by David Gumpert | Dec 7, 2010 | Uncategorized |
There are lots of reasons to be upset by S510, the so-called food safety bill. But none of those reasons justifies my lashing out and impugning the intellect or motives of those fighting for the Tester-Hagan amendment to exempt some smaller producers and farms from...
by David Gumpert | Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I keep asking myself, how did we ever get to this point, where political and economic control of America’s food system is on the verge of being turned over to a government agency whose leaders declared early this year we have “no absolute right” to...
by David Gumpert | Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The Tester-Hagan Amendment was supposed to be the savior of S510, giving smaller producers an exemption from the worst requirements of the so-called food safety legislation. Now, it turns out, the amendment may be the great black hole of the entire food safety...
by David Gumpert | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The U.S. Senate passed S510 by a large majority, including the provisions of the Tester-Hagan amendment exempting small food producers. It’s looking ever more likely that the U.S. House will approve the Senate’s version and, presto, the U.S. Food and Drug...
by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The real QE2 (Queen Elizabeth 2)I’ve been referring to S 510 as the so-called food safety bill. I’ve done that because, while some of it has to do with food safety, much more of it has to do with repression. So in looking over the comments over the last...
by David Gumpert | Nov 27, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I didn’t realize it till Thanksgiving was over, but one of the things I am thankful for is that I still have access to locally produced nutrient-dense foods. Yesterday, family and friends indulged in a 19.5-pound turkey I had bought from a nearby farm that also...
by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I swear, you have to be a parliamentary expert to figure out what’s happening with the so-called food safety legislation, S 510. But in a nutshell, it’s very close to passage in the U.S. Senate. When that happens, the Senate version will go to the House,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I was curious what all this commotion about the California Girl Scouts and Organic Pastures was all about, so I asked Mark McAfee to send me some background info. As soon as I saw the illustration for the Girl Scout “Raw Milk Badge”, all I could do was...
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