by David Gumpert | Apr 15, 2019 | What's New |
William McSwain, the U.S. Attorney who is prosecuting the case against raw dairy farmer Amos Miller Back at the start of his campaign for president, in September 2016, Donald Trump argued that the government could save well over $1 trillion by doing away with...
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2019 | What's New |
The pick-your-meat counter at the Butcher Shop and Grill in Johannesburg, South Africa I’m always struck, when I travel to far-off places like Europe and Asia, with how good the food tastes and looks, compared to what I’m used to in the U.S. The egg yolks are orange,...
by David Gumpert | Mar 9, 2019 | What's New |
Michael Schmidt greets regulators and police raiding his farm, on horseback, in 2012. You look at the map showing raw milk availability in the U.S., on the site of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, and you realize how far this country has come in making raw...
by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2019 | What's New |
The two main agencies charged with overseeing food health issues have been on the warpath against raw dairy. Let’s begin with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It’s made a federal case (quite literally) out of a single instance of illness last November from...
by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2019 | What's New |
The children of Alissa and Eric Spencer, spotlighted on WAPF’s “Healthy Baby Photo Gallery”; details at end of this post I’ve heard it said that people who cut the cord with a cult often feel a sense of embarrassment, or even shame. As in, How could...
by David Gumpert | Jan 15, 2019 | What's New |
In a comment a couple weeks back, Joseph Heckman pointed out that it’s been nearly a decade since publication of my first book about the politics of raw dairy, The Raw Milk Revolution. He wondered how things have changed in the intervening time period, and how things...
by David Gumpert | Dec 30, 2018 | What's New |
Two things are clear from all the publicity in the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania media about Miller’s Biodiversity Farm in Pennsylvania: 1.One individual, from New York, has been sickened with RB51, a bacteria that causes brucellosis; 2.The farm has been...
by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2018 | What's New |
Kim Schuette at the hospital with a grandchild, as shown on her GoFundMe page. The deaths are coming at a quickening pace, and with them contradictory feelings. You want to honor the victims and their many accomplishments, grieve the losses. You also want to shake...
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