by David Gumpert | Sep 28, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Ive been trying real hard to understand the causes of the current financial crisis. I even watched former president Bill Clinton explain it on the David Letterman Show, but despite Clintons efforts to simplify, my reaction was similar to Lettermans: It makes my head...
by David Gumpert | Sep 26, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday I was in New Hampshire, running a few errands, one of which was to pick up a new supply of fresh milk. The farm I buy it from is on a little-traveled side road, so I was more than a bit surprised to pull up and see, across the road, a brand new enclosed...
by David Gumpert | Sep 22, 2008 | Uncategorized |
A number of people correctly point out the circular nature of the arguments about raw milk and pathogens that keep coming up–most recently in my previous post. It feels, sometimes, as if we get stuck in a netherworld where were not sure what is sick and what is...
by David Gumpert | Sep 19, 2008 | Uncategorized |
One thing you have to say about the state agriculture officials in New York, Pennsylvania, and California. At least theyre consistent. When they claim to find pathogens in samples of raw milk and no one gets sick, they force a recall or shut down raw milk production...
by David Gumpert | Sep 15, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I suspect a lot of people arent going to like what I have to say about the latest version of the Bill and Mark Show. Bill Chirdon is the head of the Pennsylvania Department of Agricultures Bureau of Food Safety, and one of his main roles in life seems to be to torment...
by David Gumpert | Sep 13, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The decision last week by a federal magistrate to ignore a plea deal and not impose probation on Anita and Michael Puckett of Dee Creek Farm (described in my previous post) seemed a small but decent gesture by a government official to say, at long last, enough is...
by David Gumpert | Sep 12, 2008 | Uncategorized |
If you want to know how serious the U.S. government is about discouraging raw milk consumption, especially via herd shares, consider the experiences of Anita and Michael Puckett, owners of Dee Creek Farm in Washington state. Dee Creek is the dairy whose raw milk...
by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2008 | Uncategorized |
A consumer on a raw milk listserve last week said she was looking for a herd share in California because Claravale Farms milk sells for $4.49 a quart in one California health food store (thats $18 a gallon, if you don’t have a calculator handy). Then today I was...
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