Ever climb a mountain, reaching the
summit in exhaustion, then be unable
to see the view because of clouds and
mist? The ugliest summit of all time is the:

CALCIUM SUMMIT COALITION

I've come into possession of a number
of documents marked:

"PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL"

I love when this happens, particularly when
the "smoking gun" is of a large caliber. In
this case, the top-secret documents were
shot out of a cannon.

I now have in my possession the planning
documents for the dairy industry's phony:

"CALCIUM SUMMIT COALITION"

It is clear from these documents that the
so-called calcium summit is, in reality, a
carefully planned media blitz, planned and
run by the largest public relations firm in the
world, BSMG Worldwide. I've previously
written about BSMG:

http://www.notmilk.com/deb/052399.html

The most troubling part of the dairy industry
marketing team, is that it includes police,
media, USDA, public buildings, public
money, and government subsidies.

The key dairy industry player is Greg Miller.
Miller was recently named as president of
the American College of Nutrition, another
dairy-sponsored/dairy-insider organization.

Rather than comment or interpret the documents,
I'll simply print some of the actual quotes
contained in the internal memorandums.

Originally, the plan was to invite all members
of the American Dietetic Association (ADA).
Here's what was decided:

"Proposed forwarding Summit II invite to ADA
listserve; decided against due to many vegan
members of ADA."

It gets worse:

"Proposed mailing Summit II invite to ADA
members in the Washington, D.C. area that
are not within the vegetarian/vegan dietary
practice group."

And worse:

"BSMG to research getting list from ADA
broken down by practice area, i.e. removing
members of vegan groups."

Although the internal documents contain lists of
confirmed media attendees, BSMG was already
blacklisting select members of the media. Their
secret document admits:

"A 'media' member affiliated with a special
interest group e-mailed the Web site to attend
the event; BSMG forwarded client approved
response alerting him that the invitation have
not been distributed yet."

Let me translate that for you. BSMG lied.
The client (dairy industry) approved the lie.

MEDIA TRAINING

"Week of September 10 was decided as best
week to hold the issues media training session
pending Dr. Heaney and Joan Horbiak's availability.
The training will be held at the Chicago BSMG
office. Dr. Greg Miller should be media trained."

On the same page as the proposed registration
form, BSMG includes their strategy for dealing
with on-site protestors. They write:

"Investigate what our rights are of conducting a
meeting in a public building; find out if we can
lock all doors except those we'd like attendees
to use. Alert local Washington, D.C. police about
possible special interest group activity. Recommend
the following five people (not named here) on-site
be the 'Issues Swat Team'."

THE PLAN

"Our overall objective is to hold a flawless event.
Keep unwelcome guests from attending summit.
Minimize/neutralize media coverage should
protestors appear."

You might be interested in how they neutralize:

"If someone tries to attend, we'll ask them to
quietly step aside and show a business card
so we can quietly escort them in to view the
presentations."

Escort? Who are the escorts?

"Have four security (soft dressed in blazers)
on site in the registration area to help insure
a controlled meeting. Have designated staff
controlling the microphones. Have a private
press room for media to conduct interviews.
Have designated areas of the Ronald Reagan
building for crowd control."

More strategy:

"Keeping in mind the current environment,
we should expect protestors the day of
the event and we must be mindful of the
following:

Avoiding a negative media moment with
visuals – as much as we can.

Avoiding negative media coverage for the
NDC (National Dairy Coalition) and
MilkPep as well as the Coalition Participants."

"From a publicity standpoint, our plan is to
deflect and supercede protests with our
controlled media messages…(including)
advertisements placed in top national
newspaper…"

HISTORY OF THE
CALCIUM SUMMIT COALITION

During the summer of 1999, I did a radio
interview on a tiny 1000 watt station in Boston.
I was a guest on the Nation of Islam's Hour of
Power, 1090 AM. On that date, Massachusetts
State Senator Diane Wilkerson was listening.

She soon turned my NOTMILK campaign into
her own, for the sake of the black children who
comprise the majority of Boston's students
(Minority children make up 84% of the 63,000
kids in Boston's school system.)

Diane's outspoken anti-milk agenda was
reported in the Boston Globe, and soon after,
the dairy industry placed a two-page ad
announcing the formation of::

CALCIUM SUMMIT COALITION

Just to place a historical perspective upon
that ad, at that time, my organization was
called the Anti-Dairy COALITION.

To that phony meeting, the dairy industry
invited all of the scientists on their payroll. Never
before had the city of Boston played host to such
a number of paid professional hookers. One such
attendee was Peter Holt. Holt's work had absolutely
nothing to do with osteoporosis and calcium.

Read how the Journal of the American Medical
Association correctly ridiculed his phony
colon cancer/cheese study:

http://www.notmilk.com/deb/101198.html

The truth about osteoporosis can be found
right here:

http://www.notmilk.com/o.html

One of the best articles, complete with scientific
references, was written by Bruce Friedrich:

http://www.notmilk.com/calbones.html

WHAT DOES MILK DO FOR
AFRICAN AMERICANS?

Ninety-five percent of African-Americans
cannot tolerate lactose. Pizza and ice cream
taste delicious on the way into their bodies.

Lactose is a sugar and most people lack the
enzyme (lactase) to break down lactose into
glucose and galactose. Intact, this sugar
is broken down in the intestines by bacteria
and the results are gas, bloating and intestinal
distress. More on lactose:

http://www.notmilk.com/l.html

Casein represents eighty percent of milk protein.
This tenacious glue causes histamine production, the
body's natural defense against an invading antigen.
The resulting histamines result in mucous production.
Mucous clogs bronchiloles and causes asthma attacks.

Inner-city school systems like Boston, New York,
Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles have very large
populations of African-American students who live
in poverty. In New York City, 38 percent of homeless
children and 23 percent of kids in the Bronx are
beneficiaries of USDA's school breakfast and lunch
subsidies, which include enormous amounts of milk
and cheese. Got milk? Got cheese? Got chocolate
milk? Got asthma? These kids do.

Milk contains powerful hormones. Rates of sexual
maturity in children are astounding endocrinologists
and behavioral psychologists. A recent study revealed
that eighty percent of nine-year-old African-American
girls are already experiencing breast development.

Children are becoming overweight at an early age. By
eating enormous quantities of growth hormones in
combination with animal fat, the body has a way of
listening to the signals of those chemical messengers:
GROW!

One out of five children has attention deficit disorder
(ADD). A recent study in the Journal of Autism linked
ADD with a milk protein, casomorphin.

http://www.notmilk.com/aa.html

THE POVERTY CONNECTION

Many children of color live below the poverty level.
In its wisdom, the United States Department of
Agriculture provides free food and nutritional programs
for these kids.

In its lack of wisdom, USDA has chosen milk and
dairy products to be the major components of these
kid's diets. These children now receive free breakfasts
of cereal with milk, free lunches of macaroni and cheese
or pizza with chocolate milk. A free snack before they
go home is cookies and more chocolate milk.

WHAT IS THE RESULT?

Milk buffers gastric pH so that food in the stomach
ferments and putrefies. Kids drink hormones and act
irritable. In May of 1995, the Townsend Medical
Letter listed eleven symptoms from milk consumption
including mood swings, depression, and irratibility.

In Boston, elementary school children are required to
take the milk, although doctor's letters can get them
out of that requirement.

Boston schools offer lactaid milk as an alternative.
In other words, children are given the antidote so
that they might take the poison. There is no
casein-free milk. Nor is there a hormone-free milk.
Poor kids. Take away their ability to learn and
make them sick by overdosing them on hormones
with glue.

Calcium Summit Coalition? They
betray the children with lies.

Robert Cohen
Executive Director
Dairy Education Board
201-871-5871
http://www.notmilk.com