by David Gumpert | May 22, 2015 | Food Clubs, Nutrition |
The news just gets worse and worse for the corporate processed food makers. Earlier this week, Target Corp., a major retailer of food, clothing, and such served notice on the factory-food producers to take their processed stuff and, well, stuff it. In a radical move,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 4, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The narrative on raw milk from the public health community has been heavily negative, going something like this: Raw milk producers skimp on safety. They are just in it for the money, selling raw milk at high prices to line their pockets. The raw milk community is...
by David Gumpert | Sep 28, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its been more than two weeks since the media began reporting on five Kentucky children hospitalized with E.coli O157:H7. The reporting was straightforward, with no mention of the possibility that raw milk might be the cause of the illnesses. Since those...
by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2014 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released a couple days ago showed that more than 70% of Americans feel the country is headed in the wrong direction. Now, headed in the wrong direction can mean different things to different peoplefailure to deal...
by David Gumpert | Jul 20, 2014 | Food Clubs, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Jenny Samuelson was all set to do the deal dictated by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development: Dispose of nearly $5,000 worth of raw milk, cream, butter, eggs, and cheese. Under MDARD supervision, she was to bring the 250 gallons of milk to a...
by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2014 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation |
It turns out that Village Green Network wasnt just forging new income opportunities for food bloggers. It was also forging a new advertising path with federal regulators. VGNs role connecting large numbers of bloggers to producers of...
by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2014 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Regulation |
I got a taste Sunday of what it is like to be a government food policy official in enemy territory. I spoke at the NOFA-NJ Winter Conference in Lincroft, NJ, and decided to assume the role of David Edwards, a high-ranking (and fictitious) food policy...
by David Gumpert | Sep 29, 2013 | Food Clubs, Nutrition |
In death, as in life, food rights advocate and nutritionist Aajonus Vonderplanitz continues to stir up controversy. Now, its over his death, and whether he died as detailed by a number of witnesses, including his girlfriend in Thailand, in an accident. I spoke...
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