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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Each time a major media outlet reports on raw milk, demand rises. And when demand rises, more farmers become involved in production, and some of the existing farmers expand their capacity. I experienced the dynamic first-hand a couple months ago when I reported in an...
by David Gumpert | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Last week, the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund sponsored a teleseminar about the National Animal Identification System. One of the speakers was John Carter, a fifth-generation Australian cattleman, who spoke about the Australian experience with its equivalent of...
by David Gumpert | Jun 1, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Why do I get this feeling, as the saying goes, of déjà vu all over again? This situation with new California legislation SB 201 to fix AB 1735’s obsession with coliforms feels too much like AB 1604 last January, which was supposed to fix the same...
by David Gumpert | May 30, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Expect the focus in California’s raw milk battle to move from the now-familiar AB 1735 to the new SB 201. (AB stands for Assembly Bill, SB for Senate Bill.) In the process, opponents of AB 1735 hope to shift the milk-safety focus from coliforms to...
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