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...
by David Gumpert | Jul 31, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’m not through with my “Illusionist”-driven effort to re-visit milk data. (Don, afraid I’m a little slow on the uptake, so I didn’t figure the ending out till…the end.) Last month, when I first inquired about the case of Dawn...
by David Gumpert | Jul 30, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I saw a very clever movie this weekend, “The Illusionist”. That movie, together with comments on my previous posting—citing evidence suggesting that potential dangers from listeria monocytogenes may be overstated—got me thinking. Since last...
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