by David Gumpert | Jun 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday was a good day for proponents of food rights. The California Assembly’s Health Committee unanimously passed SB 201 and its provisions for pathogen testing and HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control point) programs instead of a coliform standard....
by David Gumpert | Jun 24, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As I watch this whole tomato contamination fiasco unfold—more than 500 people are reported to have become ill from salmonella in tomatoes—I can’t help but think that an important educational event is also taking place. The media act out what Ken...
by David Gumpert | Jun 21, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Watching farmers in Pennsylvania, New York, and California take big hits from regulators intent on putting the farmers out of business and scaring the public away from raw milk, it’s been tempting to become despairing about the cause of food rights. But a few...
by David Gumpert | Jun 19, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I took some time yesterday to stop in at a small organic farm just a few miles from where I live, and pick strawberries. The strawberry season here is about two weeks long, maybe three weeks if we get lucky. Then it will move north to New Hampshire and Vermont, and...
by David Gumpert | Jun 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
In the old Soviet Union, political dissidents were, with the backing of the medical establishment, routinely committed to psychiatric hospitals and injected with powerful mind-altering drugs that took much of the fight out of them. I raise this example of the brute...
by David Gumpert | Jun 14, 2008 | Uncategorized |
We’ve been very fortunate on this blog to have had a number of people willing to share their experiences and knowledge around food-borne illness. First, there’s Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. Mark is open almost to a fault. He can’t resist...
by David Gumpert | Jun 13, 2008 | Uncategorized |
My first job in journalism was with the Chicago Daily News, a proud bastion of American journalism. I got hired while I was still in college as a copy boy. My job was to sit at the front of the vast newsroom with two or three other copy boys. Each time a reporter or...
by David Gumpert | Jun 10, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been traveling and trying to meet some writing deadlines, so am just in the last day or so catching up here. There’s definitely a lot of catching up to do. The growing concerns about the viability of our food system expressed by many on my previous...
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