Food Safety Talk 55: Damn Ignorant PhDs

Published: Feb. 9, 2014, 9:26 p.m.

b'The guys started the show with a teaser about a guest later in the show and reminisced about past guests Mike Batz, Chris Gunter, Michelle Danyluk and the infamous Andreas Kiermeier. The guys then followed up on cashew cheese (FST 53) and how to reach food entrepreneurs about hazards an risk management and resources like NECFE or the NMPAN. The guys then wondered about selling food (unregulated) over the Internet, possibly for Bitcoin, and the Swiss Cheese Pervert. And Don remembered Mary\'s name. Then David Gumpert (The Complete Patient) came onto the show. David has written about raw milk and food rights including "The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America\'s Emerging Battle over Food Rights" and "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle Over Who Decides What We Eat". The guys invited David to come on the show as a follow-up to FST 53, Raw Milk Hampsterdam, and David\'s critique of it. For audiences most interested in raw milk topics, the conversation with David begins at 25:30. Discussion topics the group touched on included raw milk and consumer choice, including the Raw Milk Institute, David\'s follow-up post and the Real Food Real Talk - Raw Milk Revealed, the Minnesota study, CDC\'s Estimation Methods and Attribution of Foodborne Illness, FDA\'s raw milk risk assessment and failure to attend an IAFP sponsored raw milk meeting. In the after dark, which begins around 1:30:00, Don and Ben talked about Evernote, Habits, Shackelton Death or Glory, and Plan 9 from Outer Space.'