by David Gumpert | May 30, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The media in recent months have been full of articles about raw milk. While many of them now quote proponents of raw milk, the writers color the articles heavily with fear mongering, like this from the Chicago Tribune. Even those written by supposed raw milk drinkers,...
by David Gumpert | May 28, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Google the terms “Hartmann Farm, Gibbon, MN” and you’ll get a good five pages of lawyer and media sites writing that three of four people have become ill from E.coli 0157:H7 in raw milk sold by the dairy. Nearly all the articles are based on an...
by David Gumpert | May 25, 2010 | Uncategorized |
While attention has been riveted on the efforts of Big Dairy to push public officials to roll back or prevent availability of raw milk in states like Wisconsin and Massachusetts, a more ominous trend has been quietly taking shape among the nation’s milk...
by David Gumpert | May 23, 2010 | Uncategorized |
A reader emailed me questioning how I could suggest farmers partake of civil disobedience. “It strikes me as somewhat irresponsible to be recommending farmers break the law to make a point about rights. Easy for you to recommend that since it doesn’t...
by David Gumpert | May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized |
This tidbit just a couple days ago from an investment adviser I follow, Richard Russell, who’s been writing a very popular newsletter for upwards of fifty years: “Do your friends a favor. Tell them to ‘batten down the hatches’ because...
by David Gumpert | May 18, 2010 | Uncategorized |
John Auerbach, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public HealthThe general assumption about the after-hours announcement May 7 that the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources was withdrawing its proposed ban on buying clubs was that the move was prompted by a...
by David Gumpert | May 18, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I have to admit I sometimes feel sorry for Scott Soares, the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. This guy, by all accounts, has been a supporter of small farms in Massachusetts. As recently as last December, he sent a strong letter...
by David Gumpert | May 15, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Domonstrators Monday on Boston Common, near MA State House.It’s taken me a little longer than I expected to recover from the Massachusetts raw milk protest festivities on Monday. I’ve never been involved in organizing a protest. Not that I did a lot of the...
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