by David Gumpert | Nov 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The explanations and opinions of the California public health food regulator I’ve quoted in my previous two posts may not be very satisfying, but they provide at least the possibilities of dialogue…and progress. The wide variety of insightful comments and...
by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I always appreciate hearing the world views of people who live in different worlds than I do. I’m still in Germany and tonight I rode with a middle-aged Pakistani taxi driver who expressed dismay that German churches are “so lifeless,” while the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 13, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Before I got sidetracked with my Holocaust experience, I had a few things still to report from the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Wise Traditions conference. One was a report on a lengthy conversation I had with a well-placed California food regulator about raw...
by David Gumpert | Nov 11, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I departed the Weston A. Price Foundation conference early to travel to Germany and attend special ceremonies in my deceased mother’s hometown, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht–the night Germany burned nearly all the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2008 | Uncategorized |
It’s difficult to imagine that there might be a country that is more inhospitable to raw milk than the U.S., but there is, and it is just across to the north–Canada. That becomes clear in a chilling documentary just out, “Michael Schmidt: Organic...
by David Gumpert | Nov 9, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been at the Weston A. Price Foundation annual conference the last couple days, and yesterday participated on a panel about the legal issues around the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and raw milk (more on the latter in an upcoming post). One of...
by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
No matter what your political persuasion, it was hard not to be moved by watching Barack Obama give his victory speech last evening in Chicago. So many Americans have one or another bad memory about racial relations in the U.S., be it personal or via the media, that...
by David Gumpert | Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The notion of a private club of raw-foods consumers outside the purview of health and agriculture officials’ clutches doesn’t cut it with law enforcement officials. In following up on my previous post, I spoke with an assistant state’s attorney for...
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