by David Gumpert | Jun 13, 2007 | Uncategorized |
If you’ve ever had cockroaches in your kitchen, you know that when you arrive home in the evening and turn on the lights, they all scurry for the cupboards and baseboards. Maybe later they emerge into the bathroom or bedroom. (That seemed to be the routine in my...
by David Gumpert | Jun 12, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’ve always thought of state agencies—be they auto registries, tax collectors, or agriculture departments—as being fairly independent of each other, and the federal government. The idea that they might coordinate policy on a nearly national basis...
by David Gumpert | Jun 11, 2007 | Uncategorized |
One thing I’ve learned in nine months of writing about raw milk is that the story I think I’m chasing down isn’t necessarily the real story. As just one example, last November I saw a small-town Ohio newspaper item about a Kentucky farmer who was...
by David Gumpert | Jun 9, 2007 | Uncategorized |
You can read in newspapers and magazines or be told about problems by friends, but it often isn’t till you experience the problems first-hand that you take them to heart. I was recently referred to a passage in the book, “Living Green”, in which...
by David Gumpert | Jun 8, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I was driving through Inman Square, a kind of trendy yet rough-around-the-collar area of Cambridge yesterday. While sitting in traffic on a main street filled with upscale grilles and Indian restaurants, I noticed one little hole-in-the-wall, advertising on a square...
by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2007 | Uncategorized |
About five months ago, when I had a physical exam, most everything seemed to come out well…except for one test that suggested something might be amiss. It was a test I hadn’t had, or even heard of, before–something known as a c-reactive protein...
by David Gumpert | Jun 6, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I was thinking as I was writing yesterday’s post that the Utah situation felt eerily like what happened in California last September–people becoming ill, but no trace of bugs in the suspected raw milk. Then I thought that maybe I was trying to read too...
by David Gumpert | Jun 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
One of the things that stayed with me from my conversations last February in reporting on Doug Kirkpatrick, the Michigan cattle and pig farmer who lost his animals by government decree after an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, was his description of how the ecology,...
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