by David Gumpert | May 15, 2009 | Uncategorized |
As long as we’re discussing our fear-based culture, I should mention the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). A dairy farmer wrote recently to gently remind me I hadn’t written much of late about NAIS, and to urge me to do so because it’s...
by David Gumpert | May 13, 2009 | Uncategorized |
The television show “20/20” did a segment last Friday about the use of steroids by athletes. Ho hum, I thought. Another of those slam jobs on professional baseball players using performance enhancers. But before long, I was paying close attention, because...
by David Gumpert | May 9, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been wrestling with a raw-milk dilemma of sorts. Not a huge dilemma, and not something in which my decision will have a lot of impact. But the more I think about it, the more agitated I find myself becoming. Here’s the situation: A few days ago a...
by David Gumpert | May 6, 2009 | Uncategorized |
When California’s proposed SB 201 legislation substituting a quality-control process for the ten-coliform-per-milliliter standard was vetoed by the governor last September, the coliform standard was locked in as the law of the Golden State. With that veto, the...
by David Gumpert | May 4, 2009 | Uncategorized |
There’s been a tendency on the part of some of us ne’er-say-die types to hope that, once President Obama got past this economic crisis stuff (and forgetting about whatever giveaways he’s engaged in on the financial front), he’d be ready to...
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2009 | Uncategorized |
You put the news on the back burner for a few days and what happens? Pots boiling over all over the place. I had an April 30 deadline for my book about raw milk, so have been singularly focused the last few days. (I did meet the deadline, whew.) But like everyone...
by David Gumpert | Apr 27, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I completed Amanda Rose’s survey for raw milk drinkers, and could only marvel that this effort might be considered controversial. With no slight intended to Amanda, because the survey is an interesting effort, what I am suggesting is that its thrust mainly...
by David Gumpert | Apr 24, 2009 | Uncategorized |
In the ongoing debate over raw milk safety that simmers on this blog, I’ve been struck by a subtle change in tone and approach of late. This change is epitomized by two items: the barely civil exchange between Mark McAfee and Concerned Person over a so-called...
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