by David Gumpert | Jul 23, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It’s easy to lose sight of just how far removed from real health many health-care workers are. I’m back in Sarasota again, partly to tend to my mother, who has weakened a good deal since my last visit in April. She had a heart attack in early July and now...
by David Gumpert | Jul 21, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Maybe I just need to stop looking at statistics about food contamination. Something isn’t clicking when I review the various compilations and studies. My disconnect comes from trying to resolve the relatively small numbers of milk-related illness cited in the...
by David Gumpert | Jul 20, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I foresee a time, perhaps five to ten years into the future, when everyone will have access to raw milk—perhaps some at farms, but many at local stores. Those of us who have been involved one way or another in the stings and harassment of the last few years will...
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...
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