Touchstone moment of the raw milk movement. Rawsome Foods, a private food club, was raided with guns drawn in Venice Beach, CA.
Read more: Raw Deal – California cracks down on an underground gourmet club (New Yorker, archive)
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Raw Farm says no pathogen has been found in any of its products while the FDA and CDC allege a link between its raw cheddar cheese and an E. coli outbreak.
3/16/2026
Updated per-consumer raw milk illness data using Lando et al. 2022 (FDA) and Koski et al. 2022 (CDC). The consumer base is larger than prior estimates, putting the per-consumer illness rate at approximately 1 in 15,000 per year.
3/15/2026
Like Wildflowers Homestead is urging Texans to submit public comments to the Texas Sunset Commission as the farmer suggests a competing dairy may have filed the complaint that triggered the DSHS enforcement action.
3/14/2026
The “840 times more illness” statistic measures outbreak-reported illness per billion servings across four pathogens and not the per-consumer risk most people are asking about.
3/14/2026
H.R. 7880, the Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 2026, would end the FDA’s decades-old prohibition on raw milk interstate commerce. Here’s what the bill does, who’s behind it, and who has defeated it before.
3/10/2026
Harvard’s long-term cohort studies found a persistent link between ice cream consumption and lower diabetes and CVD risk. Here’s what the data actually shows.
3/10/2026
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