by David Gumpert | May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday I was trying to explain the raw milk situation to Julie, the woman who has been cutting my hair the last 15 years or so. Julie and I usually chat during the time she is cutting and trimming about movies or new restaurants in the area, but the last couple of...
by David Gumpert | May 27, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Count me as another re-thinker following the California court decision reinforcing AB 1735. I have frequently made the argument that the incidence of illness from raw milk is so tiny compared to other food-borne illnesses that the opponents should leave raw milk...
by David Gumpert | May 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
All we have to do is consider the government’s arguments in preserving California’s ten-coliform-per-milliliter standard to appreciate how far out the Human Microbiome Project really is. As several readers pointed out following my previous post, a...
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...
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