by David Gumpert | Dec 13, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. thinks I’m being way too pessimistic in my assessment of the California situation and AB1735. He says that not only have key legislators been hit with thousands of emails protesting AB1735, but that the lawmakers...
by David Gumpert | Dec 12, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Together with 121 “members” of the limited liability company that owns their dairy’s cows, Barbara and Steve Smith have filed suit in state court against New York’s agriculture commissioner and dairy services director, seeking an order...
by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2007 | Uncategorized |
When you ask mainstream physicians about something they know little about—say, nutritional supplements or acupuncture—more often than not they’ll respond by belittling the approach, telling you to “save your money” or “there’s...
by David Gumpert | Dec 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
For the first time in a long time, I spent a week pretty much away from the Internet (okay, there were a few 15-20-minute spells to monitor some urgent business, but it sure felt as if I was away from it). In reading over email from the last week, it looks as if...
by David Gumpert | Dec 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
We all need to become more savvy not only about the food we eat and where we obtain it, but about interpreting all the related media messages that are created—spin, as the politicians like to call it. We like to think that our country has a free press, and...
by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The discussion about farmer profits, or lack thereof, illustrates how amazingly conflicted we are about food, both as growers and consumers. I hear several issues being raised simultaneously, and that has a way of clouding matters: –Personal goals...
by David Gumpert | Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’d like to discuss food prices from a different perspective than they tend to get talked about. I find it interesting that a number of farmers commenting on yesterday’s post seem to feel uncomfortable about their pricing, and feel the need to justify the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 26, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It was a seemingly ordinary posting on a raw milk listserve I subscribe to in Massachusetts (sponsored by a raw milk dairy, Oake_Knoll_Ayrshires, at Yahoo Groups). On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, a farmer offered “Certified organic fresh duckling available...
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