by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2020 | What's New |
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...
by David Gumpert | Dec 18, 2019 | What's New |
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...
by David Gumpert | Dec 9, 2019 | What's New |
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...
by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2019 | What's New |
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...
by David Gumpert | Nov 27, 2019 | What's New |
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...
by David Gumpert | Oct 20, 2019 | What's New |
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...
by David Gumpert | Sep 18, 2019 | What's New |
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...
by David Gumpert | Sep 10, 2019 | What's New |
This doesn’t feel like a great time to be taking pot shots at the mainstream media. On nearly a daily basis, our president is rallying hatred as he accuses CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other outlets of publishing “fake news,” a catch-all for...
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