by David Gumpert | Oct 27, 2018 | What's New |
China is in the midst of a campaign to rid itself of small farms, in favor of supposedly more productive and safer large farms. One victim of the current campaign is a small dairy farm outside Beijing, Green Cow Farm, which was started about a dozen years ago by an...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2018 | What's New |
On the face of it, rebel Canadian raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt has a lot in common with football star Colin Kaepernick. Both took unorthodox approaches to assert big-time grievances within powerful industries—Schmidt by selling raw milk in defiance of provincial...
by David Gumpert | Sep 14, 2018 | What's New |
A new in-depth study of raw milk illnesses in the U.S. by a university researcher concludes that “the outbreak rate has effectively decreased by 74% since 2005.” The 38-page study, which includes 138 footnotes and was published in the refereed PLOS Current Outbreaks,...
by David Gumpert | Aug 17, 2018 | What's New |
Eight years ago, a handful of Maine food activists launched an improbable campaign for food sovereignty. The idea was to re-frame scale-inappropriate state and federal regulations on small food producers by working with local governments in towns to pass ordinances...
by David Gumpert | Aug 5, 2018 | What's New |
Running a raw milk food club is tough enough under the best of circumstances, because you’re always in a gray area of the law. Well, just try running a raw milk food club if you’re in another gray area of the law—you’re a Muslim immigrant. Trying to fight back...
by David Gumpert | Jul 28, 2018 | What's New |
In the summer of 1968, near the end of a post-college tour of Western Europe, I traveled to Prague, as the guest of a Czech student I had met earlier in my trip. The city, along with the rest of what was then known as Czechoslovakia, was a satellite of the old Soviet...
by David Gumpert | Jul 9, 2018 | What's New |
It’s the scandal that won’t go away for the Weston A. Price Foundation. The scandal, of course, is the refusal of the foodie organization to step back from its enthusiastic endorsement of so-called fermented cod liver oil since a flood of health concerns began coming...
by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2018 | What's New |
Two years ago, Vermont farmer John Klar described on this blog how he had decided to challenge state efforts to prevent him from custom slaughtering animals on his farm. In this new piece, he provides an encouraging update to his efforts. Klar raises grass-fed beef...
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