by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2020 | What's New |
I need to make a confession about my coverage here of Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt over the last dozen years or so. I had assumed any number of times that his struggle with the courts and public health establishment would recede when the establishment...
by David Gumpert | Jul 23, 2020 | What's New |
Back in 2017, I toured Japan, and was struck by a strange sight on Tokyo streets: about half the people were wearing face masks, even though there was no pandemic or other immediate public health problem. Shoppers at Tokyo Fish Market in 2017. Hotel and tour people...
by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2020 | What's New |
It’s been a time of slow news on the raw milk front the last few years. The big reason is that producers of unpasteurized dairy appear to have gotten their collective arms around contamination challenges, generating much less news about outbreaks of illness from...
by David Gumpert | Jun 10, 2020 | What's New |
Craig Hickman has long been one of the good guys in the Maine legislature. A representative since 2012, he has pushed hard from his position on the Agriculture Committee for food sovereignty and food self sufficiency for the state. I met him a couple times while I was...
by David Gumpert | May 28, 2020 | What's New |
Amos Miller, the Pennsylvania Amish farmer who has been trying to work through a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) court action against his farm for four years now, is normally a soft-spoken philosophical man. But he gets nearly agitated when asked about recent...
by David Gumpert | May 23, 2020 | What's New |
Last time we looked in on Sam Girod was in July 2017, as he was being sentenced to six years in federal prison following conviction by a jury of violating drug labeling and other rules in connection with a commonly available skin salve. It was in some bizarre...
by David Gumpert | May 21, 2020 | What's New |
Much of Canada’s legal system may be shuttered, but that isn’t discouraging the Ontario government from ramping up bullying surveillance against raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt and his family. Glenn Jarvie, regulator with Ontario’s Ministry of...
by David Gumpert | May 17, 2020 | What's New |
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been following a blog by a family practice physician, Dr. David Brownstein, on his experiences treating individuals with Covid-19. I became especially intrigued by an April 12 posting: “My colleagues and I have treated almost 100...
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