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...
by David Gumpert | Oct 20, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Cliff Hatch leads a tour of his Upinngil Farm. Lots of fun yesterday at the fund-raising event for the Raw Milk Network of the Northeast Organic Farming Association. Delicious home-cooked food (egg nog, quiches, salad, an array of homemade desserts) and wonderful...
by David Gumpert | Oct 16, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Eric Wagoner’s refrigerated raw milk truck.Every week for the last five years, Eric Wagoner, a Georgia farmer, has been delivering raw milk to members of a buyers club he organized. Because he is bringing the milk from dairies in neighboring South Carolina, he...
by David Gumpert | Oct 12, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been thinking a lot over the last few weeks about illnesses from foodborne pathogens, in particular how they’re portrayed for raw milk. Two recent articles—one about the safety of mass-produced ground beef and the other about the safety of raw...
by David Gumpert | Oct 10, 2009 | Uncategorized |
A California milk processing plant, from the California Dairies Inc. web site. Whenever you hear business executives blame poor profits and sales on their customers’ lack of intelligence, you know there’s a serious underlying management problem. In fact,...
by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The empty confinement area at The Family Cow farm.It’s almost eerily quiet in the huge holding area that was once the center of Edwin Shank’s confinement dairy in central Pennsylvania. In the adjoining photo, you can see the empty structure, where hundreds...
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