by David Gumpert | Dec 19, 2018 | What's New |
Raw milk for sale at The Family Cow. Ten years ago, Pennsylvania dairy farmer Edwin Shank decided he wanted out of the crushing conventional system, and made the switch to organic production, and to selling his milk direct to consumers, unpasteurized. Nine years ago,...
by David Gumpert | Nov 3, 2018 | What's New |
For days, I have been trying to make sense of this story of several thousand migrants from Central America descending on the U.S. How the president is sending 5,000 soldiers to the border with Mexico, no, make that 15,000, to protect us from the “invaders.” How the...
by David Gumpert | Oct 27, 2018 | What's New |
China is in the midst of a campaign to rid itself of small farms, in favor of supposedly more productive and safer large farms. One victim of the current campaign is a small dairy farm outside Beijing, Green Cow Farm, which was started about a dozen years ago by an...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2018 | What's New |
On the face of it, rebel Canadian raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt has a lot in common with football star Colin Kaepernick. Both took unorthodox approaches to assert big-time grievances within powerful industries—Schmidt by selling raw milk in defiance of provincial...
by David Gumpert | Sep 14, 2018 | What's New |
A new in-depth study of raw milk illnesses in the U.S. by a university researcher concludes that “the outbreak rate has effectively decreased by 74% since 2005.” The 38-page study, which includes 138 footnotes and was published in the refereed PLOS Current Outbreaks,...
by David Gumpert | Aug 17, 2018 | What's New |
Eight years ago, a handful of Maine food activists launched an improbable campaign for food sovereignty. The idea was to re-frame scale-inappropriate state and federal regulations on small food producers by working with local governments in towns to pass ordinances...
by David Gumpert | Aug 5, 2018 | What's New |
Running a raw milk food club is tough enough under the best of circumstances, because you’re always in a gray area of the law. Well, just try running a raw milk food club if you’re in another gray area of the law—you’re a Muslim immigrant. Trying to fight back...
by David Gumpert | Jul 28, 2018 | What's New |
In the summer of 1968, near the end of a post-college tour of Western Europe, I traveled to Prague, as the guest of a Czech student I had met earlier in my trip. The city, along with the rest of what was then known as Czechoslovakia, was a satellite of the old Soviet...
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