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...
by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I am of two minds about Thanksgiving. Like most everyone, I am grateful for the bounty and family time that are part of the holiday. But I always feel a sense of uneasiness about what follows, the assault on our senses by the advertising and retailing orgy we are all...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It’s easy to become outraged, as I did Monday, about a global food system in which individual farmers are anonymous cogs in a system controlled by huge international corporations. I can talk about not buying any more ginger, but what does that really...
by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Growing numbers of American consumers want to buy their food directly from farms, because the food is tastier, more nutritious, and safer than the alternative. There is an amazing endorsement of the safety factor in today’s Wall Street Journal, which has a...
by David Gumpert | Nov 19, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The speech in Congress and introduction of legislation permitting interstate shipments of raw milk by Rep. Ron Paul didn’t just happen in a vacuum. According to an email account from Aajonus Vonderplanitz, the California raw food expert, the move by the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 17, 2007 | Uncategorized |
On two acres in Rosanky, Texas, just outside of Austin, Debbie and Red Ferrell milk 30 goats to produce their fresh Maid in the Shade cheese. They’ve been at it for two-and-a-half years, and the $300 to $500 they bring in each week is an essential supplement to...
by David Gumpert | Nov 16, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I found myself wondering, as I was writing about Georgia dairy farmer Bob Hayles yesterday: Where is this all going? Are the farmers like Greg Niewendorp, Mark Nolt, and now Bob Hayles tilting at windmills? Is Mark McAfee doomed to be run out of business? Or are they...
by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2007 | Uncategorized |
When Georgia’s Department of Agriculture held its hearing a couple weeks ago on a proposal to require that all raw milk be dyed charcoal, raw-goat-milk producer Bob Hayles was the first to stand up and speak out against the regulation. Dozens of others followed...
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