by David Gumpert | Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee and Scott Trautman rally demonstrators outside courthouse in Viroqua, WI, for Max Kane last December 21. Nearly two months ago, I reported on an imaginary job review of the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Division of Plant and Dairy...
by David Gumpert | Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
A few weeks ago, with lots of fanfare, the head of Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced a “working group” on raw milk, “to decide whether raw milk sales should be allowed in Wisconsin, and if...
by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Joseph Heckman of Rutgers University.Joseph Heckman often feels very lonely in his position as a professor specializing in soil fertility at Rutgers University in New Jersey. That’s because he’s a big believer in the virtues of raw milk, and in what he...
by David Gumpert | Jan 31, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Scott Soares, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.For years, Massachusetts has epitomized a sensible approach to raw milk. It provides permits to dairies selling raw milk directly from the farm. And it’s tolerated buying groups...
by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Ontario Judge Paul KowarskyI spoke last evening before a group of about 35 attendees at the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Princeton, NJ, chapter. I try in my talks, as I do here on the blog, to emphasize my belief that raw milk is a proxy issue for food rights....
by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Michael Schmidt displays cow manure he credits with replenishing his farm’s soil, during a tour of Glencolton Farm’s dairy operations Wednesday evening. Americans tend to view Canada as a socialist version of the United States, what with its universal...
by David Gumpert | Jan 22, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Michael Schmidt meets with the media before entering a Newmarket courthouse.In a decision that took Ontario Judge Paul Kowarsky two-and-a-half hours to read, and sounded much of the time like a thoroughly researched legal treatise, raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt was...
by David Gumpert | Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized |
The late Ayatollah Khomeini greeting supporters in Iran.Questions, questions. Here’s one before I get to those in the heading: What does raw milk have to do with genetically modified food? I found myself asking that question as I read through the comments...
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