by David Gumpert | May 9, 2021 | What's New |
The barefoot three-year-old in a faded pink dress comes running to her white-bearded grandfather, who’s sitting at a small desk table. She’s crying, pointing to the toes of her left foot, which she just scraped. The grandfather, Sam Girod, holds her in one arm, and...
by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2021 | What's New |
At least two Ontario farms that had been selling raw milk via herd share agreements have been raided in the last few days by Ontario health inspectors backed up by police. Dumping bootleg alcohol during a raid on a brewery in the midst of American Prohibition....
by David Gumpert | Mar 20, 2021 | What's New |
I inquired with Michael Schmidt last week about doing an interview to follow up on the rejection of the latest legal initiative in Canada designed to get some relenting on the government’s long-term ban on raw dairy. I wondered about his state of mind, what he might...
by David Gumpert | Mar 13, 2021 | What's New |
As I read through Ontario Judge Shaun O’Brien’s stinging rejection of raw milk in any way, shape, or form, I found myself singing the old Carole King rock classic, “It’s too late baby, yeah it’s too late….” Raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt greets police raiding his...
by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2021 | What's New |
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur I couldn’t help but think about this quote last Wednesday, as I sat in on a panel discussion at the Harvard Business School of a recently completed case study of Moderna, whose Covid vaccine is taking the world by storm...
by David Gumpert | Jan 28, 2021 | What's New |
A few American sheriffs will always hold an important spot in food rights lore, even if they wound up getting sucked into Donald Trump’s “big lie” that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Brad Rogers back in 2011, as an Indiana county sheriff. One of the most important...
by David Gumpert | Jan 12, 2021 | What's New |
So the word is Vice President Pence has finally spoken with President Trump. I’ve been trying to imagine how that conversation went. Maybe something like this: Insurrectionists in the Capitol, one wearing an anti-Semitic t-shirt. (From British television channel ITV)...
by David Gumpert | Jan 7, 2021 | What's New |
This is the time of year to make resolutions….and predictions. I long ago gave up on New Year’s resolutions (just don’t work well in real life), but I love predictions. Not necessarily to make them, but to read about them. I remember all those wild predictions from...
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