Diane Edwards Anger of Ripley shares in her letter to the Ontario Farmer editor that her experience with raw milk differs from those of raw-milk advocates.
She tells of how when she was pregnant with her first child in the 1970s, that her husband brought her some raw milk from the farm on which he
Factory farms and E. Coli
According to a television story that Ray Wilson of New Middletown watched, 3.5 percent of all meat sold contains deadly E.coli bacteria, he tells the News-Sentinel.
He knows that may not seem like much, but he then says that when you consider that 10 billion animals are slaughtered every year, that translates to 350
Milking a story for all it’s worth: Finding out how far milk delivery has come over the decades also reminds us of how much is the same
Ed Savage, former Chief of Police in Sweet Home, shared his story with the Woodburn Independent as to the history of legal, regulated commercial sales of raw milk in the Woodburn area in the past.
He shared his personal story of his stepfather, who owned a dairy farm that Ed worked on as a child.
Got Cow? Raw Milk Restrictions Considered
Correspondent Elizabeth Wynne Johnson reported for KWSU-FM radio about the current debate over raw milk.
She interviewed George Calvert, a dairy farmer who operated a cow-share dairy outside of Spokane, Washington, until recently. He said that in his cow-share program, a person could pay 40 dollars for a share of the cow’s ownership, and an
Protect Your Children from Waterborne Illnesses
Life-threatening illnesses associated with swimming pools are rare, but less serious illnesses are not. During the past 10 years, at least 15,000 people have become ill from swimming, according to the U.S. government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most of these illnesses were diarrheal, which were spread when people accidentally swallowed pool water that
Raw milk a step closer to stores
A legislative committee has approved a bill that would allow residents of Utah to begin purchasing raw milk in stores, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
The Utah Dairymen’s Association and the Utah Public Health Association firmly opposed the bill, fearing a backlash against the state’s dairy industry as a whole should people become ill
E. coli found in school water
Linden Elementary School has told its students and employees to avoid using the school’s water after E. coli bacteria showed up in a routine water test, but it may have been a false alarm.
The Intelligencer reports that the school provided bottled water and hand sanitizer in every classroom after turning off all drinking fountains
Chow Line: Raw milk can give you a raw deal
Martha Filipic from Ohio State University recently responded to a question posed to her on the North Texas E-news, where she was asked about raw milk.
Filipic answered a generic question about the fat content of raw milk by saying that the issue of how much fat is in raw milk is overshadowed by the
Researcher studies E. Coli
Investigators were recently was awarded a grant of more than $500,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture to study an integrated approach to pre-harvest control of toxin-producing E. coli, according to the Nevada News.
Currently, the beef industry has used post-harvest methods to “clean” beef, such as washing or sterilizing the meat after
Preventing Health Risks Associated with Drinking Unpasteurized or Untreated Juice
Though juice-related illness is rare, several outbreaks of diarrheal illness due to juice have been reported in the United States in the last decade.
Most outbreaks of illness due to juice have been linked to untreated or inadequately treated juice products, mainly pasteurization.
Some outbreaks of foodborne illness linked to juice:
• 1996: Outbreak of