations. Once the […]
“Perils of Provincialism” : Raw Milk Cheese (French and Americans)
Sometimes you just have to shake your head in wonder at the FDA’s bureaucrats. TheNYT and even the Valley News have recently run articles describing the controversy over the use of raw milk […]
In focus: War of words over plan to ban ‘raw milk
A GROUP of artisan foodmakers are at odds with the government’s food safety body over plans to ban the sale of unpasteurised ‘raw’ milk – rejecting claims that the ban […]
“Milkman” one of five old-school jobs that’s making a comeback in America
“The neighborhood milkman is an indelible image of Americana. Dressed all in white, they would make door-to-door deliveries of milk, cream and butter with a smile and tip of their […]
