by David Gumpert | Mar 6, 2008 | Uncategorized |
One of the amazing things to me about the crackdown by New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets has been the near-absence of concern or outrage expressed by state legislators or the media. For legislators, I can only assume they don’t know about...
by David Gumpert | Mar 5, 2008 | Uncategorized |
In the context of what’s been going on here, I know I’m a little off topic. But maybe a little change of pace is in order… A couple years ago, I attended a one-day meditation retreat at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. After several hours of...
by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Is the argument over raw milk one of rights or one of safety? Many here want it to be over rights. But then the best approach would be too obvious. How can a society that goes ballistic over infringing on one’s right to have guns object to one’s right to...
by David Gumpert | Mar 1, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I wish the debate that’s been going on here about the risks associated with raw milk might have taken place yesterday, in the Albany, NY, courtroom where a hearing was held over whether Barb and Steve Smith should be held in contempt of court. Instead, the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 28, 2008 | Uncategorized |
It’s interesting that so many discussions here about the benefits of raw milk seem eventually to revert to the emotionally-laden matter of safety, to the argument that raw milk is somehow a special class of food that is inherently unsafe. It happens again...
by David Gumpert | Feb 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Perhaps it’s apropos that, at this time when our right to access the food of our choice is under frontal attack in New York and California, Ralph Nader should declare himself a candidate for president. This is the same Ralph Nader whose Public Citizen’s...
by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2008 | Uncategorized |
One of the benefits to emerge from the trauma of the Michigan “sting” of October 2006–when Richard Hebron was stopped, his raw-milk products confiscated, and his home searched–was an activist community of raw-milk consumers. Hundreds wrote the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I’m glad to learn that many of you want to know the details of the proceedings in the raw-milk legal cases, because those details are becoming more intriguing literally by the day. That “slam dunk” Bob Hayles is looking for? Well, I think...
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