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...
by David Gumpert | Nov 14, 2006 | Uncategorized |
It wasn’t all that long ago that most of us ate white bread, pesticide-treated fruits and vegetables, and anti-biotics-laden eggs, chicken and beef. We did it because that was all that was available and we didn’t know any better that to seek out...
by David Gumpert | Nov 11, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Two comments on yesterday’s posting about the views of Ohio officials, from Cara and Miguel, raise a similar question: Are public officials open to possibly adjusting their view of the world of milk safety, or are they locked into a...
by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Apart from my sad interviews with struggling Ohio raw-milk dairy farmers, the most intriguing conversation I had reporting my latest BusinessWeek.com column on the state’s uber-enforcement was with Lewis Jones, head of the Ohio Department of...
by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2006 | Uncategorized |
You have to wonder if the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) has perhaps stumbled onto an international connection in its investigation of the Family Farms Cooperative. When the case first blew open four weeks ago tomorrow with confiscation of the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 8, 2006 | Uncategorized |
As the raw milk wars being fought around the country increasingly permeate the public consciousness, the issue could attract some positive political attention in the aftermath of yesterday’s voting. The first place this might happen is in Ohio,...
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