These Are Evil Men

Dairy farmers are regular folk. They work hard but
their heads are in the ground buried under fields
of hay and cow feces. They are usually too busy to
participate in milk debates. They inject, inspect,
constantly feed, do three daily milkings, shovel turd,
repair fences and machines, and do hundreds of other
chores, the least of which might send the lot of us
to the couch for the remainder of the day to channel
surf one version or another of day and night soaps.
These are good guys, and they are not the subject of
this column.

The men I refer to are the ones who gained power equal
to the devil himself on March 23, 1971. They got away
with their first great crime because their co-conspirator
was a President of the United States, and no man in
his right mind reports a $3 million cash bribe when the
money sits on a table before him. Who knew that a tape
machine was working to record that bribe, and that 36
years later, I would have the actual tape recording,
thanks to my Freedom of Information Act Request?
Ironically, a portion of that dairy-sponsored bribe money
was used to finance the most heinous political crime in
American history, the Watergate break-in. See:

http://notmilk.com/trickydick.html

These men of evil became empowered on that day. Bribery
could have put the lot of them in jail, but with each
new unpunished crime against their fellow Americans,
their arrogance grew in strength.

When negative news about milk's adverse affects began to
circulate, plans were devised to require every dairy farmer
to contribute to a fund that would plug each hole in the
dike. Pennies became dollars, and a secret investment fund
grew from millions to billions of dollars

Lobbyists were hired, and congressmen and senators were
bought. One vote became cheap, and the bribes for votes
yielded a thousand-time return on investment in the form
of welfare checks to the wealthy, otherwise known as milk
subsidies.

These dairymen were brilliant baseball strategists, and
they already had the bases filled with no outs. What
base was left uncovered? Why, home plate, of course.
More dollars were raised and invested and America's
media was bought too. Newspapers, magazines, radio,
television, cable television. The bought wisely. They
spent brilliantly. They threatened those who hinted
that the playing field might be leveled. Never before
in the history of modern-day business has a scheme
been so brilliantly launched and marketed.

And then? They scored insurance runs.

Millions of dollars went to medical schools to teach
nutritional programs. Millions more were invested to
design, print, and mail dairy posters to public schools.
Many millions more were spent on scientific researchers
who had no conscience, just outstretched palms and
well-equipped labs...and Brooks Brothers suits, Rolex
watches, and Mercedes Benz cars to drive to their
rat lairs.

Game over? Not quite.

As their power grew, so did their impudence. All they
had to do was leave well enough alone. I would still be
drinking milk had their evil not festered into a thirst
for more power. Such is the nature of evil men. Their
motives are not difficult to decipher. Their desire
for more is directly proportional to their need for
deception. And deceive, they did.

For dollars invested, they called in favors. Positions
of power were given to those who simultaneously grew
rich from dairy industry relationships. Men and women
at the FDA and USDA sprouted roots directly to dairy
sources.

And then came the genetically engineered bovine growth
hormone.

Many of the heroic men of strength and character protested
that new dairy development, predicting that it would do harm
to the dairy industry. Men of conscience, like Pete Hardin,
editor of The Milkweed, a monthly pro-dairy newsletter. Men
like Russ Feingold, Democratic senator from the state of
Wisconsin.

Brave men and women warned about the dangers of this hormone.
Some were fired from government employment. Others lost their
positions in academia. Men such as pediatrician Benjamin
Spock received ridicule by the media, and then by many of
his own peers who were covertly supported by dairy dollars.

And then, I came upon the scene.

I hit no home runs, but I connected for a lot of singles, and
over the course of a career, those base hits have added up.
I've now been in the game for my fourteenth season, with no
plans to retire. How many others have been so complimented
by having his adversary (Hoard's Dairyman, September 10,
1998) write:

"If we required any reminder of the need to defend dairy
products, we have received it in the person of Robert Cohen...
Cohen has demonstrated an ability to take his allegations
and spread them to the public through the Internet and through
appearances on local radio and television programs. The dairy
industry needs to coordinate its response. More than 40 trained
dairy communications professionals in the Dairy Resource Network
work behind the scenes with influential consumer media..."

These are evil men.
They are aware of the real science, cited alphabetically
and referenced in the left column of the notmilk website:

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

These are evil men.
Responsible for more deaths than all of man's wars.
Responsible for more illness than all the world's plagues.
Responsible for more evil that all of the world's demons.

They are evil, and should be cast out of our lives.

Fifteen years ago, after reviewing the scientific literature
regarding milk consumption and the spiraling controversy, the
world's most respected scientific magazine had the temerity
to tell the truth about milk. In October of 1992, SCIENTIFIC
AMERICAN magazine summed it all up by writing:

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

That is when the men of evil upgraded their home run trot
into a sprint around the bases, and they have not stopped
running as hard as they can. I could forgive well meaning
men of integrity in honest debate, but I damn those men of
evil who swing with corked bats rubbed with pine tar resin,
supercharged balls, and steroids in their best producing
players. Plenty of powerful steroids have made the game
less entertaining and more dangerous for its trusting fans.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Lost in Translation from British English to American English

Dear Notmilk readers,

Sometimes, these things are so poorly written as they
hop, skip, jump, and trip to the wrong conclusions. It's
like listening to a group of kindergarten children facing
their first rhetorical questions, and getting each one
wrong. As I read, I suffered a myriad of emotions, from
disgust to amusement, and decided simply to relate this
story from England exactly as it was written. At times,
it seems as if the Great Brits are speaking an entirely
different language. Translators, anyone?
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From BBC News, February 26, 2007:

"Early man 'couldn't stomach milk'

Milk contains sugars that are hard to break down
A drink of milk was off the menu for Europeans
until only a few thousand years ago, say researchers
from London. Analysis of Neolithic remains, in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
suggests no European adults could digest the drink
at that time.

University College London scientists say that the rapid
spread of a gene which lets us reap the benefits of milk
shows evolution in action.

But intolerance to milk remains common in modern times,
say nutritionists.

In order to digest milk, adult humans need to have a gene
which produces an enzyme called lactase to break down lactose,
one of the main sugars it contains.

Without it, a drink of milk proves an uncomfortable experience,
causing bloating, stomach cramps and diarrhoea.

Today, more than 90% of people of northern European origin
have the gene.

Skeleton study

Working with scientists from Mainz University in Germany, the
UCL team looked for the gene that produces the lactase enzyme
in Neolithic skeletons dating between 5480BC and 5000BC.

The ability to drink milk gave some early Europeans a big
survival advantage

Dr Mark Thomas
University College London

These are believed to be from some of the earliest
farming communities in Europe.

The lactase gene was absent from the DNA extracted
from these skeletons, suggesting that these early
Europeans would not be tolerant to milk.

Dr Mark Thomas, from UCL, said: 'The ability to drink
milk is the most advantageous trait that's evolved in
Europeans in the recent past.'

'Although the benefits of milk tolerance are not fully
understood, they probably include the advantage of a
continuous supply compared with the 'boom and bust' of
seasonal crops, its nourishing qualities, and the fact that,
unlike stream water, it's uncontaminated with parasites,
making it safer.

'All in all, the ability to drink milk gave some early
Europeans a big survival advantage.'

Milk exposure

The big question for scientists now is how the human
population changed and took advantage of milk consumption.


The researchers took DNA from neolithic skulls

One theory suggests that small groups who could tolerate
lactose became dominant because they could then farm
cattle for milk.

But the UCL team says it is more likely that the genetic
mutation allowing the digestion of milk arose at some
point after dairy farming began.

Dr Thomas says the absence of the gene in the remains
studied supports this theory.

If lactose tolerance had come first, the farmers would have
already have had the gene.

As they did not, he suggests the genetic mutation took place
at a later point.

He added: "It's likely that the gene variant arose in one
individual somewhere in northern Europe, and was such an
advantage, it spread quickly.

"This is probably the single most advantageous gene trait
in humans in the last 30,000 years."

Today's intolerance

Anna Denny, a scientist with the British Nutrition Foundation,
said 'lactase deficiency' affected about 5% of white British
people, and a larger proportion of those from some ethnic
minorities.

In some parts of the world, such as Asia and Africa, the vast
majority of people are lactose intolerant to some degree.

Once diagnosed, the usual way to control its symptoms is
to restrict the amount of milk products eaten every day,
although nutritionists say that eliminating dairy products
entirely is usually unnecessary.

Anna Denny said: "Lactose intolerance tends to be dose-related
and some people are more sensitive than others, consequently
only about a third of the people with lactase deficiency are
actually lactose intolerant.

'Patients with severe lactose intolerance can usually eat
yogurt, hard cheeses and lactose-reduced milk and all are
encouraged to eat these as a source of calcium and other
nutrients.'"
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And that's that, folks!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

The Worst Pies in London

Do I have a favorite Broadway show? Absolutely! It's
Sweeney Todd, the story of the demon barber of Fleet
Street and his companion, Mrs. Lovett, who adds some
distasteful and revolting ingredients to her meat pies.

As life sometimes immitates art and as art sometimes
immitates life, let's take a look at this week's
disgustingly rancid cheese pie story out of Croatia...

What often happens after old spoiled milk, no longer
appropriate for drinking (is it ever?), is converted
into aromatic feta cheese?

Sunday's YAHOO News (Sunday, February 25, 2007) citing
the Belgrad Blic, reports that bureks, those delicious
pies that survived the fall of the Ottoman Empire, have
been manufactured and distributed to the Serbian public
containing rancid milk and dairy products. Bureks are
delicate phyllo pastries filled with cheese and meat.
The trouble is, tens of thousands of liters of spoiled
milk have been used to manufacture these once-popular
pastry treats.

According to the Blic newspaper, last year more than 1.2
million liters of spoiled milk were discovered and destroyed
before reaching the public in the form of cheese intended
for bureks.

In writing the lyrics to Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim
created Angela Lansbury's Tony Award-winning role
of Mrs. Lovett, singing her ode to rancid pies:

"Did you come here for a pie, sir?
Do forgive me if me head's a little vague --
Ugh! What is that? But you think we had the plague!

Mind you, I can't hardly blame them!
These are probably the worst pies in London!

If you doubt it, take a bite! Is that just disgusting?
You have to concede it! It's nothing but crusting!

Is that just revolting, All greasy and gritty?
It looks like it's molting, And tastes like,
Well, pity..."

Pity, indeed. Any pie baked with rancid cheese
is something to be avoided like the plague.
Warning: Sometimes, that first smell or taste
might not be conclusive, but eating rancid cheese
is a dining experience not soon to be forgotten...
or forgiven.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

15,000 Infected in Ohio

When a doctor sees a patient who complains of random
twitches and chest pains, and x-rays and various exams
of the heart reveal normal cardiovascular function,
that physician quite often concludes/suspects that the
cause of the discomfort might originate in that area
of the brain most often responsible for sketching
visions of demons and sugarplums.

When the muscle tissues of cows become infected/infested
with a bacterium called clostridium, the pain to that
cow might compromise her ability to produce large amounts
of milk. Such cows require no further therapy other than
to be culled from the herd and sent to slaughter. Humans
learn to live with the pain from undiagnosed clostridium
infections, and suffer both muscle aches and skepticism
from clueless physicians.

In the cow's case, clostridium bacteria often take
residence in the diaphraghm. In the case of the
human, those same bacteria are passed from cow to
man after one fateful drink of milk or bite of cheese.

In 2005, Ohio became the first of America's 50 states
to require hospitals and nursing homes to report cases
of confirmed clostridium infections. Ohio's 11 million
citizens reported more than 15,000 cases last year. If
that same percentage were applied to all of America,
we would corroborate the existence of a new plague
affecting some 410,000 Americans, and that does not
even consider undiagnosed cases which might run into
the tens of millions.

Ohio also reports 785 confirmed clostridium deaths. Based
upon a population of 300 million Americans, might we also
assume that there were 22,000 or more American deaths due
to clostridium infection?

If the supposition of a lifetime infection from a microscopic
bacterium such as clostridium is of no consequence to you,
then by all means, continue to drink body fluids from
diseased animals. They are delicious when mixed with chocolate.

Headline: (Feb. 24, 2007) Clostridium Claims Victims in U.K.
Headline: (Feb. 24, 2007) Montreal Hit By Clostridium Outbreak
Headline: (Feb. 24, 2007) 15,000 Ohio Clostridium Infections
Headline: (Feb. 26, 2007) Clostridium: Moving Closer to Home

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Soy Turns Thyroids into Jujubes

It's true.
Little green and purple Jujubes, those
artificial fruit in a box candies that once
stuck to the bottoms of my Converse sneakers
while I enjoyed Sunday afternoon double features
such as The Blob (with Steve McQueen playing a
teenaged hero) and I Married a Monster From Outer
Space. I was six or seven years old when watching
these flicks and ate Jujubes at the movie theatre
on Boston Road in the Bronx, a few block walk from
my Corsa Avenue home located in zone 69 (those were
simpler times, before zip codes and Swizzlers).

Does soy really cause jujubes to atrophy? Probably.
If there is an animal species willing to hold still
while scientists prod and poke and slice and dice,
we can demonstrate just about anything regarding
that horrible invader in a pod called soy. Cause
thyroid tumors? Damned right. Cooties? Without any
doubt. Diabetes, heart attacks, loss of vision
and hiccups? Better believe it. Hic!

Thank goodness for animal research. Where would we be
without it?

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.

Can soy consumption cause thyroid dysfunction? Absolutely.
Thyroid cancer? Every time, you can take that to the bank,
particularly if you are an unethical scientist willing
to bend the rules of logic and morality, and then, only if
your subjects are genetically engineered male transgenic mice,
created to naturally have thyroid cancer by the insertion of,
and re-combination of human and rodent genetic material.

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.

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 thyroid cancer/soy studies, all of the test animals are given
a standard animal feed that is rich in soy, even the control
group subjects are fed soy-based feed. That factor alone should
negate such biased studies during the process of peer review
prior to publication.

The 21st Century Scientific Credo for Animal Researchers

"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 then bend over low and be your bitch."

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.

So, is research needed? Of course it is, but unless that
research has been performed upon humans, it's worthless.
This week, the journal THYROID published a human research
study regarding soy intake and thyroid function.

(Thyroid. 2007 Feb;17(2):131-7)

The title of this study and the concluding statement
are nearly identical. This new non-animal human research
might scare away those persons with anti-soy biases
who see the boogeyman lurking behind every package of tofu.

Dillingham BL, McVeigh BL, Lampe JW, and Duncan AM wrote:

"Soy protein isolates of varied isoflavone content do
not influence serum thyroid hormones in healthy young men."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Harvard Protest: The Butter Stinks

"I did not use tea, nor coffee, nor butter, nor milk, nor
fresh meat, and so did not have to work to get them..."

So wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden, 1845.

The great American butter protest occurred 241 years ago.

In 1766, at the age of 21, Asa Dunbar led a student
demonstration at Harvard University.

Harvard is America's oldest university, founded just 16
years after the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. The ivy
was just beginning to grow upon those hallowed halls, when
Dunbar set the pattern for future student unrest by leading
a revolt that nearly led to his expulsion. After the faculty
condemned Dunbar for the  "sin of insubordination," Dunbar
led the student body off campus. Their slogan:

"Behold, our butter stinketh."

Fifty-one years after his revolt against rancid butter,
Dunbar became a grandfather. His grandson's name:

Henry David Thoreau

In March of 1624, America's dairy industry began in Plymouth
Rock, Massachusetts, when the good ship Charity delivered
three cows and a bull to the grateful Pilgrims. Within a
generation, just about every family in America had a cow.

Pilgrim diaries reveal that the favorite food of the native
Americans soon became "rancid butter."

One can only imagine the salmonella, E. coli, bovine
leukemia, clostridium, and colonies of paratuberculosis
thriving in that rancid butter. Indians fell in love with
the creamy taste of the Pilgrim's butter. They traded furs
and fish, meat and land for this much desired commodity.
Were flu-stricken Pilgrims sneezing behind trees in the
woods responsible for the deaths of one million Abenaki and
Wampaunoag? Was it perhaps the Native American's love for
the rancid butter, the gift of the bovines? Our day of
giving thanks might very well have been the eve of their
destruction.

Robert Cohen author
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@earthlink

Who's Protesting Mad Cows?

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2, line 230

It was just over two years ago that this Notmilk letter
divulged the existence of USDA's not-so-publicized program
which tested tens of thousands of farm animals after cows
with Mad Cow Disease had been discovered in America. USDA,
fearing consumer backlash (imagine a nation in which
consumers no longer consumed meat), began to isolate,
kill, autopsy, and test herd after herd of suspected cows.
USDA found many more mad cow farmers than mad cows during
this process. From the January 18, 2005 Notmilk column:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1899

Notmilk detailed:

"...Your newspaper will not report the story that six
suspected infected Canadian cows were shipped to United
States dairy farms where other animals might have been
infected. Is USDA concerned? One can tell by the number
of American cows quietly being quarantined, slaughtered
and examined...Last week (January 3, 2005 - January 9,
2005), USDA tested 10,932 animals. The previous week,
USDA tested 8,722 animals."

In our 21st century world in which few people seem to give
a damn about much of anything, including our future health
and safety through the foods we consume, a powerful message
has been sent to us by those we've assigned to look after our
own complacencies. In regard to such issues which appear not
to be of concern to most Americans, why should the bureaucrats
care if we do not? After all is said and done, their primary
mission is to protect those interests of milk and meat
producers, not consumers. They do their job well.

Where squeaky wheels once got the grease, we now occupy
a new world order matrix in which grease has been stockpiled
because wheels no longer dare nor care to squeak.

The single lab assigned to test brain tissues from slaughtered
cows (at Washington State University) will be closing next week
due to a lack of consumer demand. Due to a lack of passion. Due
to that universal attitude which always ends badly for consumers,
"It can't happen here."

Why close the testing facility now?

Less than one year ago, March 2006, America's third case of Mad
Cow Disease was confirmed in an Alabama cow. Early this month,
Canada discovered its ninth case of Mad Cow Disease. Simultaneous
to that discovery, USDA announced that border restrictions
regarding the importation of Canadian cows to America would be
lifted.

On February 9, 2007, Notmilk recounted an incident regarding a
truck accident in which some 80,000 pounds of cow intestines
spilled onto a Wisconsin highway. Where were those slaughterhouse
waste products going?

Intestines and dead cow parts from slaughtered animals continue
to be fed to pigs and chickens, and are manufactured into foods
for America's pets. And nobody seems to care any longer about
testing animals for Mad Cow Disease. How could this not matter?

This is a situation more dire than any tyrant's success in
muting protest. We are witness to a ubiquitous response by
the public to not care.

The USDA is giving up their testing, and nobody seems to care.

Scarlett: Rhett... if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?
Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Does Rhett represent the public's attitude, or the USDA's?
Can we differentiate one from the other?
I am distressed by the fact that we show no distress.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Send In The Clones

"Don't you love farce?
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here."
(Send In The Clowns, Stephen Sondheim, 1973)

"Google" the word 'clown' and you'll find 3 definitions:

1) a rude or vulgar fool
2) act as or like a clown
3) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior

Combine the three definitions and you'll find the
perfect description for the FDA biotechnology bureacrats
who have predetermined their cloning decision:
_________________________________________________
FDA CLONING REGULATOR: a rude or vulgar fool who
acts like a clown with his ridiculous behavior.
_________________________________________________

Today you will get the opportunity to have your opinion
read by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and have
that comment made a permanent part of FDA's "cloning
approval or disapproval" file.

One day far into the future, your great-grandchild might
Google the comment you make today and be proud that his
or her "ancestor" was one of the few who tried to make a
difference by changing the 21st century for the better.

The FDA is seeking comments on using cloned cows for
future milk and cheese production and meat consumption.
To record your email comments with the FDA, simply go to:

<http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/commentdoc
ket.cfm?AGENCY=FDA >

TINY URL: http://tinyurl.com/czw53

Once you get to the FDA page, scroll down to the bottom.
You will see SET 1-15. Scroll forward about six times until
you get to SET 91-95. That's where you will find the docket
to add your comment. The proper docket will be the sixth one
in the left column of SET 91-95. The number is: 2003N-0573.

The Title: Draft Animal Cloning Risk Assessment

Then, follow instructions for posting your comments.

FDA claims that there is absolutely no difference between
cloned animals and the non-cloned ones from which their
sci-fi versions are made. This is not true.

PLEASE let them know in your own language, or by cutting
and pasting together any combination of words or concepts
from what I have previously written.

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Please visit the FDA site and post something today.
Even if it is simply a link to my original comments:

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2557 >
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Here is what I posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007.
I suggest that you post all or some of the following:

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Dear FDA,

FDA concludes that milk from cloned cows cannot be
distinguished from milk from un-cloned animals. That
is not true. FDA regulators have intentionally
disregarded the evidence. There are a significant
number of differences, and I respectfully request
that this letter be made a part of the public record.

Milk from cloned cows contains a greater number of somatic
calls than from uncloned cows, according to a study published
in the November 3, 2003 issue of Cloning and Stem Cells.
Somatic cell count is an indication of stressed and
diseased animals, and should be a cause of warning
and concern for regulators and dairy farmers. Although
these numbers are very real, the scientists analyzing
their own data missed their significance. The milk is
different because the cows are different.

America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
determined that milk from cloned cows is safe to
drink, and requires no testing or warning label.

This initial conclusion was drawn primarily from a single
flawed study which is a biased presentation of data
brought to you by the same people who developed
the cloning technology.

The journal is called "Cloning and Stem Cells."
Remarkably, the Editor-in-Chief, Ian Wilmut, Ph.D.,
writes these words in an editorial contained in that
same November 3, 2003 issue (Volume 5, number 3):

"Experience shows that it is very difficult to
predict either the outcome of research or the ways
in which new techniques will be applied."

The authors of the study did not perform assays on
the levels of bovine growth hormone (bGH) or
insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) in milk.

Four major variables must be considered when testing
milk. First, every cow is different. Every cow gives
a milk containing varying amounts of fat,
proteins, and hormones. Second, there are distinct
differences between species of cows. For example,
milk from Jerseys or Guernsey's might have more
protein than milk from Holsteins, while Brown
Swiss might have a higher fat content. Third,
herds of cows on different farms eat different diets,
so milk from different feeds can produce distinct
differences in mineral content, certain fats (such
as conjugated linoeic acid), and protein yield.
Fourth, cows experience fourteen different lactation
cycles. Milk yield and milk components differ greatly
from one cycle to another.

Each time the scientists found evidence of a difference,
they dismissed that difference by blaming an error
in the design protocol, such as feed differences between
herds. That excuse-making is not appropriate for
publications in scientific journals.

Sadly, none of these methods were employed in the above
study, which was performed in a helter-skelter fashion
on a herd of only 15 lactating cows and only 6 control
animals. The milk from cloned cows represented five
distinct genetic lines and three different breeds.

The overall conclusion of the authors, as published in
the abstract (page 213), is:

"Our results lead us to conclude that there are no obvious
differences in milk composition produced from cloned cows
compared to non-cloned cows."

I carefully examined the available data from tables 1-5
on pages 216-218. In order to perform proper statistical
analyses of data, one must possess data from each animal.
These data are proprietary and unavailable. After relying
upon the available data as presented, one easily is able
to determine differences between milk from cloned and
un-cloned cows.

Milk from cloned Brown Swiss cows contains more 12.5% more
protein and 5% less fat than un-cloned Brown Swiss cows.

Milk from Holsteins contains more 10% protein and
10% less fat.

Milk from a mixed Holstein/Jersey breed contains more 10%
more protein and 13% less fat.

Somatic Cell Count (SCC) revealed an average count of 225
million somatic cells per liter of milk from cloned cows, and
only 165 million somatic cells per liter of milk from non-cloned
cows.

Increased protein counts are like red-light danger signals
posted at railroad crossings. Bells ring; lights flash.
What happens to protein hormones? Do levels of IGF-I
and bGH increase too? Consumers will not know the
answers until milk is tested without FDA's traditional
bias which has been unfairly extended to biotech companies.

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Please sign your name and give the FDA proper
contact information.
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Your great-grandchildren may one day praise you for
today's action.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Got Poverty? Got Medicaid!-----Got Medicaid? Got Asthma!

A study in the February, 2007 issue of the Journal of Health
Care for the Poor and Underserved by Marianne Bai and Eugene
Lengerrich analyzed hospital records of 7,726 children who
had been admitted to Pennsylvania hospitals, by race (white,
Hispanic, African-American) and determined:

"..children on Medicaid had the most severe symptoms at
admission compared with those who had private insurance --
and two-thirds of African-American children had Medicaid
or other public insurance."

The Penn State researchers concluded:

"...in comparison with White and Hispanic children,
African-Americans have a higher rate of asthma,
are hospitalized more and face more disability
due to the condition."

Why is it that poor black kids suffer so much more from
serious asthma attacks than...how can I put this so that
it is politically correct...than from non-poor, white or
Hispanic kids?

Could it be that the poor black kids also belong to the WIC
program (Women, Infant, Children) and are the recipients of
enormous quantities of USDA milk, cheese, and butter subsidies?

Telling Blacks about Milk

Sixteen months ago (October 31, 2005), the Chicago Sun Times
contained an article suggesting that milk was not a healthy
food for America's black population.

The sad fact is that blacks with African heritage do not tolerate
milk sugars, milk proteins, and milk hormones as do whites with
European ancestry. The truth of this matter is that black Americans
are targeted by the dairy industry with an abundance of athletes,
models, and celebrities posing for milk mustache ads.

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.

Casein represents eighty percent of milk protein. This
tenacious glue causes histamine production, the body's
natural defense against an invading antigen. One's
antibodies result in mucus, and plenty of it.

Inner-city school systems like Boston, New York, Detroit,
Chicago, and Los Angeles have very large populations of
African-American students. In New York City, 38 percent of
homeless children and 25 percent of kids in the Bronx
schools have asthma. Got milk? Got cheese? These kids do,
particularly chocolate milk.

Many children of color live below the poverty level. The
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides free
food and nutritional programs for these kids. In its lack of
wisdom, USDA has chosen milk and dairy products to be the
major components of these kid's diets. These children now
receive free breakfasts of cereal with milk, free lunches of
chocolate with macaroni and cheese or pizza. A subsidized
snack before they go home is more chocolate milk.

In October of 1992, Scientific American wrote:

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

Fifteen years later, those words have never
been more true.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Attention Australians: HELP!

One of the pleasures of "owning" the NOTMILK list is the
luxury of being able to communicate with so many diverse
groups of people. More than 200 Notmilk readers live in
Australia. Others have lived there, or visited, and may
be able to fill a gap in my knowledge. For those of you
who this letter does not directly relate to, I apologize,
and offer you a photo and some biographical information
about my three girls. One thing you should know is that
each daughter (21, 20, 17) weighs between 105 and 110
pounds, and looks great in a bathing suit! I credit
their svelte appearances to their 100% non-dairy diets.

My second of three daughters (Sarah, 20) wants to study in
AUSTRALIA next year (her college junior year), but has nothing
but confusion regarding what city she should select as her home
base. Despite today's typical college distractions (binge drinking
and a top-20 college football team) Sarah maintains a 3.8 average
and takes her studies seriously. She's a Psychology major.

Your OPINIONS and suggestions regarding Sarah's difficult choice
are welcomed.

My eldest daughter (Jennifer, 21) graduated Magna Cum Laude
in just 3 1/2 years and is now commuting to NYC where she
is working her dream job on Broadway. Jennifer's goal is
to manage a theatre company. I wish that I possessed her
writing skills. I predict that one day she'll be scripting
and producing Broadway musicals.

Daughter number three (Lizzy, 17) is a senior in high school.
Lizzy ran a "Feeding the Hungry" program this year, while
organizing monthly events which fed a few hundred people.
She is great with kids, and even as a high schooler is
setting the bar for others by student teaching two second
grade classes four days each week. She wants to be a teacher.
She has exceeded even her own expectations by being accepted
to all of the top colleges on her application list, so...

This week, I will not be writing NOTMILK columns. Instead,
Lizzy and I will be touring New England Universities,
selecting her very difficult final choice.

Forgive me for not having a more recent photo of my daughters.
This picture is four years old. From left to right, Jennifer,
Elizabeth, and Sarah, my three Notmilk girls:

<http://notmilk.com/graphics/mitzvah.jpg >

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Charles Darwin: The First Notmilkman

Well, perhaps Charles Darwin was not the first Notmilkman,
but he could have been the nineteenth century poster
boy for the anti-milk movement.

Although Charles Darwin refrained from using the phrase
"Survival of the Fittest" in the original edition of his
1859 work ("The Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection"), "survival of the fittest" was added in later
editions due to the evolution controversy. History shows
that Darwin was not so fit. Truth is, Darwin barely
survived his addiction to milk and milk-based products,
and the result of his love for dairy nearly ended his
life. Where would we be today without his theory of
evolution? I'd be a monkey's uncle if I was able to
figure that one out.

Although modern medicine prides itself on the progress
made over the past 150 years, when the subject of milk
comes to the diagnostic table, one sees evidence of
little or no intellectual evolutionary progress.

In this 21st century, one could visit two dozen typically
ill informed physicians with various symptoms, such as
bouts of vomiting, gut pain, headaches, severe tiredness,
skin problems, and depression. Darwin exhibited those
symptoms over a 40-year period, and was treated by 20
physicians, but it was not until discontinuing the
consumption of milk and dairy that Darwin's symptoms
disappeared, and his illnesses evolved into a cure.

Charles Darwin was one sick primate, and became well after
years of illness only by eliminating milk from his diet.

A fascinating look at Charles Darwin's dairy illness and cure
was published in the April, 2005 edition of the Journal of
Postgraduate Medicine (2005 Apr;81(954):248-51).

Here is the abstract to that journal article, authored by
Campbell AK & Matthews SB:

"After returning from the Beagle in 1836, Charles Darwin suffered
for over 40 years from long bouts of vomiting, gut pain, headaches,
severe tiredness, skin problems, and depression. Twenty doctors
failed to treat him. Many books and papers have explained Darwin's
mystery illness as organic or psychosomatic, including arsenic
poisoning, Chagas' disease, multiple allergy, hypochondria, or
bereavement syndrome. None stand up to full scrutiny. His medical
history shows he had an organic problem, exacerbated by depression.
Here we show that all Darwin's symptoms match systemic lactose
intolerance. Vomiting and gut problems showed up two to three hours
after a meal, the time it takes for lactose to reach the large
intestine. His family history shows a major inherited component,
as with genetically predisposed hypolactasia. Darwin only got better
when, by chance, he stopped taking milk and cream. Darwin's illness
highlights something else he missed - the importance of lactose in
mammalian and human evolution."

The love of milk made monkeys out of Charles Darwin and his
attending physicians, and 150 years later, modern medicine
is equally as clueless.

So long as the race of mankind continues (let me know
when you see the finish line), and so long as there are
men who interpret God and God's will, while debating
issues of science and religion, there will be controversy,
sometimes violent.

Some 375 years ago, as Pilgrims were colonizing America
and selling Massachusetts native Americans into slavery,
a blasphemous book called "Dialogue" was published and
condemned, for statements contrary to biblical teaching.

It's author suggested that the earth revolved around the
sun. He was ridiculed, jailed, tortured, and nearly put
to death for his contrarian beliefs. Two hundred and
twenty-five years after that book was published, another
controversy was created by a man who suggested that
humans had evolved from ape-like creatures. Eighty
years ago, a Tennessee school teacher attempted to
teach that theory of evolution to his students, and
was punished and put on trial, and in 2004, a Kansas
school board voted to introduce intelligent design
as a part of its curriculum, along with those same
blasphemous theories of evolution.

There is considerable burlesque in these noteworthy
comic dramas. Galileo's persecution and Darwin's
ridicule represent a world in which there has been
little if any intellectual evolution throughout
man's brief history.

Consider that every second of every minute, of every day
a star explodes creating a supernova with temperatures in
excess of 100 million degrees. These massive explosions
cause helium atoms to merge and create carbon, and later
on during the starburst, iron. Every single atom of iron
and carbon within each of our bodies had its origin in
the center of a star. I found that to be profound.

Arguments about silly things such as evolution, I find to
be lost and profound, but there is one argument and debate
that I will continue to participate in, and that is the one
in which ignoramuses (a nearly extinct race of sub-humans)
continue to propose that breast milk from cows is the
perfect food for adult humans.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

The Year of the Fig

Happy Chinese New Year #4704

This Sunday, February 18th, the Chinese people will
begin the celebration of the year of the fig. Long
live the fabulous fig.

Thank goodness the previous Chinese calendar year has
expired. These past twelve months, the Chinese have been
celebrating the year of the Dog."

It is traditional for people of Chinese ancestry to eat
one or more portions of that animal symbolizing each new
year. I know of no person who has eaten dog this past year,
and that should be considered a blessing. There is concern
that this year some ignorant people might lose something
in the translation, and believe that this new year is the
year of the pig instead of the fig. To make that mistake
would be an ignominious monument to human ignorance. To
eat pig would be a total boar.

Scientists say that a pig's anatomy is remarkably similar to
the human physiology. In fact, pigs are shot and burned with
blow torches and their still living and suffering bodies are
hurriedly patched together again. These procedures are used
to train marine medics because the pig wounds simulate human
battlefield injuries remarkably well. Some animal rights
activists suggest that the marines use another animal to
simulate battle injuries, for example, a cheney (member of
the polecat family) but that would not be very practical,
because while the cheney resembles humans on the exterior,
researchers have determined that the cheney lacks a heart
and other vital human-like organs, unlike the pig.

Pig skin and muscle is quite similar to human flesh. To eat
pig meat and chew on pig ribs is akin to gnawing on human
bones and eating human flesh.

Having eaten neither human nor pig during the previous ten
years, I've forgotten the taste, but I do recall a serious
burn to my left hand a few years back that immediately
reminded me of a corporate bar-b-cue that I once attended.
I had to leave early from the disgusting smoky odor of the
roasting 200-pound pet pig that our host imagined would
charm his guests. It was something less than charming,
closer to nauseating.

So, together I invite you to join me in celebrating the
year of the fig.

I love fresh figs. They remind me of a documentary I once viewed
a clan of South American Howler monkeys using their prehensile
tails to climb from branch to branch, harvesting trees of their
perfectly ripe figs. These primates knew the exact moment that
each fruit tree would ripen, and used vines to travel through
forests to survey each tree as if they were the farmers, so
their own crop was carefully nurtured. I am reminded of these
scenes when eating fresh figs, and delight in their taste.

I enjoy dried figs too, and was once addicted to Fig Newton
cookies. This is the true story of what nearly happened to me
after figging out on an entire bag. I ended up in Englewood
hospital with the mother of all stomach aches. Although my
pain was intense and my white blood cell count extremely high,
my very wise surgeon decided to monitor my condition closely
and scheduled an appendix surgery for the next day. Well...all
things must pass, and whatever blockage that was present forever
killed my taste for future Fig Newtons. Offer me a box of fresh
or dried figs, though, and they will quickly be devoured.

Did you know that the fig is not really a fruit? It's a flower.
The seeds are actually the fruit. Figs contain an enzyme which
helps with digestion. If your idea of beautiful skin is that
summertime tanned look, eat figs before sunning yourself. Figs
contain Psoralen which promotes tanning.

In 2006, 28 million pounds of figs were harvested in America.
That adds up to only 1 and 1/2 ounces of figs per person.

This is not the season for fresh figs, but the dried ones will
do jut fine. Won't you please join me this Sunday in celebrating
along with our Chinese friends. Happy 4704, the year of ficus
carica, the fig.

My Favorite Fig/Pig Recipe

Ingredients

7 fresh green figs
7 fresh sprigs of mint
1 live pig, rescued moments before slaughter

Method

1) Feed four of the figs and four of the mint sprigs to the pig
2) Release the pig at an animal sanctuary (see Google for a list)
3) Arrange the remaining figs and mint leaves on a fancy plate
4) Serve your Fig Mint of my Imagination to a loved one

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Saturated Fat is Good For You

NOTE: The most incredible & amazing part of this topic
has been saved for last, so read this column to the
very end! Do NOT press the delete button until you have
won at least one bar bet with today's wondrous trivia.

Saturated Fat is Good For You

That is the opinion of Sally Fallon, director of the
Price Pottenger Institute. Dr. Joseph Mercola agrees with
her assessment. Both endorse the consumption of raw meat,
unpasteurized dairy products, and coconut oil, while
condemning the consumption of grains and soy products.

Fallon and Mercola on saturated fats:

"They enhance the immune system...The scientific
evidence, honestly evaluated, does not support the
assertion that 'artery-clogging' saturated fats
cause heart disease."

After reading Fallon and Mercola, one wonders whether
there is a conspiracy within the scientific community.
Anything is possible, but this paranoid assumption
extends the laws of probability further and wider than
a Rosie O'Donnell stretch mark or a Donald Trump
promissory note to pay a sub-contractor in a timely manner.

The Cleveland Clinic treats over 5 million patients per
year and is America's most respected heart institution.
Visit their website:

http://www.clevelandclinic.org

...and search the term: "saturated fat"

Here is the Cleveland Clinic's official position:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Just one meal high in saturated fat is enough to
inhibit the body's ability to protect arteries from
the accumulation of plaque, a prime contributor to
heart disease and stroke, according to a new study.

"The research led by Stephen Nicholls, M.D, B.S., Ph.D.,
a cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic, appears in the Aug.
15, 2006 issue of the Journal of the American College
of Cardiology.

"According to the study, a single meal high in saturated
fat reduces the ability of high-density lipoproteins (HDL),
or 'good' cholesterol, to keep plaque and other harmful
substances from accumulating and clogging arteries. Such
a meal also can limit the ability of arteries to expand
and transport blood when necessary, the study found.

"In turn, a meal high in polyunsaturated fat, a healthier
form of fat, boosts the ability of HDL to keep plaque from
clogging the inner lining of arteries, called the endothelium,
the researchers report.

"'These findings further illustrate the importance of maintaining
a diet that is low in saturated fat,' Dr. Nicholls said. 'The
results strongly suggest that a diet's fat composition affects
the ability of HDL to serve as an anti-inflammatory agent for
the arteries. This is significant given that the accumulation
of plaque in the arteries is the main risk factor leading to
heart attacks and strokes.'

"Saturated fat is most often found in animal products and is
solid at room temperature. Such fats include butter, red meat
and whole milk, in addition to coconut and other tropical oils."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Saturated fat is usually found in animal food products,
but large amounts can also be found in some vegetable
products such as coconut oil. Researchers have
demonstrated that the consumption of saturated fat
can lead to heart disease.

After fat molecules chemically bond with the maximum
number of hydrogen atoms that each fat molecule is
capable of holding, that fat is then called "saturated."

Cows eat plants, so why does milk contain saturated fat?
Cows do not graze in coconut groves and have trouble
climbing coconut trees, so how does the fat in their milk,
cheese, and ice cream become saturated?

Author Lincoln Lampert explores the mechanisms in which
plant fats are converted to saturated fats by cows in
his "Modern Dairy Products," Third Edition. He writes:

"The fats of plant origin in the cow's diet contain
large amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids. These
fats are hydrolyzed in the cow's rumen. The liberated
fatty acids are then converted into saturated fatty
acids."

Pediatrician Charles Attwood, M.D., determined that the
consumption of saturated fat does not do you or your
children any good. In his "Low-Fat Prescription for Kids,"
Dr. Attwood writes:

"Dietary fat during childhood may be more life-threatening
than was originally suspected...Overweight children are
usually the victims of the dietary habits of the adult
members of the family...Reducing dietary fat to levels
necessary to the control of cholesterol cannot be achieved
if a child drinks whole milk or eats cheese."

In an 1890 letter to a colleague, Ellen White wrote:

"The meat is served reeking with fat, because it suits
the perverted taste. Both the blood and the fat of animals
are consumed as a luxury. But the Lord gave special directions
that these should not be eaten. Why? Because their use would
make a diseased current of blood in the human system. The
disregard for the Lord's special directions has brought a
variety of difficulties and diseases upon human beings."
("God's Nutritionist" Quotation #436 of 500, page 145)

"God's Nutritionist" ($16.95 + $5 S&H) by Robert Cohen is
available by calling toll-free: 888-668-6455 (888-NOT-MILK)
Order your copy, signed by the author...

Note: The Best Part; Vegetarian and Vegan Trivia

Will you find fat in raw broccoli, carrots, apples, or
iceberg lettuce? Answer: Of course you will. Now for
the really fun part: Is there saturated fat to be found
in apples, broccoli, carrots, or lettuce? The answer
will astonish many of the strictest vegans: Absolutely!
You'll find some saturated fat in all of the above.

For the real numbers, goto:

<http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp>

In fairness, you will find that American cheese contains
500 times more saturated fat than broccoli or carrots, and
700 times more saturated fat than an apple, and more than
1,000 times the amount of saturated fat than does iceberg
lettuce, but it's unavoidable. Don't let that saturated fat
monster get into your psyche, and consume as little as possible.

Remember, eat the saturated fat contained in one apple each day
to keep your cardiologist away. While you're at it, throw caution
to the wind and eat all of the saturated fat you can from carrots,
broccoli, and lettuce too.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Got Anemia?

According to the Mayo Clinic health letter, some 3.4
million Americans are affected by anemia. Many studies
blame anemia on the consumption of milk and dairy products.

A new study published in the February, 2007 issue of the
Jornal de Pediatria (a Brazilian journal - 83(1):39-46 )
identified risk factors for anemia in children between
the ages of 6 months and 5 years of age.

In their conclusion, the scientists write:

"Our results revealed that the dietary factors which
were most responsible for risk of anemia were a greater
proportion of calories from cow's milk..."

Are you anemic? Doctors often prescribe iron pills for
those having anemia. What ignorant numbskulls they are.
Instead, they should focus upon why patients lose blood
and test positive with dangerously low hemoglobin counts.

"Cow's milk can cause blood loss from the intestinal
tract, which over time, reduces the body's iron stores.
Blood loss may be a reaction to cow's milk proteins."

Journal of Pediatrics, 1990, 116

The cure for anemia can often be as simple as cleaning
out one's refrigerator and dumping all dairy products.

"Cow's milk-induced intestinal bleeding...in all cases,
resolved completely after instituting a cow's milk-free
diet.

Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 1999 Oct, 34:10

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Snowed In By a Guilt Storm

I feel guilty, Oh, so guilty,
It's alarming how charming I'm not!
Self reproachful,
That I'm cursing this bad back, I've got!

I'm not stunning, Nor so cunning,
While my loved ones, snow angels they've built,
I'm remorseful.
'Cause I'm wrapped indoors in quilt, with guilt.

I hear the roar and smell the gas from my 8 horsepower
26 inch monster snowblower being alternately used by
Lisa and Lizzy, who both are relieving me of my
paternal responsibility of clearing our front walk
and driveway from the heavy ice and snow deposits
left by a constipated Jack Frost.

This year, I've gotten the double whammy. My back
surgery confines me to bed, while this past Monday's
cataract surgery prevents any possible close encounter
with the harsh North Jersey weather.

Freshly made steaming hot soymilk shall be Lisa & Lizzy's
reward. It sits on a kitchen counter, waiting for their
return from the horrible Siberian monsoons of New Jersey.
Next to the soymilk is a package of premium Ghiradelli
chocolate, to be melted into their hot milk as reward for
such hard work.

Elizabeth's hands and feet will freeze first. Then the
sniffles begin. Global warming? Bah, humbug! Welcome to the
end of a schizophrenic New Jersey winter. First we broke
December records for warmth. Then we broke January records
for cold. Today, those same swirling winds that make
Eli-Manning-thrown footballs difficult to catch at Giant
Stadium in the Meadowlands (15 minutes from our home)
will find their way through Lizzy's navy Polarguard
jacket into her seventeen-year-old soul, but duty calls.
I just heard the weather report. Those are 60 MPH winds
out there. Where the heck is FEMA?

Lisa will come inside, frozen to the core, and grab a
mug of the steaming hot chocolate, melting both lips to
her gumlines. That's pure manna to the tastebuds. An
elixir that could have brought back Shakleton from his
final frozen antarctic exploration. A tonic that would
return circulation to K-2 climbers coming down from the
icy summit, and this can all be yours too...No, shoveling
my driveway is not required.

Step #1: Make your own soymilk.

Buy a SoyToy. Call toll free: 888-668-6455 (888-NOT-MILK).

Do so immediately (today), and you'll receive FREE a ten
pound package of the best non-GMO soybeans in America,
grown by an Iowa farmer and friend, Jonathan Chambers.

We've got two driveways to clear---mine, and my mother's,
a mile from my own home. Tonight I'll be cooking soy soup.
Into two quarts of rapidly boiling soymilk I'll add sliced
potatoes, leeks, and vegetarian bouillon cubes. It will be
steaming hot, and should rapidly bring back everyone's
circulation.

Oh, no...anybody seen the key to my snowblower?

Robert Cohen
http://www.SoyToy.com
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Special Bonus for Diehard Notmilk Movie Trivia Buffs

"Do you smell that?
Snowblowers, son. Nothing else in the world smells like
that. I love the smell of snowblowers in the morning.
You know, one time we had the Garden State Plaza shopping
mall parking lot plowed, it took us twelve hours. When it
was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not
one stinkin' Honda Civic. The smell, you know that
gasoline smell, the whole parking lot. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this retail shopping's gonna end...then
it will all be E-commerce and no more malls to plow...It
just won't be the same."

Duvall Duvall - Save a Prayer Now, 1981

Rheumatoid Arthritis Cure

I received the following letter from a dairy farmer.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Mr. Cohen,

You and I have stood on different sides of the fence for a
number of years, but I've got a story to tell you, and an
apology to offer. Catherine (my wife of 21 years) and I both
grew up on dairy farms. We've been raising Holsteins as long
as we can remember. Cath is just 42 years old, but she is
crippled with rheumatoid arthritis. There is no record of
this disease in her family, but she has been in pain for the
past two years, much of it bedridden.

We've tried traditional and alternative therapies and
medicines, but she only got a little short term relief. We
even tried acupuncture. Try finding an acupuncturist in the
rural midwest! It was expensive, and didn't really work.
Catherine's pain has been unbearable at times.

Despite there being no information on the internet linking
dairy consumption to rheumatoid arthritis, and nothing in
medical journals (I've searched online medline), we made a
resolution together to discontinue drinking our own milk,
and not eat cheese or any other dairy product for six
months, just to see if there would be some improvement.

Damn. I have to tell you this. Catherine feels like she's
been to Lourdes. She's cured. There is some pain, but most
is gone. I've had changes too which I'll discuss some other
time. I thank you, and curse you at the same time. Milking
cows is my livelihood. I've always believed that what I was
doing was the right thing. I'm not going to sell my cows and
sell my farm. I love the business. I just don't feel that
good about it anymore. You were right about the arthritis. I
don't know about the cancer and heart attacks, but you have
given us a miracle that doctors were not able to provide. It
did not take us three to six months to learn the truth. It
took just three weeks. I've ridiculed your work in the past.
Please accept my apology.

Your friend,

Tom

Please do not give out my EMAIL address or last name. I live
in farm country and, well, you understand. Thank you.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear Tom,

My dear friend, Jane Heimlich (wife of Dr. Henry Heimlich,
the "Heimlich Maneuver" physican), included this in her
book, "What Your Doctor Won't Tell You."

"Of the nearly 7 million Americans who have rheumatoid
arthritis, most are women. Symptoms are stiffness, aching
muscles, fatigue, pain that accompanies motion, and
tenderness. Nutritional therapy, not drugs, is the
cornerstone of alternative treatment. A treatment for
arthritis that relieves symptoms in a large percentage of
patients is based on the theory that most arthritic symptoms
are allergic reactions."

I've found many examples of physicians and scientific
studies linking dairy cosumption to rheumatoid arthritis.
I've included a few of the following citations in my new
book, MILK A-Z.

"Rheumatoid arthritis is more severe than osteoarthritis,is
most common in the hands and feet, and is characterized by
swelling of joints. Since this type of joint pain can be a
symptom of a food allergy, dietary change sometimes has a
profound effect. Dairy products, the most common food
allergen, are one likely candidate as a contributing
causative factor."

Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition by George Eisman, M.A.,
M.Sc., R.D.

"...43 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, those assigned to
a vegan diet...had improvement in rheumatoid arthritis
symptoms."

British Journal of Rheumatology, 36(1) 1997

"In the case of the eight year old female subject, juvenile
rheumatoid arthritis was a milk allergy. After avoiding
dairy products, all pain was gone in three weeks."

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1985, 78

"Controlled trial of fasting and a one-year vegetarian diet
eased symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis."

The Lancet, 1991, 338

"In 1964, I learned of the experiences of Dr. William Deamer
of San Francisco. He had pointed out the frequency of milk
protein's casual relationship to musculoskeletal pain in
children and especially the so-called 'growing pains.' Since
that time, I have had several children with what appeared to
be early rheumatoid arthritis relieved and returned to good
health by little more than reassurance and careful dietary
manipulation."

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

"In systemic arthritis, like Rheumatoid, the cause is
coursing through the blood, and it got there through the
diet. When all of the joints are involved, the cause is not
physical, but chemical. It's usually casein.(Eighty percent
of milk protein is casein). I once saw a 65 year old man,
Bob, who complained of neck stiffness and headaches. His
hands were so stiff and sore. Bob lived to play golf. I
instructed him to give up all milk and dairy products. Since
giving up dairy products, he no longer experienced pain and
headaches, and his hands were also pain-free. Joy, a 42 year
old woman noticed that her knees were pain-free after
eliminating dairy products. Once, after drinking a glass of
milk, her knees swelled within 20 minutes."

No Milk, by Daniel Twogood, D.C.

"There is a colossal amount of information linking the
consumption of milk to arthritis... and a multitude of other
problems as documented by Hannah Allen, Alec Burton,
Viktoras Kulvinskas, F. M. Pottenger, Herbert M. Shelton,
and N.L. Walker, among others."

Fit for Life, by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond

"Certain foods trigger the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis,
and eliminating these foods sometimes causes even long-
standing symptoms to improve or even remit entirely. It is
important to avoid the problem foods completely, as even a
small amount can cause symptoms. All dairy products should
be avoided: skim or whole cow's milk, goat's milk, cheese,
yogurt, cream, etc."

Neal Barnard, M.D. http://www.pcrm.org

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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The Influence of Breastfeeding

Researchers working in the Department of Human
Nutrition at the University of Copenhagen examined
the most recent studies in the medical literature
and reported their findings in the February, 2007
issue of Nutrition (J Nutr. 2007 Feb;137(2):503S-10S).

Schack-Nielsen L, Michaelsen KF conclusions:

"The most important short-term immunological benefit of
breast-feeding is the protection against infectious diseases."

"There is also some evidence of lower prevalence of inflammatory
bowel diseases, childhood cancers, and type I diabetes in
breast-fed infants, suggesting that breast-feeding influences
the development of the infant's own immune system."

"One of the most consistent findings of breast-feeding is
a positive effect on later intelligence tests with a few
test points advantage for breast-fed infants."

"There seems to be a small protective effect against later
overweight and obesity."

The latest breastfeeding research reinforces everything
we've known previously known regarding breasfeeding. When
the subject is breastfeeding, there are at least 101
reasons to vote yes:

http://notmilk.com/101.html

When considering breastfeeding versus formula feeding,
the best option is to throw away artificial packaging
made in factories and go with nature's perfect alternative.


Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Bad Week For Sick Farmed Animals

First, the good news. If you do not drink milk or
eat cheese, and if you abstain from eating cows
or pigs or winged creatures, or farmed fish, than
there's not a thing to worry you about in today's column.

Now, for the bad news.

These first seven days of February, 2007, might be
remembered as the week that the diseased poop hit
the fan for farmers who raise animals for slaughter.

The first case of bovine tuberculosis in South Dakota since
the Nixon presidency has been found in a cow that had been
living with thousands of other cattle on a feedlot.

The USDA should have immediately required that all South
Dakota cattle be tested, but that would cost between two
and three dollars per cow, an amount that USDA determined
would cause a hardship to farmers. Instead, consumers
may continue to eat flesh and drink body fluids from
creatures diseased with tuberculosis. That ill animal
had been shipped to a Wisconsin slaughterhouse.

Don't you just love these USDA do-nothings?

During this same week, Canadian officials announced the
discovery of another animal testing positive for Mad Cow
Disease. In recent years, similar discoveries resulted in
immediate border closings, restricting the one-way flow of
possibly infected cows south, over the Canadian border into
you-know-where. Nowadays, it's business as usual.

Kansas State pigs continue to suffer from a plague which
has so far been confined to that state. The disease, known
as porcine circovirus associated disease, was first isolated
in Kansas pigs in the fall of 2005. Sickened pigs suffer from
skin lesions, diarrhea, kidney failure, and extreme suffering
leading to agonizing death. The lucky swine are the ones that
make it to slaughter and become egg'n sausage happy breakfasts
before the disease fully runs its course.

New bird-flu outbreaks in South Korea, Nigeria, and the
Middle East have resulted in the culling and slaughter
of many thousands of birds.

Even farm-raised fish have not been immune from disease
this winter. The New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation reports that a fish virus, Infectious Pancreatic
Necrosis (IPN), has infected trout raised in hatcheries. When
released in local streams and lakes, this virus has mutated
and affected other fish populations. Breathe a sigh of relief
and give your favorite trout fisherman a hug should he crawl
home with an empty creel.

If you are one of the ignorant who continues to consume
sickly animals, you have become more informed as a result
of today's column. Meat is much more expensive that fruit,
vegetables, grains, and legumes. Are these the dear costs
you can afford to pay?

Robert Cohen
http://wwww.notmilk.com
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When Hell Froze Over on Feb.9, 2007

I guess what happened in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, might
have occurred on a summer day during which the warmth of
a sun's rays rapidly accelerate the growth of creatures
that squirm and teem and produce obnoxiously offensive
vapors. Instead, the fissure of man's mundane life
cracked open and had witnesses gazing directly into
a hell that was more discordant than any divine comedy.

Yesterday, some 80,000 pounds of cow intestines spilled
onto a Wisconsin highway after a trailer truck driver
lost control of his vehicle. That is what the police call
it, "losing control." What does society call the sight of
40 tons worth of excrement-filled, freshly killed, bloody
intestines. I cannot imagine a truckload of intestines,
can you? I would call that world out of control.

And the things that live in intestines. The creatures
which share space with the cow and eat the byproducts
of her digestive processes. Their own excrement
permeates her flesh. The worms and the hooked parasites,
their microscopic-sized eggs and the bacteria, all in
a 24-hour feeding frenzy which continues long after
the cow bleeds to her own death from a man's knife.

Hell froze over on a Wisconsin highway on February 9,
2007, and there are strangely no pictures for Internet
browsers to share. Instead, the readers of today's New
York Daily News are treated to photos of Anna Nicole
Smith, while New York Times features stories of unrest
in Haiti, and Palestine, and Iraq. All avoid that hell
which cleanup workers looked into and walked away from,
forever changed.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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Dairymen Call This Their "Ticking Time Bomb"

Before writing daily Notmilk letters, I posted my blog-like
thoughts each day on the front page of the notmilk.com website
under this heading: "Daily Squirts of Notmilk Wisdom." On
June 28, 1998, the subject was Johne's Disease. I wrote:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"There is a disease that strikes fear in the hearts of all
dairymen and dairywomen: JOHNE'S (pronounced yo-nees). Johne's
is caused by a bacteria called mycobacterium paratuberculosis
(not-to-be confused with TB).

There is evidence that humans get this disease from cows by
drinking their milk. This bacterium affects both humans and
cows equally with bouts of diarrhea and irritable bowels. I
shUDDER at the thought of drinking body fluids from diseased
animals.

After interviewing a Wisconsin farmer and his wife, I reported:

"The Vosberg children once drank the milk produced on their
farm. They no longer do. In 1997, two of the 81 Vosberg cows
tested positive for Johne's. In 1998, 42 were positive and
officials estimated that up to two-thirds of his herd might
be affected. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture called
this rate of increase "one of the largest documented increases
over such a short period of time."

The United States Department of Agriculture came to Dan's farm
and ordered him to "cull" fifteen cows. That means the animals
were sent to MacDonalds. I asked Dan if he would eat their flesh
and he quickly responded "No way."

Animals infected with Johne's do not test positive until their
second year. Dan slaughters his own cattle for his family's
consumption. He uses young animals, not yet affected, or so he
believes.

I asked Dan what the solution to eradicate this problem might
be and here is his response:

"I wish that somebody would develop a test that could detect the
disease a lot earlier so we could know what we are dealing with."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That was 1998.

The current issue of Hoard's Dairyman (January 25, 2007) contains
a page-70 story with this headline:

"Johne's Is Dairy's Ticking Time Bomb"

The story contains a chart which reveals how much money the
USDA invested in Johne's prevention and research. In 2001 and
2002, it appears that the Unites States government invested
less than $1 each year for Johne's treatment. Such is the
nature of the clueless USDA. When problems occur, their
first, second, and third responses are to deny, deny, deny.
Response number four usually results in the hiring of teams
of professional rug-sweeper-underers. (Is that a real job? If not,
it should certainly be in a USDA bureaucratic job description).

In 2007, we now have overwhelming scientific evidence that
pasteurization does not kill the responsible bacteria, and that
people can get Johne's directly from the milk and dairy products
they consume. Physicians do not call the human equivalent
Johne's. Instead, people are diagnosed with irritable bowel
syndrome, or ulcerative colitis, or Crohn's Disease.

This is truly a ticking time bomb, and the whores of media
would much rather hide the story than bite the dirty hands
which feed them. This is a shame. The only beneficiaries
are those stockholders of the Charmin Toilet Paper Company.

What will you be eating for your next breakfast, lunch, or
dinner? Hopefully, it is not some powerfully disgusting
creature which takes refuge and builds a colony in your
gastrointestinal tract. If that is the case, you will live
the rest of your life with unwanted parasites, multiple
symptoms, and unavoidable consequences.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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Brrrr-Freezing & Chilled to the Bone

This morning, I opened the downstairs door to my
driveway at 5:55 AM and was greeted by a painful gust
from hell which drove my local wind chill factor twenty
or more degrees below zero. My unread Friday newspapers
were a mere 50 feet away, but my breath seemed to freeze
as it left my nose and mouth, and a little voice inside
said, "Go back to bed."

I had foolishly made my way downstairs, wearing sweat pants
and a tee shirt with white athletic socks to warm my toes,
no shoes, and in that moment of truth, dared myself to walk
over a frozen ice-encrusted driveway. It was only a slight
distance, but as I am still recovering from a botched back
surgery, it represented for me a trek through the Himalayan
death zone, 8,000 meters above sea level, before reaching
my goal and returning to the warmth of home.

I remembered the words of Reinhold Messner, the great
Austrian climber, who once said, "I am nothing more
than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the
mists and summits."

So I opened the door, took a first step, smiled, cursed,
turned around, reached for the doorknob, turned again and
step by step took five minutes to accomplish what should
have taken only a few seconds. After returning and closing
the door, I felt as if I has accomplished a great deed, and
I had. It was just forty small steps for a man, seventeen
giant strides for mankind, but I shall use today's memory
to push myself towards even greater heights, towards
a duty I have neglected for many months.

Today I will begin to catch up on my reading. The scientific
journal articles await. This task is made more difficult by
another soon-to-be-performed surgery. On Monday, the first
of two cataract operations will hopefully return to me a lost
vision. Dr. Chin shall operate on my right eye. A few weeks
later, he shall replace the lens in my left eye.

I am again inspired to inspire. This grand lie about
osteoporosis has been sold to a trusting public with so
many conflicting dollars, reinforced by a convoluted web
of political and media deception. I must pledge to work
harder so that the one, two, ten voices, hundreds, thousands,
millions of people take to the streets and shout the truth
by telling one and another these truths regarding bone
disease and milk consumption.

"Countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis,
such as the United States, England, and Sweden,
consume the most milk."

Nutrition Action Healthletter, June, 1993

"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)

"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)

"Those populations with the highest calcium intakes had
higher fracture rates than those with more modest calcium
intakes."

California Tissue International 1992;50

"Women consuming greater amounts of calcium from dairy
foods had significantly increased risks of hip fractures."

12-year Harvard study of 78,000 women
American Journal of Public Health 1997;87

"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

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Got Ethnic?

I am a very big fan of ethnic food restaurants. Every
time I travel outside of my own New York metropolitan
area, I want to know where the best Indian, Thai,
Chinese, and Mexican restaurants are located. Not
only are the foods flavored with rare and unusual
herbs and spices, but a good amount of menu choices
in authentic ethnic restaurants are vegetarian.

I also love cooking my own. When it comes to Indian foods,
you can do no better than order any of the spices and
dipping sauces from my dear friend, Harshad Parekh. Harshad
has been very successful getting his new line of foods into
gourmet shops and upscale supermarkets. You can now order
them from Amazon!

http://tinyurl.com/2r7jk5

I guarantee complete satisfaction. Go for it!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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Vitamin B-12, Religion, & Sex

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*******************WARNING: DO NOT*******************

keep this column if you are easily offended, as it contains
intensely mature themes of a sexual nature. Your sensibility
might be disturbed by biblical passages in which some of the most
beautiful methods of making love are presented.

Even though these passages are taken directly from the Bible,
reviewing today's column might offend some Notmilk readers.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Many vegetarian writers, doctors, and scientists believe that
Vitamin B-12 supplements are critical to the health of vegans.
I believe this to be pure nonsense.

In 1996, Victor Herbert determined that Vitamin B-12
deficiency is rare among vegans, even though most do not take
supplemental B-12. His landmark work was published in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 59(suppl), pp. 1213S-
1222S. Herbert wrote:

"To a great extent, B-12 is recycled from liver bile in the
digestive system...The enterohepatic circulation of vitamin
B-12 is very important in vitamin B-12 economy and
homeostasis...bodies reabsorb 3-5 mcg of bile vitamin B-12.
Because of this, an efficient enterohepatic circulation
keeps the adult vegan, who eats very little vitamin B-12,
from developing B-12 deficiency disease..."

Despite real science, the B-12 myth continues. If you feel
that you must eat B-12 (which is produced by bacterial
action), then buy organic carrots and be sure to eat the
unwashed roots. Washing will kill the bacteria, rich with
Vitamin B-12. If you dislike carrots, consider the Song
of Solomon. If the Song of Solomon inspires you, then you
will most certainly be in good hands.

**********FROM: The Song of Solomon**********

"Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant
fruits; camphor, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron;
calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh
and aloes, with all the chief spices...A fountain of gardens,
a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, O
north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that
the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his
garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Open to me, my love, my
dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my
locks with the drops of the night.

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips
like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His mouth is most
sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and
this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. My beloved is gone
down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the
gardens, and to gather lilies. I am my beloved's, and my
beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the
valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the
pomegranates budded. How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love,
for delights!

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that
goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to
speak. I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine
flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates
bud forth: there will I give thee my love.

I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my
pomegranate."

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

May God bless those wise prophets who without microscopes
or chemical laboratories were divinely inspired to write
about nature's most sensual source of Vitamin B-12.

Without embarrassment, this is a subject that needs to be
discussed. I am past the point of being disgusted by know-
it-all vegetarian and vegan nutritionists and dieticians who
believe that one must take artificial supplements derived
from cow intestines, containing Vitamin B-12 in order to
maintain good health. The fact that vegans have B-12 in
their bloodstreams is evidence enough that we're somehow
obtaining it. Low dose, high dose, it really doesn't matter.
Fact is that we need just a few micrograms of B-12, and a
five-year supply is stored in the average human liver. That
fact alone negates the scare tactics of those who criticize
the pure vegan diet, or dispense supplements as a part of
their self-sustaining practices.

Vegan blood contains some B-12. In that, there is no debate.
Vegan semen and vaginal secretions contain many times more
Vitamin B-12 than does human blood.

The solution? Make love. Enjoy oral sex. The ingestion of
sexual body secretions from your significant other will
insure good health for you through a Biblically-endorsed
version of vegan nutrition.

In addition to the usual frogs, snails, and puppy dogs
tails, what are little boys made of? What exactly is in
semen? Ten percent of semen consists of sperm cells, up to
500 million per ejaculate. It takes only one sperm cell to
fertilize an egg. I often wonder why the other 499,999 are
necessary.

What constitutes the other 90% of semen? In addition to
enormous amounts of vitamins, enzymes, and amino acids,
semen contains up to 20 times the level of Vitamin B-12 as
does human blood serum. Vaginal fluids contain a similar
makeup, rich in B-12.

Scientists were aware of this information decades ago, but
had no socially-tactful means to transmit this information
to the lay person. (Yes, I know, you simply adore my use of
the English language).

As early as March of 1984, Carmel Bernstein and a team of
investigators published evidence in the Journal of Clinical
Investigations (73;3, Vitamin B-12 in human seminal plasma)
revealing that blood has one-tenth the amount of B-12 as
does male semen.

Eight years later, the Scandanavian Journal of Clinical
Laboratory Investigations (Hansen, 1992 Nov;52(7):647-52)
determined that B-12 levels in human semen run as high as 20
times that of blood. Similar amounts of B-12 have been found
in vaginal secretions.

Many humans, enamored by the artificial chemicals contained in
soaps, perfumes, and colognes have an aversion to oral sex
because of the taste or smell. Can such a dislike of natural
body odors ever be justified? Absolutely.

Long ago, in the days before artificial modern-day perfumes
and deodorants were used to mask human odors, people enjoyed
body smells. Don Juan would keep handkerchiefs under his
armpits and wave them in front of ladies' noses. That action
was designed to bring them to arousal from his own natural
essences and bouquet which contained pheromones, chemicals
containing natural sexual messengers that communicate
instinctual feelings shared by all mammals. Truth revealed:
Why does a male dog mount and hump a human female leg,
thrusting his pelvis as if in the act of copulation? It's
not because he smells your puppy, ladies. It's because he
smells your very own pheromones which trigger a genetically
pre-determined fixed action pattern in Fido's brain.

On to the olfactory bouquet from your own essences.

Dairy farmers know that if their cows eat onions or garlic
less than 30 minutes before milking, those powerfully
offensive smells will be included in their body secretions
which are then transmitted to their milk. A similar event
occurs with human body fluids. You are what you eat. Deer
know when meat-eating humans walk into the woods. Vegans
have a way with denizens of the forest. Vegans do not eat
other living creatures. Deer can tell by human smells. So
can dogs and other mammals possessing keener olfactory
senses than humans.

For many years, non dairy-using Japanese people called
Americans "butter-people," for the rancid smell that would
seep out of our pores. I can smell butter people. I am
amazed at the number of people calling themselves vegan who
are actually dairy users. I can smell the aftermath of pizza
24 hours after a vegan eats one by his or her offensive
odor. The mozzarella turns rancid from within. Its smell
lingers on a user's breath. Milk the cow and get the garlic
or onion milk. Milk the human and get Kentucky-fried chicken
essence.

Humans who eat meat ingest large amounts of sulfur-based
amino acids. That is one of the qualities of meat protein.
The sulfur becomes a part of their own smell and taste. Eat
large amounts of methionine and you'll taste quite rancid.

I have met many vegans who relate anecdotal evidence of how
other vegans make better lovers because they "taste better."
Where are Masters and Johnson when you need them? The good
that comes from this column will result in two lovers
enjoying a large meal of fresh pineapple before their next
bout of foreplay. Gourmets and epicurians of the world,
unite. Your next dose of love will contain the best vitamin
pill in the world. Was it Mary Poppins who sang, "Just a
spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"?

Remember, for B-12, make love, and do so in good taste.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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Painful Growing Up Y-ears

Hardly a week has gone by during these past ten years
in which a parent has not emailed Notmilk as to
whether or not there is a connection between a child's
milk consumption and ensuing ear aches. Often times,
little boys and girls suffer through unnecessary
surgery, and that breaks my heart. Such ignorance!
The cure is often as simple as adopting a Notmilk diet.

As a child, I remember screaming and crying from pain,
and missing school, and my mom would tell me, "Drink
your milk. It's good for you." Parents cannot see
earaches. Sometimes, they think the child pretends.

Kids know when parents doubt their honesty. That's
when the initial mistrust in a relationship begins
which soon develops into a generation gap. This
mutual two-way distrust, caused by dairy cows.
Some parents bring their kids to the doctor for
surgery, thinking they know what's best for the
child. An ignorant doctor knows no better. Some
physicans have made the connection:

"Milk allergies are very common in children...They
are the leading cause of the chronic ear infections
that plague up to 40% of all children under the age
of six."

Julian Whitaker, M.D., "Health & Healing,"
October, 1998, Volume 8, No. 10

"If a bottlefed baby has an ear infection, eliminate
milk and dairy products from the child's diet for thirty
days to see if any benefits result...a cause of frequent
ear infections in children is food allergies."

James Balch, MD, "Prescription for Nutritional Healing"
ISBN 0-89529-727-2

"Concerning ear infections, You just don't see this
painful condition among infants and children who aren't
getting cow's milk into their systems."

William Northrup, M.D., Natural Health July, 94

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Global Warming & the Super Bowl

The United Nations has issued a new report called:

"Livestock's Long Shadow"

http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.htm

Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/u24vy

Ruminant animals such as cows and sheep are being blamed
for producing up to two-thirds of the gases which cumulatively
have resulted in that 21st-century weather-whacker we call
global warming.

Carbon dioxide gas is the most commonly identified culprit,
but the digestive processes of cud-chewing cows results in
that stinky gas called methane, which is 20-25 times more
powerful than plain old carbon dioxide.

The world's most respected cattle counters estimate that
there are 2.2 billion head (or tails) of flatulating cattle
sharing our planet, and collectively, they produce nearly
farty percent (sorry, my typewriter middle finger has been
out of control with a mind of its own since my recent spinal
fusion surgery), make that 40 percent of all global
methane gas emissions. I believe that my ___ (fill in the
blank) was fused to my brain in error.

Before getting to the fun part of today's column, allow me
to sum up the conclusions of the United Nations Livestock
Global Warming Report:

Animal agriculture represents two-thirds of Greenhouse
gas emissions.

Now, honoring today's Super Bowl, ten not-so serious
global warming jokes:

"Don't kid yourself. Global warming is no joke. Here's how
serious global warming has gotten to be in the United States.
In this country global warming is so bad, we are now actually
starting to warm up to Barry Bonds." - David Letterman

"Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do
something about global warming. He became alarmed when
another chunk of ice fell off his mother." - David Letterman

"Has anybody seen the Al Gore movie about global warming
and the environment? Well, the Bush administration has seen
it and they are very annoyed about the whole thing. As a
matter of fact, earlier today, Dick Cheney shot a projectionist.
...One very dramatic scene in the Al Gore global warming movie
is when a glacier melts and they find more Al Gore
ballots from the election." - David Letterman

"According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85%
of Americans think global warming is happening. The other
15% work for the White House." - Jay Leno

"President Bush said global warming is happening much
quicker than he thought, and then his staff pulled him
aside and said 'It's just springtime.'" - Jay Leno

"Arnold Schwarzenegger is blaming man for global warming.
And today, Al Gore agreed with him. That's so typical.
Two cyborgs, 'Oh, let's blame the humans.'" - Jay Leno

"They say if the warming trend continues, by 2015 Hillary
Clinton might actually thaw out." - Jay Leno

"President Bush told reporters he won't see Al Gore's
documentary about the threat of global warming. He will
not see it. On the other hand, Dick Cheney said he's seen
the global warming film five times, and it still cracks
him up." - Conan O'Brien

"Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about
global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter
talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a
book that no one will read." - Conan O'Brien

"Yesterday, a group of scientists warned that because of
global warming, sea levels will rise so much that parts
of New Jersey will be under water. The bad news? Parts of
New Jersey won't be under water." - Conan O'Brien

Wait a sec---I live in New Jersey! Glubbb, blub...
Oh, well, we can all move inland...to Chicago.
Speaking of Chicago, take the seven points and
bet on the windy city. You'll thank me tomorrow.
I'll be the one in the rowboat without the paddle
in the Hackensack River delta. Aside to Jersey bashers...
Surprised? All the while you thought we who live in the
Garden State could only count to gamma. See? We do
know our alphas from our epsilons.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
i4crob@...

Angry Cows Kill Dairy Farmers

What makes a cow angry enough to attack and kill
a human?

During this first week of February, 2007, two dairy
farmers were brutally slain by cows in separate incidents
for the same crime against nature.

In Ohio, one cow killed a farmer after he separated
mother from calf shortly after birth.

http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=6028017&nav=3w6o

Tiny Url:  http://tinyurl.com/34lkfh

In Australia, a dairywoman died for the very same reason:

http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,21163385-
5005961,00.html

http://tinyurl.com/399qje

Cows are not usually angry or aggressive creatures. The human
act of separating mother from child is the most inhumane act
to be found on a dairy farm. Those vegetarians who eat
dairy products must take responsibility for this horrible
lack of compassion, for that is the nature of the dairying
business.

The insult of marketing "Happy Cows" in California is no more
than a deceptive lie. To be witness to the angry crying of the
mothers, or the pathetically sad moans from the calves is to
know and be haunted by an infinite sadness which all mammals
share in similar circumstance.

A November 19, 2001 story in Canada's National Post revealed
that "dumb farm animals" are smarter than they look and that
they actually feel pain.

According to the Post:

"Cows have the ability to reason. Sheep have remarkable
memories. Pigs have sensitive feelings."

http://www.canadapost.com

Canadian researchers have demonstrated that dairy cows are
more sophisticated than farmers realize.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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Groundhog's Global Warming

Every year since this column has been written, the
Groundhog has seen his shadow. There has always been
enough light to see a shadow, and the groundhog's
handler's have assured that their little rodent would
see some sort of shadow due to his large fattened bulk.
The fix is in. They've been feeding him ice cream in the
"off seaseon." This year was a surprise. This morning,
something screwed up the weather so badly that there
was no shadow. Ergo, winter is over. Time to celebrate!
Ice cream for everyone.

We've all read the dairy industry argument that consuming
dairy products helps people 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.

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!

The bigger news has nothing to do with the eather. It's
why Punxsutawney Phil has become 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 saw Phil spring from his burrow and
report that he did not see his own shadow. Winter is dead.
Welcome to the spring. Summer is coming soon. Easy on the
ice cream, or Phil will look lousy in his bathing suit
next summer.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Congratulations to Smart Dairymen; Shame on the Dummies

In all fairness to dairymen, when they do something
deserving of applause, I am the first to admit how
wonderful they've been acting, so dairyladies and dairy
gentlemen, stand up and take a bow. According to an
editorial (page 60) in the January 25, 2007 issue of
Hoard's:

"We're Doing Better on Drug Residues"

Hoard's reports:

According to FDA, in 2005, just 2,155 truckloads of milk
were rejected because they tested positive for antibiotic
residues.

Hoards writes:

"About 52.7 million pounds of milk had to be disposed of
in 2005 because it had traces of antibiotics and could not
be used as food...most positives involved beta lactams,
followed by sulfonamides and tetracyclines."

UNFORTUNATELY...
(Did you imagine that I would let them off so easily?)

The currently used antibiotic tests are able to detect only
four different antibiotics. The smart farmers are aware of
which specific antibiotics their milk is being tested for.
There are dozens of additional types of antibiotics which
are being prescribed for dairy cows and are not being tested,
and most of the smart guys merely use an alternative. This
way, it's virtually impossible to get caught, particularly
when your son-in-law is driving the milk truck and doing
the testing.

Now for the dummies. What is your problem, numbskulls?
OK...Back to the slaughterhouse. Trivia Question: What
is the most common antibiotic residue found in the flesh
of slaughtered dairy cows and is that antibiotic one
of the four currently being tested. Trivia Answer: LS-50
is that antibiotic, and are they testing for it in milk?
You've got to be kidding me. Hint: Monsanto is the
manufacturer.

This story deserves our "Duh of the Year" award, and
it's still just February. Like the Groundhog, the FDA
and USDA regulators continue to hibernate.

If you are currently a milk drinker, there is only one way to be
certain that you are not overdosing on antibiotics. This is an
easy one. Give up?

Notmilk!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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Kosher is Better

Eat the cow's ass, if you must, but be sure that your
meat is butchered according to Kosher traditions. Why?

Before the meat appears in your Kosher butcher's case,
the veins and arteries and certain non-acceptable fats are
removed. Once the deveining process is completed, the meat
goes through a procedure called Koshering. Meat is soaked
in water for thirty minutes to remove all blood. After the
soaking, the meat is salted and then stands for one hour.
After further rinsing, the meat is wrapped for sale to
consumers.

Meat connoisseurs might argue that the flavor is lost during
this Koshering process, but that's the good news.

The bad news is that The United States Animal Health Association
has proposed a new set of rules regarding cows infected with
Johne's Disease. Cows diagnosed with Johne's are infected with
mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Unfortunately for humans, this
bacterium is not killed by pasteurization. Johne's is passed
to humans who often become symptomatic with irritable bowels,
ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's Disease.

This new regulation regarding animals raised for slaughter
creates a new program called the National Johne's Indemnification
Program. Dairy and beef producers are compensated for their losses
after diseased animals are removed from herds. These diseased cows
are identified by fecal culture tests. They are then sent to
slaughter.

Mycobacterium paratuberculosis can be cultured from retail milk.
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis can also be cultured from blood.

That being the case, will your next filet mignon be bloody red?
If so, you might soon be enjoying bloody red stools of your own
making.

There might be some scientific logic associated with those
biblical Kosher laws, and a vegan diet might also be the
cure for many modern day diseases.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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Tripping to the Moon

The folks who successfully convinced Californians that
their state has "Happy Cows" (the California Milk Marketing
Board) are now introducing a new campaign to California's
non-English speaking people. The T.V. ads will be called
"Toma Leche" (Drink Milk).

The dairy commercials will ask viewers to:

"Imagine a world where dreams come true, an island without
worries, just laughter. Imagine a town where weightlessness
is part of everyday life."

Could it be? Could the dairy industry be asking Mexicanos
living in California to picture a land with no green cards?
A land with no border guards? A land in which each and
every illegal immigrant can earn a fair minimum salary
instead of a percentage of that poverty wage which they
are currently paid?

A land in which las cuccarachas no longer climb over you and
your 20 sleeping companions who share a migrant's hut while
waiting for the sun to rise upon your 12-hour day of hard
labor.

The new dairy campaign consists of three 30-second ads, promising
milk drinkers:

"...a wonder tonic that fights sleep deprivation, cavities
and bone loss."

The first ad ran yesterday, January 29, 2007. Another ad,
entitled "Laughs," should be loads of fun. In that commercial,
an island is introduced where everybody drinks milk and
laughs about everything including "unexpected and unfortunate
situations." In this T.V. spot, milk is referred to as: "the
wonder tonic" but it sounds to me like a place in which
marijuana is legal. Marijuana? Tijuana!

My favorite is "The Law of Gravity." That commercial rewards
those who speak Spanish as their first language with a sports
car trip to the moon. Those living in poverty are encouraged
to realize their dreams, and they can do so by drinking cow's
milk. Despite dairy industry claims, there's no way you'll get
to the Moon by drinking Mexicali white. For that, try a hit
of Acapulco gold.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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