by David Gumpert | Apr 21, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Resistance |
When I first heard about the Boston Marathon bombing, I assumed it was likely a case of domestic terrorism. Foreigners tend not to be so aware of the historical relevance of the Boston Marathon–that it takes place on Patriots Day, the commemoration of the start...
by David Gumpert | Apr 20, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, News Media |
I go away for a week and what happens? All hell breaks loose in my home of Boston and environs, and it becomes the news center of the world as a horrible example of urban terrorism in action. Having been glued yesterday to the television coverage of the...
by David Gumpert | Mar 7, 2013 | Food Safety, News Media |
Ive long wanted to visit China before the new completely overwhelms the old. So last Sunday night, my wife, Jean, and I arrived in Beijing. Our first stop was to be a food tour of Beijings Hutongs–one of the fast-disappearing areas of traditional homes, shops,...
by David Gumpert | Jan 16, 2013 | News Media, Raw Milk |
I was watching President Obama at his press conference yesterday trying to explain why it is that every time there is talk about measures to reign in firearms, thousands of people rush out and stock up on guns and ammo. He looked serious and perplexed, said it was a...
by David Gumpert | Jan 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research, Resistance |
A year ago I summarized the key themes for 2011 as “rising shock events” and “rising stress levels,” thanks to highly public raids on food clubs and farms.Id say 2012 was the year these shock events played out in a number of ways, primarily...
by David Gumpert | Dec 16, 2012 | Legal, News Media, Regulation |
It has been a very difficult few days. The Newtown, Connecticut, murders hit hard, at a time when it seems as if we should be hardened to incidents of random violence. The murders accompanying the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords in Arizona, the murder of...
by David Gumpert | Dec 11, 2012 | Food Safety, News Media, Research |
Media people love juicy data suggesting an untended-to crisis, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has the perfect juicy data for anyone wanting to write about the supposed crisis in food safety. The scary data go like this: every year, millions of...
by David Gumpert | Dec 7, 2012 | News Media, Research |
In the midst of the recent spate of sometimes-less-than-encouraging developments on the food rights front, I haven’t had a chance to post about an uplifting event I attended in suburban Boston more than a week ago. It was an event that made me feel at least a...
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