by David Gumpert | Feb 14, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Last Sunday’s Boston Globe Magazine contained a very disturbing article—in both print and pictures—about a pregnant woman who went to a suburban hospital to give birth, and wound up with a terrible infection. To me, it relates directly to the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2008 | Uncategorized |
As cynical as I am about all this presidential stuff—the money that’s being spent on these campaigns is astounding—I’ve gotten caught up in the voting and sport of it all. It’s hard not to , given the characters and the drama. I’ll...
by David Gumpert | Feb 11, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I find myself wondering… The suits against Organic Pastures Dairy Co. aren’t asking for huge damages. They seem to be based on weak and contradictory evidence. They come at a time when Organic Pastures is at the center of a political dispute to reverse...
by David Gumpert | Feb 9, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Yes, it is sad news about the families of Lauren Herzog and Chris Martin suing Organic Pastures Dairy Co. As I’ve written before, it’s too bad the families haven’t been able to get on with their lives and leave this situation behind. And as Kathryn...
by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2008 | Uncategorized |
When you stand back a little, one of the truly amazing things about the decline in the number of dairies—really, the consolidation of the dairy industry—is the active opposition of the state agriculture officials to small dairies trying to achieve...
by David Gumpert | Feb 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Okay, I’m back to reality. Not sure where all that Mitt Romney stuff came from—dreams are funny that way. Maybe because he was a skillful venture capitalist in his day (and made all the millions he’s now throwing into the presidential race), I had...
by David Gumpert | Feb 4, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I had a dream last night that I was trying to explain raw milk to, of all people. Mitt Romney. Somehow I was giving him a ride somewhere, or giving him directions (talk about a guy who needs direction!) to get to a campaign appearance. (The photo at left is of a...
by David Gumpert | Feb 2, 2008 | Uncategorized |
The discussion on my previous post got me wondering: how is it that we seem to be losing the right to eat what we want? Steve Bemis alludes to Sinclair Lewis and his expose on the meat slaughterhouses. That led fair-minded Americans to demand government involvement,...
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