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Why Aren’t We Being Advised to Strengthen Our Immune Systems against Coronavirus?

by David Gumpert | Feb 27, 2020 | What's New | 54 comments

The media are full of advice about how to prepare for and avoid the corona virus, such as these articles in the New York Times and Washington Post. They include instructions on thoroughly washing hands, suggestions for what over-the-counter drugs to have on hand, and...

Very Quietly, the Risks of Getting Sick from Raw Milk Are Going Down

by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2020 | What's New | 80 comments

I almost hate to say it too loud, but there sure hasn’t been a lot of news over the last year or so about raw milk outbreaks.  It may well not be my imagination, because there’s a new study out suggesting that ever-more-widespread good-hygiene practices are...

Buzzards Circling Ever Lower Over Amos Miller’s PA Farm

by David Gumpert | Dec 18, 2019 | What's New | 77 comments

The regulatory news is becoming ever more ominous for Amos Miller, the Amish Pennsylvania farmer who serves many hundreds of food club members around the country with fresh dairy and meat products. Or maybe not.  Photo from Buffalo Bill Center of the West It’s...

A Different Sort of Writing, My First Novel Is Born

by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2019 | What's New | 45 comments

I’ve been spending lots of time over the last few years on a very different sort of writing project for me: my first novel. It’s a major reason I haven’t been able to post as often or keep up as closely as I would have liked about real-food developments. Now, at long...

The Pleasant Seductiveness of Delusion, in Food Politics and Real Politics

by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2019 | What's New | 55 comments

Aajonus Vonderplanitz Psst, wanna know what really happened to Aajonus Vonderplanitz, the raw-food guru who was reported to have died in a fall from the deck of his home in Thailand in 2013?  One of his raw food devotees, Richard Huynh, is trying to make the case...

Kristin Canty Brings Farm-to-Table to a Big Stage

by David Gumpert | Nov 27, 2019 | What's New | 10 comments

Many people here remember Kristin Canty best for her provocative 2011 documentary, Farmageddon, chronicling government crackdowns on raw dairies and other small farms.  Kristin Canty at her new Boston restaurant, Woods Hill Pier 4. Kristin’s heart is still with small...

FDA Torpedoes Raw Milk Labeling Petition

by David Gumpert | Oct 20, 2019 | What's New | 65 comments

Perhaps my heading should have said, “FDA Swats Away Raw Milk Labeling Petition Like a Pesky Mosquito.”  “Freedom Riders” protesting the FDA’s prohibition on interstate sales of raw milk, in 2011. This group eventually morphed into the Real Food...

The “Impossible Whopper” May Make End of Big Dairy, Beef Very Possible, via “Precision Fermentation”

by David Gumpert | Sep 18, 2019 | What's New | 96 comments

I spent much of my junior year at the University of Chicago in the mid-1960s as the managing editor of the college paper, where one of my jobs was to drive with a group of other editors to a huge printing plant west of the city each Tuesday evening, and put together...
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