David E. Gumpert
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Recent Happenings"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Food Rights", my newest book, due out late spring.
My newest book is "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle Over Who Decides What We Eat". It will be officially released July 4, 2013, but should be available to those who have ordered in advance by early June. Here is what farmer and food rights advocate Joel Salatin says in the foreword: "David Gumpert is a quintessential journalist. Impeccable to a fault, he plucks out some of the most salient battles in this current food war and brings them to our awareness with the storytelling genius of a spy novel. The intrigue, the angst, the heartache, and the heroism are all displayed ..." FDA and Health Canada Hone in on Limiting Raw Milk Brie and Camembert
The American and Canadian health agencies have just published a 189-page report arguing that the soft raw milk cheeses are up to 160 times likelier than pasteurized milk cheeses to cause illness...even though there are no reported illnesses. How did they come to their conclusions? I try to figure it out, in this article on Food Safety News. Without Fanfare, CDC Reports a Sharp Decline in Foodborne Illnesses
You'd think the CDC would be celebrating a one-third decline in foodborne illnesses, but instead, it buried the information in a new report. In this article in Food Safety News, I explain how CDC hid the data, and why it's important. The Food Safety Police May Have an Eye on Your Kitchen
As well intentioned as the proposed restrictions on sugary drinks in New York City appear, they are really another step down an unfortunate path of food regulation. In this analysis on Cooking Up a Story, I argue that, in our growing obsession with food safety and public health, we risk creating a legal and regulatory quagmire over food. Raw Deal: Maine Residents' Fight for Unregulated Food Draws Crackdown
Eight Maine towns have passed simple ordinances that allow farmers and other food producers to sell their products direct to consumers, without having to worry about permits and regulations--known as Food Sovereignty laws. The towns thought there might be opposition from the state and feds, but nothing on the scale that's occurring. In this article on Grist, I chronicle a court suit against one farmer, threats of another against a second farmer, high-level political maneuvering, and efforts to link non-dairy-related illnesses to farmers producing raw milk. Raw Milk Debate: Thorny Issues of Food Safety, Food Rights, and Public Health
In this article at CookingUpaStory, I provide an overview on the polarizing and emotional debate over availability of raw milk. America's Test Kitchen
America's Test Kitchen conducted one of the most informative, and most fair, debates on the the pros and cons of raw milk--and included me as one of the participants explaining how it all relates to food rights (scroll to the 15-minute mark on the recording bar to get to the start of the debate). The New Yorker podcast
The New Yorker magazine of April 30, 2012, has a lengthy article about raw milk, which includes a quote of me. Unfortunately, I can't include a link, since the article is available only to paid subscribers. But a podcast done by the magazine to go with the issue includes an interview with me. Harvard Law School debate on raw milk
I participated in a debate on the pros and cons of raw milk at Harvard Law School in February--I was on the pro side with Sally Fallon, and we debated a lawyer and state agriculture official who opposed. More than 100 people attended the debate in Cambridge, MA, and more than 26,000 viewed the video in the weeks afterward.Here's the video--it consists of about one hour of presentations, and a half hour of incisive questions from the audience. MY LATEST BOOK, The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
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IS OUT (WHEW!). IT HAS A GREAT FORWARD BY JOEL SALATIN, AND LOTS OF NICE THINGS BEING SAID ABOUT IT (SEE BELOW LEFT OF THIS PAGE). 