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...
by David Gumpert | May 8, 2020 | What's New |
Now that both South Korea and Taiwan have gotten Covid-19 under control, they have begun their new baseball seasons. They are the only game in town, as it were. I’m hoping to begin catching some on ESPN….or at least the recordings, since the games are played between 1...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2020 | What's New |
A couple weeks ago we saw obscene images of dairy farmers discarding milk, and vegetable growers plowing over tomatoes intended for restaurants that have been shuttered, all while thousands of hungry Americans waited in line for handouts at food pantries. Now, a...
by David Gumpert | Apr 27, 2020 | What's New |
This is a time for mourning, for things large and small. You can see it in the increasingly emotional debates about “solving” the Covid-19 pandemic—a growing number of Americans are for opening everything up and relying on herd immunity, while others are for...
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