About

David drinking raw milk

This site’s mission is to provide news and analysis about food rights and raw milk.

Increasingly, our access to privately available food is under attack by government and industry forces that seek to impose their choices on us. This blog seeks to provide up-to-date information and encourage the development of community to maintain traditional food acquisition options.

I am a journalist and writer. I’ve been a newspaper reporter and magazine editor, and have written a number of books and articles about food and small business.  I’ve also written some history, in the form of a memoir I co-authored with my aunt, about her experiences during the Holocaust.

My newest book, published March 2015, is The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You REALLY Need to Know About Our Most Controversial Food. It answers more than 200 of the most tantalizing questions about nutrition, safety, risk, regulation, and a host of other issues.

It follows up on my 2013 book, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle Over Who Decides What We Eat. Like my previous book,  The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights, it includes a preface by farmer and food rights advocate Joel Salatin.

Before writing about food issues, my prior book was about my family’’s experiences during the Holocaust: Inge: A Girl’s Journey Through Nazi Europe.

I have also authored or co-authored seven books on various aspects of small business. One of those was Burn Your Business Plan! What Investors Really Want from Entrepreneurs. It provides entrepreneurs with concrete guidance for going beyond written business plans to attract investor interest. It has been widely praised by entrepreneurs, investors, and academics alike, and is used as a teaching tool in many business schools around the country.

In 1995, I co-founded an Internet marketing company that grew to 20 employees and was acquired in late 1999 by a public corporation.

Prior to my book-writing and entrepreneurship efforts, I spent nine years as a staff reporter with The Wall Street Journal and seven years as small business editor of the Harvard Business Review. I was also a senior editor of Inc. Magazine. My bachelor’s degree is in political science from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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