by David Gumpert | Jun 26, 2012 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Regulation |
Sometimes I wonder if our expanding inclination to ban foods says something about our do-gooder nature, or our bullying nature. Last month, I wrote about how Massachusetts PTAs were so upset about sugary-food bans they got the state legislature...
by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Nutrition, Regulation, Research |
Even veteran farmers occasionally receive cruel unexpected reminders about the dangers of handling livestock. Ron Klein, a Michigan dairy farmer who comments here, barely survived repeated attacks by one of his bulls late last month. In fact, when you read the...
by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2012 | Legal, Nutrition, Regulation, Resistance |
The latest tactic in impeding raw milk distribution–harassing farmers using drop sites–seems to be spreading from Minnesota to Missouri. And like in Minnesota, where many of the ten consumer drop site hosts warned by regulators recently are...
by David Gumpert | May 24, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Nutrition, Regulation, Resistance |
When I wrote about the case of parents suing Minnesota farmer Michael Hartmann in connection with their childs alleged illness from raw milk, and the judge’s suggestion the parents might bear some responsibility for their childs illness, I assumed the...
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2012 | News Media, Nutrition |
Now that Vermont farmer Walter Jeffries has raised $25,000 on Kickstarter to complete a new butcher shop at his Sugar Mountain Farm, hes working on the next $5,000to pour the concrete for
the abattoir where we’ll be able to do on-farm slaughter. Hes...
by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2012 | News Media, Nutrition, Research |
There’s a big disclosure today of another animal cruelty undercover investigation, this one involving egg-laying hens. The Humane Society of the United States says it is “shining a light on the dark world of suffering for millions of egg-laying...
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