by David Gumpert | May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Lo and behold, the U.S. government is sponsoring a huge project to investigate the role of bacteria in our bodies. It’s the Human Microbiome Project, and there’s an article about it in today’s New York Times. Reading through both descriptions,...
by David Gumpert | May 22, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I was listening to a segment on NPR yesterday afternoon about preparations already well under way for next winter’s flu vaccine. (Unfortunately, I can’t find the link on the NPR site.) A scientist from Princeton, I believe, was explaining how the flu virus...
by David Gumpert | May 20, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I spent some time over the weekend trying to catch up on my magazine reading, and one of the publications I read through was Acres U.S.A., which I know a lot of people here read regularly. It bills itself as “The Voice of Eco-Agriculture.” It’s kind...
by David Gumpert | May 17, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’m struck in some of the discussions on my recent postings about just how much rope some people are willing to give the government apologists. When I wrote about the stuttering stammering performance of a supposed public health expert about raw milk, Amanda...
by David Gumpert | May 15, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday, a reader wrote me to express concern “that all the attention that has been placed on raw milk has pulled people’s attention away from the NAIS (National Animal Identification System) issue. And I have begun to wonder if this isn’t being...
by David Gumpert | May 14, 2008 | Uncategorized |
If you want to get a sense of the double-talk that passes for science around the raw-milk issue, take a look at the transcript from the California Senate hearing on raw milk held April 15 in Sacramento. Organic Pastures Dairy Co. has just published the complete...
by David Gumpert | May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized |
One of the reasons I’ve been so fascinated with the issue of raw milk—I didn’t, after all, launch this blog as a “raw milk blog”—is that it is a proxy issue affecting a variety of food and health issues. The debate taking place on...
by David Gumpert | May 9, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As I drove around on country roads in central Pennsylvania earlier this week, I felt envious of the people who live near Mount Holly Springs and Elizabethtown. I saw lots of cows grazing on open pasture—a sight you don’t see in most parts of the country....
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