by David Gumpert | Aug 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
What especially bothers me about the New York Times article I discussed yesterday is that I know the wording was no accident. I can point out how unprofessional the Podunk Post is in printing news releases from a state agriculture department without seeking comment...
by David Gumpert | Aug 9, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Well, another day, another media raw milk story. And this one in, of all places, the newspaper that reminds us daily that it publishes “All the news that’s fit to print.” It’s a lengthy article in the New York Times headlined, “Should...
by David Gumpert | Aug 8, 2007 | Uncategorized |
There’s a new type of raw milk dispute now going on in suburban Chicago. It seems so many people are coming to pick up their cow share milk on one street that residents are becoming upset. Rather than using stings, the authorities there are applying zoning laws....
by David Gumpert | Aug 7, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I appreciate the encouragement (on my previous post) to have a conversation with the farmer about her beef problem. Part of the reason the situation has eaten at me (so to speak) is that it runs seriously counter to my normal approach in such situations. I believe...
by David Gumpert | Aug 6, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been struggling with something of an awkward, even embarrassing, situation. It’s not all that huge in the scheme of things, but it’s been making me uncomfortable, nevertheless. Here’s the deal: Over the past year, I’ve been buying...
by David Gumpert | Aug 4, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’m beginning to wonder if the Almond Board of California may be regreting its decision to require pasteurization of almonds (discussed in a previous posting). There has been lots of zigging and zagging going on in the almond world in anticipation of the...
by David Gumpert | Aug 3, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Reporters and editors are supposed to be cynical questioning people by nature, yet it’s amazing how often many of them take the government’s word as final. If you read the articles Don Neeper links to (following my previous posting) that have published...
by David Gumpert | Aug 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
A few odds and ends stemming the research discussion of the last few days: –A reader alerted me to inconsistencies in the data presented to Pete Kennedy from the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) under the Freedom of Information Act, compared to other...
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