by David Gumpert | Dec 2, 2006 | Uncategorized |
There’s quite a remarkable article just out from the Los Angeles Times magazine about Organic Pastures Dairy Co., and its trauma back in September and October, when five children who drank its milk became ill and the dairy was shut down by authorities...
by David Gumpert | Dec 1, 2006 | Uncategorized |
About 15 years ago, I read a very persuasive book by Alvin Toffler, “Power Shift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century.” He forecast the emergence of our knowledge-based economy along with huge struggles between new decentralized...
by David Gumpert | Nov 30, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The Canadian press has been aggressively pursuing the story of the government’s abuse of Michael Schmidt and his raw milk Glencolton Farms. Moreover, with just one blatant exception (the usual scare trash), the media coverage has been fairly...
by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been wanting to respond to a comment made over the weekend by Damaged Justice to my posting, "The Cincinnati Raw Milk Raid Opens Some Old Wounds". Damaged Justice stated, "Maybe we don’t have people being rounded up and murdered...
by David Gumpert | Nov 28, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Have no fear, your intrepid reporter is here. I’ve got this Canadian raw milk incident covered, and here’s my theory: the U.S. and Canada have initiated their mutual defense pact to fight the raw milk wars. Each country figured the wars are too big to...
by David Gumpert | Nov 27, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I was looking forward to recollecting my own bucolic raw milk experience this weekend. How I stopped in at the On the River Farm alongside the Connecticut River in Lyme, NH, picked up my raw milk, and had a long and enjoyable chat with owner Kathy Barrett...
by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The bust of Gary Oaks and the Double O Farms cowshare last spring in Cincinnati was actually a carefully orchestrated law enforcement affair, replete with multi-agency coordination and extensive planning. I learned about many of the details—much more than I...
by David Gumpert | Nov 24, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I think one of the reasons I was so drained by the story of Gary Oaks and the Double O Farms cowshare is that it reminded me in several ways about the climactic scene in a book I wrote about my aunt’s experiences in France during the Holocaust ("Inge:...
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