by David Gumpert | Jan 3, 2017 | What's New |
“I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…” Johnny Cash, in “Folsom Prison Blues” “I did it (sued a journalist) to make his life miserable, which I’m happy about.” Donald Trump, in a 2016 interview Folk-rock singer Johnny Cash’s 1955 song, “Folsom Prison...
by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2016 | What's New |
A few days ago, Organic Valley, the huge Wisconsin-based dairy cooperative, ran a “holiday season” ad on Facebook offering discount coupons of $1.50 or $2 on butter, cheese, and eggs (not $5, as the ad suggests). I guess it’s not a huge surprise that thousands of...
by David Gumpert | Dec 19, 2016 | What's New |
I’ve been trying to figure out why this election has affected me so deeply. It’s had me feeling at once angry, despondent, frustrated, unable to write and, most of all, with a huge sense of loss. I try to tell myself, it’s just a new politician. I’ve seen many...
by David Gumpert | Nov 28, 2016 | What's New |
I started this blog ten years ago to report on events and issues I thought the mainstream news media were either ignoring or misrepresenting when it came to regulation of small farms, and especially small dairy farms distributing raw milk. In the process, I poked both...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2016 | What's New |
On November 9, the day after the election, Eric Tucker, an Austin businessman, noticed a group of buses parked in a lot not far from where demonstrations against Donald Trump’s election were going on. When he couldn’t find any notices on Google of conferences in the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 11, 2016 | What's New |
Editor’s note: Three days after this post appeared, a spokesperson for the Weston A. Price Foundation committed to correcting the error I describe here. Details at the end of this post and in a comment following this post. The current issue of Wise Traditions...
by David Gumpert | Nov 2, 2016 | What's New |
Easton is a pretty little town in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, on the border with New Jersey, with trendy restaurants and coffee houses. But yesterday, it was the host to a not-so-pretty court hearing at the U.S. District Court on the matter of a...
by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2016 | What's New |
A USDA investigation of Pennsylvania farmer Amos Miller’s meat production practices has taken an ominous turn in recent days, apparently morphing into a national dragnet to collect the food purchase records of thousands of food club members around the country. One ray...
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