The Groundhog's Dairy Diet

We've all read that consuming dairy products helps
you to lose weight, which makes absolutely no
sense, but makes for great press by those whose
job it is to deceive America into consuming milk.

Tomorrow (February 2, 2006) is Groundhog's Day. If you
have never seen the movie of the same name, treat yourself.
It's one of my top five films of all time (Rated PG
with Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell).

On average, groundhogs weigh a little over five pounds
when they emerge from hibernation in the spring. After
a summer of eating, September weights can soar to ten
pounds. The largest wild (free and uncaged) groundhog
weighed in at fourteen pounds!

Groundhog Day marks the midpoint of winter, Candlemas Day.
Tomorrow, the most famous groundhog of all, Punxsutawney Phil,
will emerge from his shelter to look for his shadow which
he will find at sunrise, 7:25 AM. There will then be six more
weeks of winter as a result, or so tradition mandates. That's
not ground-breaking, earth-shattering news.

The big news is that Punxsutawney Phil is the Holstein cow
of groundhogs. He's the pig of litte furry hibernators. What
has Phil been munching on all winter while observing his
dairy-based weight loss program? Ice cream! The root our
groundhog's obesity is not roots. It's dairy!

Bill Deeley, the local funeral home director who emcees
Punxsutawney's much-publicized Groundhog Day Festival and
sees to Phil's needs 365 days out of the year, had this to
say about Phil's diet:

"He's naturally a vegetarian. But he loves ice cream and
strawberry sundaes."

Phil, the groundcow, weighs in at 15 pounds and measures
22 inches in length.

Could an overweight Phil be due to the powerful growth factors
in milk and dairy products? Groundhogs should not be eating a
diet of bovine growth hormones and high calorie-containing
saturated animal fat. Neither should humans, for that matter.

So...eyewitnesses will see Phil spring from his burrow and
report that he saw his own shadow. Six more weeks of
winter. Easy on the ice cream, or he'll be in for one big
fall next summer.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Whey & Autoimmune Diseases

After fat and casein are removed from milk, dairy processors
are left with whey protein. Whey is composed of bovine blood
proteins. Serum albumen. Lactalbumen. Dead white blood
cells. Hormonal residues including estrogen and
progesterone.

The body's reaction to a foreign protein is to destroy that
antigen-like invader with an antibody. For those individuals
unfortunate enough to possess a genetic pre-disposition to
such an event, the antibody then turns upon one's own cells.
That is what is known as an auto-immune response.

In the case of diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), the
body's response to whey proteins is to attack the outer
membrane protecting nerve cells, or the myelin sheath.

It has long been established that early exposure to bovine
proteins is a trigger for insulin dependent diabetes
mellitus. Researchers have made that same milk consumption
connection to MS. The July 30, 1992 issue of the New England
Journal of Medicine first reported the diabetes autoimmune
response milk connection:

"Patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus produce
antibodies to cow milk proteins that participate in the
development of islet dysfunction... Taken as a whole, our
findings suggest that an active response in patients with
IDDM (to the bovine protein) is a feature of the auto-immune
response."

On December 14, 1996, The Lancet revealed:

"Cow's milk proteins are unique in one respect: in
industrialized countries they are the first foreign proteins
entering the infant gut, since most formulations for babies
are cow milk-based. The first pilot stage of our IDD
prevention study found that oral exposure to dairy milk
proteins in infancy resulted in both cellular and immune
response...this suggests the possible importance of the gut
immune system to the pathogenesis of IDD."

Multiple Sclerosis/Milk Connection

The April 1, 2001 issue of the Journal of Immunology
contained a study linking MS to milk consumption.

Michael Dosch, M.D., and his team of researchers determined
that multiple sclerosis and type I (juvenile) diabetes
mellitus are far more closely linked than previously
thought. Dosch attributes exposure to cow milk protein as a
risk factor in the development of both diseases for people
who are genetically susceptible. According to Dosch:

"We found that immunologically, type I diabetes and multiple
sclerosis are almost the same - in a test tube you can
barely tell the two diseases apart. We found that the
autoimmunity was not specific to the organ system affected
by the disease. Previously it was thought that in MS
autoimmunity would develop in the central nervous system,
and in diabetes it would only be found in the pancreas. We
found that both tissues are targeted in each disease."

Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis affects approximately 300,000 Americans.
Two-thirds of those diagnosed with MS are women. Most
researchers believe that MS is an autoimmune disease. Auto
means "self."

Who Does Not Get M.S.?

It is interesting to note that Eskimos and Bantus (50
million individuals living in East Africa) rarely get MS.
Neither do those native North and South American Indian or
Asian populations who consume no cow's milk or dairy
products.

Who Gets M.S.?

The British medical journal Lancet reported that dairy-rich
diets filled have been closely linked to the development of
MS. (The Lancet 1974;2:1061)

A study published in the journal Neuroepidemiology revealed
an association between eating dairy foods and an increased
prevalence of MS. (Neuroepidemiology 1992;11:304­12.)

MS researcher, Luther Lindner, M.D., a pathologist at Texas
A & M University College of Medicine, wrote:

"It might be prudent to limit the intake of milk and milk
products."

Women are targeted by dairy industry scare tactics that
offer misinformation regarding osteoporosis. Two-thirds of
MS victims are women. As milk and cheese consumption
increase along population lines, so too does an epidemic
number of MS cases. The numbers add up. The clues add up.
The science supports epidemiological studies. Got diabetes?
Got MS? The milk connection has been established.

Whey protein? Say no way!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

A young woman sat in in seat 1-A and called her sister's
telephone, leaving a recorded message that included
information where to find her last will and other personal
belongings. She let her sister know that she knew details
of the day's events and also knew that she would soon die.

Tonight I will watch a cable-tv movie based upon
flight 93, the plane that went down in a Pennsylvania
field after two others hit the twin towers of the
World Trade Center.

Her name was Linda Gronlund, and she was beautiful.
Her photograph, 25 years after I last saw her...

<http://www.post-gazette.com/images2/20011029gronlund.jpg>

She was also brilliant. We dated briefly in 1974. I
remember visiting her in a Southampton Hospital and
holding her hand as she lay in bed. Linda had suffered a
severe allergic reaction to something unknown, and her arms
and legs were blotched with a psoriasis-type skin disorder.

She was the all-American girl with a love for all things
dairy. I used to make fun of Linda for her cheese addiction.

We met in Calculus class. I barely held my head above water,
while she, a freshman, was kind enough to hold my hand through
the course. My passing grade was due to her tutoring.

Six months after her death, I performed a google search to
discover what my friend had made of her life.

Here is what I found:

http://www.recordonline.com/adis/62/stories/quinn.htm

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

PETA Gone Wild

How do I disrespect thee? Let me count the ways.
I disrespect thee to the depth and breadth and height
my soul can reach...

PETA's new website:

http://www.milkgonewild.com

Please review the uncensored version, and share with me your
feelings. Consider that hundreds of thousands of dollars are
required to produce a television broadcast-quality commercial
with professional production values. PETA has accomplished
just that, but in the process, who have they betrayed?

There is no way that any version of their "Milk Gone Wild"
video will ever be shown. The dollars donated by altruistic
people intending to help animals have been wasted like the
alcohol-rich urine of a drunk homeless man dripping on a
New York city sidewalk, absorbed into concrete.

I am disturbed by PETA's new video, and the corporate
immature fraternity-like mentality which produced and
attempts to market it. The egotists at PETA have strayed
so far from their original heroic mission as to be
unrecognizable. They now kill healthy puppies and kittens
by deceiving shelters, representing that these gentle
creatures are to be placed in loving homes. They spend
millions of donated dollars lobbying state and federal
representatives to pass laws making it easier for farm
animals to die, which in turn relieves the conscience
of meat-eating consumers...who now eat more meat per
capita as a result of PETA's policies. And the latest
insult to the spirit of both animals who die violently
and activists who care:

http://www.milkgonewild.com

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Thoughts From My Living Room (Jan. 29, 2005)

The eastern New York City sky seen through my living
room window has a most unusual orange hue at 6:40 A.M.

Today, I'll be driving Jennifer (my 20-year-old) back
to her New York City college dormitory near the United
Nations Building.

I'll be taking Lisa and Lizzy with me, detouring through
Chinatown to help celebrate the first day of the Chinese
New Year (Year of the Dog). I am getting hungry just
thinking about the vegan dumplings and scallion pancakes
and sweet bean buns that await.

Now, at 6:45 A.M. the sky consists of shades of crimson
with purple clouds. The day is ready to explode with color.
What hues are next?

The most intense magenta at 6:50. The sky must be afire.
Nothing can explain the beauty of what I am seeing at
6:55. Such intensity.

I've just reviewed a few overnight milk stories. Sheryl
Crow is now doing a raunchy milk mustache ad. Such is the
message-style of the dairy industry. Selling sex, raunch,
deviance to young people in the name of poor health. That
is the standard operating procedure of America's dairy
industry. Is it any wonder, I wonder, that liquid milk
consumption has decreased every single year since those
milk ads began?

Crow poses in ripped jeans and a revealing black bustier
in a trashy motel room holding her guitar case and a glass
of milk. The message? Raunch and milk, perfect partners.


The sky and the day now light up so that I can see new
beams and brick sitting on the lawn of the home-to-be
across from mine. Imagine buying a house for a million
dollars and knocking it down to rebuild another for
twice that price?

I've been to Medline earlier today, before the first signs
of dawn. Nothing really new to report, but anxiously
awaiting the posting of February's new milk-related
scientific research. Is it work, or is it play? It must
be both, for I enjoy the hours spent reading journal abstracts.

Today's notmilk news also brings a story from Christchurch, New
Zealand. A life is lost under the wheels of a runaway milk truck.
I have never before reported news of milk truck accidents. They
as so commonplace as to occur daily. The enormous shifting
weight of ten thousand pounds of suddenly shifting liquid
weight makes milk truck accidents commonplace. There ought
to be a law...and a new design.

Now, at  7 A.M., the intense reds and purples and magentas
have diffused into a hazy-like pink that will soon lead to
the rising of the sun, or is that just an illusion. One-trillion
miles from our home, there is just a small star, hovering in space.
Seen from Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, and Io, there is no
sunrise or sunset. Just the absolute cold reality of dirt and
dust inhabited by six billion humanoids and an uncountable
number of other non-human earthlings who willl live for a send
or a minute or day, or brief moment in time.

So quickly, from just one minute to the next, the colors have
faded. It is 7:05 and the sun rises over New Jersey's Palisades
by the Hudson River to begin another day.

Everybody still sleeps in my home at 7:20 A.M as I post today's
column. I have fresh Florida oranges on the porch, and a
pineapple and bananas to now cut up. My fast to be broken,
and their breakfast to be enjoyed.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Drink Milk and Lose Weight

Was milk designed for infants to lose weight?
You are asked to sacrifice your innate knowlege
by the dairy industry's latest claim: Drink
milk an get skinny. What could be any more
absurd than concluding that a substance containing
fat, cholesterol, plenty of calories, and
powerful growth hormones be considered a miracle
weight loss product? The dairy industry's
Marie Antoinettish attitude will have you next
eating cake with a tall glass of milk.

Let's examine a bit of real science: a June, 2005
publication in the journal Archives of Pediatrics
& Adolescent Medicine (2005;159:511).

The study of 12,829 American children determined that those
who consumed more than three servings of milk per day were
35 percent more likely to become overweight than those who
drank little or no milk.

How about the additional dairy industry claim that fruit
juice is responsible for America's obesity epidemic. All
of the above nonsense is brought to you by the National
Milk Producers who claim that everything else causes
obesity in American children, particularly fresh fruit juice.

The average American receives nearly 12 times the amount
of calories from dairy products (547 calories per person)
each day as from juice (47 calories per person). Yet, the
dairy industry blames America's obesity epidemic on juice
consumption. Can they get away with this lie? Of course they
can, because television, radio, newspapers, and magtaines
tell us so. The media grows rich supporting the lie
thanks to dairy advertising.

Even I didn't imagine that the dimwitted
dairy dodos would sink this low.

In a press release from those who would have
you drink body fluids from diseased animals:

"Increasing Numbers of Children Are
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge"

Milk and dairy foods are high calorie foods
laden with saturated animal fat and cholesterol.
They pack an additional wallop by containing
powerful growth hormones.

The dairy industry writes:

"Childhood obesity has reached epidemic
proportions. To help children maintain healthy
weight, parents may be keeping sight of what's
on their kids' plate, but they often overlook
what's filling their glasses."

The milk processors cite Susan Baker, M.D.,
chairperson of the American Academy of
Pediatrics' Committee on Nutrition.

Dr. Baker's comment:

"Many parents don't realize that many fruit juices
contain a lot of sugar and calories with relatively
few nutrients in return. As a result, kids who drink
juice all day long are depriving themselves of
essential nutrients their growing bodies need."

Aside to Dr. Baker:

Kids don't drink juice all day long.
You're exaggerating, Doc.

Just for the record:

1 cup of apple juice vs. 1 cup of milk

Apple Juice = 117 calories, 0.27 gms. fat, 0.0 cholesterol
Milk = 150 calories, 8.15 gms. fat, 33.18 mg. cholesterol

According to USDA food consumption data (edited by Putnam
and Allshouse), Last year, the average American drank just
over 1/2 ounce of apple juice each day. (.558 oz)

Last year, the average American drank a total
daily juice consumption of 3.23 ounces.

At the same time, the average American consumed
the equivalent of 29.2 ounces per day of dairy.

Let's summarize:

Total calories each day from milk and dairy: 547
Total calories each day from fruit juice: 47

Milk also contains powerful growth hormones.
Apple juice contains no growth hormones.
The most powerful growth hormone in a cow's
body is identical in structure (70 amino acids
in the same sequence) to the most powerful
growth hormone in the human body.

Children eat cheese. Apple juice is not
concentrated into cheese or ice cream. Ten
pounds of milk are required to make one
pound of cheese. Twelve pounds of milk are
required to make one pound of ice cream.

Where are the calories? Where are the obese kids?
Compare 47 juice calories to 547 dairy calories
and ask yourself how these lying dairy people
get away with it.

Drive by school yards and see the roly-poly
children. Where else on this planet can one find
obesity so positively correlating with
poverty? Malnourished children living in inner
American cities receive subsidized dairy products
for breakfast, snacks, and lunch. Their little
bodies become large bodies after consuming
a combination of high caloric, high fat food with
growth hormones.

The lies from America's dairy industry marketing
people are more than just deceptive. They are
criminal and they do harm to our children.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Bill Gates Pledges $900 Million for T.B.

Yesterday (January 26, 2006) Microsoft's Bill Gates
pledged to donate $900 million dollars to eradicate
worldwide tuberculosis found in third-world nations.

Mr. Gates should begin with America's dairy industry.

Five states are currently challenged with tuberculosis-
infected dairy herds. They include Michigan, Texas,
Arizona, New Mexico, and now, Minnesota. During the
past few weeks, USDA officials have destroyed hundreds
of cows from four Minnesota herds in an effort to
control a possible plague. Minnesota's farmers will
soon be regulated by this restriction: No shipping of
cattle over state lines. That does not stop these same
farmers from selling milk from diseased animals to
consumers.

Do you really need scientific support to inspire you
not to play Russian Roulette by eating cheese or ice
cream made from such tainted mammalian body fluids?

"Some strains of mycobacteria, similar to those that are
associated with tuberculosis, have been found to survive
pasteurization."

The National Mastitis Council, Inc. 1970 Washington, D.C.

"A Mycobacterium bovis-infected dairy herd of 369 Holstein
cows with lactation duration between 200 and 360 days was
tested...170 cows had positive tuberculin test results, and
199 had negative results. Cows with positive test results
produced less milk than did cows with negative test results...
In this herd, tuberculosis was associated with a 4% decrease
in milk production."

J Am Vet Med Assoc, 1998 Sep, 213:6

"Many diseases such as tuberculosis are transmissible by milk
products."

Journal of Dairy Science 1988; 71

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

That Terrifying Milk Hormone

The healthiest organic milk from the most pampered
cow naturally contains powerful steroid and protein
grwoth hormones.

Cows and humans share one of those hormones, insulin-like
growth factor, or IGF-1. This powerful growth hormone
has been identified as a key factor in the growth of every
human breast cancer. Each sip of milk contains this growth
hormone that does not do a woman's body any good.

The February, 2006 issue of the journal Dairy Science
contains a study in which levels of IGF-I were measured
in stored dairy products. Researchers found:

1) In commercial manufacture of whole milk dry powder,
IGF-I concentration was not significantly changed as
a factor of storage.

2) IGF-I content in yogurt decreased significantly during storage.

3) After milk was homogenized, levels of IGF-I become significantly
higher compared with that of un-homogenized milk.

IGF-I facts:

"Human Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) and
bovine IGF-I are identical. Both contain 70
amino acids in the identical sequence."

Judith C. Juskevich and C. Greg Guyer.
SCIENCE, vol. 249. August 24, 1990.

"IGF-I is critically involved in the aberrant
growth of human breast cancer cells."

M. Lippman. J. Natl. Inst. Health Res., 1991, 3.

"IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in
breast cancer."

Hankinson. The Lancet, vol. 351. May 9, 1998

"Serum IGF-I levels increased significantly in milk
drinkers, an increase of about 10% above baseline
but was unchanged in the control group."

Robert P. Heaney, Journal of the American Dietetic
Association, vol. 99, no. 10. October 1999

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

A New Earth

I find myself with a sudden voracious appetite to read books,
and appeal to Notmilk readers to send me your recommendations.
Have you read a good book lately that you feel I should read?

Last night, I read "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle. One
of my readers had recommended the book, and this morning
I woke up with a smile, imagining that I was delighting
in the beauty of a perfectly formed red flower. You
might be equally touched.

Tolle writes:

"Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines
whether you are fulfilling your destiny...The New Earth
arises as more and more people discover that their main
purpose in life is to bring the light of consciousness
into this world and so use whatever they do as a vehicle
for consciousness."

Robert Cohen
i4crob@...

Mad Cow News

For nearly two years, Canadian cows were not permittied to cross
the border from Canada into the USA for fear of Mad Cow Disease.
I had previously written that this decision was made to punish
Canadians for not supporting America's war effort in Iraq. After
long negotiations, the borders have been opened, so today's news
(January 24, 2005) places an interesting slant on the entire
story. Do you imagine borders will again be closed? My prediction
is that they will not. Forgive my cynical assessment, but this
was never about protecting the health of American beef consumers.
If I am wrong, watch for new immediate border closings. If I am
correct, this story will just disappear.

In 1907, Dr. Alzheimer published a treatise about a disease that
would one day carry his name. He had two young colleagues who worked
with him, Dr. Creutzfeldt and Dr. Jakob, and they too identified a
similar brain-wasting disease that now has Europe in a panic. The
brains of cows turn into a sponge-like mass and their behavior is
called "mad." The human variant of Mad Cow Diesease has been named
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, or CJD. The protein causing CJD has no
DNA, and has been described as more like a crystal than cellular
material. In labs, 1000 degree Fahrenheit heat does not destroy
this protein particle. Some scientists say that once infected,
the incubation period can last anywhere from one month to thirty
years. As the human brain turns into a sponge, this spongioform
encephalitic condition physically debilitates those so infected.

"Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
"A 24-year-old vegetarian has been diagnosed with Cruetzfeld-Jacob
disease. Scientists fear that milk and cheese may be the source of
infection."

London Times, August 23, 1997 Michael Hornsby

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Dosing Children with Dangerous Pesticides

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" resulted in the
banning of a horribly toxic pesticide, D.D.T.
Ironically, Carson died a few months after
publishing the best selling book that changed
America. Or did it? Her breasts became toxic
dump sites for chemicals approved by government
agencies, and her breast cancer overwhelmed
healthy cells, resulting in her death.

The United States Department of Environmental
Protection (EPA) has established so-called
safe levels for pesticides in foods, but their
tolerance levels make absolutely no sense in
21st century America.

EPA's math is one level below dyslexic, hovering
between unethical and criminal.

If humans and animals eat the same plants,
and humans then eat the flesh of these same
animals, or drink their milk, the pesticides
become concentrated in the bodies and body
fluids of those food-animals. Humans sit
atop the food chain.

Unfortunately, EPA standards for farm animals
allow greater amounts of pesticides in animal
feed.

Let me cite you one example.

If soy crops are sprayed with one of the most
toxic substances used in agriculture, malathion,
EPA will allow no more than 8 parts per million
on those soybeans.

Soybeans are harvested, roasted and served to
dairy cows and beef cattle. If soy forage is used
for animal feed, the permitted level of malathion
is nearly seventeen times greater (135 parts per
million).

Humans may eat a few ounces per day of malathion-treated
soy products. Dairy cows might eat ten pounds per day or
more of that same product with higher permissible residues.
Day after day. Week after week. Thousands of doses.

The actual human dose of malathion for milk drinkers
or meat eaters may very well be thousands of times
greater than the maximum standard for human tolerance
as set by EPA.

Mal means bad, and malathion (Dimethoxy Phosphino
Thioyl Thio Butanedioic Acid Diethyl Ester) is the
baddest of pesticides. Exposure to malathion can
result in a vast array of human conditions, including
birth defects, cancer, chromosomal, brain, and kidney
damage, leukemia, and often-times death.

Read the horror stories associated with malathion:

http://www.chem-tox.com/malathion/research

Many hundreds of different pesticides are used on
America's farms. In most cases, the allowable
levels of pesticides in feed for farm animals is
significantly higher than it is for human food.

Other pesticide ranges include acetochlor (7 times
higher for animal feed), alachlor (3.5 times greater),
bentazon (60 times greater), carbaryl (20 times greater),
chloroneb (20 times greater), diflubensuron (10 times
greater), diphenamid (5 times greater), fenvalerate (20
times greater), methomyl (50 times greater), methyl
parathion (10 times greter), metolachlor (40 times greater),
and norflurazon (10 times greater). Many more pesticides
are used. You get the idea.

Eat soy or any fruit and vegetable, and you get one
dose. Eat organic soy, or organic fruits and
vegetables, and you receive zero doses of pesticides.

Eat animals who are permitted many more times
than the levels of pesticides tha are humans,
and who eat many hundreds or thousands of doses,
and you introduce poisons into your own flesh.

Is there any living creature higher on the
food chain than human adults who eat poisoned
flesh and dairy products?

Sadly, the answer is yes. The highest creature
on the food chain is the growing fetus whose
mother is exposed to these concentrated toxins.
After birth, her mother delivers these concentrated
pesticides to the child through breast milk.

Who protects Americans from pesticides? It is
the Environmental Protection Agency.

Why does E.P.A. allow 8 parts per million of
malathion on soybeans grown for human consumption,
and 135 parts per million for farm animals?
Animals eat many more doses, and it is concentrated
in their milk and meat.

Those levels are established by scientific studies
performed on laboratory animals, whose systems do
not resemble human systems.

E.P.A. establishes tolerance levels for pesticides
more as an enforcement standard than a safety assessment.
When humans eat soybeans, some of the pesticides are
lost after the beans are washed, ground up, and made
into other foods. E.P.A. attemptS to reflect the "dinner-
plate values" of various pesticides, but does not do the
same with animal feeds containing dangerously high
and untested levels.

Who should care most about animal health? Those who
eat animals! Who should eat animals? Those people
who have no care regarding their own health.

In the case of malathion, cow soy forage is allowed to
contain 17 times the level of pesticides as human soy,
and cows eat thousands of portions to our one portion.
The steak or ice cream contains fat, which captures that
pesticide, which does not degrade. In milk and meat,
consumers eat many more doses. Should not the standard
for animal feed be safer than human feed for that exact
same reason?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Year of the Dog

With the exception of the dark dirty secret of PETA's
deception (People for the Euthanization of Terrific Animals--
they adopt healthy unwanted dogs from shelters and then
kill them while they think nobody is watching), we celebrate
with the Chinese who will soon be observing their own New
Year, The Year of the Dog.

In another week (January 29, 2006) we'll mark the first
day of the Chinese New Year which is year 4703 on the Chinese
calendar. Although dogs are friendly, loyal, and trustworthy
friends to man, there is an underlying negative theme to this
Chinese new year. Dogs often experience mood swings and
unexpected happenings, so that the celebration of the year of
the dog arrives with a cautionary note.

We did what we could to alert Chinese people of the coming
explosion of diabetes and asthma among its young people.
A review of medline and google reveal that such epidemics
have begun. Nobody seems to know why. We have also predicted
that heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis rates are
going to explode in the next ten years. All because of
increased dairy consumption. The Chinese are racing from
zero to sixty in mere calendar moments, and they will pay
the price. As diary use increases, so too will disease.

For many years, we have been writing about the development
of a major dairy industry in China. The Chinese observed
for the decades after World War Two an enormous growth
spurt in the Japanese people. As a result, the Chinese
developed an inferiority complex. They've seen the Japanese
people grow an average of two inches over the last two
generations (40 years) while their heights have remained
stable. In order to attain the same physical growth, the
Chinese government has been working closely with America's
dairy industry, recognizing that growth hormones in milk are
the missing link keeping them from attaining the same
stature as the Japanese.

Lassie meets cheesehead? Rin Tin Tin wears a rabid milkstache?
Deputy Dawg, Benji, and Scoobie Doo all come to terms with
indigestion, osteoporosis, heart disease, asthma, diabetes,
and cancer. Choose one from column A and one from column B.
An American menu for American diseases. One glass of milk
and thirty minutes later, the Chinese will be wanting more.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Acne and Milk

Share This With Your Favorite Teenager

New research suggests that a previously ignored factor
in cow's milk might combine with bovine hormones to
accelerate the growth of acne. The factor: It's iodine,
which farmers use to sanitize udders before and after
milking. Iodine drips into milk. A few years ago, the
Dairy Education Board hired a food-testing lab to
determine the iodine levels in New York area milk. We
discovered that milk samples contained 20-30 times the
safe level of iodine. See:

<http://www.newstarget.com/016595.html>

As a high school teenager back in 1968, I considered
volunteering photos of my back and face to NASA so
that they might be used to design simulated moon
landing maps. For me, it was that bad, and I made weekly
zit-popping visits to a New York physician, Dr. Jelenik
(I still remember his name, but not the names of most of
my teachers). In those days, I lived on milk and cheese,
and finished each high school cafeteria meal with 2-3
ice cream sandwiches. I was addicted.

Acne occurs when steroids (androgens) stimulate the
sebaceous glands within the skin's hair follicles.
These glands then secrete an oily substance called
sebum. When sebum, bacteria and dead skin cells build
up on huamn skin, the pores become blocked, creating
a zit.

When teenagers combine their own surging hormones with
dietary saturated animal fat, cholesterol, steroid
and protein hormones, dead white blood cells, and cow
pus, they're gonna get zits. The good news:
The cure is an easy one: NOTMILK!

Scientific Evidence for Milk/Zit Connection

"We studied the effects of growth hormone (GH) and
insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), alone and with
androgen, on sebaceous epithelial cell growth...IGF-I
was the most potent stimulus of DNA synthesis. These
data are consistent with the concept that increases in
GH and IGF production contribute in complementary ways
to the increase in sebum production during puberty."

Endocrinology, 1999 Sep, 140:9

"Acne is an end-organ hyper-response to androgens...
These data show that sebaceous glands are stimulated
by androgens to varying degrees and support the theory
of an end-organ response in acne."

British Journal of Dermatology, 1998 July, 139:1

"As pointed out by Dr. Jerome Fisher, `About 80 percent
of cows that are giving milk are pregnant and are
throwing off hormones continuously.' Progesterone breaks
down into androgens, which have been implicated as a
factor in the development of acne...Dr.Fisher observed
that his teenage acne patients improved as soon as the
milk drinking stopped."

Frank Oski, M.D., Don't Drink Your Milk

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

"The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy
field created by all living things. It surrounds us and
penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."

Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness)

Last evening, I reflected upon a column that I wrote exactly
ten days after 9/11/01, that most horrible day for New Yorkers,
Americans, and freedom-loving people of the world. I wrote:
___________________________________________________________

Last night, the President of the United States delivered, in
my opinion, the greatest speech in American history. During
that speech, George Bush said three things that were beautifully
written, eloquently delivered, and should inspire us all into
doing deeds that are consistent with acts representing a moral
and ethical nation and people.

"We're in a fight for our principles, and our first
responsibility is to live by them."

"This is the world's fight. This is civilization's fight.
This is the fight of all who believe in progress and
pluralism, tolerance and freedom."

"These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion."

Should not these words of wisdom act to inspire us in
everything that we do? What follows might seem trivial when
compared to the events of the past ten days, but it is not.
All events are connected to that same universal wisdom
governing the actions of all men and women.

A few weeks ago, I reported that one nation on this planet
kidnaps children by raiding other nations who are unable to
defend themselves. These children are then taken to
plantations where they live in slavery.

The nation of evil is the Ivory Coast.

The plantations grow cocoa beans which are processed into
chocolate.

We must take responsibility for continuing slavery if we
support companies like Hershey who buy beans from Ivory Coast.

We must respectfully ask companies who abhor this practice to
publically state that they will no longer buy beans from any
nation which relies upon enslaving children.

These are not sweat shops. This is not child labor. This is
not a symbolic form of slavery. This is the real thing.

If just one company comes forward to condemn the practice in
a written statement, we can use that press release or Internet
site post to pressure other companies into doing the right
thing.

George Bush warned the nations of the world that if they were
not part of the solution, they are part of the problem.
He said:

"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make:
Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

The same logic and philosophy must be applied to companies
refusing to do the right thing and end slavery.

Perhaps many of the people living in poor nations look at
America and despise us by identifying inconsistencies in
what we say and what we do. We have created a market for
slavery, and have the moral and ethical responsibility
to make things right.

Yesterday, I wrote about a heroic man, Paul Watson.

<http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2246 >

The world needs heroic men and women of action and
compassion. The world needs one powerful voice to
devote a piece of his soul to this issue. A spokesperson
for the slaves. A Moses to delvier those with no
hope to the promised land of freedom. One of you, perhaps.
Step forward, and make the following your anthem, and
do not quit until America's chocolate manufacturers
make the following pledge:

"We condemn slavery, and will not knowingly buy chocolate
from nations using children who are in bondage."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

That Sinking Feeling

Today's column has nothing at all to do with milk
and dairy products. Today's column is about a man
whose destiny it is to die in a violent way, and I
hope that I am wrong about that, but he and I both
know it to be true. Today's column is about a man
who puts his life and convictions on the line. It's
about dedication to a cause. It's about passion and
an underlying theme of universal wisdom that connects
all of the creatures of this planet to one another.

What's your sign?
Are you a vegetarian?
Where did you go to school?
Do you support America's Iraq policy?
Are you hopeful that Roe versus Wade
will be overturnied by the new Supreme Court?

All of the responses to these questions can be very
revealing, but the most interesting and revealing
questions one can ask an individual is:

What do you do for a living, and what is your
life's work?

I've worn many hats in my life. Warehouse manager,
production supervisor, dishwasher, chef, real estate
salesman, real estate developer. Today, when asked
that question, I respond that I am an author, lecturer,
activist, historian, manufacturer, trouble maker. I
thought that all of my responses were kind of cool,
until I met a man to whom I posed that same question.

"What do you do," I asked Paul Watson.

He smiled. The woman holding onto his arm giggled. The
bystanders who knew more about the man than I did laughed
good naturedly, conspirators in knowledge to my ignorance.
His response:

"I sink whaling ships."

That is how I met Captain Paul Watson, the ocean warrior
who commands a vessel called "The Sea Shepherd."

Paul and his volunteer crew have been sailing the
Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador for many years.
He's been from one end of South America to another,
protecting the lives of the gentle sea creatures who live
in the ocean. He is currently off the coast of Australia,
doing his very best to prevent whaling vessels from
illegally harpooning gentle giant mammals of the sea.

Paul Watson and his crew look death in the face on
every voyage. Remarkably, many members of his crew
enlist for one or more voyages out of a sense of
adventure and enlightenment. These are not rum-laced pina
colada midnight cruises to San Juan. This is something to
which volunteers return, forever touched by the reality
of a link between all creatures. Great philosophers
have said that man can never understand life until
he looks death in the face. Those who sail with
Paul simultaneously look whales in the face, while
facing down angry motivated hunters.

This week (January 16, 2006), Paul Watson's Sea Shepherd
sideswiped a whaling vessel off the coast of Australia.
A vessel ready to kill one of the whales that Paul risks
his own life to save. A whale that is protected by man's
treaties which are violated by those seeking extremely
expensive flesh sold by the ounce in Japanese markets.

Perhaps you would like to read more on Paul's website:

http://www.seashepherd.org

If the spirit of adventure and justice tempts you, there
is a downloadable form waiting for you to enlist.

One last bit of congratulations for Paul and Canadian seal
pups who are viciously clubbed to death each year. Last
March, 11 members of Paul's crew were arrested for approaching
a seal hunt and trying to herd off the herding of baby white
seals. On Tuesday (January 17, 2005), a Canadian judge issued
a landmark decision allowing the Sea Shepherd to come within a
half nautical mile of future hunts, referring to Paul's ship
as a "legal residences."

That is just what Paul Watson's Sea Shepherd is. A legal
residence. A sanctuary for both humans and the non-humans
of our planet who rely upon such men of conviction for
friendship and survival.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Problem with Protein

Many people refer to milk as liquid meat, for good reason.
Our children are taught in kindergarten that animal
protein consumption is essential for their good health.
Year after year that lie is reinforced with only one
side of the scientific story, and that is criminal.

Why do nations with the highest rates of bone
disease also have the highest milk consumption rates?
The highest rates of osteoporosis are to be found in
Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Sweden.

The Key to Bone Disease

It's not how much calcium you eat. It's how much calcium
you prevent from leaving your bones. Real science has
taught that dietary calcium plays little or no role in
preventing bone loss. Bone density is genetically
determined, and no amount of calcium will you into
a winning race horse or circus elephant (both, very'
powerful vegans).

Why Does Calcium Leave Bones?

There are 28 amino acids in nature. The human body
can manufacture 19 of them. The other nine are
called "essential." We must get them from the foods
we eat.

One of those "essential" aminos is methionine.

One needs methionine for many human metabolic
functions including digestion, detoxification of heavy
metals, and muscle metabolism. However, an excess
of methionine can be toxic.

Methionine = C-5, H-11, NO, S

Methionine is a great source for sulfur. That's the problem.
Rotten egg smells come from the high sulfur content. Imagine
rotten egg smell infusing into every cell of your body.

Eat foods containing too much methionine, and your blood
will become acidic. The sulfur converts to sulfates and weak
forms of sulfuric acid. In order to neutralize the acid, in its
wisdom, the body leaches calcium from bones.

"Dietary protein increases production of acid in the blood
which can be neutralized by calcium mobilized from the
skeleton." {American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1995; 61,4}

Animal proteins contain more methionine than plant
proteins. Let's compare cow's milk to soymilk:

Methionine in 100 grams of soymilk: .040 grams
Methionine in 100 grams of whole milk: .083 grams
Methionine in 100 grams of skim milk: .099 grams

Now, let's compare 100 gram portions of tofu to meat:
(All of the meat products are lean and without skin)

Silken soft tofu: .074 grams
Hamburger: .282 grams
Hard boiled egg: .392 grams
Roast ham: .535 grams
Baked codfish: .679 grams
Swiss cheese .784 grams
Roast chicken: .801 grams

In 1988, N.A. Breslau and colleagues identified the relationship
between protein-rich diets and calcium metabolism, noting that
protein caused calcium loss. His work was published in the
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology (1988;66:140-6).

A 1994 study published in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition (Remer T, Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59:1356-61) found
that animal proteins cause calcium to be leached from the
bones and excreted in the urine.

Additional Supporting Evidence

"Osteoporosis is caused by a number of things, one
of the most important being too much dietary protein."
{Science 1986;233, 4763}

"Even when eating 1,400 mg of calcium daily, one can lose
up to 4% of his or her bone mass each year while consuming
a high-protein diet." {American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
1979;32,4}

"Increasing one's protein intake by 100% may cause calcium
loss to double." {Journal of Nutrition, 1981; 111, 3}

"The average man in the US eats 175% more protein than the
recommended daily allowance and the average woman eats
144% more." {Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and
Health, 1988}

"Consumption of dairy products, particularly at age 20 years,
were associated with an increased risk of hip fractures...
metabolism of dietary protein causes increased urinary
excretion of calcium." {American Journal of Epidemiology
1994;139}

Can it get worse? Absolutely.

The Framingham Heart Study is the largest and most
exciting heart study in the history of mankind. Some
of the highlights of this exhaustive 50 year study:

In 1960, Cigarette smoking was found to increase the risk
of heart disease.

In 1970, high blood pressure was found to increase the risk
of stroke.

During the 1980's, high levels of HDL cholesterol were found
to reduce risk of death from heart disease.

In the 1990's, homocysteines were identified as key factors
in heart attack deaths.

Homocysteines are normal breakdown products of
Methionine and are believed to exert a number of
toxic effects in the body.

Dr. Castelli has suggested that an elevated homocysteine
level is a risk factor for heart disease. The first evidence
of this was published in the American Journal of
Cardiology (Glueck, 1995;75:132–6).

Two recent publications resulting from Framingham data
indicate a positive correlation between cardiovascular disease
mortality and blood serum levels of homocysteine.

Bostom AG, et. al, Nonfasting plasma total homocysteine
levels and all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in
elderly Framingham men and women. Arch Intern Med
1999; 159:1077-1080.

Bostom A.G., et. al, Nonfasting plasma total homocysteine
levels and stroke incidence in elderly persons: the
Framingham Study. Ann Intern Med 131[5], 352-355, 1999.

Visit your local hospital and ask how many patients
occupy beds as a result of eating too little protein.
The answer will be zero. Then, if only you were able to
investigate each occupant, you would determine that his
or her stroke, heart attack, cancer, diabetes, etc, can
be traced back to a diet containing an overabundance of
dietary animal protein. America is the sickest, wealthiest
place to raise children, and we are doomed to invest
our assets in a ravenous health cars system that devours
dollars while continuously reinforcing pain.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

BrokeNeck Mountain

Alcohol and Cowherding do not mix

England's Manchester Evening News 01/17/06

In is now illegal to perform cow herding duties while
under the influence of alcohol in Great Britain. See:

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Although English cowboys get cold and lonely at night on
Stonehenge plains, they now must explore future options to
their traditional late night gins and tonics.

It is illegal to drink and cattle drive, punishable by
a 200-euro fine and possible imprisonment.

Ride'm cowboy, but do it straignt, so that there will no
more broken skulls or hooves on BrokNeck mountain.

Robert Cohen
http://notmilk.com

Get Sick and Suffer

There is no food in America that routinely contains
animal feces with the exception of milk and dairy
products. As a matter of definition, feces is always
in milk, as it drips down the legs and undersides
of mycobacterium-infected filthy creatures during
the process of harvesting their diseased body fluids
for human "food." That these products are pasteurized
does not detract from the true essence of what consumers
naively put into their mouths and stomachs.

The state of California allows up to 75,000 coliform
bacteria per liter of milk (about one quart). I have no
way of saying this nicely, dear readers. Coliform bacteria
come from the colon, the same place bovine feces come
from. A rose by any other name is still a rose, and
I assure you, if ever there existed in nature the very
opposite of a rose, it is the shit coming out of a cow's
colon directly into the milk consumer's drink.

Repeat after me. Coliform bacteria in apple juice is
an accident. Rats and mice happen. Coliform bacteria
in broccoli or bean sprouts is always an accident.
Human processors are sometimes disgustingly unsanitary.

The presence of Coliform bacterium in milk and yogurt and
cheese is the rule and not the exception. Got milk? Got
bovine excrement.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),
each day, 220,000 Americans get sick from
contaminated food and 25 die.

Are you a gambler? Next time you buy a carton
of milk, will you rely upon fate to decide your
family's health? Will the bacterial count in your
cheese or milk be high enough to add you to CDC's
list? Bacteria from the cow's udders are transferred
to that milk. Bacterial counts increase while the milk
sits in your refrigerator. In a week or so, you'll pour
sour milk down the drain. Is your faith strong
enough, or will you get ill?

What day of the week will you drink enough toxins
to cause you to become one of the 80 million
Americans who get food poisoning each year?
Are you a member of the average American family
of four? One of you will be stricken. Why increase
the odds by eating products that have been identified
as harboring dangerous germs?

Cases of contaminated milk and dairy products have
been well documented. Dairy represents forty percent
of what the average American eats. According
to USDA food consumption data, the average
American eats 5 ounces of meat and chicken each
day and 29.2 ounces of milk and dairy.

There have been thousands of recalls of dairy products
that were serious enough to make headline news.
One wonders how many incidents do not get into
the newspapers. Eighty million cases of food borne
illness should send a message to all consumers.
Drink body fluids from diseased animals, and
you too might end up with disease.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

If I Had $40 Million

Last week (December 28, 2005), Ingrid Newkirk, the founder
and director of the People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA) was in Bethlehem (Palestine) on her
well-financed personal world tour.

Dollar for dollar, how many camels or donkeys did she save?
How much more peace is there in the world these days after
your donations enabled Ingrid to travel from her Virginia
home base to the holy land to make asses of her contributors?

In 2003, PETA enjoyed a budget of $16,414,174. In 2003,
PETA's sister organization, Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine (PCRM) received $2,667,912 in donations.
What have they done with the money? Can you see the results?

Last year, PETA and PCRM found that their budgets jumped
from just under $20 million in 2003 to over $40 million.
God bless their ability to generate funding. So what if more
animals per capita are being eaten by Americans? While PETA
euthanizes healthy shelter dogs and cats in the back of their
killing van, people continue to eat more meat and PETA continues
to raise more money by lulling consumers into a false sense of
believing that animals are treated better. That they are not
is inconsequential to the bottom line. Animal rights business
is better than ever!

The system is running away from the once good people whose
first priority is to now keep their well-oiled money making
machinery in prime working order.

Here is the formula for animal rights success. Raise one million
dollars. Invest half of that to hire more people to raise more
money to promise to help more animals. The second round, raise
two million. Invest one-million to hire more employees and
churn mailing lists to raise more money. Buy Farm Sanctuary's
mailing list. Yes, it's for sale. Actually, it's for rent. You
can use the list just once before you must pay the fee again.
This time, raise four million dollars. Hire more activists to
work within your organization. Assign them the task of gathering
names and addresses so that your organization can derive income
by renting lists. Next round, raise eight million dollars.
Throw charity functions on each coast of the United States. Bring
celebrities along and award them imaginary plaques for their
imaginary work in the animal rights movement. Give them a standing
ovation and ask them to pose naked and say a few nasty words
about fur. Include details of celebrity events in your next mailing.
Be sure to include details of how veal calves were once abused
in crates 20 years ago, and represent that this is the state of
affairs today. The next young person who approaches me and says
"...and calves are kept in crates so small, they cannot turn
around..." will get a stern lecture on Farm Sancturary's mailings
as they apply to lies and deception.

Of course, you'll be guaranteed to raise even more funds by use of
lies and clever marketing tactics. And for what?
What have we in the AR movement become? Phonies? Liars?
Only in it for the money folk who have lost their direction,
and now call money raising their number one activity and priority?

What has PETA or other organizations done lately for the animals?

If I had one-tenth of their budget, there would be 100 million
more vegetarians in America. Of course, that would mean that PETA
is no longer needed, right? That ain't ever gonna happen. They
cannot afford to that that mistake.

Ask yourself two questions. First, other than their continuing
solicitations to your mailbox for more funds, have you heard
anything from or about PETA lately? Second question. Has PETA
changed that which is evil or offensive in this world, or have
they become a part of it?

Is it just PETA? Absolutely not. Money seems to universally corrupt.
A few years ago, there was a settlement to the famous McDonalds
burger chain lawsuit. It seems that french-fried potatoes were
cooked in animal fat. Millions of dollars were distributed to do-
nothing vegetarian organizations. One such group's main contribution
to the so-called movement is a once per-year summer festival in
Pennsylvania to which the same 300 or so people show up every
year to eat raw red potatoes and unripened fruit. Another recipient
hosts a yearly vegetarian Thanksgiving meal at a New Jersey
restaurant.

Millions of dollars in hush money, paid to those who hope for a
yearly stipend. While one group fought another two years ago amid
much publicity (and depositions), have you heard even a hint about
how any of these dollars were spent? Neither have I, and I've been
searching real hard. Perhaps if I had a million, I could do my
investigative work from a lounge chair on a beach in Aruba.

Robert Cohen
http://www.slaughterhousecam.com

Judging a Man by His Cover

I opened my refrigerator door at 7:00 this morning, and I was
proud of myself. Can a man be fairly judged by the foods he eats?

Here is what's to be found in my fridge and countertop:

One-quart container of cut-up papaya. One pint of cut-up
cantaloupe. One pint of strawberries. A bag of red seedless
grapes. A bag of green seedless grapes. Fresh apricots.
Peaches. Nectarines. Plums. A pineapple.

Here is what's to be found on the kitchen counter:

A large bowl containing various apples, two avocados, large
ripe bananas, lemons, three different varieties of pears.

Throughout the day, all of the above is what I eat. UPS
delivered a case of organic Navel oranges to my front door. I
could feel the life as I drank the liquid. I could sense the
enzymes as I ate slice after slice of ice-cold orange flesh.

The clarity of thought that I experience while eating these
foods is precise, like laser-beam vision. A handful of grapes.
An extra-ripe banana. I wash it all down with the juice
from a new coconut. Four now sit on the lower shelf of my fridge.

I've read today's paper while eating papaya and pear. I've judged
both sides of the Alito debate. I eat grapes and become one with
both humor and anger of democrats and republicans, liberals and
conservatives. I see a learned man with a clear agenda exposed
to those who also have clear agendas, dipping man through
solutions of acids and alkalis to detect hues of blue and red.
I am intrigued by the politics of a moment. I am overjoyed by
the clarity of my own thought process. I look at current events
and food and environmental issues with the same clarity of
thought. The easy-to-digest magic foods I eat allow me to function
in the highest intellectual manner possible for man. I am neither
burdened by last night's undigested holstein or chicken body
within mine.

Please join me in relating to our entire world in this same way.
Eat living foods containing isoflavones and bioflavinoids and your
own inner surges and internal secretions will provide incredible
clarity. Enjoy the moment with me as those who are unable to
imagine how the foods we eat does make an enormous difference.

Are you the man with baloney and mustard filling the shelves of
his fridge? Do constipation medicines clog your bathroom
cabinets? Are antihistamines waiting to counter your day's
worst dietary decisions? Eat simple. Eat healthy. Eat life.
Reject diseased foods. Treat your organs and blood to a
meal fit for a God. Experience the difference for just one
day. If I am correct, and the change is as dramatic as I
represent to you, don't end the fresh fruit trial. Go for a
second and third day. Why stop? After entering the Garden of
Eden, why ever leave?

Food for thought will become your blessing.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

PMS and Dairy Consumption

No doctor or scientist can say with 100% confidence what causes
Pre-menstrual Syndrome, or PMS. All that is known for sure is that
nothing is known for sure. Symptoms of PMS include mood swings,
depression, irritability, anxiety, crying spells, often accompanied
by bouts of acne, diarrhea or constipation, joint pain, and cravings
for such food items as ice cream and cheese. The dairy link to each
of the above PMS-like symptoms has been supported by publications
in peer-reviewed scientific journals. See:

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

A Google search will confirm many links to sites that take a position
that the consumption of dairy either causes PMS or worsens the vast
array of symptoms. See:

http://www.naturalnurse.com

I find it remarkable that the dairy industry, lacking evidence, has
now jumped on the PMS bandwagon claiming that dairy consumption is
the
cure.

Surges of estrogen and progesterone at the proper time naturally
regulate a woman's menstrual cycle. Estrogen defines a woman's
essence, just as testosterone define's a man's. In her entire
lifetime, a woman naturally manufactures the equivalent of just
one-half tablespoon of estrogen. Horse estrogen (pregnant mare
urine, or Premarin) is often prescribed for post-menopausal women
to prevent bone loss.

Milk and dairy products naturally contain estrogen and progesterone
and other very powerful female hormones. Cows are often milked
before they give birth, and hormones such as prolactin, PIF,
oxytocin, melatonin, follicle stimulating homorne, lutenizing
hormone and others are consumed by women who are not about to
birth calves.

The natural secretion of such vast and varied amounts of these
hormones would never naturally occur in these women. The
internal secretion of these powerful behavior modifiers could
very well confuse the heck out of end response organs. Got PMS?
Then get rid of milk and dairy, and you'll experience a
magnificent change for the better.

Mood swings, depression, and irritability? I've heard these things
before as they apply to dairy. In May of 1995, Dr. Julie Klotter
wrote the following article in the Townsend Medical Letter:

"In reality, cow's milk, especially processed cow's milk, has
been linked to a variety of health problems, including: mucous
production, hemoglobin loss, childhood diabetes, heart disease,
atherosclerosis, arthritis, kidney stones, mood swings,
depression, irritability, and allergies."

So, regarding your PMS, who is there to believe? The people on
Madison Avenue who bring cute and offensive PMS ads to the world,
making fun of PMS in such a way that makes grown male chauvinists
laugh, while placing those with PMS into deeper depressions, or
is it now time to listen carefully to the Notmilk guy who offers
you the real scientific connections to PMS?

How to start one's day? Place ten sugar pills in front of you.
Label the first: estrogen. The second: progesterone. The third:
prolactin. The fourth: oxytonin. Be sure and take your melatonin,
LH, FSH, IGF-1, GH too. Add about thirty gastrointestinal
peptides, one dozen or so hypothalmic hormones, and you've got
one heck of a hormonal breakfast. Or...have a bowl of
cereal with milk. Same thing. Oh, yes. Please try not to take
the dairy influcence out on your significant other and/or children.
Recognize what it is and eliminate the cause. Find the cure.
Notmilk!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Homogenized Milk Horror

The scientific community believes that the survival
of naturally occurring protein growth hormones in milk
cannot be possible because of the degradation strength
of stomach acid and enzymatic activity.

Theoretically, no proteins could survive, and that was
why the work of Oster and Ross, two Connecticut heart
researchers, presented such a deniable dilemma to dairy
scientists of the 1960s.

Oster and Ross demonstrated that cow proteins do survive
digestion. Their heart patients developed antibodies to
bovine proteins after consuming homogenized milk. This
proved that milk proteins are not destroyed by digestion.
Hormones in milk are protected, survive digestion, and
exert powerful effects on the human body. Oster and Ross
credited homogenization as the mechanism by which tiny
fat molecules offer such protection.

What is homogenization?

When milk is passed through a fine filter at pressures equal
to 4,000 pounds per square inch, the fat globules (liposomes)
are made smaller (micronized) by a factor of 10 times or
more. These fat molecules become evenly dispersed within the
liquid milk, so that just one pint of milk can contain over
one-trillion tiny protective fat "vehicles." The world had not
yet discovered naturally occurring bovine protein growth hormones,
and when it became clear that such hormones might be the critical
answer to exploding cancer rates of the latter half of the twentieth
century, the discovery was angrily denied and adamently avoided by
reputable researchers.

For the right scientist (good marketing helps), this remains
a Nobel Prize just waiting to be awarded.

Now, for the logical shocking conclusion:

Milk is naturally a hormonal delivery system. With homogenization,
milk hormones, lactoferrins, and immunoglobulins, are enabled to
take advantage of an improvement upon nature, an extremely
powerful and efficient way of bypassing normal digestive processes
and delivering steroid and protein hormones throughout a human body.

Through homogenization, fat molecules in milk become smaller and
thus become "time-release capsules" for substances that normally
bypass digestion. Proteins would normally be broken down in the
stomach or gut. Just about every scientist worth his next NIH
grant accepts this basic, but erroneous conclusion, and that is
why the concept has met with such resistance.

By homogenizing milk, powerful protein growth factors are not
broken down and are absorbed into the human bloodstream, intact.
_________________________________

"Bovine milk xanthene oxidase (BMXO) may be absorbed and may
enter the cardiovascular system. People with clinical signs of
athersclerosis have greater quantities of BMXO antibodies. BMXO
antibodies are found in greater quantities in those patients who
consume the largest volumes of homogenized milk and milk products."

The X-O Factor, by Kurt Oster, M.D., and Donald Ross, Ph.D.
________________________________________________________

"This study conclusively demonstrates that XO from cow's milk does
get into the bloodstream. Seventy-three out of the 94 people tested
(of all ages) had antibodies to XO."

Proc. Soc. Exp. Bio. Med., 160, 1979
________________________________________________________

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Their Touchdowns Pull You Offsides

What do Heinz, Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods, and RJR
Nabisco---Have in common with Abbott Pharmaceuticals,
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck & Co., Monsanto, Pfizer,
SmithKline Beecham, and Wyeth?

Answer:

All of these above companies are represented by that
same public relations firm as is employed by the National
Fluid Milk Processors, the milk mustache people.

That's right! The successful milk mustache campaign is run
byy BSMG, Worldwide, a firm with 1200 employees in 30 nations.

It's all about advertising, folks. Subliminal messages are
carefully crafted to become a permanent fixture of your
consciousness.

Super-Bowl XL approaches (February 6th in Detroit), and many
Americans watch the event not for the sport, but for the cleverly
designed multi-million dollar ads.

Will you be immune to their brainwashing?
How is it possible, that millions of Americans have
been convinced, over the course of their lifetimes,
that bovine body fluids from diseased animals
represent nature's perfect food for the human
body? Imagine the following new ad campaign to be
introduced in just over three weeks:

Got Dog's Milk?

Would you drink it if you saw enough cute ads?

How about pig's milk or horse milk? If enough dollars
are spent, would you have what it takes to resist Madison
Avenue's me$$age$.

The big firms gamble that you do not.

Beware. These psychologist/pitch men have a formula that works.
Beautiful models. Super Bowl ads. Here come the pharmaceutical
companies with their new biotechnology. Brainwashing, mass
hysteria, or mass hypnosis. Will you have the power to resist?
You are getting sleepy...

Bonus for those reading this far...My picks:
Chicago over Indy.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Snoring

Many events have been identified as snoring triggers.
Sleeping with the Boston terrier. Cat dander. Dead skin cells.
Smoking. The common cold. One cause of snoring converts a gentle
soft-blown kazoo  into a crescendo of percussion from the 1812
Overture. Nothing so efficiently causes couples to sleep in
separate beds as does America's notorious cheesehead diet.

Those who finance milk congestion studies often have nothing to
gain by demonstrating that dairy consumption causes mucous. Such
studies are poorly designed, lasting for only a few hours. Long
distance runners know. Opera singers know. Broadway actors and
actresses are told not to consume milk or dairy products or their
voices will become "phlegmish." Long after exhausting performances,
the competitor entertains his or her significant other with dietary
residuals.

Eighty percent of milk protein is casein, a tenacious glue and
allergenic protein. Eat casein and you produce histamines, then
mucus. The reaction is often delayed, occurring 12-15 hours after
consumption. Few people note the ill effects because milk and dairy
products represent 40% of what the average American eats (about 666
pounds per American per year), and these proteins are continuously
eaten. By eliminating all milk and dairy for just one week, most
people note the differences, which include better sleep resulting
from less snoring, more energy, better bowel movements, clarity in
thought, muscle, bone, and back pain relief. NOTMILK means saying
goodbye to nasal congestion.
______________________________________________________

"In the challenge test, 10 hours after milk intake the patient
presented serous rhinorrea, sneezing and nasal blockade."

J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol, 1998 Jul, 8:4

______________________________________________________

"Cow's milk is one of the most frequent food allergens.  Whole
casein appears to be highly allergenic...85% of  the patients
presented a response to each of the four caseins. "

Int Arch Allergy Immunol, 1998 Mar, 115:3
______________________________________________________

"Symptoms of milk-protein allergy include cough, choking, gasping,
nose colds, asthma, sneezing attacks..."

Annals of Allergy, 1951; 9
______________________________________________________

Eliminate all dairy for one week, and snoring may very well
become a distant memory. Adding cheese to a healthy diet
is guaranteed to trigger the nightmares of snoring.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Soy Causes Heart Failure

{An amazing revelation awaits readers. One must read the entire
column to understand the consequences of the final paragraph.}

If I was to claim just one tree in all of the Amazon Rain Forest,
and take a census of animal and plant life living upon that tiny
ecosystem, I would need to list some ten thousand different
species. And, if I decided to conduct an experiment by killing
every living creature upon that tree, including the tree
itself, and then introduce one swallowtail butterfly to live
where that tree once stood, and then attempted to explain that
insect's behavior as a byproduct of global warming, you would call
me an idiot scientist with no clue as to the profound balance of
our infinitely complicated universe.

Hundreds of years ago, Jonathan Swift wrote (in Gulliver's Travels)
about an island of research scientists living atop a cloud that
floated
above the earth's surface. Swift's descriptions of research studies
appear as absurd to today's reader as present-day research will
appear
to 22nd century philosophers, sociologists, and scientists.

That being said, I have been called upon by a few dozen of my'
own readers to explain a recent publication by Dr. Dr. Leslie
Leinwand
of the University of Colorado regarding soy consumption and heart
disease.

I came, I saw, I conquered. I obtained the study. I analyzed same.
I've finally conquered my desire to ever again frustrate myself
by searching for hidden agendas, biases, and conflicts of interest.
This study takes the cake for the worst abuse of deception yet,
that has become the new nature of scientific research.

My conclusion, first. Can soy consumption cause heart disease?
Absolutely, so long as you are an unethical scientist willing
to bend the rules of logic and ethics, and then, only if your
subjects are genetically engineered male transgenic mice,
created to naturally have heart disease by the insertion of,
and re-combination of human genetic material and rodent
genetic material.

The darndest thing is that the lead researcher (Dr. Leslie Leinwand)
is the founder of Myogen, a potential billion dollar company who
unscrupulously gathers NIH government funding at taxpayer's expense
to conduct Frankenstein-like research. If things do not go their
way initially, such scientists change parameters midway, like
changing the rules of a basketball game, and add layer upon
layer of deceit to a study which laypersons and investigative
reporters lack the skills to decipher. So, allow me to share the
evil. You will then understand why I have little desire to ever
again return to the scene of such crimes.

I am completely disgusted and anti all rodent research. Half of
the cancers that rats get, mice do not get. Half of the cancers
that mice get, rats do not get. To expect me to accept applied data
from one rodent species to humans, when one rodent species cannot
fairly be applied to another rodent, is one of the key fatal flaws
in animal studies. Animal research is a betrayal to both humans
(who rely upon such data) and animals (who needlessly die in pain).
One example of the betrayals is what was learned from polio research
in the 1940s. The Polio vaccine would have been approved for
use 15 years earlier, had not all of the test subjects (chimpanzees)
died.

In the case of the soy/heart study, a new creature was developed
as the test model. This creature was neither man nor mouse. It
was man/mouse. I refer to the subject as the not-so-mighty mouse.
Imagine 21st century technology. Cells from extremely ill human
heart patients, waiting to die, were extracted and implanted into
mouse embryos. A new species of mouse with thin arterial walls
was thus created. Such an animal model never occurs naturally
in this world. The study was more than undignified. It was deceptive.

Rats and mice are both fed standard animal feeds. When I was a
young researcher, we used Purina rat chow. Unfortunately (for me at
the time), the rat chow was made from alfalfa, a substance high in
phytoestrogens. As my work was performed in the field of
neuroendocrinology and mammalian sexual behavior, the feeding of
phytoestrogens to rodents presented an extraneous variable which
compromised and negated my own work.

In Dr. Leslie Leinwand's lab (and others, all of the test animals are
given a standard animal feed that os rich in soy, even the control
group subjects.

Dr. Leinwand feigned shock (she wrote, "much to our surprise")
when commenting upon the results of her manipulated research data.
Consider this. There were no such results until she changed the
rules
in the middle of her own game. When she did not receive headline
breaking news to fit her agenda from her original data, she
unethically
added additional isolated soy proteins (genestein and daidzen) into
the feed and random surprises occurred.

She fed one group of animals this added supplement, and another
group milk protein (casein). The group fed the milk protein
grew obese. This potential earth-moving information (milk protein
causes obesity) did not become the good doctor's revelation,
because it did not fill her agenda. Instead, her carefully
manipulated data exposed the random absurdity of conflicting
scientific results. The male transgenic mice, designed to die
from heart disease, did so at a faster rate than the females.

The 21st Century Scientific Credo

"Allow me to select the species of mammal. Tell me what you want
me to prove, in either direction. Give me enough money. I will be
your whore."

In the future, when asked to comment upon a scientific study,
I may very well throw my hands up into the air and refer you to
today's column. Digging for truths often unearths treasures
accompanied by curses.

Now, for the good news. If you are reading this and you are
a transgenic male mouse, please forward this study to your
cardiologist. It seems clear that if were to immediately
become a cheesehead, you may become an obese happy rodent
who might even live a few weeks longer than the expected time
in which your heart was genetically designed to explode.

So what was Dr. Leinwand's hidden agenda? As founder of Myogen,
she has sent a message to Wall Street how easy it is for a
scientist in high places to move the market. If this is not
insider trading, what is? In late December, as this news
was being announced, a Wall Street headline revealed:

"Myogen Vaults Higher on Trial"

It seems that Myogen's premarket trading value gained 50%.
Does anybody still not get it?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

GAK Attack

It seems like it was 20 years ago, but it was probably
closer to a dozen. A favorite weekend excursion for
my family was to spend a Sunday morning at the Museum of
Natural History on Manhattan's upper West Side across
from Central Park.

We would then walk a few long blocks to our favorite
NYC Chinese restaurant, Ollies, on 84th street and
Broadway. The green vegan dumplings and scallion
pancakes at Ollies are the best I've ever tasted.
We would then burn off the calories of lunch by
walking to every child's favorite destination, F.A.O.
Schwartz. For us, the toy store was more of a be-there
experience than a retail outing. It was like visiting Disney
World. One hands-on exhibit that brings back fond memories was
the GAK display on the second floor. GAK was a substance,
much like silly putty, that began with pastel colored corn
starch and water. Kids (and adult kids) would roll up
their sleeves and get right up to their elbows in the
controlled, yet, messy frenzy of playing with GAK. It
was hard to escape the store without buying at least
three packages, one for each of my daughters.

I had forgotten GAK until a few days ago when I saw an
advertisement for a vegan allergy-free cookie called, yes,
you guessed it, GAK.

Now, comes the terrible shame of this column. The GAK cookies
were baked without eggs. No dairy. No nuts. No artificial
colors or flavorings. All certified organic. Not even wheat!
Politically and nutritionally correct, so far as allergy-free
goes. Were they good? My goodness, they were magnificent, and
therein lies the challenge for these GAK people of the North
(New Hampshire).

How can a cookie lacking so many of the standard American
cookie ingredients taste so luxuriously rich and yummy?
How can a cookie named GAK achieve commercial success? GAK?
ACK! This product deserves better. Will you ever remember the
name? Couldn't these brilliant bakers have come up with a
catchy name like Oreo or Twinkie or Carob Chips Ahoy? Instead,
they selected GAK. Who the heck is gonna remember GAK?

Not only are the cookies the best allergy-free snack I've
ever had the pleasure to taste, but the company's owner
has written an allergy-free cookbook. Guess what? The
cookie recipes are included in the book. Aaaaaaah. GAK
heaven. Imagine Coke giving up their secret formula? See:

http://www.gakssnacks.com/t-products.aspx

The GAK folk have a website and their cookies are baked
fresh daily. They seem to be making a name for themselves,
despite my reservations. GAK. GAK. It sorta grows on you.
Even their boxes are printed on recycled material. Bravo.

They deserve better than to be handicapped by a name such as
GAK. Regardless, check them out, please. You'll be amazed when
you bite into one of their soft Brownie Chips, and the Chocolate
Chip cookies go down well with an ice-cold glass of soymilk.

Buy at least one pack of GAK. The two thing I can personally
guarantee is that first, the contents of the package will not
last long. The second thing is that if everybody had a GAK
Brownie Chip cookie in their mouths at the same moment today,
the world would be praising GAK tomorrow. Hmmm...maybe the
name's not so bad after all.

Send your favorite allergy-challenged kid or adult here:

http://www.gakssnacks.com
1-800-552-7172

NOTE: I often recommend vegan products to my readers. Products
that I believe in. I accept no advertising dollars for my
support of those precious alternative commodities.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Orange Connection Correction

The final 50 bushels of organically grown Florida Navels
await the hands of Dave Fedor, citrus grove owner, to be
picked & packed into crates before Monday's dawn and
immediately shipped to points North and West.

OOPS! In yesterday's column, I gave you the wrong telephone
number. Despite my error, many of you got through. Like
those touched by previous Close Encounters (of the First,
Second, and Third Kind), they found a way to get through,
which amazes me. Yesterday's column:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2232

So...here's the correct number to order the freshest, sweetest,
juiciest Navels, which you should be eating before next weekend:

Call: 386-985-1655 or go to:
http://www.flnaturalcitrus.com

Robert Cohen
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Cow Escapes Slaughterhouse

When a cow escapes her slaughterhouse fate, witnesses
cheer the animal and boo her pursuers. It is human nature
to root for the underdog, or undercow, whose death has
been spared by an incredibly innate will to be free.

Such an event has happened before many times in Brooklyn,
New York, and in Pittsburg and Chicago and Detroit, and
each time, the animal is spared and given sanctuary at
one of America's many farm shelters, to become a lifetime
ambassador who inspires school children not to eat meat.

Most of my readers are familiar with the notmilk.com
website, but only a few know that I own the following URL:

http://www.slaughterhousecam.com

For the time being, the above site will remain as it is.
Slaughterhousecam.com will one day have live cameras
showing live slaughter, for that is what it will take to
end meat eating.

Instinctively, most of those who cheer an escaping cow want
her to live. There is no natural urge for humans to kill
such gentle creatures. Those who cheer will salivate over
that same evening's steak or brisket or corned beef sandwich,
unable to make the connection between a living and breathing
creature who wants only to be free. Look, if you dare:

http://www.slaughterhousecam.com

If you are a cheesehead or milk drinker, she is your cow,
because that is the fate of three million dairy cows each year
who no longer are efficient "agricultural units." Your use of
dairy products makes you the as responsibile for her death as
would the actions of any meat eater.

I found the following Associated Press Story on Forbes.com
late Friday night.

***************************************************************
Associated Press - January 6, 2005
Cow Escapes Meat Plant, Dodges Cars, Train

A cow that escaped a slaughterhouse dodged vehicles, ran in
front of a train, braved the icy Missouri River and took three
tranquilizer darts before being recaptured six hours later.
News of the heifer's adventures prompted a number of people to
offer to buy the animal.

"I talked to the owner and the owner will sell her," said a man
who answered the phone at Mickey's Packing Plant, but would only
identify himself as Randy. He said the sales price will likely
be more than the heifer's market worth of $1,140.

The black, 1,200 pound heifer jumped a gate at the packing plant
at around 5 a.m. Thursday.

The cow apparently wandered through residential areas for a time
before police received reports at about 9:30 a.m. that it was in
the middle of a busy intersection.

Police tried to catch the cow, and had her wedged between a stock
trailer and a fence, but the heifer barreled through the fence
toward the river, nearly being hit by a Chevrolet Suburban.

It was the first of many near-death experiences.

With the police in pursuit, the cow ran toward the railroad tracks
and darted in front of an oncoming locomotive, briefly giving the
police the slip again.

Crossing another road, the cow was nearly struck by a semi
tractor-trailer.

"By then it was a madhouse," said police officer Corey Reeves.
"People were coming out of the woodwork to see."

When police, animal control officers and slaughterhouse workers
surrounded the cow in a park near the Missouri River, the cow
jumped into the icy water.

As she swam to the west bank of the river, Reeves said she sank
lower in the water and was being swept downstream.

But the cow found a sandbar near the river's west bank and
walked to shore.

"I was totally amazed she was able to swim the river," said Del
Morris, the slaughterhouse manager.

As police scrambled to head off the cow on the other side of the
river, a veterinarian with a tranquilizer gun was called.

Pursuers again believed they had the cow cornered at a chain link
fence, but the heifer, foaming at the mouth, ran through a perimeter
set up by officials.

The chase began to slow as the cow ran up against several strong
fences, including one separating the street from Interstate 15.

Dr. Jennifer Evans of Big Sky Medical Center shot the cow with a
tranquilizer dart.

It had little effect.

Two darts later, the heifer showed no signs of going down.
Slaughterhouse workers created a makeshift pen with metal panels
that led to a stock trailer.

The heifer walked into the trailer at 11:45 a.m.

The cow was taken back to the slaughterhouse, where it was put
in a pen - with a stronger fence - and given food and water.

***************************************************************

The cow who jumped over the moon and landed in people's hearts.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

We Love to Eat Bunny Rabbit Food

When my three daughters were 7, 6, and 4, I first taught
them the delights of eating bunny rabbit food.

Bunny rabbit food is sweet like candy and sticky-wet, and
remarkably resembles gristle-free slices of Navel Oranges.

Bunny rabbit food contains more calcium per 100-gram
portion than does human breast milk. It's loaded with
other vitamins too including enormous amounts of vitamin-C.
Bunny rabbit food contains 59 micrograms of vitamin-C per
100-grams. Human breast milk contains only 5 micrograms
of vitamin-C. Whole cow's milk contains zero micrograms
of vitamin-C.

To this day, the mentioning of bunny-rabbit food to any one
of my teenage girls means that a dish containing one-pint of
x-large wedges of nature's perfect Navel oranges is ready for
their consumption. In my home, the sound of daddy announcing
"bunny rabbit food" ruins dinners and lunches as kids come
running to claim their share of perfectly cut Navel oranges.

Last night, our Organic orange grower (Dave Fedor) informed me
that his entire crop of oranges has been sold out, with the
exception of his ripening Navels. I have been promised that
this year's crop, ready to be picked from Friday, January 6
until Monday, January 9 is now ripe, sweet, and ready to eat!

To order online througn Pay Pal, go to:
http://www.flnaturalcitrus.com

or call Dave's farm at 386-985-1654.

I am sad that Dave's 2005 Satsumas are no more. The same goes
for his tiny kumquats which are eaten skin and all. However,
the treat of all treats are his Navels. I've ordered two boxes,
and they will be juiced or turned into magnificent bunny food.
As soon as these are gone, I'll order more, but like last year,
these will be sold out early too.

There is nothing better than supporting an organic American farmer.
There is nothing sweeter than eating his chemical-free produce.
It's not just the fruits that are wonderful here. It's the method
of preparation, so pay attention. After you receive your fruit:

Step #1 - Contemplate your Navel
Step #2 - Gather about one dozen Navels
Step #3 - Place your sharpest utility knife on a cutting board
Step #4 - Cut off the top and bottom of one-navel at a time
Step #5 - Cut down the sides of each orange so that the skin is
removed. Repeat as you spin the orange, capturing the very
sweet juices that bleed from the fruit.
Step #6 - Carefully slice each wedge of fruit in between the
orange's gristle, so that pure seedless orange slices remain
Step #7 - Separate oranges into perfectly even portions
Step #8 - Yell, "Bunny Rabbit Food"
Step #9 - Watch the oranges magically disappear.

Gift a box of Dave Fedor's organic Navels to your friends or
relatives. Your love will be appreciated and never forgotten.
Buy a box of organic navels for an ememy and make him your
friend (paraphrasing Sun Tzu's Art of War).

http://www.flnaturalcitrus.com
Call Dave's farm at 386-985-1654 before he sells out!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Cow Whisperer

I found this at a dotcom called cattlenetwork.

A Cow's Wish List (written by a cattleman)

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=16021

This list consists of sixteen cow wishes, as translated
from Mooish into English by John B. Hall, Extension Animal
Scientist, Virginia Tech. My own comments are in caps.

1. Good working facilities - so I don't get hurt

(THREE MILLION MILKING COWS ARE TO BECOME HURT OR DISEASED
IN 2006 AND WILL BE SENT TO SLAUGHTER)

2. Improved pasture management for better grazing

(MOST OF AMERICA'S COWS NEVER SEE A PASTURE)

3. A premise ID and records to enhance my calf's and my own
marketability

(THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION: EAR TAGS FOR EVERY ANIMAL SO THAT
MAD COW CASES CAN BE TRACED DIRECTLY TO SUPERMARKETS AND
BURGER JOINTS)

4. A good free choice loose mineral with high copper and
selenium

(COWS ARE TURNED INTO EVEN MORE EFFICIENT CHEMICAL MACHINES)

5. Regular body condition checks to decide when to supplement

(LABOR'S EXPENSIVE, BUT THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR MORE
ILLEGAL MIGRANT IMMIGRANTS FROM COSTA RICA AND MEXICO TO
WORK IN ABUSIVE SLAVE-LIKE CONDITIONS AND BE UNDERPAID)

6. A bull that meets VQA requirements, maybe even an AI bull

(AMERICA'S DAIRY FARMERS ARE CREATING ONE HOMOGENIZED HERD
FROM LESS THAN A FEW DOZEN SPERM DONORS. IN THEIR IDEAL
WORD, THERE WILL ONE DAY BE JUST ONE SEXUALLYLY SATISFIED BULL)

7. Attention during calving - sometimes I need help or my
calf is weak

(IMAGINE THE MAYHEM OF HUNDREDS OF COWS SIMULTANEOUSLY BIRTHING
CALVES 24/7/365 ON FACTORY FARMS...THE FIRST BIT OF ATTENTION
CALVES GET IS TO BE FOREVER SEPARATED FROM THEIR MOTHERS. THE
MOST INHUMANE SOUND IN THE WORLD IS THE CONTINUOUS CRYING FROM
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SEPARATED BABES, AND AN EQUAL NUMBER OF
ANGRY AND TRAUMATIZED MOTHERS)

8. A 60 to 90 day breeding season, I don't like that bull
that much

(THE AUTHOR INJECTS HUMOR, JUST AS THE A.I. MAN INJECTS
SPERM. IN NEITHER CASE IS THE LAUGHTER APPRECIATED)

9. A complete vaccination program that includes lepto

(LEPTO IS THE GOOD NEWS. E-COLI, SALMONELLA, MYCOBACTERIUM
PARATUBERCULOSIS. THESE ARE THE DISEASES THAT AFFECT OUR
CHILDREN, AND ANTIBIOTICS HAVE CREATED EMERGING DISEASES
THAT THREATEN DAIRY CONSUMERS)

10. Process my calf at birth so he gets a good start and is
identified

(DUE PROCESS ROBS DIGNITY FROM SUCH CREATURES. THE MALES
WILL BECOME VEAL. THE FEMALES WILL CONTINUE THE CIRCLE WHICH
LACKS COMPASSION)

11. Dewormer for my calves, but none for me.
I'm resistant to worms!

(EVERY MEAT EATER SHOULD WITNESS THE WORMING STATION AT THE
POINT OF SLAUGHTER. NO HUMAN IS RESISTANT TO WORMS GROWING
WITHIN CATTLE. GOT TRICHINOSIS?)

12. Control of those darn flies

(FARMERS CUT OFF THEIR TAILS WITH A CARVING KNIFE, DID YOU
EVER SEE SUCH A SIGHT IN YOUR LIFE? LACKING TAILS TO SHOO
AWAY FLIES FROM THE MUST OFFENSIVE END F A COW'S BODY, THE
COW IS HELPLESS AGAINST BITES FROM AGTRESSIVE FLIES. YES,
VIRGINIA, THE FECES DRIPS INTO THE MILK, BUT IT IS FILTERED.
YOU MERELY DRINK THE ESSENCE)

13. A vaccination and weaning program for my calf so he
won't get sick

(WHO EATS THE ILLEGAL VACCINE RESIDUES? HUMANS, OF COURSE.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO INJECT LACTATING COWS WITH LS-50, YET, THAT
DRUG IS THE MOST COMMONLY FOUND ANTIBIOTIC FOUND AFTER CATTLE
ARE SLAUGHTERED)

14. Veterinarians that know what they're doing and can give
you an estimated calving date.

(ESTMATED CALVING DATE? ONE DAY, SCIENCE WILL PRODUCE FOR
EVERY EAR-TAGGED, COW AN ESTIMATED CARVING DATE)

15. A marketing program for my calf so he sells well and you
can afford to keep me another year.

(IN OTHER WORDS, RAISE THE PRICE OF VEAL SOLD IN RESTAURANTS.
FACT IS, MANY NEWBORN CALVES GET A BULLET TO THE HEAD BECAUSE
RAISING THEM FOR THEIR MEAT IS NOT ECONOMICAL. FARMERS
RECEIVE $3-4 DOLLARS FOR A NEWBORN MALE AT AUCTION. THE
COST OF TRUCKING THAT NEWBORN TO THE AUCTION HOUSE IS $5)

16. Finally, if this is the year I don't measure up - market
me quickly and effectively. Not as a cripple or thin cow.

(THE AUTHOR REQUESTS TO BECOME EXTINCT ON THAT DAY IN WHICH
PEOPLE NO LONGER DRINK MILK OR EAT MEAT FROM SKINNY AND
CRIPPLED COWS, THIS MAN AND OTHERS LIKE HIM WILL BECOME
DINOSAURS. WE WILL HAPPILY HONOR HIS REQUEST BY FINDING
HIM A JOB IN THE SOY INDUSTRY)

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com