by David Gumpert | Oct 10, 2026 | What's New |
In many respects, the lengthy feature on raw milk in the Frankfurter Allgemeine, one of Germany’s most prominent and prestigious newspapers, looks and sounds like what you’d see in The New York Times or the Washington Post or ProPublica. It came to me courtesy of a...
by David Gumpert | Sep 27, 2026 | What's New |
I’ve been focusing my reporting and writing activities in recent months on the legal difficulties facing immigrants in my home community of Waltham, MA, which seems a long way from food rights and raw milk. But as I research the specifics of immigrant legal...
by David Gumpert | Aug 24, 2026 | What's New |
A little over five years ago, I wrote a post about Moderna’s amazing success developing the Covid vaccine, which was instrumental in finally taming the worldwide pandemic. I used a Harvard Business School case to explain that mRNA was much more than simply a...
by David Gumpert | Jul 28, 2026 | What's New |
About once or twice a year, like clockwork, one or another mainstream media outlet will publish an “expose” suggesting that millions of ordinary people are recklessly putting their lives at risk by consuming a food that is deadly dangerous; on top of that, public...
by David Gumpert | Jul 18, 2026 | What's New |
For a long time, I went all-in on basic MAHA (make America healthy again) tenets, like avoiding statins that lower cholesterol. I rejected numerous recommendations from various physicians that I start in on a low-dose statin. I didn’t want to be part of a life-time...
by David Gumpert | Jul 4, 2026 | What's New |
So I’m reading this article last month in The Wall Street Journal with the heading: “Everyone in Trump’s cabinet is eating sauerkraut.” It starts: “A new diet is sweeping through President Trump’s cabinet—and it involves heaping portions of sauerkraut. Health...
by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2026 | What's New |
One of the big challenges when I go food shopping has always been to find good eggs. By good eggs, I mean eggs with hard shells and rich orange yolks. The problem in the U.S. is that there are very few places where you can reliably find chicken eggs that meet these...
by David Gumpert | May 30, 2026 | What's New |
What was really going on with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest weird stunt, of wrestling garter snakes? It probably wouldn’t even be worth public comment, except RFK Jr. felt the need to post a video of his adventure on X, as if he was seeking attention and adulation. ...
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