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What Made Brit and Her Husband Ill? It All Depends on How You Look at the World

by David Gumpert | Sep 14, 2007 | Uncategorized | 10 comments

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...

This Boxing Match May Have a Few Too Many Personal Punches

by David Gumpert | Sep 13, 2007 | Uncategorized | 13 comments

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...

Will the Real Mark McAfee Please Stand Up! The Downside of High-Yield Crops

by David Gumpert | Sep 12, 2007 | Uncategorized | 29 comments

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...

In the Shadow of an NFL Stadium, A Trip into the Future: Massachusetts Raw Milk Dairy Day

by David Gumpert | Sep 10, 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

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...

Nearly a Year to the Day After Shutdown, the Raw Milk Inspectors Come Calling at Organic Pastures

by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2007 | Uncategorized | 35 comments

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...

Supposing Children Were Taught the Realities of Nutrition and Health?

by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2007 | Uncategorized | 6 comments

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...

And Now, a Word from the President on NAIS, Raw Milk, Germ Theory; Pharma and Ag Creativity

by David Gumpert | Sep 7, 2007 | Uncategorized | 7 comments

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...

The Hip Bones Connected to the Thigh Bone, the Thigh Bones Connected to

by David Gumpert | Sep 6, 2007 | Uncategorized | 6 comments

When I think about the Greg Niewendorp affair, what seems to hit me first isn’t the involvement of the state police, or the irritation of the sheriff, or Greg’s tough talk, but rather it is his view that depleted soil is causing the bovine TB problem in...
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