Policy blog posts

RFK Jr. could open interstate raw milk sales, fix FDA warnings and ease enforcement. He hasn’t used his position to do so. Here is how each option would work.

The AAP is calling for a raw milk ban while states vote to expand access. Its own numbers show no emergency, and the call deepens the real one: lost trust.

Kenya began a milk hawking crackdown in May 2026. By September, supermarket milk ran short. What the law allows, the penalties and the arrest claims.

Two executive orders signed September 4, 2026 do not let ranchers sell uninspected beef. What they actually direct, and the labeling review that matters more.

The Taylor Farms lettuce Cyclospora outbreak sickened 12,883 people in 21 states, with 570 hospitalized and 2 deaths. No lettuce sample tested positive.

The federal ban on raw milk sale remains in place, though organized advocacy for a licensed pathway is building toward an independent review this October.

One Supreme Court ruling now shields every federally registered pesticide maker from state-court cancer lawsuits. Glyphosate was just the beginning.

Republican Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler’s push to ban raw milk failed for the second year running, as North Carolina’s 2026 Farm Act passed clean.

SB 2028 is now law in Oklahoma, raising the monthly on-farm raw milk sales cap. Advertising no longer prohibited. Off-farm retail sales remain prohibited after companion legislation stalled in committee.

The three-bill package has cleared the House Government Operations and Rules Committees and is pending further House action.

The bill raises the on-farm raw milk sales cap from 100 to 1,500 gallons per month, permits advertising, allows farm-produced raw milk cheese, and mandates state-issued warning labels on all raw milk containers.

Pennsylvania Dept of Agriculture has advanced an amendment to 7 Pa. Code Chapter 59a that would allow licensed raw milk producers to sell raw butter legally. Final publication in the PA Bulletin is expected in Q2 2026.