by David Gumpert | May 2, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I appreciate the supportive comments about my mother’s confrontation with the medical system. I hadn’t been aware of the ethical considerations, and will be in touch with the Florida Medical Society. The comments stimulated some further thoughts about...
by David Gumpert | May 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been in Sarasota, FL, the last week tending to my mother, who is 84, trying to help her decide whether or not she needs to move from her apartment in a senior citizen community into an assisted living facility. She’s had what seems to be a...
by David Gumpert | Apr 30, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I was watching a report this morning on CNN that repeated what Kirsten notes in her comment on Friday’s post—that some thousands of pigs had apparently been given feed containing melamine, the poison responsible for the deaths of at least a dozen dogs...
by David Gumpert | Apr 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been trying to make sense of the exchange of comments following my “Resistance Tales” a few days ago, and I don’t mean that as a criticism. There’s just been a real lot of amazing discussion going on and it’s a lot to follow. A...
by David Gumpert | Apr 27, 2007 | Uncategorized |
As Linda Diane Feldt points out in her generous acknowledgment on my most recent post, Steve Bemis played a huge role in helping mediate a highly favorable settlement for Richard Hebron in his tussle with the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA). I didn’t do...
by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Six months after launching an elaborate sting operation against Michigan farmer Richard Hebron while he delivered raw milk to cow-share owners in Ann Arbor, and a follow-on investigation that spanned at least three other states from Pennsylvania to Missouri, Michigan...
by David Gumpert | Apr 24, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Melissa’s ongoing upset about the safety of raw milk, based on her daughter’s illness, got me thinking…Suppose I raised my daughter on raw milk, organic produce, grass-fed beef, and other natural products—and assiduously avoided feeding her...
by David Gumpert | Apr 22, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Is the Greg Niewendorp approach to NAIS spreading? Niewendorp is the Michigan farmer who a few months ago became the first in the nation to publicly refuse to register his cows under the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Now the Wisconsin Department of...
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