by David Gumpert | Mar 9, 2019 | What's New |
Michael Schmidt greets regulators and police raiding his farm, on horseback, in 2012. You look at the map showing raw milk availability in the U.S., on the site of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, and you realize how far this country has come in making raw...
by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2019 | What's New |
The two main agencies charged with overseeing food health issues have been on the warpath against raw dairy. Let’s begin with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It’s made a federal case (quite literally) out of a single instance of illness last November from...
by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2019 | What's New |
The children of Alissa and Eric Spencer, spotlighted on WAPF’s “Healthy Baby Photo Gallery”; details at end of this post I’ve heard it said that people who cut the cord with a cult often feel a sense of embarrassment, or even shame. As in, How could...
by David Gumpert | Jan 15, 2019 | What's New |
In a comment a couple weeks back, Joseph Heckman pointed out that it’s been nearly a decade since publication of my first book about the politics of raw dairy, The Raw Milk Revolution. He wondered how things have changed in the intervening time period, and how things...
by David Gumpert | Dec 30, 2018 | What's New |
Two things are clear from all the publicity in the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania media about Miller’s Biodiversity Farm in Pennsylvania: 1.One individual, from New York, has been sickened with RB51, a bacteria that causes brucellosis; 2.The farm has been...
by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2018 | What's New |
Kim Schuette at the hospital with a grandchild, as shown on her GoFundMe page. The deaths are coming at a quickening pace, and with them contradictory feelings. You want to honor the victims and their many accomplishments, grieve the losses. You also want to shake...
by David Gumpert | Dec 19, 2018 | What's New |
Raw milk for sale at The Family Cow. Ten years ago, Pennsylvania dairy farmer Edwin Shank decided he wanted out of the crushing conventional system, and made the switch to organic production, and to selling his milk direct to consumers, unpasteurized. Nine years ago,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 3, 2018 | What's New |
For days, I have been trying to make sense of this story of several thousand migrants from Central America descending on the U.S. How the president is sending 5,000 soldiers to the border with Mexico, no, make that 15,000, to protect us from the “invaders.” How the...
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