Organic Pastures, the nation’s largest raw milk dairy, has launched a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for allegedly turning its back on the dairy’s request for the agency to change its
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Ohio First State to Gain Interstate Approval for Small, Local Meat Plants
Ohio this week became the first state to gain approval to sell meat from small, state-inspected slaughterhouses across state lines — a critical step toward rebuilding processing infrastructure for small-scale, regional meat and poultry producers.
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Injunction Against Raw Milk Dairy Imposes Many Conditions
The permanent injunction against a Pennsylvania farmer who was selling raw milk across state lines also imposes a number of conditions on him and his dairy that may have implications for other cases of interstate
Letter From The Editor: Commerce Clause
There are no words that cause raw milk advocates more heartburn than these: “The Congress shall have Power …To regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with Indian Tribes.”
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White House Turns Down Raw Milk Petition
The Obama administration delivered its official response last week to the 6,078 signors of a petition on WhiteHouse.gov who requested federal-level legalization of all raw milk sales. The response indicated that the White House continues
Raw Milk Advocates Stage 'Milk and Cookies' Protest at FDA
About 100 raw milk advocates rallied outside of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland Tuesday, serving raw milk and cookies, to protest federal interstate regulation of unpasteurized milk. The rally
Raw Milk Advocates Plan Rally on Capitol Hill
Members of a Washington, D.C.-area raw milk buying group, known as Grassfed On the Hill, are planning a demonstration next week on Capitol Hill for what they are calling the “aggressive treatment of peaceful Amish
State-inspected Meat Can Now Cross State Lines
Foreign counties under trade policies can ship and sell meat and poultry anywhere in the United States. But if those same products are offered from domestic sources with anything less than federal inspection they are
Portland Shellfish Agrees to Interstate Sales Ban
Maine’s Portland Shellfish Co. Inc., and its officers have agreed to a consent degree that prohibits any of them from distributing seafood through interstate commence until they get federal approval for a Hazard Analysis and
Raw Milk Consumers: ‘Don’t Turn Us Into Criminals’
‘Don’t turn us into criminals’ raw milk consumers plead in suit against interstate ban
Raw milk consumers have joined forces in a legal battle against the federal Food and Drug Administration’s ban against the
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IN-MI Raw Milk Trade May Be Over
The raw milk supplier to the coop now at the center of a growing Campylobacter outbreak in southeastern Michigan decided recently to stop distributing product across state lines three years after federal officials found the