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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Podcast

RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/29/08
This week, the year in Radio(Nation).Palin, Clinton, and Bush; Klein, Navasky and Danto. Our most compelling interviews of 2008. (13mb mp3)

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Blogs

» The Dreyfuss Report

Panetta? Ummmmm... Well..... | Could Obama have made a weirder choice for CIA director? Here's why Panetta is doomed.
Robert Dreyfuss

» The Beat

Franken Named Minnesota Winner | Board says DFL candidate prevailed by 225 votes over GOP incumbent Coleman.
John Nichols

» Act Now!

Allow Media into Gaza | Israel is encouraging abuses by preventing foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip.
Peter Rothberg

» State of Change

Is Kaine the Right Choice to Lead Party? | Will Tim Kaine be a good DNC chair? Much will depend on what the Obama team has planned.
Ari Berman

» Editor's Cut

A Trillion Dollar Recovery | We don't need a stimulus, we need a recovery. And that means investing $1 trillion over the next two years.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» Capitolism

Year in Review | A look back at a crazy year.
Christopher Hayes

» The Notion

Hard Times Without Studs | One of Terkel’s former book editors considers a Studs-less world.
Tom Engelhardt

» And Another Thing

Bill Ayers Whitewashes History, Again | The Weathermen were not just a bunch of idealistic young people.
Katha Pollitt