by David Gumpert | Apr 20, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Indian students crowd exhibits at the Gandhi Museum in Mumbai. One of the more moving experiences during my travels in India was visiting the Gandhi Museum in Mumbai. It’s plain–basically, a modest home in a nice area of Mumbai…low tech, as well,...
by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sitting here in LimboWaiting for the dice to roll.Yeah, now, sitting here in Limbo,Still got some time to search my soul.Meanwhile, they’re putting up a resistance,But I know that my faith will lead me on.The verse above, from reggae singer Jimmy Cliff’s...
by David Gumpert | Apr 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been trying to get back in the swing of things after being away for a month–recovering from jet lag, unpacking, going through mail, paying overlooked bills, re-stocking the fridge and all that sort of thing. I haven’t felt like doing...
by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2011 | Uncategorized |
For the last four weeks I have played tourist, traveling through southern Asia—Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and then for the last ten days, India. For all the economic gains we hear so much about in Asia, the differences between that part...
by David Gumpert | Apr 8, 2011 | Uncategorized |
When agent Jim Roettger of the Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture was caught on video confiscating raw milk last December in suburban Minneapolis, he could be heard at one point telling a complaining consumer to bug out. “I don’t have to respond to your...
by David Gumpert | Apr 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Must ever-more-rigorous food safety regulations inevitably lead to the sterilization of our food supply? That question has tinged much of the debate on this blog, as well as in other quarters. It’s served to create extremes–if you worry about the expansion...
by David Gumpert | Apr 1, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I have long felt that one of the keys to breaking through the regulatory roadblocks to easily accessing nutrient-dense foods like raw dairy is for farmers to flood the market with products the regulators want to keep from us. For that to happen, though, there need to...
by David Gumpert | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sacred cows wandering a city street in India. Right after my trip through the Myanmar health system last week, I made a stop at a Buddhist center on the outskirts of Yangon, the country’s largest city. I had been referred to the center by some American friends,...
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