Government Executes FDA Director In the past, I've suggested that various Directors of America's Food and Drug Administration deserve to be drawn and quartered...
Today The Bitch Will Lie ********************************************* I have dictated today's Notmilk column to my daughter and thank her for doing her best...
Four Quotes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "When I was just a little girl I asked my mother What will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be...
A Notmilk Subscriber wrote: Dear Notmilkman, Do you take any vitamins, pills, or supplements? Dear Notmilk Reader, Your question made me laugh. It's a private...
This One Takes The Cake--For: The Worst of the Worst of the Worst Sometimes, I see a very bad scientific study and roll my eyes or shake my head. Other times,...
Candy For Breakfast Some of us eat last night's leftover spaghetti. Others go for whatever remains from the take-out Chinese. I keep at least three quarts of...
My Proudest Notmilk Moment I am often asked what I am most proud of when it comes to my anti-milk work. Over the years, I've written over three thousand...
Intentionally Mis-naming a Hormone "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -William Shakespeare, 1595 (Romeo and Juliet) "A nose by any other name...
How a Lie Became Truth; Liars Exposed Today's expression is: "Hoisted by one's own petard." Hundreds of years ago, the petard was an explosive device used in...
Forget About Lactose; It's Protein Intolerance Many people blame their problems with dairy on a milk sugar called lactose. Lactose is actually two sugars bound...
Being Investigated for Terrorism Once Upon a Time, I was Investigated for Terrorism People sometimes ask, "Is it true? Did you really have USDA anti-terrorist...
Stop Blaming Obesity on Soda This morning, from about 2 AM until sometime after 5 AM when the birds began to sing and the sky began to brighten, I surfed the...
USDA Permits Pesticides Directly on Cow's Bodies In 2006, dairy farmers applied 2,784,000 ounces of pesticides to the bodies of dairy cows. The annual report ...
Sustainability If you opened up a store in your town and could not pay the rent you would soon be out of business. If you started just about any business in...
An Early Retreat to Heaven The long Memorial Day six-day Holiday weekend has come and gone. For some, the weekend begins early Wednesday afternoon after work...
An Unusual Memory for Memorial Day Last evening, HBO presented the film version of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." No, I did not cry during the movie, but it ...
Did You Watch: Bury My Heart on HBO? Last evening, HBO presented a 2 hour movie version of the book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. There is an unusual aside...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee I watch less than 5 hours of television each week. Tonight I'll be watching HBO at 9 PM, EST. Won't you please join me if you are...
Hey, What's Up? Hay. Exactly. Hay. It's up. Way up. While the price of hay does not directly affect you or me, it does affect dairy farmers, who cannot afford...
No Accounting for Bad Taste Sometimes, there is no accounting for bad taste, and when it comes to some of the members of my innermost circle, that guilty label...
I May Act Dumb, But My Body's Plan is Brilliant Heart disease is America's number-one killer. The choice is yours to either be a victim, or have a change of...
Be On The Lookout For... One or more really, really bad cases of constipation. One or more horribly ugly case of the zits. Crazed crooks with violent mood...
How to Commit Suicide Today is Wednesday, May 23, 2007, and on Sunday, May 20th, I wrote: "If a pro ball player/manager like Pete Rose wagers on a sporting ...
Letter to NY Times Editor Re: Vegan Diet Dear Friends, I sent these letter to the New York Times and respectfully request that you send a letter reflecting...
Big-Massive-Invidiuals: Soy & Self Identity A trio of researchers attempted to (in their own language): "Identify self-identities among mainstream and natural...
Testing the Senses of the Senseless We performed a double blind vision experiment using a standard eye chart on sixty blind males between the ages of 35 and...
Kids Vomit Dairy: A Mild Case of Whatever... Dozens Sickened in School There was an article that captured my fancy on page B-6 of yesterday's (May 18, 2007)...
Truth or Dare You are hereby invited to dare your friends. Go ahead. They already think that you're a little bit crazy. What would it hurt to dare your friends...
Lest we forget... It happened in May of 1999. This week we celebrate the eight year anniversary of an event that scared the overalls off of every dairy farmer...