by David Gumpert | Jul 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
A number of people have expressed much better than I ever could the problems with using a few dramatic child-illness cases to deny nutritional rights (in comments following my last post). I’d like to add additional arguments—practical, health, and...
by David Gumpert | Jul 8, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I can see where the organization Safe Tables Our Priority (which, by the way, is at www.safetables.org) would make Mary McGonigle-Martin feel good (see her comment following my previous post). It’s a relief when you’ve been dealing with trauma seemingly...
by David Gumpert | Jul 6, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Thanks again to Mary McGonigle-Martin for enlightening us about E.coli in raw milk–for investing so much time and effort, because this kind of analysis isn’t easy to carry out. (See her comment following my previous posting.)I’m not surprised that...
by David Gumpert | Jul 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I think it’s important in the debate I summarized in my last posting to distinguish between mindsets and ideology. For myself, I’m talking about a mindset. I’ve come to see the world of healthcare and disease much differently than I did five years...
by David Gumpert | Jul 3, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Political leaders have long appreciated the importance of creating “enemies” to divert the masses from the real problems deserving attention, like education and infrastructure. In Europe and the Middle East, this approach led to centuries of religious...
by David Gumpert | Jun 30, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Nicolas Teyssedou seems at first your prototypical farmer—serious and a man of few words. But then you get the 25-year-old owner of La P’tite Ferme (the small farm) outside the town of Caussade in Southern France, talking about raw milk, and before long...
by David Gumpert | Jun 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I am generally loathe to make lots of comparisons between other countries I visit and the U.S., since it is difficult to gain a true picture of another country in a brief visit. But one thing that definitely stands out in driving around southern France is how...
by David Gumpert | Jun 26, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been spending the last few days in and around the village of Montegut, a place that doesn’t show up on many maps, about 50 miles south of Toulouse.Montegut is about two miles from a large 15th century chateau, Chateau de la Hille, where 100 Jewish...
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