by David Gumpert | Dec 19, 2016 | What's New |
I’ve been trying to figure out why this election has affected me so deeply. It’s had me feeling at once angry, despondent, frustrated, unable to write and, most of all, with a huge sense of loss. I try to tell myself, it’s just a new politician. I’ve seen many...
by David Gumpert | Nov 28, 2016 | What's New |
I started this blog ten years ago to report on events and issues I thought the mainstream news media were either ignoring or misrepresenting when it came to regulation of small farms, and especially small dairy farms distributing raw milk. In the process, I poked both...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2016 | What's New |
On November 9, the day after the election, Eric Tucker, an Austin businessman, noticed a group of buses parked in a lot not far from where demonstrations against Donald Trump’s election were going on. When he couldn’t find any notices on Google of conferences in the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 11, 2016 | What's New |
Editor’s note: Three days after this post appeared, a spokesperson for the Weston A. Price Foundation committed to correcting the error I describe here. Details at the end of this post and in a comment following this post. The current issue of Wise Traditions...
by David Gumpert | Nov 2, 2016 | What's New |
Easton is a pretty little town in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, on the border with New Jersey, with trendy restaurants and coffee houses. But yesterday, it was the host to a not-so-pretty court hearing at the U.S. District Court on the matter of a...
by David Gumpert | Oct 23, 2016 | What's New |
A USDA investigation of Pennsylvania farmer Amos Miller’s meat production practices has taken an ominous turn in recent days, apparently morphing into a national dragnet to collect the food purchase records of thousands of food club members around the country. One ray...
by David Gumpert | Oct 18, 2016 | What's New |
In1967, a group of Greek army colonels, fed up with the country’s established politicians, staged a coup d’etat. The military officers ruled the way military dictators always rule—they suspended freedom of speech and assembly along with due process and other freedoms...
by David Gumpert | Oct 7, 2016 | What's New |
For entertainment these days, Michigan hog farmer Mark Baker likes to watch episodes from the 1960s sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show. It’s the show where Andy is the sheriff of the fictitious small town of Mayberry, North Carolina, assisted by his trusty, and somewhat...
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