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...
by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Regulation, Resistance |
There’s no escaping the power of the social media. If anyone harbored any doubts, yesterday’s news that a small one-and-a-half-year-old photo-sharing company launched by a couple of twenty-somethings is being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion should wipe...
by David Gumpert | Apr 8, 2012 | Food Safety, Regulation, Research |
Losing her prized calf, Titanic, has Brigitte Ruthman thinking a little differently about dairy-producing priorities. Ruthman, owner of a tiny dairy, has been on this blog before in connection with her clashes with Massachusetts agriculture regulators, who have tried...
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