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...
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...
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