by David Gumpert | Dec 3, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been reading the various analyses of the terrible events in Mumbai over the weekend, and realizing that most of the analysts don’t really know what happened or why. But that doesn’t prevent some from venting their hostility on other matters. An...
by David Gumpert | Nov 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
There’s an interesting discussion on my Nov. 25 post in which I encourage people to buy lots of raw dairy products. Mark McAfee includes a list of suggestions to would-be raw milk producers. His basic advice is that while it may be difficult to raise the money...
by David Gumpert | Nov 28, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’m especially thankful this Thanksgiving for dairy farmers Barb and Steve Smith. Along with others like Mark Nolt, Glen Wise, Richard Hebron, Mark McAfee, Ron Garthwaite, Collette Cassidy, Michael Schmidt, Lori and Darren McGrath, and others I am temporarily...
by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
When I spoke at the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Wise Traditions Conference a couple weeks ago, I recounted the mixed bag of legal and legislative results on the raw milk front. Here, briefly, is what I described: Legal actions. There have been a couple of...
by David Gumpert | Nov 24, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee in his comment on my previous post about the federal case against him advises would-be dairy farmers to set up small herdshares as an economically feasible way to make raw milk more widely available. Just don’t try that tactic in New York. In a blunt...
by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Last March, I described how agents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid evening visits to the homes of two Organic Pastures Dairy Co. employees to question them about interstate sales of raw milk. The visits were follow-ups to mysterious subpoenas the women...
by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I described recently how difficult I found it to explain to a cousin just what all the controversy over raw milk is really about. When I read the comments on my interview with the California regulator, I appreciated once again how complicated this subject is. This...
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...
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