David Gumpert

David E. Gumpert is a writer specializing in health and business. He covers nutrition and food issues at his blog.

Currently

  • Toxic Loans, Tainted Food

    October 7, 2008

    As financial markets reel from the US financial crisis and tainted Chinese dairy products are sold around the world, we're learning hard lessons on the limits of globalization.

  • Got Milk? Get Investigated

    May 27, 2008

    State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.

  • Milk Wars

    March 5, 2008

    As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.

2007

  • USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program

    December 14, 2007

    A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.

  • Old McDonald Had a Farm...and He Got Arrested?

    November 16, 2007

    As consumers increasingly seek out farmers who raise organic and unpasteurized food, suddenly energized regulators claim they want to "protect" us from pathogens and other dangers. What gives?

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Blogs

» The Beat

Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin | The death panelist-in-chief rallied her followers to "KILL THE BILL." But 60 senators decided to follow the real leader.
John Nichols
5 Comments

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
128 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
79 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
207 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
65 Comments