by David Gumpert | Jul 19, 2007 | Uncategorized |
My goal in yesterday’s post was to provide a quick overview of the data Pete Kennedy obtained from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Just to clarify, this data came from the CDC, not from the Weston A. Price Foundation. Kennedy initiated a request under the...
by David Gumpert | Jul 18, 2007 | Uncategorized |
How many Americans do you think have become ill in an average year from raw milk contamination, be it E.coli 0157:H7 or campylocacter or salmonella or listeria? I’m not talking about deaths, I’m talking about illnesses. Try 54. And if you take out the...
by David Gumpert | Jul 17, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Each of the last two weekends, I’ve had the good fortune to have been treated to meals that are completely locally produced—lettuce, kale, rutabaga, steak (grass-fed), and peach pie washed down with raw milk. (Okay, the peaches in the pie weren’t...
by David Gumpert | Jul 14, 2007 | Uncategorized |
There’s a kindly older gentleman, Bill, who often bags my groceries at the Whole Foods in Newton, MA, where I usually shop. For a number of years, we used to banter about the company and its stock. “This is a great company,” he would say. “They...
by David Gumpert | Jul 13, 2007 | Uncategorized |
One of my challenges in writing about the case of Dawn Sharts, the New York farmer fighting the state’s allegation that her raw milk was contaminated with listeria, was that there were so many weird occurrences I couldn’t fit them all into the article I...
by David Gumpert | Jul 12, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Is the government out to get Dawn Sharts? Dawn is a dairy farmer in upstate New York trying to sell, you guessed it, raw milk, and the state’s agriculture department has come down hard against her…giving her the modern-day version of tarring and...
by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I received an email from someone who read a recent article I wrote, and wondered if I could provide information about “how to find a primary care physician that will look at both my husband and me in a ‘whole’ way. “I would like...
by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I want to respond to two very well articulated, and provocative, comments on recent posts. They have in common the subject of pathogens in our food, but come at the subject in completely different ways. They kind of got me going. First, Laurie Girand, the head of Safe...
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