by David Gumpert | Dec 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I want to thank Regulator…first, for risking him/herself on this blog, where regulator types haven’t always been well received and, second, for providing an articulate explanation of the challenges likely to confront farmers and other distributors of raw...
by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The wait is over. The Haphazard Gourmet has named the winner of its raw milk slogan contest, a contest that actually grew out of a comment by Mark McAfee on this site about the “Viagra effect” of raw milk. I commend the Haphazard Gourmet for its good humor...
by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’ve found myself thinking about a couple of 17th and 18th century political philosophers whose writings I read during college days: John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (“The Social Contract”). I couldn’t fully appreciate them at the time, but...
by David Gumpert | Dec 21, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Now that I’ve had some time to reflect, and to digest the comments on my previous post, I’d like to take another stab at answering the question I posed about what “the real message” of authorities was in the Stowers raid. I suggested it may...
by David Gumpert | Dec 18, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As I began reading through the court suit that Jacqueline and John Stowers have filed against various Ohio officials, I kept wondering about the retail licensing provision that supposedly prompted the entire affair. How was it that the Manna Storehouse was...
by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
We used to have a saying when I was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal a number of years back. One incident is curious, two is interesting, and three is a trend. I think it’s safe to say we are witnessing a trend, or shall we say an assault, by the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 15, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Now, if Mark McAfee can just tell us how much raw milk and cream correlate with how much Viagra…Talk about a wonderful way to get the regulators and raw milk producers on the same page. (If you can’t figure what I’m talking about, take a look at the...
by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The movement to convince President-elect Barack Obama to name a reformer as secretary of agriculture (or a re-named “secretary of food”) just got some clout, with a New York Times columnist now pushing it. It could be he will—he seems very much the...
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