by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Yours truly with Joel Salatin, taking a break from signing books after my presentation at VICFA in Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday evening. I love to visit the Virginia Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (VICFA). I’ve been there twice now over the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 7, 2009 | Uncategorized |
There’s an interesting phenomenon going on now around raw milk. It is gradually, but very definitely, moving more toward the mainstream. Increasingly, the media are writing more objectively, the latest example being Jill Richardson’s even-handed assessment...
by David Gumpert | Nov 4, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The question of whether Organic Pastures Dairy Co. outsources dairy products has been lurking on this blog like an old sore that won’t heal. Each time it looks as if it’s resolved, it really isn’t, and it reappears. It’s been a pet issue...
by David Gumpert | Nov 3, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Scott Trautman and family. Among the array of tactics the federal-state regulatory authorities have trotted out in their war on raw milk—sting operations, harassment, questionable pathogen findings, legal initiatives—one potentially devastating tactic has...
by David Gumpert | Oct 30, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The buyers club crackdown, which saw members of a Georgia buyers club being forced to pour out their own milk, has now moved to Wisconsin. There, Max Kane, the head of the Belle’s Lunchbox buyers club that supplies raw milk customers in Chicago, has a court date...
by David Gumpert | Oct 26, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The concept of “beginner’s mind” in Zen Buddhism advises us that, no matter how advanced we might think our knowledge of any subject, we should always seek to approach it from the perspective of the beginner. I felt as if I was being pushed to adopt...
by David Gumpert | Oct 24, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price FoundationChange often comes in funny ways. Take the debate about raw milk. Earlier this week, food poisoning lawyer Bill Marler, who has close ties to the public health and regulatory communities, issued a diatribe of sorts against...
by David Gumpert | Oct 22, 2009 | Uncategorized |
A favorite tactic of jailers is to make prisoners clean up their mess after rebellious behavior. The idea is to humiliate them, in hopes they won’t ever again contemplate standing up to their jailers. You get that feeling of the inmates being humiliated when you...
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