by David Gumpert | May 2, 2012 | News Media, Nutrition |
Now that Vermont farmer Walter Jeffries has raised $25,000 on Kickstarter to complete a new butcher shop at his Sugar Mountain Farm, hes working on the next $5,000to pour the concrete for
the abattoir where we’ll be able to do on-farm slaughter. Hes...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Research |
In Nazi Germany during the 1930s, the big challenge among Germans was to prove they weren’t Jewish. They scrambled to produce certificates of baptism and show family trees that documented they weren’t Jewish. It didn’t take much to fail–a...
by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Raids, Resistance |
It is painful to read some of the comments following my previous post, especially the back-and-forth accusations between Califarmer and Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. about herdshares in California. (Please note, you need to go to the bottom of the first...
by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation, Resistance |
The outbreak of raw-milk-linked illnesses at Foundation Farm in Oregon has the potential to be a watershed event–an event that changes people’s fundamental views on raw milk safety and production. By any measure, it’s a serious situation. The Oregon...
by David Gumpert | Apr 19, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation |
Positions seem to be hardening in Maine’s effort to challenge food sovereignty ordinances passed by at least half a dozen towns. That became clear during demonstrations yesterday by several dozen supporters of Dan Brown, a farmer in one of the towns, who has...
by David Gumpert | Apr 17, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Regulation |
Like a lot of people, I appreciated Tim Wightman’s comment following my previous post. Especially his observation: “To blame health authorities for an outright bias and or ‘conspiracy’ allows those who make the claim to ignore their own...
by David Gumpert | Apr 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Back in the days of the Old South early last century, there’d be this awful cycle of violence that went something like this: A black man would be accused of snatching a purse or stealing food or, God forbid, smiling or making eye contact with a white woman. This...
by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2012 | News Media, Nutrition, Research |
There’s a big disclosure today of another animal cruelty undercover investigation, this one involving egg-laying hens. The Humane Society of the United States says it is “shining a light on the dark world of suffering for millions of egg-laying...
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