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:...
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...
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