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Pub Date: October 2009

David E. Gumpert is a journalist who specializes in covering the intersection of health

and business. His popular blog, www.thecompletepatient.com, has chronicled the increasinglyunsettling battles over raw milk. He has authored or coauthored seven books on various aspects of entrepreneurship and business and previously been a reporter and editor with the Wall Street Journal  

Inc. magazine, and the Harvard Business Review .

Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights

David E. Gumpert

Foreword by Joel Salatin

eginning in 2006, he agriculure deparmens o several large saes—wih backing rom he U.S. Food and Drug Adminisraion—launched a major crackdown on small dairies producing raw milk. Replee wih undercover agens, sing operaions, surprise raids,quesionable es-lab resuls, myserious illnesses, propaganda blizes, and grand jury invesigaions, he crackdown was designed odisrup he supply o unpaseurized milk o growing legions o consumers demanding healhier and more avorul ood.

 Are regulaors’ claims ha raw milk poses a public healh hrea legiimae? Ta urns ou o be a mater o considerable debae. In

assessing he hrea, Te Raw Milk Revolution reveals ha he governmen’s campaign, osensibly designed o proec consumers rompahogens like salmonella, E. coli 0157:H7, and liseria, was based in a number o cases on suspec laboraory ndings andillnesses atribued o raw milk ha could well have had oher causes, including, in some cases, paseurized milk.

Te Raw Milk Revolution akes readers behind he scenes o he governmen’s ough and occasionally brual inimidaion acics, asseen hrough he eyes o milk producers, governmen regulaors, scieniss, prosecuors, and consumers. David Gumper dares o ask

 wheher regulaors have he public’s ineres in mind or he economic ineress o dairy conglomeraes. He assesses how he govern-men’s ani–raw-milk campaign s ino a roublesome patern o expanding governmen efors o saniize he ood supply—even inhe ace o ever-increasing raes o chronic disease like ashma, diabees, and allergies. Te Raw Milk Revolution provides an unsetling

 view o he uure, in which nuriionally dense oods may be available largely hrough underground channels.

The Raw Milk Revolution

Publication Date: October 2009

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