by David Gumpert | Aug 30, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I keep reading about so-called A1 and A2 milk. I haven’t read The Devil in the Milk, but have read enough about it to get the main idea. (According to Amazon’s description of the book, “Milk that contains A1 beta-casein is commonly known as A1 milk;...
by David Gumpert | Aug 28, 2009 | Uncategorized |
If I’ve sounded negative about the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund’s legal initiatives (see my Aug. 22 and Aug. 24 postings), the negativity isn’t rubbing off on Pete Kennedy, the organization’s president. He tells me the fledgling...
by David Gumpert | Aug 25, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Ron Garthwaite and his wife, Collette Cassidy, tend to calves at Claravale Farm in Panoche, CA.As he contemplated a possible December trial of the 2008 suit against California agriculture officials in connection with AB 1735 and its tough coliform standard, Claravale...
by David Gumpert | Aug 23, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund was launched on July 4, 2007, to symbolically emphasize its commitment to farmer and consumer independence. It was formed in large measure as a result of a government crackdown on producers of raw milk, and the emergence of the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 19, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Stephen Leslie and team plow a field at Cedar Mountain Farm in Vermont. (Photo by Carla Kimball, http://revealedpresence.com/2009/08/25/farming-with-horses/)Before they came to eastern Vermont ten years ago and launched Cedar Mountain Farm, Kerry Gawalt and Stephen...
by David Gumpert | Aug 17, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Like many Americans, I watched with amazement, and a sense of shame, the videos earlier this week about the thousands of people drawn to free health care services in the Los Angeles area (provided by Remote Area Medical).So great was the demand that even after...
by David Gumpert | Aug 14, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Ray Robinson milks his cows at the family dairy in Hardwick, MA, last Saturday.You have to wonder… Pam and Ray Robinson run a small dairy farm with 35 cows in central Massachusetts, where they sell some of their milk raw directly to consumers. Earlier this...
by David Gumpert | Aug 11, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Michael and Anita Puckett, owners of Dee Creek, after a federal judge refused to impose a plea agreement last September.At the raw milk symposium sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) last month, I argued in my presentation that all the fuss...
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