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...
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...
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