by David Gumpert | May 8, 2026 | What's New |
One of the first pieces of news to hit me when I returned from a trip to Germany last week was a report in the Washington Post that the quality of America’s food continues to decline. Nutritional value of various foods in terms of components like protein, iron, and...
by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2026 | What's New |
One day in November 1936, my grandfather, Julius Joseph, was surprised by a group of food safety inspectors and police at his tallow factory in Darmstadt, Germany, a small city about a half hour south of Frankfurt. The inspectors berated him for accepting shipments of...
by David Gumpert | Apr 14, 2026 | What's New |
A journalism student recently wanted to interview me about regulation of raw dairy. She was especially interested in the efforts of Amish dairy farmers to ship and sell raw milk across state lines, which is illegal under U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules....
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2026 | What's New |
My blog is back! It doesn’t have an official name beyond davidgumpert.com (I’ve dispensed with ‘The Complete Patient’; you’ll realize why as you read the post that follows). The title for this post is “The March of Life,” which may or may not...
by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2024 | What's New |
After years on the periphery of American food options because of legal restrictions, raw (unpasteurized) milk has burst onto the national scene with the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services. HHS is one of the government’s...
by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2024 | What's New |
The scene on Trump’s plane a few days after he appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Health and Human Services….the joke’s on a) RFK Jr.? b)Trump? c) Us? It’s been nearly a year since I last posted here. A lot has happened in the world of...
by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2024 | What's New |
Sometimes it seems as if Pennsylvania Amish farmer Amos Miller is doomed to spend much of his adult life in food regulator hell. After fighting the U.S. Department of Agriculture for half a dozen years, and finally coming to a settlement this past fall of a dispute...
by David Gumpert | Sep 26, 2023 | What's New |
Could it possibly be that dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s near-30-year journey through Canada’s legal system over alleged violations of the country’s strict raw dairy laws is finally at an end? After all he’s dealt with in terms of police stakeouts,...
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