by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I was driving today to Oake Knoll Ayrshires Farm in Foxboro, MA, to pick up some raw milk, feeling a tad resentful. I didn’t really have the time to drive an hour back and forth. Why couldn’t I just buy it at the grocery store? Adding to my irritation,...
by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2009 | Uncategorized |
For about two years, a debate has flared on and off on this blog over whether raw milk produced by Organic Pastures Dairy Co. made six California children ill in September 2006. Mary McGonigle-Martin has pushed most insistently that OPDC’s milk was the culprit....
by David Gumpert | Mar 21, 2009 | Uncategorized |
In most cases, if two bloggers here decided to settle their philosophical differences via a duel or competition of some kind, I’d offer to referee. But for a “Poo Duel” of the sort described by Ken Conrad and Lykke? I’m pretty sure I...
by David Gumpert | Mar 17, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’m fairly recent to the food safety debate, relatively speaking. I think I really began looking at it seriously when six children in California became ill during September 2006, and raw milk produced by Organic Pastures Dairy Co. was blamed as the culprit. I...
by David Gumpert | Mar 14, 2009 | Uncategorized |
It would be nice to think that Michelle Obama’s interest in nutritious food possibly portends good things for the future of sustainable agriculture. I worry, though, because of the swelling hysteria over food safety. From what I can see, there are two political...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I had a chance to watch the documentary about Canadian raw dairy producer Michael Schmidt on Sunday, again. I was participating as a panelist at a screening of the documentary put on by Slow Food Boston. I had seen the documentary (“Michael Schmidt: Organic Hero...
by David Gumpert | Mar 8, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I’ve felt myself in an awkward position the last couple weeks. There are a number of promising developments on the raw milk front, and I’ve been loathe to report them. As one example, I was in New Hampshire a few weeks ago, at The Co-op Food Store in...
by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2009 | Uncategorized |
There are two news stories that relate directly to recent discussion topics here. The first, reported by USA Today, is that flu viruses are quickly becoming resistant to the seeming miracle drug Tamiflu. That’s creating all kinds of concerns in the medical...
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