by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk |
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a food writer I have long admired–Tom Philpott, who produces the great Mother Jones food blog. Ive known him for probably five or six years, beginning when I wrote for Grist when he was the editor, but we had never...
by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Resistance |
When I first heard about the Boston Marathon bombing, I assumed it was likely a case of domestic terrorism. Foreigners tend not to be so aware of the historical relevance of the Boston Marathon–that it takes place on Patriots Day, the commemoration of the start...
by David Gumpert | Apr 20, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, News Media |
I go away for a week and what happens? All hell breaks loose in my home of Boston and environs, and it becomes the news center of the world as a horrible example of urban terrorism in action. Having been glued yesterday to the television coverage of the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Liz Reitzig is best known as a founder of the Raw Milk Freedom Riders and the Farm Food Freedom Alliance. She has written previously here and on other sites about food rights. In this article, she explores larger connections associated with planting a vegetable...
by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For a long time, I have argued that the state and federal judges hearing food rights cases are living on a different planet than the people. The judges nearly always come down entirely on the side of the regulators. The people, in the form of a jury, see things much...
by David Gumpert | Apr 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Dave Milano made a telling observation in a comment following my previous post: The simple notion of basic human rights gets lost in tangles of misunderstanding, and as a result, States are given more power than they ought to have, or are tacitly or directly given...
by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
For years, the public health, medical, regulator, and conventional dairy communities have marched in lockstep against raw milk. Collaborating with these forces of government and business have been the farmer communities, via their trade groups, the American Farm...
by David Gumpert | Mar 25, 2013 | Raw Milk, Regulation |
Barack Obama gave a remarkable speech in Israel last week. Remarkable not just because he challenged Israeli young people to push for peace with the Palestinians, but because he was cheered by the young Israelis in the audience. One of his statements...
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