by David Gumpert | Oct 10, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Lejen Chen with her husband, Shan En, at their Green Cow Organic Farm.Ever since Lejen Chen, a Chinese-American, opened her New-York-style diner, Mrs. Shanen’s, in Beijing seven years ago, the biggest challenge has been ensuring a clean safe supply of food. By...
by David Gumpert | Oct 7, 2010 | Uncategorized |
There was a very cute “report” on the Rawesome Food Club raid and raw milk on The Colbert Report. It’s a comedy show, so they had to make it sound funny–out-of-control government, chuckle-chuckle on the “Raw”–but the...
by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2010 | Uncategorized |
It’s been nearly a year since I sat in on a small discussion at the Weston A. Price annual conference in Chicago, and heard a number of raw milk experts discuss the ins and outs of A1/A2 milk. The issue had become a hot topic, stimulated by publication of a book...
by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Maine farmer Eliot Coleman tends to his newly arrived chickens. When I last saw Eliot Coleman prior to this past weekend, it was 1973 and he was still clearing boulders and tree stumps from his farm fields on Maine’s Cape Rossier to add to the small plots he had...
by David Gumpert | Sep 30, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Maine food rights activists Liz Solet, Deborah Evans, Larissa Curlik, Heather Retberg, and Kevin Ross.There’s an uprising brewing in Maine over food rights. Like in other parts of the country, it started with regulator interference in a traditional part of...
by David Gumpert | Sep 28, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I feel a little like the delivery guy who meant to leave off some plain Chinese food at the local luncheon club meeting, but inadvertently dropped off the super-spicy version, and then quickly departed, leaving the attendees to figure out how to cool off. I posted...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Scott TrautmanIt’s been nearly a year since Scott Trautman lost his Wisconsin Grade A dairy license, depriving him of the opportunity to sell his dairy’s milk to processors for pasteurization. He was the victim of a coordinated crackdown by dairy...
by David Gumpert | Sep 22, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Sen. Tom Coburn of OklahomaNot surprisingly, the so-called food safety legislation has been revived by dealmakers in the U.S. Senate, and its fate is likely being decided as I write this. The Obama administration, having lost in its effort to change the...
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