Mona's Child

Today, I am urging you to write to one of America's great
syndicated columnists, Mona Charen. I happen to be a big
fan. Mona's Email address is included at the conclusion
of today's column.

Matt Drudge (the reporter who broke the Monica Lewinsky
story) averages 3.8 million visits to his website each day:
drudgereport.com. On his site, Drudge includes links to nine
dozen columnists. One of those select writers, Mona Charen,
wrote the following about her 7-year-old son in this week's
April 25, 2003 column:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen.html

"David is just instinctively amusing, and irrepressible...
David has experienced a challenge in the past year, a
diagnosis of Type I diabetes. For a child whose favorite
things in life could be grouped in the ice cream, candy
and cake categories, this seemed a cruel fate..."

I spoke with Mona on Monday evening. That conversation
was the first time she had heard of a milk and dairy
link to diabetes. I then shared with her two Emails,
the first one a page from my book, Milk A-Z:

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

The second one was written by John McDougall, MD,
one of America's most respected physicians:

http://notmilk.com/forum/985.html

I told Mona that in October of 1992, after reporting the
milk/diabetes link, Scientific American magazine
editorialized:

"The National Dairy Board's slogan, 'Milk. It does
body good,' sounds a little hollow these days."

Please let Mona know how much you care about her son,
and about all mothers who suffer the pain of a diabetes
diagnosis. Her Email address:

charen123@...

Mona has the power to reach millions of readers by using
her magnificent gift of painting pictures with words to
illustrate the true diabetes story. Please help her to
see that she will be improving the health of her son and
many other children by dedicating a future column to these
three D words: Diabetes, Dairy, and Deception.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Today (4/30/03), I learned of a famous (to be nameless here)
female athlete who is being treated for breast cancer.

It took me a few hours to get her home number,
and I left a message on her phone earlier this afternoon.

She called back at 8 PM, and I quickly learned that
she gave up milk about a year ago.

I asked what wisdom led her to make that decision,
and her response was that a friend gave her a tape
about milk being a deadly poison.

"That's me," I said. She fetched the tape, and we both
had a nice laugh. Some coincidence!

I learned that she is now eating plenty of fruits and veggies,
soy, and staying away from processed foods. I alerted her to
the fact that a food additive, carrageenan, has also been
implicated as a breast cancer-causing agent. I sent her this
link:

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

All in a day's work.
:>)

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Urge Wisconsin to Sue PETA!

A Wisconsin state legislator wants to put the People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on trial
for bashing milk.

PETA deserves to be sued. Their attacks against milk
are relentless, and Wisconsin is considering the
enactment of a state law making it illegal to criticize
the dairy industry.

Representative Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, indicated that he
will be asking Attorney General Peggy Lautenschlager to
investigate PETA's way of doing business in the cheesehead
state. Suder wants to sue before a law is even enacted.

http://www.badgerherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/29/3eade4aece
e89

The legal basis for that suit would be a law known as the
Agricultural Disparagement Act. Many states have passed
such laws making it illegal to criticize agricultural
products. In 1997, Wisconsin considered such an act
(Assembly Bills #56 and 702), but those bills have
failed to pass state Senate and Assembly votes.

An analyses of the proposed bill by the Legislative
Reference Bureau reads:

"This bill gives the producer or shipper of a perishable
agricultural food product, or an organization representing
producers or shipper, a cause of action against a person
who makes a statement to the public or to communications
media that the perishable agricultural food product is not
safe for human consumption, if the statement is not based
on reliable scientific facts or data, the statement is false,
the person making the statement knew or shoud have known that
the statement was false and the producer, shipper or
organization suffers damages as a result of the statement.
Communications media are not liable for damages under the bill."

If Scott Suder gets his way, it will be a criminal act
to call Wis-cow-sin cheddar cheese "pus with hormones
and glue." I will then be in deep bovine excrement. It may
one day be against the law to point and laugh at zit-filled f
aces wearing cheesehead hats. It may also be against the law
for me to sell my books and tapes by mail from New Jersey to
Wisconsin. Suder will not let a little technicality get in the
way of his pursuit of Wis-cow-sin-style justice. Damn the law,
full speed ahead with the action! The new American initiative?

On Tuesday (April 29, 2003), I spoke with Suder's aide, Luke.
I also spoke with Lautenschlager's aide, Linda. I asked both
of them to include me in any future suit. After all, my greatest
fantasy is to put milk and dairy products and the dairy
industry on trial. To coin a phrase from a song in the
Broadway play, "Guys and Dolls":

"Get a lawyer and sue me, sue me, what can you
do me, I love you!"

The OJ trial made headlines for a year. OJ made watching Court TV
deliciously popular. I would like to be Court TV's cream-topping.

Write to Wisconsin's governor, Jim Doyle.
Urge him to use all of the resources of his
state's government to sue me.

http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/contact.asp

The Attorney General, Peggy Lautenschlager, does not
use Email. However, Linda (her secretary) told me that
from where she sits, she sees the FAX machine. Your
letters will get to their appropriate destination:

FAX: 608-264-6374

Tell them all that the Notmilkman sent you! Let
Wisconsin's cheese lovers know that I intend to
knock those silly hats off their heads. Bottom
line: I deserve to be sued. ;>)

To date, only four lawsuits have been filed against
individuals who disparage agricultural products. The
most famous of those suits, and the only one that has
gone to trial, was the Texas Beef Producers suit against
Howard Lyman (the Mad Cowboy) and Oprah. See:

http://www.madcowboy.com

The other three cases of litigation involved a sod grower,
emu rancher, and egg producer. The cattlemen lost their suit
against Howard and Oprah, and still wear egg on their faces.
Help to turn that egg into custard. Nobody has yet taken on
the dairy industry.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

It's The Law - Rat Poison Must Be Added to Milk

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

In 1932, Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations required
that 400 units of rat poison be added to every quart of
milk sold in America.

I receive over 2,000 letters each day, but
one letter (from Dr. John Unruh Unruh@...),
written in jest, contained a remarkable fact.

"Dear Robert,
I do not know how you find this stuff but you continue
to pile on the evidence as to why milk equals rat poison.
Keep up the good work."

Dear Dr. Unruh,

Your "rat-poison" metaphor is quite close to the truth.

A brochure produced by the Ministry of Environment in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, reveals the
rat-posion link:

"SAFE AND SENSIBLE PEST CONTROL"

The brochure represents a series of "safe and sensible"
pest control measures, according to the Canadian Health
Minister. Canadian health officials believe that Vitamin
D-3 is the most effective and ecologically sound method
of dealing with rat and mouse infestation.

Information on milk cartons reveal that two ingredients
fill the container: Milk and Vitamin D-3. Vitamin D-3 is
used to kill rats! Why is it added to milk for our children
to drink in the name of good health?

According to the Canadian brochure, products containing
Vitamin D-3 (calciferol) kill by vitamin overdose after 3-4
days. The Vitamin D-3 actually mobilizes excessive amounts
of calcium from an animal's bones.

And you thought that Vitamin D-3 in milk helped to absorb
calcium. Another dairy industry myth!

Don't try this at home. When the animal dies within your walls,
its putrefying body will add the most unpleasant bouquet to your
environment. The offensive smell may last for months.

Many methods of mice and rat control are discussed. I prefer
the most foolproof of methods: Don't let them eat your food.
Store all foods in refrigerators or tamper-proof containers.
With no food supply, mice and rats go elsewhere to dine.

How soon we forget! Children are taught in first grade that
Vitamin D is the "sunshine vitamin." Vitamin D is a steroid
hormone and is synthesized in one's body after skin is exposed
to sunlight. Once the body has made enough, it will produce
no more. Too much Vitamin D can be toxic and
result in bone loss.

In 1963, the journal Pediatrics (Volume 31) revealed:

"Consuming as little as 45 micrograms of Vitamin D-3 in young
children has resulted in signs of overdose." (one gallon of milk
contains 1600 IU, or 40 micrograms).

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
(Volume 326, 1992) revealed that of 42 milk samples, only
12% were within the expected range of Vitamin D content.
Testing of 10 samples of infant formula revealed seven with
more that twice the Vitamin D content reported on the label,
one of which had more than four times the label amount.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Radio Interview-Monday at 8:00 PM (EST)

The Notmilkman will be interviewed this evening
at 8:00 PM and be heard live in 23 states on 45
radio stations. For a list of affiliates:

http://www.gcnlive.com/affiliates.htm

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Anti-Arthritis Diet

Quite often, doctors and nutritional advisors
recommend that you eat the "right" foods, while
lacking the wisdom to understand that the key
to disease prevention might be this advice:
"Don't eat the wrong foods."

I found this article on an English-speaking Pakistani
website:

http://www.hipakistan.com/health/health_arthritis.html

Some quotes from the above article:

"Dietary practices have a major impact on arthritis."

"Among the offenders are saturated fats (which occur in
cooking oils and fried foods), white flour and sugar,
red meat, chemical additives, yeast, and milk and dairy
products. These foods can increase inflammation, invoke
allergies, and interfere with hormone production, cellular
integrity, and the function and mobility of the joints."

"Whole milk and cheeses contain 74% fat (even low-fat milk
contains 38% fat on a percentage-of-calories basis). Most
animal foods contain large quantities of fat, mostly saturated
fats, which raise levels of inflammatory compounds in the body
and increase arthritic symptoms."

"Commercially produced, corn-fed meat and dairy products and
shellfish are also high in arachidonic acid which is converted
by the body into powerful pro-inflammatory compounds."

"Arthritis sufferers commonly have a high level of acidity."

"Acidity can be decreased by reducing your intake of acid-forming
foods and increasing intake of alkaline-forming foods in the diet.
The most acid-forming foods are sugar, alcohol, vinegar, coffee,
meat, and dairy products."

"Choose restaurants where there are healthful choices. Ask if the
chef will modify a dish (skip the cream sauce, for example) to
make it fit your new diet."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Hormone-Free Milk

Yesterday (April 26, 2003), I spoke at a church in
Brooklyn, New York. The congregation was receptive
to a vegetarian lecture. They were Seventh Day Adventists,
and collectively admired the work of an anti-milk pioneer,
Ellen G. White. White warned about milk and dairy products
77 years ago, writing that one should "never" eat cheese.
Despite that message, most practitioners had "strayed"
and although they do not eat meat, dairy has become a
major part of their diet.

After my one hour lecture, we enjoyed a two hour
question and answer period. Each time I speak, I usually
get the following question:

"Is hormone-free milk healthy?"

There is no such thing as hormone-free milk. The healthiest
milk from the healthiest cow is naturally loaded with lactoferrins,
immunoglobulins, steroid, and protein growth hormones. In an effort
to provide their children with healthy foods, mothers and fathers
search out products that are advertised to be "hormone free." Such
marketing is deceptive. When drinking body fluids from animals, or
eating their flesh, you ingest their naturally occurring hormones.

The largest producer of so-called hormone-free milk in America
is Horizon Farms.

Horizon's organic milk contains animal fat and cholesterol,
dioxins, and bacteria. The amount of somatic cells (pus) in
organic milk is lower than milk from non-organic cows, but it's
still dead white blood cells and dead bacteria. Ask yourself this
question. Does organic human breast milk sound like a delicious
drink for an adult human?

Instinctively, most people know that there are substances in
breast milk that are not intended for their adult bodies. Same
goes for pig's milk and dog's milk. Same for cow's milk.

Some people may not be able to tolerate lactose, a milk sugar.
One hundred percent of humans are allergic to casein, a milk protein.
Eighty percent of the protein in Horizon's organic dairy products is
casein, the same glue used to adhere a label to a bottle of beer. Eat
casein and your body produces histamines, then mucous. This sludge
congests your organs. Give up all milk and dairy products for just
one week and an internal "fog" will lift from your body.

Is genetically engineered milk dangerous? You bet! Organic milk
contains just a little bit less of the same hormones. I find there
to be very little difference between the two.

The people at Horizon want you to believe that their cows are
so happy that they've trademarked the phrase "Happy Cows."
Each year, one out of three Horizon happy cows are sent on
a truck ride to hell, the slaughterhouse. Ask Horizon if
they would allow you to become witness to the final 24
hours of a happy cow's life.

Horizon pretends to have happy cows, yet these animal's udders
become so large that it is necessary to milk them three times
per day. Most dairy farms milk their cows once or twice each day.

Horizon pretends to have happy family farms, but nothing could be more
distant from the truth. On March 9th, 1999, the World Street Journal
wrote:

"Horizon buys about 40% of its milk from other organic-dairy
operations,
but it has two farms of its own, in Idaho with 3,700 milking cows, and
Maryland with 500 cows. The company is looking to establish a third
farm...and have a capacity for 2,000 cows..."

Folks, Horizon runs a factory-farm operation. I've investigated the
Idaho farm which actually contains nearly 7,000 cows.  Each animal
produces 80 pounds of body wastes daily.  That's 560,000 pounds of
excrement and urine each day entering Idaho's environment.

How does Horizon fool so many people all of the time?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

How to Stay Healthy and Still Eat Chocolate

My initial cynicism quickly turned to "charmed"
shortly after opening the cover of Karen Alison's
new book, "How to Stay Healthy and Still Eat Chocolate."

Instead of supporting chocolate as a health food
(as many articles and books have recently done),
this book is an essential guide to creating a
healthy home, environment, diet, and lifestyle.

The author begins with your immune system, and ways
that it becomes compromised by a total toxic load,
which includes poisons in personal care products,
laundry detergents, perfumes, soaps, deodorants,
toothpaste, plastics, carpeting, air, water, and food.
The book is loaded with alternative suggestions to
making yourself healthier.

She challenges her readers to rethink one's
definition of food. Food is nourishment, and eating
for nutritional value means eating foods that
give you the maximum nutritional boost for each bite.
It seems obvious to me to read or hear a lecturer or
author endorse raw fruits and vegetables, but I never
get tired of hearing and reinforcing that message.

Here is what Karen writes about milk (page 179):

"What About Dairy?

Cows put on hundreds of pounds to mature. Unlike
humans, calves attain a weight of about 300 pounds
in their first year. To help them grow this big this
fast, their mothers' milk contains huge amounts of
protein and calcium.

When you ingest cow's milk or dairy products, you
take into your body a substance meant to provide a
huge growth spurt--to a calf. The nutrients in cow's
milk are not in the correct ratio for humans. Our
infants actually need more carbohydrates in mother's
milk than cattle require.

Although there is endless controversy over this, there
is evidence that many adults and children have trouble
digesting dairy. Milk is essentially baby food and we are
the only species who continue to drink it after weaning.
We are also the only species who regularly consume the
baby food of another species. Every mammal's milk is
composed so that it fosters the growth and development
needs of that species.

Because dairy is considered mucus-forming, many
professional singers avoid dairy products-they cannot
afford to cough or clear their throats in the middle of
a solo. Dairy has been implicated in asthma, migraines,
P.M.S., menstrual problems, and infertility, and linked to
juvenile diabetes, as well as bed-wetting, diaper rash, colic,
hardening of the arteries (even in children), and kidney stones.
Hyperactivity and other behavior problems may be milk-related.
The most ironic of health problems related to dairy is
osteoporosis."

That's just a beginning from this author. She confirms
that dairy is not a good source of calcium for humans
because the body does not absorb it.

Karen Alison argues that if and when you clean your
house and body of toxins, you'll be ready to treat
yourself by still eating chocolate. One assumes that
milk chocolate is a no-no on her list. Try the organic
dairy-free chocolate grown anywhere but Ivory Coast,
where kids still live in slavery.

To visit Karen Alison and her co-author, Kathy Raymond,
visit their website. Buy a copy of their book:

http://www.karenandkathy.com

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Milk Chocolate Hits the Fans

My daughters are big chocolate fans. When we
search for chocolate products, we do so by excluding
"milk" chocolate from our shopping lists.

Milk chocolate is the weakness of American dieters.
The first ingredient is sugar. The second ingredient
is milk. The third ingredient is the cocoa bean. Milk
chocolate is called a "comfort food" for good reason.
This so-called snack is more than just psychologically
addictive. Regular users of milk chocolate become
addicts to a naturally occurring milk opiate that is
similar in chemical structure to morphine.

This is a part of Mother Nature's infinitely wonderous
plan, to make nursing more than pleasurable. Casomorphin
is addictive. With each bit of chocolate that melts in
your mouth, you also deliver allergenic proteins and
bovine growth hormones to your cells.

This week, I received a package of beautifully
wrapped chocolates that were manufactured on an
island in Western Canada.

What a grand first impression. Each 46 gram bar
(1.6 ounces) was wrapped in a different colored
textured foil. Red for raspberry, orange for citrus,
green for mint, etc.

These candy bars contain only organic ingredients,
including the finest organic Belgian dark chocolate.

These same candy bars are the subject of a promotional
story on the front page of the largest vegetarian
Internet website. I assumed that they had to be vegan.
The product is promoted with this headline:

"A 25-year search for the perfect chocolate has ended."

I spoke with the owner of the company, and assured him
that I would give samples to three of the most discerning
chocolate afficionados in America, my daughters. I planned
on writing a review column of the product, subject to a
tasting that pleased three palates.

There was just one problem.

The labels warned in two languages:

"May contain traces of nuts and/or milk-
Peut contenir des traces de noix et/or de lait."

I am proud of my daughters, but even prouder after
what happened next. Although I am a vegan, they are
not. I eat no meat or dairy products. Although my kids
eat meat, they shun dairy like the plague.

Lizzy was the first to notice the warning label,
and I'll probably never live this one down.

"It has dairy, dad. I'm not eating this."

"But it's chocolate, Lizzy. Organic. It's
delicious. They don't add milk-it's
processed on dairy equipment, that's all."

"I'm not taking chances." She smiled her smile
of teenaged victory over a cornered dad.
I could hear her thinking "Gotcha."

Nobody ate the chocolates. I donated them to a
local family-friends who devour food before
reading labels. Guilt works well on this dad. In
order to salvage a tarnished reputation, I drove
to the local supermarket and bought a container
of peanut-butter/chocolate soy ice cream for my
girls.

Kudos to the manufacture for truth in labeling.
Shame on the so-called vegan Internet site for
promoting a product that may contain dairy.
Bravo to my children by standing up for something
that they believe in, the NotMilk message.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk

As a fourteen-year-old country singer, Margaret
LeAnn Rimes posed for a milk mustache ad after
performing songs about broken hearts:

http://www.whymilk.com/images/lrimesM.jpg

LeAnn Rimes began singing before she was
two years old. Her parents managed her early
career which began when she was 5. By age 7,
they had gotten their little girl to appear in
a stage version of The Christmas Carol. Shortly
after that, mom and dad helped little LeAnn to
produce and release her first album. When LeAnn
turned 18, she sued her parents to get out of
a contract that she signed at age 12, and she
also sued her father, claiming that she was
cheated out of $7 million.

During the litigation, LeAnn hosted the Country
Music Awards and wore a t-shirt saying "Daddy."
The Enquirer called her "...dyslexic" and asked,
"What's going on with LeAnn?"

Apparently, dairy industry advertising geniuses
did not understand family animosities when
they wrote and released LeAnn's new milk ode
to "mom."

LeAnn Rimes' latest album, "Twisted Angel,"
does not contain her new twisted milk song.
You'll soon be hearing this one on radio,
paid for by the dairy industry:

"Mom, it's your Baby
it's you I adore
for your loving ways
and the milk you poured

You'd pour me milk
at the start of each day
I'd gulp it all down
and head on my way

Milk's nine vitamins,
minerals, too
helped give me strong teeth and bones
now I'm singing to you

Mom, thanks for milk
three times a day
Made me so strong
in a million of ways"

We've taken the liberty to re-write the lyrics:

Mom, it's your Baby
it's you I adore
I've taken $25 grand and
am dairy's new whore.

You'd pour me milk
at the start of each day
from those songs I recorded,
you stole all of my pay.

Milk's nine vitamins,
minerals, too
With powerful hormones,
pus and glue.

Mom, thanks for milk
three times a day
Heart disease and breast cancer,
my future, they say.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Options for Protecting Bones After Menopause

I borrowed the NY Times headline in yesterday's
science section, page F-6, April 22, 2003.

The story circulated on the Internet, but
only actual New York Times readers got to
see the accompanying illustration.

A woman is in the seated position. The cadaverous
drawing is bordered in pink. Her bright-red
lipstick is centered within an olive-toned face,
which bleeds decaying hues of rotting greens
and grays into the rest of her body, seen as a
skeleton on an x-ray plate. The long metacarpal bones
in her left hand hold their deathlike grip around a
glass of some pure-white liquid. Could that "option
for protecting bones" be a subliminally delivered
message conveyed from the NY Times to its readers?

Written by Jane Brody, one knows from her previous
work that her rhetoric does not belong on the science
pages. Dairy shill that she is, her columns usually
appear in the Wednesday NY Times food section.

Jane has a long history as an ice cream, cheese, and
milk cheerleader:

http://notmilk.com/forum/603.html

Buried deep within the article is this quote:

"Every postmenopausal woman will lose bone, even if
she takes calcium and vitamin D and does weight
bearing or strength building exercise. Following
menopause, one in two women will experience an
osteoporotic fracture during her remaining lifetime.
The bones become perforated. Their horizontal struts
become thin, cracked and disconnected, weakened
like a bridge with its cables cut."

Dr. Ethel C. Siris
Director of the Toni Stabile Center
for the Treatment and Prevention of Osteoporosis
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, NY

The reader's eye cannot help but wander to the eerily
x-rayed woman holding her glass of milky-white liquid.

Waste not, want not. Brody wastes no opportunity to
promote dairy products. At this point in the article,
she no longer cites scientists or researchers. Now,
it's time for her own biased editorial.

Spouting her usual dairy rhetoric, she writes:

"Adequate calcium - 1200-1500 milligrams daily
for everyone over age 50 - and vitamin D - 400
international units daily until age 70; 600-800
afterward - and regular bone-stressing exercise
are necessary no matter what else is done."

Brody then lists good sources of dietary calcium.
Her list begins with:

"Low-fat and nonfat milk and yogurt, hard cheeses..."

Towards the end of the article, Brody reports that
protein is also necessary. I am astounded by her
arrogance. She writes:

"While animal protein sources (meat, poultry,
eggs and cheese) are protective, vegetable protein
sources are not, a fact that may place vegetarians
at increased risk of osteoporosis."

Nations eating a plant-based diet have little or no
incidences of bone disease. Nearly two years ago
(May 15, 2001), the New York Times science section
contained a review of "The Okinawa Way: How the
World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Ever-Lasting
Health," by Dr. Bradley Wilcox, Dr. Craig Wilcox,
and Dr. Makoto Suzuki.

The population of 1.3 million Okinawan islanders
eat an average of seven servings of vegetables and
fruits each day, supplemented by seven servings of
grains and two servings of soy products. Okinawa has
400 people over the age of 100, about 33 per 100,000.
Compare that to 5 per 100,000 in the United States. The
average age of death for a woman living on Okinawa is
86 years.

These healthy people experience few instances of osteoporosis,
and heart disease. Cancer is extremely rare. Most men living
on Okinawa have never heard of prostate cancer, and breast
cancer is so unusual that mammograms are considered unnecessary.

Wilcox's book dispels the notion that genetics plays even
a remote role in longevity. According to his landmark study,
the key factor in long life and good health of the world's
longest-lived people is their daily diet.

Unfortunately, the New York Times science section has
become more hype than science. For the real science
regarding bone disease, see:

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

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Tomorrow's NotMilk Letter (Vegetarians at Risk of Bone Disease)

On Tuesday (April 22, 2003), a major American
newspaper published this unsupported comment
regarding OSTEOPOROSIS in their science section:

"While animal protein sources (meat, poultry,
eggs and cheese) are protective, vegetable protein
sources are not, a fact that may place vegetarians
at increased risk of osteoporosis."
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When Cows Retire & Collect Pensions

http://notmilk.com/pensions.html

Just kidding. Cows don't get pensions, people do.
That is...unless their pension funds have been
looted or misappropriated as seems to be the case
at the largest dairy co-op in America.

After years of hard work, cows do not get to
retire. Their reward is to either get clubbed,
stunned, or shot in the head. Their throats
are then cut, and their blood sprays from
severed necks. Sometimes, cows drown on their
own blood as they gurgle their way to oblivion.

Cows get no pensions.

However, dairy workers do get pensions. Sometimes.

The largest dairy co-op in America is the Dairy
Farmers of America (DFA). In 2002, DFA farms
cumulatively produced 80 quarts of milk for each
American. With thousands of employees, DFA must
have some enormous pension fund, right?

Wrong.

An investigation by my favorite pro-dairy newspaper,
The Milkweed (608-455-2400) reveals that something
is very rotten, west of Denmark.

An audit of 2002 books by Milkweed's editor, Pete
Hardin, reveals that DFA's financial condition is
precarious, to say the least. According to Hardin,
somebody is playing with DFA's books. DFA's pension
deficit is frightening. Hardin writes:

"Add 'em, up. The Milkweed concludes that DFA's
total exposure on its employee pension programs
slid backwards about $150 million in 2002."

Add the $162 million in pension deficits to nearly
$400 million in phony intangible assets, and one finds
that DFA is milk gone sour. Hardin writes:

"The mumbo-jumbo contained in DFA's 2002 audit is
purposefully confusing. DFA claims equities of $638
million. However, that figure must be compensated
by acknowledged 'intangible assets' of about $400
million. DFA reports 'Goodwill' of $105 million and
'intangibles' of $294 million. 'Goodwill' and
'intangibles' are bookkeeping fictions."

The Antitrust Division of the United States Department
of Justice is now conducting an investigation of DFA's
illegal and deceptive practices. The pension fund
fraud is just the tip of the iceberg. This should get
interesting. According to Hardin, the CEO of DFA, Gary
Hanman, is close friends with the Attorney General of
the United States, John Ashcroft. Make that, "very
close." Rumor has it that these two Missouri friends
have become close Washington, D.C. drinking buddies.
During his unsuccessful bid for a Missouri Senate seat
in 2000, Ashcroft set a record by accepting $2,028,823
in PAC donations, ranking him in the top ten for
contributions from industries, many of which have anti-trust
and other matters pending before the Justice Department.
Agri-business represented 7.6 percent of those funds,
and dairy sat atop the list.

The dairy industry has a long history of buying their way
to power. See what resulted from the famous ("I am not a
crook") Richard Nixon $3 million dairy bribe in 1971. At
DFA, it's business as usual.

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

On Monday (April 21, 2003), I spoke with Craig Conrad, Esq.,
and Judy Boudreault, Esq., two of the Justice Department
attorneys investigating the DFA case. Before my phone call,
they were not aware of the pension fund debacle, nor the
dairy industry's previous history of placing substantial
dollars into political activities. Should you have any
further information about how DFA conducts their business,
please give these lawyers a call: 202-514-5387.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Notmilkman Would Be Dead Before Dawn

Monday, April 21, 2003 - 4 PM
_________________________________

Tomorrow's NotMilk letter is going
to be a classic.

Sometimes I kick a little "A."
Sometimes, I kick some "effing A!"

This information is sooo hot that
if life imitated Hollywood movies,
I would not live to see the dawn.

Today's conversation with two Justice
Department attorneys was a classic.

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Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

"Many cases of asthma and sinus infections are reported
to be relieved and even eliminated by cutting out dairy."

Frank Oski, M.D., Chief of Pediatrics
at Johns Hopkins Medical School
Natural Health, July, 1994
_______________________________________________________

Saturday's Page One New York Times story (4/19/03)
confirmed everything I've been writing since
1995. One out of four children in Harlem tests
positive for asthma.

Scientists were shocked by the latest data. According
to the New York Times, that frequency of asthma is more
than double the incidence rate which researchers
expected to find. America's national average asthma rate
runs about six percent, or nearly one out of seventeen.

Scientists tested 2000 children under the age of 13
living in one 24-block New York City Harlem neighborhood
and found that 25.5% of the kids had asthma. The
researchers are clueless as to the cause, but have
observed that the asthma rate has doubled since
1980.

Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's
Zone, the study's sponsor, said:

"This is a very poor community where a lot of the
families have very troubled lives, with lots of
stresses..."

For many children, living in Harlem means living below
the poverty level. USDA runs an anti-nutrition program
called WIC (Women/Infants/Children). The foundation of
WIC's food giveaway program is subsidized milk and
dairy products, purchased at retail to bail out failing
dairy farmers who have no other outlet for their surplus
product.

Our government also feeds 28 million school kids
each day with their National School Lunch Program
and School Breakfast Program (SBP). Those
milk meal giveaways cost over 6 billion dollars
per year, which does not include the cost of
medical treatment for asthma attacks and asthma
medicine.

In attempting to explain exploding asthma rates, the
New York Times article reports:

"Some of the worst triggers, studies have found, are
most prevalent in poor communities, including the feces
of cockroaches and dust mites, cigarette smoke and mold
and mildew. Harlem, East Harlem and the South Bronx also
have a heavy concentration of diesel bus and truck traffic,
and the tiny particles in diesel exhaust are thought to
be another serious asthma trigger."

Environmental considerations are all very important,
of course, and everybody wants more than one breath
of fresh air each day, but not one of the factors cited
by the Times has doubled since 1980. One factor, though,
not considered by researchers, has more than tripled.
In 1980, the average American was eating just ten pounds
of cheese per year. Today, the average American consumes
thirty-one pounds of cheese.

Eighty percent of milk and cheese protein is casein. When
casein is isolated from milk, it becomes the glue to adhere
a label to a bottle of beer. Casein is the glue used to hold
together wood in furniture. When a child living in Harlem
eats cheese or ice cream, this allergy-causing milk protein
triggers the production of histamines, which in turn create
mucus. Sometimes, the reaction takes as long as 12 hours.
Tonight's slice of pizza may trigger tomorrow's asthma attack.

Asthma is not the only result. Milk hormones interfere with
a child's ability to learn. It is a wonder that only one out
of four kids living in poverty have asthma. Perhaps the other
three are fortunate enough to be severely lactose intolerant,
and avoid complimentary bovine secretions like the plague.

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
need 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.

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 have developing
breasts.

Children are becoming overweight at an early age. By eating
high caloric food with growth hormones and saturated 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.

Herman Mitchell, an asthma researcher and epidemiologist,
has this comment regarding the shocking Harlem asthma data:

"This is certainly one of the highest rates attributed
in the United States, if not the highest."

With that inspiring comment, I decided to take advantage
of a lull in New York City's perpetual traffic jam.
Easter Sunday afforded such an opportunity. It would
not be practical for me to enter the schools and follow
2000 kids, but I could perform my own completely unbiased
observation of Harlem. I drove from my New Jersey home to
the 125th exit off of the West Side Highway, and soon found
myself in "the hood."

Our New Jersey neighborhood has one pizzeria, and we
once had an ice cream store, but it closed for lack of
business in January of this year. We have cigarette
smokers, mice, and insects, but there is no WIC service
in our school systems. Little or no poverty can be found
in Oradell, New Jersey. No subsidized daily dairy
overdoses for our children.

Dairy is a major part of Harlem's in-school food
culture. That same bad habit has become an addiction
of the streets.

The study area was bounded by 116th Street, 123rd Street,
Fifth Avenue and Eighth Avenue. There were just too many
dairy outlets to count. I took notes as I drove, and gave
up on 116th Street. I found Domino's Pizza, and Baskin
Robbins Ice Cream. Krispy Kreme Donuts and fast food
franchises serving shakes and cheeseburgers. As I drove
through the streets, I observed hundreds upon hundreds
of quick-fix dairy foods providing after school treats.

The poorest children in America begin their day at schools
with milk and cereal for breakfast. Snack time provides
chocolate milk  and cookies. Lunch means macaroni and cheese
or pizza. The casein within the mozzarella cheese and cheddar
insures poor digestion, and sets into motion a reaction by
which the bronchioles of a child's lungs clog with mucus.

Here is what happened to one very famous American
who lived and died by the milk mustache. Flo Jo choked
on her body fluids, dying from an asthma attack. Her
autopsy:

http://notmilk.com/deb/flojoms.html

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Dear Friends,

Today's column is written by Karen Dawn, editor
of DawnWatch.

(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that
looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates
one-click responses to the relevant media outlets.
You can learn more about it at:

http://www.DawnWatch.com

To subscribe to DawnWatch, email KarenDawn@...
and tell her that you'd like to receive alerts.
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PETA's Easter campaign has made the front page of the
News Observer in North Carolina, and the editorial page
of Missouri's Springfield News-leader. In the April 17
front page article headlined, "PETA sign equates pig
with Lamb," Molly Hennessy-Fiske writes,

"Eastbound travelers on Interstate 40 see the message on a
36-foot-wide billboard just north of Wilmington: 'He Died For
Your Sins. Go Vegetarian.'

"The words end next to a 12-foot-tall image of a
squinty-eyed pig.

"And that's the only place you'll see the sign in North
Carolina, where equating a pig with Jesus just doesn't fly.

"Only one company in the nation's second-largest hog-producing
state accepted $ 3,500 from People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals to put up the billboard for a month during the
Easter season."

There's a great quote from the owner of that company -
Outdoor Ink!:

"We feel they have just as much right to get their message out
to the public as hotels, motels and topless bars. It's not an
ugly picture. In fact it's kind of cute."

There is also a nice quote from Bruce Friedrich, PETA's
director of vegan outreach, who Hennessy-Fiske refers to
as a self-described devout Christian:

"We want everyone to think about the fact that if they're
eating meat they're promoting cruelty to animals. It's a time
for Christians to ponder what we can do to decrease suffering
and misery in the world."

You can read the whole story on line at:

<http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/2456123p-2284886c.html >


Sarah Overstreet's column in the April 17 Springfield News-Leader
is headed, "PETA billboard on Campbell Avenue a blasphemy to some."

Rev. Tony Newby says the sign is blasphemous because:
"There's only one person who died for our sins, and
he was a person, not a pig."

The poster site was chosen for its proximity to Bass Pro
Shops Outdoor World, retailer of hunting and fishing supplies.
I found the quote from that store's spokesperson particularly
interesting:

"The value of America?s freedom has been recently brought
to the forefront again as we battle the terrorist threat
to our country and rights, and organizations such as PETA
have the right to express their views as we outdoor e
nthusiasts have the right to ours."

Overstreet mentions ministers who take exception to
assertions made on the website http://www.JesusVeg.com

I know PETA is always happy when a web page address makes
the press.

You can read the rest of Overstreet's column at:

<http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/opinions/overstreet041703.html
>

The Raleigh News and Observer takes letters at:
forum@...
Link: mailto:forum@...

The News-Leader takes letters at:
http://service.ozarksnow.com/readers/letters.html

I hope my subscribers in North Carolina and Missouri
will send off quick notes in response to the articles.

Though letters responding to an article may have the edge
when it comes to being published, Easter itself is a current
topic and can be used as the basis for a letter recommending
a merciful switch to vegetarianism. Please consider a quick
note to your editor. Email addresses for letters to the
editor can usually be found on your newspaper's website under
"contact us" or on the editorial page of the print edition.
If you have any difficulty finding the right address, ask me
for help. Always include your full name, address, and daytime
phone number when sending a letter to the editor.

To subscribe to DawnWatch, email KarenDawn@...
and tell her that you'd like to receive alerts.
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Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

I attended an animal research conference in Baltimore,
Maryland. The title of the conference was, "Testsmart-
An Efficient and Humane Approach to Predictors of
Potential Toxic Effects of Drugs." Not since the Trojan
War has there been a horse more beautifully adorned
than this conference of ulterior motives. Never look
a gift horse in the mouth. Sage advice regarding Greeks
bearing Trojan horses. Odysseus hid in the belly of a
one such wooden horse offered as tribute to the city
of Troy, which would soon fall prey to the passions and
courage of a handful of warriors. I would be Odysseus.
I would infiltrate this insider's club. I would hide
within the belly of the beast.

My fellow attendees were directors of corporate
pharmaceutical research animal laboratories, and
FDA "dinosaurs" who write and enforce the rules and
regulations requiring that animal research studies
be the first step in the approval process for new
pharmaceuticals.

The average new drug approval costs hundreds of millions
of dollars and takes many years. What a waste of resources.
Scientists could easily eliminate the animal research phase
and place all new drugs and techniques on the fast track to
approval. That would benefit the drug companies, humankind,
and of course, the animals.

The conference was set up by an extension of Johns Hopkins
University, the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Within
that group is an organization named the "Center for Alternatives
to Animal Testing." The session chair was Alan Goldberg. Dr.
Goldberg heads CAAT, which name hints at the unveiled motive
of the sponsor. Indeed, CAAT was founded by Henry Spira, one
of the heroes of the animal rights movement. Spira was everybody's
animal rights "guru" of the 1960s and 1970s. At the same time
that I was observing the implantation of an electrode in a cat's
hypothalamus at the Museum of Natural History in 1972, Henry Spira
was outside with signs protesting the torture within. At that time,
I was the clueless idealist animal researcher seeking a cure for
cancer.

The goal of Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives for Animals
Testing is to reduce the "need" to use animals as research
models, and to one day completely eliminate all animal testing.

I looked forward to attending the conference. Picking up the
tab as co-sponsor was Huntingdon Labs, villain to animal
rights advocates. Why was Huntingdon exploring alternatives
to animal research? Did they recognize that alternatives
existed, and the wave of the future was in studying human
tissue samples?

While at the conference, I made it my goal to ask every
one of the 80 or so attendees one question, "Can you
give me an example of anything that humankind has learned
from an animal study which can be applied to humans?"
The question seemed easy to answer, defend, rationalize.
Yet, no man or woman could come up to the task. That
question led to many heated discussions which took up
the better part of my three-day weekend.

By the time I got to one of the major players, she had
been alerted that I was coming. This woman represented a
company that supplies transgenic mice and rats to research
laboratories. Her name was Donna Gulezian, and she worked
for Taconic Farms, and I was seeking to interview her. I
put on my best interviewers face, and approached Ms.
Gulezian with a smile. "Mind if I ask you a few questions?"

"Yes, I do," she responded.

She was dressed in black and did not smile. Her face was
tense and her body language communicated anger.

"I just wanted to ask whether Taconic Farms will be
exploring non-animal models for lab testing."

"I have no comment for you." She turned to leave.

"Excuse me, aren't you one of the sponsors of this
conference, and aren't you listed on the program as
the session chair, today?"

"I'm not going to talk to you."

That was the end of that. We avoided each other for
the remainder of the conference.

I looked carefully at the list of conference attendees,
and noted that not one representative from Huntingdon was
registered. I soon learned why. Huntingdon raises animals
for research. They've been guilty of animal abuse, and USDA
has taken them to task. As part of their punishment, it has
been mandated that Huntingdon sponsor conferences such as
this one.

"Aren't they paying for this?" I asked Alan Goldberg of
Johns Hopkins Department of Environmental Health Services.

"In more ways than you could imagine," he laughed.

"I don't get it. Why aren't they here?"
He shook his head.

Which brings me to a press release that was posted
this past Monday, April 14th, by Fluor Corporation,
a construction company.

Fluor will be building one of the world's largest cell
culture manufacturing facilities. They've been selected
by Biogen to design and build a laboratory, administrative
offices, warehouse, and other facilities. Biogen is the
oldest biotechnology firm in the world, and one of the
leaders in biologic research.

Hundreds of thousands of human tissue samples are stored
in various world labs. Tissue samples of lymphotropic
virus from Indians in Panama. Cultures of breast and
prostate cancers from African Americans in New Jersey.
Samples of Wilms tumors from the Chinese, and astrocytomas
from diet soda drinkers. CJD (Mad Cow) and Alzheimers,
multiple sclerosis and diabetes. Spleens and kidneys,
pancreatic tissues, ovaries, stem cells. All kept in vials
and stored for future research.

Human skin grown for burn victims. Eyes for the sightless,
and hair follicles for the bald. Oh, the miracles that
modern science will produce for our future world.

Animal research teaches us many things. We learn that
rats get cancer if they smoke 14 packs of cigarettes
each day. We learn that pigs will suffer if we apply
a blowtorch to their skin for 30 seconds. We learn that
chimpanzees will roll their eyes to the tops of their
skulls when we surgically remove their tongues, and
we are amazed that white rabbits will lose their vision
when 28% acetic acid is applied to their eyes.

Yes, animal research teaches us many things about the
specific species being tested. Unfortunately, when
humans apply such learning about other mammals to our
own human species, one never obtains the same exact results.
Humans have completely different systems than do other
non-human animals. Rat models are not models at all
for human biological systems. That is why human tissue
culture studies make so much sense.

Ultimately, before a pharmaceutical is approved, there
are human tests and clinical trials performed upon paid
human volunteers. Why not skip the animal research and
go directly to the human cell culture studies, then
human testing?

That is exactly what Biogen will one day be doing.
I applaud the construction of their new cell culture
facility. Construction shall be completed by the
year 2006. I expect, in my lifetime, to see an end
to all animal research. It was never needed to
justify a drug approval. It has always been a betrayal
to the animals who suffered, and the humans who
painfully relied upon such research.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Dogs Have No Souls

<http://barometer.orst.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/11/3e968540dda7
4 >

A recent editorial column written by David Williams for
the Oregon Daily Barometer includes the following three
statements, which I would like to address:

Statement #1

"Though animals do have feelings, PETA (People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals) fails to recognize that they
do not have souls. My dog Eddie feels excited when I play
with him, he feels sleepy when he is tired, and he feels
hungry when I haven't fed him. However, Eddie cannot
recognize himself in a mirror..."

Statement #2

"For the better part of two decades, PETA has presented
outrageous symbolism with substantial facts a distant, and
often non-existent, second. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph
Guiliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer several years ago.
PETA took advantage of this unfortunate incident by utilizing and
fabricating false scientific information to further their cause.
Within the animal rights community, many have concocted the notion
that consumption of dairy products enhances prostate cancer risk.
At the current time, no concrete scientific evidence existed for that
claim."

Statement #3

"I think PETA knows they are wrong."

Three statements:

1) Dogs have no souls.
2) Prostate cancer is not linked to milk consumption.
3) PETA is wrong.

First, souls. There is no concrete evidence that
even humans have souls, but let's assume, for argument
sake, that we do. Dogs have much to teach us.
They live in the "now." We see the seven colors of a
rainbow. They see nine (ultra-violet and infra-red).
They hear higher and lower tones and pitches than we
do, and smell sadness, heightened human sexual drives,
menstruating women, and emotional signals that leave
humans clueless. So far as dogs are concerned, they
have knowledge about us that we lack about them. On a
scale of animal intelligence, dogs do not sit atop the
list. Pigs, elephants, dolphins, and primates have
greater intelligence than do dogs. Most people can
relate to dogs. Primates such as chimpanzees and
gorillas can indeed recognize themselves in a mirror.

Is that the David Williams's defining line between those
without souls? Jane Goodall's 25 years of studying chimpanzee
behavior has taught humans that chimps use tools and
display human-like sets of values and emotions. Yet,
we continue to isolate these sentient creatures in research
labs. Many cultures eat primates for dinner. Does an
animal who displays human-like traits deserve such treatment?
Is David Williams a closet-AR activist, or would he turn
his back on such heartless abuse of creatures able to
love and feel?

If dogs have no souls, is it ok to eat them in China
and Korea? We eat cows and their children in America,
yet 1 billion Indians believe that cows have souls.

As for prostate cancer and milk, scientific studies have
established a solid connection. Milk can be called cancer
fuel, for it contains that powerful growth hormone,
insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I). There are 4,700
different mammals in the animal kingdom, and hundreds
of millions of different proteins in nature. It is
my understanding that only one hormone is exactly alike
between two species. IGF-I in humans and cows. When we
drink cow's milk, or eat cheese or slurp ice cream
that is concentrated from bovine body fluids, we
deliver that hormone to our bodies.

SCIENCE magazine was started by Thomas Edison in the late
1880's. This prestigious journal is read by over 500,000
scientists every week. On January 23rd, 1998 (vol. 279.
p. 563), IGF-I was identified as a key factor in prostate
cancer.

The July 1, 2000 issue of the British Journal of Cancer
(p 95-97, Volume 83, Number 1,) confirmed a prostate cancer
link to this powerful growth hormone. Researchers at the
Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford found that a diet
without meat or dairy products could reduce the risk of
contracting prostate cancer. The authors cite earlier studies
suggesting that high levels of IGF-I play a key role in causing
prostate cancer. The science supporting a milk/cancer link is
enormous. I invite readers to review citations from
peer-reviewed journals:

http://www.notmilk.com/b.html
http://www.notmilk.com/g.html

Finally, PETA is wrong. Even David Williams admits that
animals feel pain much the same way that humans do. Does
any reader of the Oregon Barometer newspaper desire to
anally electrocute a beaver so that he or she can make
a fur coat? So many alternatives now exist for fur that
living creatures need not suffer. The same can be said
for animal research. Half of the cancers that rats get,
mice do not get. Half of the cancers mice get, rats do
not get. Extrapolating research from one species and
interpolating it for humans is a betrayal to both animals
and people. Human tissue cultures now teach us more about
drugs than animal research. For goodness sakes, rats have
different enzymes than do humans. They even lack
gallbladders. The average American eats three vegetables.
French fries, pickles, and ketchup. There are 40 fruits
and 40 veggies to choose from, and 20 beans and 20 grains.
Wheat and soy analogues have created new foods, and
refrigeration and transportation have delivered choices
to all Americans, removing the so-called need to take
sharp knives to the throats of animals who can feel pain
and who die horrible deaths.

I am not a member of the People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals, but I applaud their methods of spreading
awareness. PETA is staffed with brilliant publicists.
A full page newspaper ad in a major publication might
cost tens of thousands of dollars. The best publicity
is free publicity. PETA is not wrong. Their means
justify their end. Goofiness works to obtain publicity.
A man cannot truly understand life until he holds death
in his hands. PETA brings you those images that you would
rather not face, in living and dying color.

David Williams can be reached at:

baro.forum@...

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.slaughterhousecam.com

It All Happened Today, April 17, 2003

After losing 120 pounds on the Atkins Diet, Luther Vandross
said:

"I've never been more healthy than I am now. I wish I was
this healthy when I was 25."

As Dr. Atkins lay dying, one of his disciples, jazz singer
Luther Vandross, suffered a stroke. There's a lot to be said
for the Atkins Diet. It keeps cardiologists and hospitals
in the money.

Vandross has written Grammy-winning songs for Whitney Houston,
and Aretha Franklin, and is an accomplished singer. Hopefully,
somebody will teach Luther that animal proteins and saturated
animal fat do not do his body any good. In 1991, Vandross won
a Grammy for his hit song, "Don't Wanna Be a Fool."

Don't be a fool, Luther. Stroke number one is a warning.
Stroke number two may be a killer.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

A few days ago, I incorrectly reported
that Dr. Atkins had died. I wrote:

"No human has ever lost 25% of his or her body weight
in six weeks. Well, perhaps Dr. Atkins did, but he had
triple bypass surgery and then suffered a stroke, fell,
crushed his skull, and died."

Well, on Tuesday, April 15th, I was wrong. He had not
died. His "spin doctors" announced that the good doctor
fell on the ice. Rumor has it that he suffered a massive
stroke as a result of a compromised cardiovascular
system.

Those same spin doctors, preserving an empire built
upon books promoting meat consumption, created a news
blackout after Atkin's heart surgery a few months ago.
At that time, they blamed his bypass on a virus.

A few readers have corrected me. Dr. Atkins is not
dead. Unfortunately, his unhealthy legacy might live
forever. As for the doctor himself, his days and hours
are numbered.

Years of eating that same diet which supported meat
and milk and dairy products have taken its toll. His
time is nearly up, as he suffers a torture no human
has to endure. Blame it on animal proteins and
saturated fat. For the truth on heart disease:

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

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzche, once
wrote:

"God is Dead."

Shortly after his death in the Weimar Republic
in 1900, somebody scrawled on a wall:

"Nietzche is Dead"
God

In any event, my "oops of the day" goes
to myself for apologizing about writing
that Dr. Robert Atkins had died earlier
this week. Shortly after writing and posting
my apology, Atkins, diet god to many, died
as his lived, a sickly obese man.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

A few days ago, I incorrectly reported
that Dr. Atkins had died. I wrote:

"No human has ever lost 25% of his or her body weight
in six weeks. Well, perhaps Dr. Atkins did, but he had
triple bypass surgery and then suffered a stroke, fell,
crushed his skull, and died."

Well, on Tuesday, April 15th, I was wrong. He had not
died. His "spin doctors" announced that the good doctor
fell on the ice. Rumor has it that he suffered a massive
stroke as a result of a compromised cardiovascular
system.

Those same spin doctors, preserving an empire built
upon books promoting meat consumption, created a news
blackout after Atkin's heart surgery a few months ago.
At that time, they blamed his bypass on a virus.

A few readers have corrected me. Dr. Atkins is not
dead. Unfortunately, his unhealthy legacy might live
forever. As for the doctor himself, his days and hours
are numbered.

Years of eating that same diet which supported meat
and milk and dairy products have taken its toll. His
time is nearly up, as he suffers a torture no human
has to endure. Blame it on animal proteins and
saturated fat. For the truth on heart disease:

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

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Don't panic...but...
Mother's Day is less than one month away,
so now is a great time to consider mom's
future health and happiness.

M is for Mastectomy, she's half the gal she used to be.
O is for the Osteo, her bones are getting weaker.
T is for Thrombosis, sadly, her future's getting bleaker.
H is for her Heart which soon will never beat again,
E is for Eating poisoned foods, she's dosed with medicine.
R is for Radiation, which may prolong her tragic end.

Put them all together and they spell MOTHER!

Most of us wish that mom could live forever and
a day. The pain of her death represents the one true
cutting of the umbilical cord. A suffering death from
heart disease or cancer inflicts enormous emotional
pain and distress upon her loving children.

Why couldn't mom live a life like the mothers on
Okinawa? The average lifespan on those islands
between Taiwan and Japan is 86 years for a woman.
No x-ray machines are necessary, for breast cancer
and bone disease are extreme rarities. More people
live healthy active lives over the age of 100 on
Okinawa than in any other place on this planet.
(See "Okinawa Program" by Wilcox, Wilcox, & Suzuki).

What do they eat? Seven portions per day of fruits
and vegetables. Seven portions per day of grains.
Two portions per day of soy.

SOY - THE MAGIC BEAN

Scientific studies have proven soy to be
heart-healthy, bone-healthy, and cancer-
healthy. Ingestion of soy protein lowers
dangerous cholesterol rates, keeps the
calcium in bones and prevents osteoporosis,
and reverses existing cancers by disrupting
the mechanisms by which cancers first grow.

Jack planted magic beans and ended up with
a golden goose. You can give mom that same
golden goose for Mother's Day.

THE PERFECT MOTHER'S DAY GIFT

You can buy mom a fruit platter, or a
bag of barley, whole wheat, and brown rice,
so that she eats the same healthy foods as
they do on Okinawa.

Or...

There's a better Mother's Day gift.
Some people say that as people age, they once again
act like children. By the time a mother reaches the
age of sixty, seventy, eighty, or ninety, there's
nothing left to give her. You've run out of gift
ideas.

Let me tell you something. Kids like toys, adults
like toys, and senior citizens like toys, too.

This Mother's Day, buy mom a SoyToy.
The easy-to-make fresh soymilk will
prolong her life and make her healthier.
Could any child want anything more?

LET'S CELEBRATE MOTHER-IN-LAW DAY!

How about your mother-in-law? Yeah, I know,
but, no there will be mothers-in-law jokes
here today.

Buy your mother-in-law a SoyToy and the shock
of your generosity might just do her in on the
spot! OK, I lied. Just one joke.

Buy two SoyToys and receive the second one at
a big discount.

While you're at it, get one for your own
wife, or girlfriend, or both!

Buy three and get an even larger discount.

For more information, visit:

http://www.SoyToy.com

or call toll-free:

888-NOT-MILK (668-6455).

Robert Cohen
http://www.SoyToy.com

Emergency Recall of SILK SoyMilk

Silk soymilk recalled after contamination
Wednesday April 16, 6:51 pm ET

White Wave said on Wednesday it is recalling 35,000 cases
of its 64 ounce/half gallon cartons of Vanilla Silk brand
soymilk after discovering some of the cartons were
contaminated with a material used to clean and sanitize
manufacturing equipment.

Consumers who experienced burning, nausea or other symptoms
after drinking the soymilk should contact a health care
provider, the company said in a statement.

The cases were distributed throughout the United States.
Consumers should return soymilk to place of purchase for
a refund.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

This evening (April 16th) marks the first night of the
most traditional of Jewish celebrations, Passover. While
we feast on our vegan mean, one of my daughters will ask
in Hebrew and then in English the four questions, the
first of which is, "Why is this night different from all
other nights?" My Passover story is a family tradition.

Long ago, Moses was walking down Mount Sinai holding on
to the Ten Commandments. God had promised to deliver the
Jews to a land filled with "milk and honey," but the Jews
had turned their backs to that promise and melted their
gold into a baby cow to worship. In fury, God called them
a "stiffed-necked people" and told Moses that he was going
to destroy them all and build a new race in the image of
Moses. Moses talked God into reconsidering his position and
God then instructed Moses to gather his soldiers and kill
the three thousand people responsible for such blasphemy.
That is what the Bible tells us. And then, after the guilty
parties were killed:

EXODUS - 32:35

"Then the Lord sent a plague upon the people, for
what they did..."

Moses was a sheep-herder, a shepherd. In those days people
drank sheep and goat's milk. The average dairy cow only
yielded one quart of milk each day, not enough to feed the
multitudes. What was the plague that God sent to all of the
people...to all of mankind? I have asked this question of
priests and rabbis, Judaic scholars who study Torah. Their
response is that the Torah does not state specifically what
that "plague" or punishment was. Biblical writers had no
microscopes. Nor did they, in their wildest dreams, imagine
our biotechnology. Cells, amino acids, proteins were all
impossible to imagine.

Imagine that you have before you a bowl containing twenty-
eight marbles, each one a different color. You are
blindfolded and asked to pick out the purple one. What are
the odds of doing this? If you answer, one out of twenty-
eight, you would be correct.

There are twenty-eight different amino acids, the building
blocks of life. These amino acids make up the proteins of
our bodies, complicated chains of chemicals, like separate
beads on a strand of a necklace, which form our hair and
skin and flesh and organs and hormones, and which act as
chemical messengers.

Instead of a bowl containing marbles, let us imagine that
same bowl contains the 28 different amino acids and let us
substitute phenylaline for the purple marble. The odds of
picking phenylaline out from all of the others is also one
out of twenty-eight.

Now imagine two bowls. What are the odds of randomly
picking out the purple marble, or phenylaline, twice in a
row? That number works out to be one out of seven-hundred
and eighty-four. Don't bet the rent money on successfully
picking two in a row! Three bowls? That would be nearly
22,000 to one. After five bowls, we approach the
improbable...17 million to one. Perhaps that is why few
people win lotteries. Six bowls and the odds increase to
nearly one in one-half billion. Ten bowls would be 280
trillion to one and fourteen bowls would be one chance in
five-thousand million trillion tries.

Imagine seventy bowls. I could try to calculate the number
for the next month and still not be able to write it out.
That number would be greater than the total number of atoms
in the universe.

One very special protein hormone contains 70 amino acids.
This hormone happens to be the most powerful growth hormone
produced in the human body. Discovered only twenty years
ago, this powerful growth factor resembled insulin, so an
unnamed scientist called it insulin-like growth factor, or
IGF-I.

There are four thousand animals in the animal kingdom and
millions of different proteins. Each protein is different,
save one. There is a miracle of nature at work here...a
cosmic coincidence that is so improbable as to approach the
unthinkable. IGF-I in humans and cows is identical. A
protein hormone containing seventy amino acids...a perfect
match, picking the same amino acid seventy times in a row
from seventy different bowls. Our most powerful growth
hormone is identical to a cow's most powerful growth
hormone. IGF-I, both in humans and bovines, contains 70
amino acids in the same exact order and gene sequence. A
coincidence, the odds of which are astronomical. Seventy
bowls. Seventy amino acids. An event that could hardly
have occurred randomly.

GOD'S GREAT MAGNIFICENCE (AND SENSE OF HUMOR)

When a Jewish boy celebrates his Bar Mitzvah (son of
commandment) he becomes a man and is rewarded by reading
a portion of the Torah in front of his congregation on
that special day. I had forgotten my actual portion until
I read the words in Hebrew recently...a melodic chant came
back to me, a verse in which I sang of how Moses spoke to
the Amorites and Hittites and Canaanites.

As a small boy of 13 years I became a man by reading what
was to become my future destiny. I wwould be the man who
would one day come to realize the significance of EXODUS
32:35 more than thirty years later, after reading that same
chapter at age 13. All at once, it dawned on me, a new
dawn. The key to cancer. Talk about coincidences...talk
about a Cohen-cidence!

In the third edition of his dairy textbook, Modern Dairy
Products, Lincoln Lampert writes:

"A drop of sour milk may contain more than 50 million
bacteria...a new generation may be formed every 20 minutes."

Moses was given a list of instructions to follow upon
entering the land of milk and honey. These dietary and
health laws preceded modern technologies, and yet
anticipated many of the problems caused by contaminated milk
products. Although swarms of bacteria could not be seen, as
microscopes were not yet available to the early descendants
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God tells Moses in Leviticus
11:41-43 that:

"Every swarming creature that swarms upon the earth is a
loathsome thing."

Moses is instructed:

"Do not make your souls loathsome with any swarming creature
that swarms, and you must not make yourselves unclean by
them and actually get unclean by them."

God's gift to man was the Ten Commandments. Had the Israelis
not insulted their deity by building a graven image in the
form of a baby cow while Moses received those immortal
tablets, God might very well have added commandment number
eleven: Don't drink the milk.

Instead, angered by the "stiffed-neck people" for their
blasphemous sin, God exacts his immediate revenge upon the
3,000 who built that baby cow by killing them. He then
curses all of mankind with an eternal revenge in Exodus
32:35:

"And then God sent a plague upon all of the people."

And speaking of Jews...and milk...I tell this next story to
demonstrate to you that I do not place blame upon spoiled
rotten hormone-filled milk as the cause for all of the
things in this world that are not right.

My grandfather died when he was 95. We used to visit him at
his apartment in New York's lower East Side, a neighborhood
in which the official language was Yiddish. I understood
little.

Grandpa Sam used to take me and my sister to his favorite
Kosher diner, a restaurant that he had been going to for
over thirty years. Forgive me, but I've forgotten the name.
We would enjoy the same breakfast, a freshly baked buttered
bialy. This diner served no meat, just dairy. Grandpa Sam
would always order a bowl of corn flakes with milk.

I never saw him complain about a thing until one day, right
after our food was set on the table, he called the waiter.
My sister and I had never seen him upset.

The conversation went something like this:

"Waiter, taste this cereal."
"Why, is there something wrong with it?"
It was obvious that Grandpa was upset.
"Just taste it!"
The waiter reached for the bowl.
"I'll bring you fresh cereal.
Maybe the milk was on the table too long."
Grandpa raised his voice.
"Taste the cereal, now!"
The waiter was apologetic.
"You're one of my best customers.
Why should I taste it? This is not
a big deal. I don't want to argue with you.
I'll get you a new bowl."
Grandpa was red in the face. He raised his voice
even louder, and a few patrons looked over. I had
recently tasted sour milk, and was hoping that
grandpa would not ask me to taste his bowl of cereal.
"TASTE THE CORN FLAKES!"
The waiter was so intimidated, that he sat down
at the table.
"All right, I'll taste it. Where's the spoon?"
Grandpa smiled.
"Aha."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

This Dairy Whore is a Liar Too

Headline: Eating Yogurt Prevents Obesity
Prediction: Get set for a new wave of
dairy promotion, based upon a phony study.

On June 5th, 2002, the Honolulu Star Bulletin
interviewed Dr. Michael Zemel, a nutritionist/
researcher who prostitutes himself for the dairy
industry at the University of Tennessee.

http://starbulletin.com/2002/05/01/features/health.html

The Star Bulletin wrote:

"Dr. Michael B. Zemel...has identified a fairly
complex sequence of metabolic events that show how
increased calcium intake, especially from dairy foods,
causes fat cells to make and store less fat and to
release more fat."

Zemel was asked about possible conflicts of interest.
His response:

"And no, we don't get funding from the dairy industry."

Uh, huh. That reminds me of Richard Nixon's famous "I am
not a crook" comment. My investigation of Dr. Zemel finds
that the man is a common liar. Was $2,231,385 given to
Michael Zemel by milk producers because he's a nice guy?

Two weeks after that interview appeared, Zemel was awarded
a $941,202 two-year grant from the National Dairy Council
to explore the role of dairy products in weight loss.

Soon after, Zemel received an additional $289,500 from
his same benefactors to explore weight loss in African-
American adults.

While being interviewed for the story, Zemel was
completing work on a $190,425 National Dairy Council
research study: Interaction Between Calcium-Rich Dairy
Products and Dietary Macronutrients in Modulating Weight
Loss in Obese Mice.

This phony liar has a long history with the dairy industry.
The year before, he received $103,360 from the National Dairy
Council for research on The Effects of Calcium-Rich Dairy
Products on Weight Loss in Obese Adults.

In 1999, the National Diary Council paid Zemel $86,230
to explore the role of calcium ingestion in obese
transgenic mice.

The National Dairy Council gave Zemel $69,919 in 1998.

The money keeps getting better and better.

Zemel enjoys sponsorship from cereal companies too.
General Mills also sponsors dairy research. Beginning
in 2000 through today, General Mills has paid Zemel
$550,749 to perform four dairy-related studies.

After a study is performed, there are many months
lead time between the completion and publication
in a scientific journal. The International Dairy
Foods Association (IDFA) clearly had this inside
story long before it was published in a journal.
They include the words "Embargoed for Release
Until November 17, 1999, 10 a.m., EST"

http://www.idfa.org/news/gotmilk/1999/reduce.cfm

Like portions of ice cream, these stories are
scooped out to dairy companies so that their
products can be promoted with phony science.

http://www.stonyfield.com/HealthyPeople/LosingWeight.shtml

Which brings me to Sunday's press release (April 13, 2003):

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/030413/052813.html

We are told:

"Now there's another reason to reach for yogurt more often.
New research out of the University of Tennessee suggests
that eating calcium-rich yogurt can help your body burn
more fat."

Unlike most press releases, this one has no contact
information. Great marketing. In fact, there is not
even a published study to review. I called Dr. Zemel's
Tennessee office and was told that the yet-to-be
publsihed study will be orally presented at a conference.
There is nothing yet in writing. So much for peer-review.
I did learn that Zemel's conclusions are based upon
36 obese black people who participated in a 24-day
experiment. That's science?

Zemel's previous work was performed on genetically engineered
laboratory mice. The yogurt-eating rodents lost 25% of their
body weight and 60% of their body fat in just six weeks. These
must have been very sick mice. If a human experienced a similar
weight loss, his or her entire system would shut down and
death would soon result. No human has ever lost 25% of his
or her body weight in six weeks. Well, perhaps Dr. Atkins
did, but he had triple bypass surgery and then suffered a
stroke, fell, crushed his skull, and died. That should be
the true legacy of the famed Atkins Diet. I would not
recommend his weight loss method to anybody, even Saddam.
Perhaps the tummies of Zemel's genetically engineered mice
were liposuctioned. Perhaps Zemel cut off their tails with
a carving knife.

Consider for a moment the one true purpose of milk.
Whether you believe in God or Mother Nature or evolution,
you must admit that milk was designed for an infant to
gain weight, not lose weight. Milk is not diet food. Milk
is a calorie-rich food, containing fat and growth hormones
which make mammals grow, not shrink. If you are made to
believe that milk and dairy products make you lose weight,
you might also have believed the Iraqi minister of
propaganda who went on television to tell his people
that American Soldiers were committing suicide at the
gates of Baghdad. The dairy industry lie is much worse,
because it fools you into believing that an unhealthy
product designed to turn calves into 1500-pound monsters
will end America's obesity epidemic.

They who sell us out for dollars are meeting in San Diego
this week. The dairy industry has funded many similar
studies, to be replayed on television news shows and
written about in feature magazine articles with milk
mustache ads. Although today is April 15th, next week's
April 21st Time Magazine story has remarkably been written
in the past tense before the actual presentation was even
made. Time will report:

<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030421-
443201,00.html >

"The first large study to look at total calcium consumption
in adolescents found that girls who consumed more calcium
weighed less and had lower body fat. The findings were
presented at the Experimental Biology 2003 meeting in San
Diego, as part of the American Society for Nutritional
Sciences program."

Time Magazine generates millions of dollars in revenue by
selling their integrity for ad space. Milk mustache ads.

Conspiracy? You bet. This time, I caught them with their
pants down. Most of America will never read or hear the truth.

One last bit of incriminating information.

The American Society for Nutritional Sciences is responsible
for this conference. The President-elect of this organization
is Dale Bauman of Cornell University. What a vicious cycle this
is becoming. I wrote about Dale Bauman in 1998:

A MAN FOR ALL TREASONS
THE VILEST OF HUMANS
THE FACE OF A LIAR; THE FACE OF EVIL

"No man has done more to further the goals and perpetrate
Monsanto's fraud than Dale Bauman of Cornell University."

My article:

http://notmilk.com/deb/bauman.html

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com















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This Dairy Whore is a Liar Too

Headline: Eating Yogurt Prevents Obesity
Prediction: Get set for a new wave of
dairy promotion, based upon a phony study.

On June 5th, 2002, the Honolulu Star Bulletin
interviewed Dr. Michael Zemel, a nutritionist/
researcher who prostitutes himself for the dairy
industry at the University of Tennessee.

http://starbulletin.com/2002/05/01/features/health.html

The Star Bulletin wrote:

"Dr. Michael B. Zemel...has identified a fairly
complex sequence of metabolic events that show how
increased calcium intake, especially from dairy foods,
causes fat cells to make and store less fat and to
release more fat."

Zemel was asked about possible conflicts of interest.
His response:

"And no, we don't get funding from the dairy industry."

Uh, huh. That reminds me of Richard Nixon's famous "I am
not a crook" comment. My investigation of Dr. Zemel finds
that the man is a common liar. Was $2,231,385 given to
Michael Zemel by milk producers because he's a nice guy?

Two weeks after that interview appeared, Zemel was awarded
a $941,202 two-year grant from the National Dairy Council
to explore the role of dairy products in weight loss.

Soon after, Zemel received an additional $289,500 from
his same benefactors to explore weight loss in African-
American adults.

While being interviewed for the story, Zemel was
completing work on a $190,425 National Dairy Council
research study: Interaction Between Calcium-Rich Dairy
Products and Dietary Macronutrients in Modulating Weight
Loss in Obese Mice.

This phony liar has a long history with the dairy industry.
The year before, he received $103,360 from the National Dairy
Council for research on The Effects of Calcium-Rich Dairy
Products on Weight Loss in Obese Adults.

In 1999, the National Diary Council paid Zemel $86,230
to explore the role of calcium ingestion in obese
transgenic mice.

The National Dairy Council gave Zemel $69,919 in 1998.

The money keeps getting better and better.

Zemel enjoys sponsorship from cereal companies too.
General Mills also sponsors dairy research. Beginning
in 2000 through today, General Mills has paid Zemel
$550,749 to perform four dairy-related studies.

After a study is performed, there are many months
lead time between the completion and publication
in a scientific journal. The International Dairy
Foods Association (IDFA) clearly had this inside
story long before it was published in a journal.
They include the words "Embargoed for Release
Until November 17, 1999, 10 a.m., EST"

http://www.idfa.org/news/gotmilk/1999/reduce.cfm

Like portions of ice cream, these stories are
scooped out to dairy companies so that their
products can be promoted with phony science.

http://www.stonyfield.com/HealthyPeople/LosingWeight.shtml

Which brings me to Sunday's press release (April 13, 2003):

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/030413/052813.html

We are told:

"Now there's another reason to reach for yogurt more often.
New research out of the University of Tennessee suggests
that eating calcium-rich yogurt can help your body burn
more fat."

Unlike most press releases, this one has no contact
information. Great marketing. In fact, there is not
even a published study to review. I called Dr. Zemel's
Tennessee office and was told that the yet-to-be
publsihed study will be orally presented at a conference.
There is nothing yet in writing. So much for peer-review.
I did learn that Zemel's conclusions are based upon
36 obese black people who participated in a 24-day
experiment. That's science?

Zemel's previous work was performed on genetically engineered
laboratory mice. The yogurt-eating rodents lost 25% of their
body weight and 60% of their body fat in just six weeks. These
must have been very sick mice. If a human experienced a similar
weight loss, his or her entire system would shut down and
death would soon result. No human has ever lost 25% of his
or her body weight in six weeks. Well, perhaps Dr. Atkins
did, but he had triple bypass surgery and then suffered a
stroke, fell, crushed his skull, and died. That should be
the true legacy of the famed Atkins Diet. I would not
recommend his weight loss method to anybody, even Saddam.
Perhaps the tummies of Zemel's genetically engineered mice
were liposuctioned. Perhaps Zemel cut off their tails with
a carving knife.

Consider for a moment the one true purpose of milk.
Whether you believe in God or Mother Nature or evolution,
you must admit that milk was designed for an infant to
gain weight, not lose weight. Milk is not diet food. Milk
is a calorie-rich food, containing fat and growth hormones
which make mammals grow, not shrink. If you are made to
believe that milk and dairy products make you lose weight,
you might also have believed the Iraqi minister of
propaganda who went on television to tell his people
that American Soldiers were committing suicide at the
gates of Baghdad. The dairy industry lie is much worse,
because it fools you into believing that an unhealthy
product designed to turn calves into 1500-pound monsters
will end America's obesity epidemic.

They who sell us out for dollars are meeting in San Diego
this week. The dairy industry has funded many similar
studies, to be replayed on television news shows and
written about in feature magazine articles with milk
mustache ads. Although today is April 15th, next week's
April 21st Time Magazine story has remarkably been written
in the past tense before the actual presentation was even
made. Time will report:

<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030421-
443201,00.html >

"The first large study to look at total calcium consumption
in adolescents found that girls who consumed more calcium
weighed less and had lower body fat. The findings were
presented at the Experimental Biology 2003 meeting in San
Diego, as part of the American Society for Nutritional
Sciences program."

Time Magazine generates millions of dollars in revenue by
selling their integrity for ad space. Milk mustache ads.

Conspiracy? You bet. This time, I caught them with their
pants down. Most of America will never read or hear the truth.

One last bit of incriminating information.

The American Society for Nutritional Sciences is responsible
for this conference. The President-elect of this organization
is Dale Bauman of Cornell University. What a vicious cycle this
is becoming. I wrote about Dale Bauman in 1998:

A MAN FOR ALL TREASONS
THE VILEST OF HUMANS
THE FACE OF A LIAR; THE FACE OF EVIL

"No man has done more to further the goals and perpetrate
Monsanto's fraud than Dale Bauman of Cornell University."

My article:

http://notmilk.com/deb/bauman.html

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Dear Friends,

Tomorrow's column will be the best I've ever done!

I'll expose an enormous dairy industry lie.
You will read that lie in tomorrow's newspapers,
and see that lie on your local and national news
shows.

The dairy industry wants you to believe that milk
and dairy products are diet food. This is their
marketing strategy. Folks--whoever designed milk
did so in order for baby mammals to rapidly gain
weight. Milk contains plenty of calories, fat,
and powerful growth hormones. The dairy industry
believes that the bigger the lie is, the more
likely you will believe it.

I know their game and their secrets, and have caught
the bastards with their pants down.

Please carefully read tomorrow's column and share
it with your friends.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Spreading Manure in Vermont

Vermont ranks number one in America in the relation of
number of cows to people. Vermont may not experience a
decline in its population of 613,000 humans during the
next 12 months, but many a dairy cow will soon be
heading to greener mountains and pastures.

"The Vermont dairy industry is facing a very serious
crisis. Vermont is at risk of losing several hundred
dairy farms."
-Vermont Governor James Douglas, April 10, 2003

The Governor plans a program in which dairy farmers
can defer payments on existing debt for up to nine months.
I wish I had that option with my mortgage payments and
gas and electric bill. Governor Douglas also will provide
loans of up to $100,000 per farm.

The chairwoman of Vermont's Senate Agricultural
Committee, Sara Kittell, agreed:

"You’ve got to spread the manure, you’ve got to buy the seed.
We needed to make capital available to farmers and they
needed it now."

Spread the manure? That metaphor works for me.
Watch where you step, Vermont.

The Agriculture Commissioner, Steve Kerr, confirmed that
Vermont's dairy industry accounts for 80% of "agriculture’s
$2 to 3 million contribution to the state’s economy."
The new program is expected to cost $20 million. That
investment will be paid back in the form of manure for
Vermont streams as one dairy after another fails.

Vermont was once a territory in which small family farms
provided milk for its residents. The State of Vermont
continues to preserve and promote that unreal image. Across
America, large factory farms are now the rule, and not the
exception.

By federal statute, large dairy farms in which thousands
of cows live under one roof and rarely see the light of
day are now called Confined Animal Feeding Operations,
or CAFOs. In Vermont, CAFOs have been re-assigned a
friendlier name, Large Farm Operations, or LFOs. These
new Vermont operations, by definition, house 680 or more
dairy cows. Gone is the reality of that small-farm image
that men like Governor James Douglas continues to promote.
The illusion is merely a delusion.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Summer Vacation - Book Your Fantasy Trip Now!

These past four years, I've made my summer
pilgrimage to a beautiful city just outside
of the nation's Capitol, Mclean, Virginia.

I will be there again this year with two of
my three daughters, Sarah and Lizzy.

In 1608, before leading the Mayflower Pilgrims to
Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, Captain John Smith
wrote about McLean: "Heaven and earth never agreed
to frame a better place for man's habitation."

McLean is where John Kennedy wrote his Pulitzer-Prize
winning book, Profiles in Courage. McLean is also home
to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Something very special happens each year in McLean the
week before our nation's birthday. From June 27th to
July 1st, the most passionate group of people I have
ever known meet to celebrate the animal rights movement
while replenishing their own bodies and spirits with
incredible vegan food and the liveliest of after-hours bars.

This is serious time for the animals, but it's also party
time, and I invite you to share your passions by being
inspired by 1,000 like-minded folk.

We take over the entire Hilton Hotel and participate in
100 panel discussions, films, lectures, lively debate,
culminating with a gourmet vegetarian banquet that is
talked about for months as much for the food as for the
politics.

Is the animal rights movement dead? You won't think so
after attending the mother of all AR conferences.

If you cannot make McClean, there will be a second
conference in Los Angeles from July 30th to August 4th.
My eldest daughter, Jennifer will be joining me for that
event.

We will be coferencing at the magnificent Westin LAX Hotel.

For more information, visit:

http://www.animalrights2003.org

To make a reservation, call:

888-FARM-USA (888-327-6872)

When making your reservation, you must tell Alex
Hershaft that the Notmilkman sent you. If you do that,
I'll meet you there in McLean or Los Angeles with free
copies of my book (MILK: A-Z) and book-on-tape:
Milk: The Deadly Poison, a $30 value.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com