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Nation’s Largest Raw Milk Dairy Sues FDA Over Interstate Ban

By Cookson Beecher on December 17, 2012

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

By Helena Bottemiller on August 10, 2012

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

By News Desk on February 23, 2012

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…

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Letter From The Editor: Commerce Clause

By Dan Flynn on February 19, 2012

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.”

It was…

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White House Turns Down Raw Milk Petition

By James Andrews on January 9, 2012

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…

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Raw Milk Advocates Stage 'Milk and Cookies' Protest at FDA

By Helena Bottemiller on November 4, 2011

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…

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Raw Milk Advocates Plan Rally on Capitol Hill

By News Desk on May 13, 2011

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…

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State-inspected Meat Can Now Cross State Lines

By Dan Flynn on April 20, 2011

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…

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Portland Shellfish Agrees to Interstate Sales Ban

By Dan Flynn on January 21, 2011

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…

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Raw Milk Consumers: ‘Don’t Turn Us Into Criminals’

By Cookson Beecher on July 2, 2010

‘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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