by David Gumpert | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized |
When large government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration want to make controversial policy changes, they often use the major media to launch trial balloons to see how different options play with key constituencies. That helps explain why both the New...
by David Gumpert | Feb 4, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Ed Shank at his farm, The Family Cow. Ed Shank of The Family Cow in Pennsylvania, reported “good news” to his customers this afternoon. “We just got the test results back from the lab literally minutes ago. Both samples taken different...
by David Gumpert | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
The bidding for this original oil painting starts at…For details, see the last item in this post. During the question-and-answer period following my talk at the Northeast Organic Food Association-NY conference in Saratoga last month–about the...
by David Gumpert | Jan 29, 2011 | Uncategorized |
A little over a year ago, I described Edwin Shank’s conversion of The Family Cow from feedlot to the East’s largest raw dairy. It took more than three years, and required extraordinary commitment to producing high-quality nutrient-dense food. I’ve...
by David Gumpert | Jan 27, 2011 | Uncategorized |
There is lots not to like about the new web site about raw milk from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It is nearly totally one-sided in painting raw milk as dangerous. It is intellectually dishonest in not acknowledging large-scale journal-published research that...
by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
No way around it, the issue of food rights, responsibilities, and standards is complicated when it comes to raw dairy. That helps explain why the discussion here sometimes exasperates. It certainly helps to discuss the issue in terms of specific situations, because...
by David Gumpert | Jan 22, 2011 | Uncategorized |
My three-week-old kefir, post-explosion. I was just opening a container of raw milk kefir I purchased about three weeks ago, to make a smoothie with some mango and blueberries, when there was this explosion. A pop, like a small firecracker. The kefir was everywhere,...
by David Gumpert | Jan 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Relax. No one’s in control.” A Buddhist teacher, speaking about our insatiable desire for predictability, made that off-hand remark during a talk I attended recently. He was arguing that such a desire for guarantees is unattainable, a mirage in a world...
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