by David Gumpert | Apr 8, 2011 | Uncategorized |
When agent Jim Roettger of the Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture was caught on video confiscating raw milk last December in suburban Minneapolis, he could be heard at one point telling a complaining consumer to bug out. “I don’t have to respond to your...
by David Gumpert | Apr 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Must ever-more-rigorous food safety regulations inevitably lead to the sterilization of our food supply? That question has tinged much of the debate on this blog, as well as in other quarters. It’s served to create extremes–if you worry about the expansion...
by David Gumpert | Apr 1, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I have long felt that one of the keys to breaking through the regulatory roadblocks to easily accessing nutrient-dense foods like raw dairy is for farmers to flood the market with products the regulators want to keep from us. For that to happen, though, there need to...
by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sacred cows wandering a city street in India. Right after my trip through the Myanmar health system last week, I made a stop at a Buddhist center on the outskirts of Yangon, the country’s largest city. I had been referred to the center by some American friends,...
by David Gumpert | Mar 27, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Raw milk is back in the limelight in Wisconsin, the nation’s second-largest dairy-producing state. New legislation is being proposed, and already public health and conventional dairy interests are fighting it. But this time, the atmosphere feels different,...
by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I’ve stressed any number of times the importance I attach to a heavy focus by raw dairies on milk safety. Some raw milk proponents have let me know they think my focus on safety is a diversion from more important political issues. And some raw milk opponents...
by David Gumpert | Mar 21, 2011 | Uncategorized |
When I was planning a trip to southern Asia for this month, one of the high points was going to be a stop in Myanmar, the country best known as Burma. I was intrigued with its isolation, hoping, I think, to get a sense of the old Asia, pre-hyper-development. My...
by David Gumpert | Mar 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The misinformation that continues to be perpetrated about raw dairy is symptomatic of a much larger problem, as various individuals have pointed out on this blog. Farmers like Joel Salatin, who successfully use sustainable techniques to produce and market...
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