by David Gumpert | Aug 17, 2018 | What's New |
Eight years ago, a handful of Maine food activists launched an improbable campaign for food sovereignty. The idea was to re-frame scale-inappropriate state and federal regulations on small food producers by working with local governments in towns to pass ordinances...
by David Gumpert | Aug 5, 2018 | What's New |
Running a raw milk food club is tough enough under the best of circumstances, because you’re always in a gray area of the law. Well, just try running a raw milk food club if you’re in another gray area of the law—you’re a Muslim immigrant. Trying to fight back...
by David Gumpert | Jul 28, 2018 | What's New |
In the summer of 1968, near the end of a post-college tour of Western Europe, I traveled to Prague, as the guest of a Czech student I had met earlier in my trip. The city, along with the rest of what was then known as Czechoslovakia, was a satellite of the old Soviet...
by David Gumpert | Jul 9, 2018 | What's New |
It’s the scandal that won’t go away for the Weston A. Price Foundation. The scandal, of course, is the refusal of the foodie organization to step back from its enthusiastic endorsement of so-called fermented cod liver oil since a flood of health concerns began coming...
by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2018 | What's New |
Two years ago, Vermont farmer John Klar described on this blog how he had decided to challenge state efforts to prevent him from custom slaughtering animals on his farm. In this new piece, he provides an encouraging update to his efforts. Klar raises grass-fed beef...
by David Gumpert | Jun 20, 2018 | What's New |
It’s tempting to view the crisis over separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border as an example of a bureaucracy run amok, or even as made-for-media power politics between Congress and the President. Unfortunately, at its core it is neither of those,...
by David Gumpert | Jun 3, 2018 | What's New |
It was about seven or eight years ago that I first heard the word “shun” applied to our current day and age. A Midwest farmer who had just a few years earlier severed ties with his Amish community told me how he and his family were “shunned” by friends and even close...
by David Gumpert | May 27, 2018 | What's New |
I could tell from his heavy accent and dark skin that my cab driver in Washington, DC, a few weeks back was an immigrant. I could also tell he was a hard-working guy and eager to please, when I explained that I was in a hurry to get to Reagan Airport, and we assessed...
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