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...
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...
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