by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2019 | What's New |
Aajonus Vonderplanitz Psst, wanna know what really happened to Aajonus Vonderplanitz, the raw-food guru who was reported to have died in a fall from the deck of his home in Thailand in 2013? One of his raw food devotees, Richard Huynh, is trying to make the case...
by David Gumpert | Nov 27, 2019 | What's New |
Many people here remember Kristin Canty best for her provocative 2011 documentary, Farmageddon, chronicling government crackdowns on raw dairies and other small farms. Kristin Canty at her new Boston restaurant, Woods Hill Pier 4. Kristin’s heart is still with small...
by David Gumpert | Oct 20, 2019 | What's New |
Perhaps my heading should have said, “FDA Swats Away Raw Milk Labeling Petition Like a Pesky Mosquito.” “Freedom Riders” protesting the FDA’s prohibition on interstate sales of raw milk, in 2011. This group eventually morphed into the Real Food...
by David Gumpert | Sep 18, 2019 | What's New |
I spent much of my junior year at the University of Chicago in the mid-1960s as the managing editor of the college paper, where one of my jobs was to drive with a group of other editors to a huge printing plant west of the city each Tuesday evening, and put together...
by David Gumpert | Sep 10, 2019 | What's New |
This doesn’t feel like a great time to be taking pot shots at the mainstream media. On nearly a daily basis, our president is rallying hatred as he accuses CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other outlets of publishing “fake news,” a catch-all for...
by David Gumpert | Aug 7, 2019 | What's New |
Lots of people here believe that the so-called “alphabet agencies” operate semi-autonomously, especially when it comes to those having to do with food–the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this...
by David Gumpert | Jul 2, 2019 | What's New |
When it comes time to slaughter cattle and pigs at Amos Miller’s farm in Bird-in-Hand, PA, the process has been pretty much the same for decades. One of the Amish farm hands brings out a pistol, and shoots each animal between the eyes. “You have to hit them in just...
by David Gumpert | Jun 13, 2019 | What's New |
A special plaque hung in the woods of Switzerland in 2014 near the French border, finally honoring Swiss citizens who in the 1940s helped Jewish migrants escaping France, in defiance of Swiss laws restricting migration. I’ve been following the U.S. government’s...
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