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

Revolutionary Republic of July 4 Should Eschew Empire's Errors | Instead of interventions in Iran, Honduras, we must recall wisdom that said: "(America) goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
John Nichols
30 Comments
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» Act Now!

Defining Patriotism | What do you value in the traditions of your country?
Peter Rothberg
20 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Rediscovering Secular America | This Fourth of July those who identify themselves as non-believers have much cause for celebration.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
29 Comments

» The Notion

Celebrating the Fourth by Remembering the Fifth | On Independence Day, the forgotten and imperiled Fifth Amendment bears honoring.
Eyal Press
17 Comments

» Altercation

Mikey 'n' Me | I got closer to Michael Jackson than almost anyone, or at least closer than most people of the age of consent.
Eric Alterman

» Capitolism

Washington: Even More Corrupt Than You Thought! | Washington Post sells access to lobbyists.
Christopher Hayes
59 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Whisky Tango Foxtrot? | General Jones tells the generals in Kabul: don't bother asking for more troops.
Robert Dreyfuss
65 Comments