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...
by David Gumpert | Jun 24, 2007 | Uncategorized |
My experience with people fighting political battles is that theirinclination to resort to fear tactics increases as their fear about losinggrows.The fact that the FDA and local health officials are becoming increasinglyshrill, and less respectful of the facts,...
by David Gumpert | Jun 21, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The more one analyzes the government’s data about raw milk, the more suspect the data become.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) obviously put a lot of time, thought, and energy into that 66-slide presentation that I and others assessed a few days...
by David Gumpert | Jun 21, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Politics in America has become ugly and divisive, leading to a blandnessamong candidates fearful of being caught saying or doing the "wrong"things. But behind the scenes, their lieutenants look for smear materialagainst rivals. it’s happening nearly...
by David Gumpert | Jun 19, 2007 | Uncategorized |
When I was in Virginia last week, I spent one night with Jim and Deb Naylor, who run the 160-acre Willis River Heaven’s Edge Farm in Dillwyn, VA. (Plus there’s another 200 acres they rent on two other farms, mostly for hay.) For this city guy, it was a...
by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It always helps in a political struggle to have a model to base your strategies on. In my talk in Virginia at the Virginia Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (VICFA) session last week, I made a connection, as I have in a few blog entries, to the Civil...
by David Gumpert | Jun 16, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’ve had the privilege over the last few days to meet personally individuals who are working hard to promote positive changes in nutrition and agriculture—members of the Virginia Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (VICFA). One of its most...
by David Gumpert | Jun 13, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Back in early 2005, I believe while I was scanning information on the FDA’s web site, I saw a mention about problems with raw milk at Dee Creek Farm in Washington state. Knowing of the FDA’s tendency to, shall we say, distort facts, I decided I wanted to...
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