by David Gumpert | Aug 14, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I had to laugh as I read a front-page article in yesterday’s New York Times about cage-free eggs—one of today’s hot food products. So many food and restaurant businesses, including fast-food places, are stumbling over themselves to promote their use...
by David Gumpert | Aug 12, 2007 | Uncategorized |
What especially excites me about covering food and nutrition issues are the many signs that major shifts, of a positive sort, are underway in food production and distribution. Even the government harassment of raw milk producers, notwithstanding their individual...
by David Gumpert | Aug 11, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The latest battle in the raw milk wars broke out today in south-central Pennsylvania. A group of ten state police and agents from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) descended on the 100-acre...
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...
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