by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I’m still feeling drained from my just-published BusinessWeek.com column about the fallout from a government raid last March in Cincinnati against Gary Oaks and the Double O Farms cowshare owners. I originally telephoned Gary last week, more as a courtesy to...
by David Gumpert | Nov 22, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I’m beginning to think that events like the seizure of Linda Faillace’s sheep and the sting against Family Foods Cooperative/Richard Hebron should be classifed as human rights abuses. I was pushed further along in that thinking by a movie I just watched,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Enough Wife Swap. There’s actually been some informative media of late about government bullying of small farms. First, there’s an excellent interview of Linda Faillace, author of "Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA’s War on a Family...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The comments on my posting about the Wife Swap show got me thinking a little more about the whole thing, and I realize it could be a negative experience, in any number of ways. First, television’s fickleness. I had forgotten just how maddening television can be,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 19, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I just received an interesting email from Organic Pastures Dairy Co., the Fresno, CA, raw milk producer I wrote about in September and October after it was closed for two-and-a-half weeks by California agriculture authorities on suspicion of selling contaminated raw...
by David Gumpert | Nov 17, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I had lunch today with an old media-writer friend I had fallen out of touch with for a number of years. We were reminiscing about the old days more years ago than I want to think about when we worked for competing wire services, and we used to race to the nearest pay...
by David Gumpert | Nov 16, 2006 | Uncategorized |
When Carolyn and Jacob Hall’s four-year-old son, Peter, became ill last spring with campylobacter, it triggered a series of events that eventually led the Ohio Department of Agriculture in September to revoke the dairy license of Carol...
by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2006 | Uncategorized |
A day after my exploration of the theory of the food chain, we gain insight from a farmer as to the challenges of making fundamental changes. A woman who identifies herself as The Food Lady has an interesting post about the difficulties of transforming a small...
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