by David Gumpert | Dec 4, 2013 | Legal, News Media |
For some weeks now, Ive been following the treatment and custody battle over Sarah Hershberger, the 10-year-old Ohio Amish girl with leukemia. It is a heart-breaking story–her parents brought her to begin a two-year round of conventional treatment at a...
by David Gumpert | Dec 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I always sensed youth football was a dangerous proposition, but I never realized just how dangerous. Recent studies show that at least 9,000 children each year suffer concussions–potentially serious brain injuries–playing youth football like Pop...
by David Gumpert | Nov 26, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
“In Russia, we can’t say what we want, but we can eat what we want. In the U.S., we can say what we want, but we can’t eat what we want.” ~ From an attendee at the postponed hearing in Foxborough considering tough raw milk regulations for...
by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
There has been some excellent discussion to provide guidance to Marcie McBee, the Tennessee raw-milk farmer who had an outbreak of illness traced to E.coli O157:H7. What makes pieces of this discussion exciting is that it begins to lift the veil of silence that...
by David Gumpert | Nov 23, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The public health profession is terribly inept when it comes to public communication. Some of the problem–the tendency to talk in scientific terminology and to limit public access to information–stems from ignorance about how to communicate with the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Lawton’s Family Farm in Foxborough, MA, is one of the oldest farms in the U.S., the only remaining dairy of any kind in the Boston areas Norfolk county. As such, it has survived revolution, hurricanes, economic depression.But can it survive local...
by David Gumpert | Nov 15, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Regulation |
I am a big raw juice fan, have been for many years. After I make the juice, usually a couple of cups or more, I store the leftover juice in a wine bottle, and use a vacuum device to reduce the air supply. Raw juice, like raw milk, is a fragile food because its many...
by David Gumpert | Nov 10, 2013 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk |
So Im reading the lengthy lead article in the Sunday Review section of todays New York Times, headed, A Cure for the Allergy Epidemic? Its by a science writer, Moises Velasquez-Manoff. It begins by asking, Will the cure for allergies come from the cowshed?...
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