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Three more cases of infection linked to raw milk here in Minnesota. From the Star-Tribune:
The illnesses have occurred in seven homes since May 26, the state Health Department said. This strain of E. coli has not previously been found in Minnesota.
There's an intresting discussion about raw milk and modern dairying going on here, if you'd like to join the fray.
The number of people sickened by an E. coli outbreak in Minnesota has increased from four to five today. Raw milk is believed to be the source of the outbreak.
Over at Simple Good & Tasty, you can read a statement written on behalf of Michael Hartman and family whose Gibbon, Minnesota dairy was identified as the likely source of the tainted raw milk last week (Fair Food Fight coverage of the outbreak here). From the May 29 Hartmann statement: Read more...
If you were up late, you saw that Fair Food Fight tweeted this last night: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued a statement saying that it doesn't intend to grant a new permit to stinky Excel Dairy in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Read more...
You really have to wonder if a confined animal feedlot operation (CAFO) runs the planet. Case in point, what in the world does the owner of Excel Dairy in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, have to do before government officials smack him down?
Fair Food Fight reported on Excel Dairy back in 2008, when the dairy became the first CAFO in Minnesota to be declared a public health hazard -- so noxious and obnxious is Excel, that even the Minnesota Milk Producers Association hung them out to dry.) Read more...
