by David Gumpert | Sep 15, 2007 | Uncategorized |
During the 1990s, when I was involved in running two businesses, I hired several dozen employees, and got on well with most of them. I had to fire a few—one of the most traumatic things I’ll ever do—and tried to be as sensitive as I could in...
by David Gumpert | Sep 14, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Brit says (following my Sept. 11 post) that she and her husband had the flu the other weekend, based on their symptoms. Melissa in her comments following the same post suggests they had listeriosis from the Organic Pastures cream that was recalled, based on the timing...
by David Gumpert | Sep 13, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Now that Mark McAfee entered the debate with Mary McGonigle-Martin and Melissa Herzog, I have this feeling of being ringside at a prizefight. I have been at two boxing matches in my life—both in my role as a newspaper reporter—and while I was transfixed...
by David Gumpert | Sep 12, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It seems like lots of people have lots of bones to pick with Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. He’s accused in the discussion following my Sunday posting of changing his story about whether he tests for pathogens, of letting his dairy get too big...
by David Gumpert | Sep 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Oake Knoll Ayrshires farm sits less than two miles from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA, where the New England Patriots play football, and yesterday it had its version of a big tailgating party. In a highly improbable scene—given the recall last week of raw...
by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The sense of déjà vu was eerie. First the California Department of Food and Agriculture posted a press release on its site: It had ordered a recall of raw cream produced by Organic Pastures Dairy Co. Then the Associated Press came out with a story, which...
by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’m a big fan of AlvinToffler, who writes books that predict the future. Though best known for Future Shock, I found his 1990 book, PowerShift, to be eye opening in describing how the shift to a knowledge-based economy would lead to unimaginable social and...
by David Gumpert | Sep 7, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Just how wide is the political-intellectual divide I wrote about Wednesday? Well, I had the good (or bad?) fortune to listen in on a conversation in the Oval Office, or at least I imagined I listened in. Here’s what I heard: Present at the meeting: the...
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