by David Gumpert | Nov 18, 2017 | What's New |
It’s sometimes said that a picture is worth a thousand words. That is certainly the case with the photo of Michael Schmidt at left, taken after Schmidt stripped down as required upon entering an Ontario prison yesterday, where he is spending his second of 13 weekends....
by David Gumpert | Nov 13, 2017 | What's New |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is trying a new tack, using an obscure regulation, to limit availability of raw milk, and make life miserable for many raw dairy farmers across the country. It has apparently put its lawyers to work scouring dairy regulations, and...
by David Gumpert | Nov 8, 2017 | What's New |
There’s a very old joke that some economists and business school professors like to use for how dairy cows explain different economic systems. It goes like this: Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives one to your neighbor. Communism: You have...
by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2017 | What's New |
Earlier this year, I wrote about ominous noises coming from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about raw camel milk. The agency had warned the owner of a small Missouri farm, which accounts for the bulk of raw camel milk production in the U.S., to refrain from...
by David Gumpert | Oct 1, 2017 | What's New |
A father is left alone to raise a premature infant daughter. He decides to abandon conventional formula in favor of raw milk, and now, six years later, he is grateful for the decision he made. He has chronicled the story that follows, of his daughter’s early...
by David Gumpert | Sep 28, 2017 | What's New |
Like a lot of Boomers, I’ve been riveted by the the 18-hour PBS documentary, “The Vietnam War”. I’m surprised, because I was so immersed in opposing the war back in the 1960s that I figured I knew pretty much everything worth knowing. No Ken Burns recap would...
by David Gumpert | Sep 19, 2017 | What's New |
In the national struggle to legalize marijuana in more states, surprise opposition has come from a group you’d think would welcome the shift: illegal pot growers. Alas, many of these growers worry that legalizing pot will encourage more growers, leading to more supply...
by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2017 | What's New |
Some months after California nutritionist and food rights advocate Aajonus Vonderplanitz died three years ago in Thailand, I was hearing reports from a couple of his former associates that he had been sighted in the Los Angeles area. The individual they saw had had...
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