History blog posts

Multiple goats have held public office in the United States.

New lab food that seeks to replace butter and palm oil, without GMOs.

The Colbert Report knocked raw milk and food raids in 2010, curtailing sympathetic journalism and securing the rise of raw milk.

California banned personal-choice exemptions for school entry one decade ago, leaving only medical and religious exemptions.

Overview of cow breeds on a timeline of when they were first introduced.

The first federal pasteurization rule for interstate milk was finalized in 1973 under FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt. The full interstate ban came in 1987.

Rockefeller never signed a milk bill, but his institute, university and family shaped the research and people behind America’s first pasteurization laws.

Lord Victor Rothschild tries and fails to lobby for milk pasteurization mandates in the United Kingdom.

Louis Pasteur developed the principles behind milk pasteurization, not the methods of industrial gatekeeping or germophobia.

Raw milk deaths are exceedingly rare, but it’s not impossible. Let’s take a look at some cases where raw milk might have contributed to someone’s death.

Raw milk wasn’t involved in the largest dairy-related outbreak in history.

Rawsome Foods, a private food club, was raided with guns drawn in Venice Beach, CA