My Summer Garden Begins in February Today's weather forecast calls for icy rain and sleet and greens still grow in my garden from last summer. I've been...
Groundhog Day 2008 My list of favorite movies includes Groundhog Day. If you have not seen it, take my advice and do so. The Groundhog will see his shadow this...
Roughing the Consumer with Giant Advice Superbowl: Roughing the Consumer with Giant Advice Just in time for Super Bowl XL11--two brand new inappropriately...
America's Worst Animal Rights Groups The January 25, 2008 issue of Hoard's Dairyman (The National Dairy Farm Magazine) includes a page-62 editorial which...
Time to Loosen the Belt American waistlines are expanding as the obesity epidemic shirts into high gear. According to Hoard's Dairyman (The National Dairy Farm...
Free SoyToy Contest I will be giving away one SoyToy soymilk making machine (retail value $174 includes shipping) to the Notmilk reader who best answers the...
Flame Retardants in Cow's Milk "Upon a pillory, that all the world may see: A just dessert for such impiety." --William Pittis, 1599 Brominated flame...
Cardiovascular Risks of Calcium Supplements British Medical Journal, 17 January 2008 HEADLINE: Increased risk of myocardial infarction outweighs the reduction...
Truth about Low Fat Vegan Diets Can anything be more boring than eating a low fat vegan diet? What would life be without French-fried potatoes or avocado...
Is Raw Milk Worth The Price? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Associated Press - 02/08/2008 Families sue raw milk producer over E. coli outbreak "FRESNO,...
Human Breast Milk Contains Stem Cells In today's Notmilk column you may be reading the name of next year's Nobel Prize recipient for medicine. I read this This...
Milk Chocolate is Sweet Brown Cheese I remember touring Hersey's chocolate factory a few years ago with my three daughters. We sat in a Disney-style train, and...
(21) Why Do You Think It Is? It's been 100 days since Congressman Ron Paul introduced his Interstate Transportation of Raw Milk Act (H.R. 4077), and every...
Valentine's Day Massacre Seventy-nine years ago, Al Capone ordered seven rival bootlegging mobsters to be killed in a Chicago garage. Newspapers called that...
Top Ten List of Dumb Things People Say #10 "Madam Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation that allows the transportation and sale in interstate commerce of...
Aftermath (Evening the Score) I sometimes wonder: If we could decipher the language of MOO, might those bovine sounds be laughter at the silly things humans...
Dead Cow Society It is difficult to express how many people wrote to Notmilk regarding the recall of 143 million pounds of beef from the Westland/Hallmark Meat...
Cheese Calories Add Up to Obesity Epidemics It's happening in England and it's happening in China. It's happening in Australia and Canada and Poland. People...
Stop Blaming Obesity on Soda Yesterday (February 20, 2008), I wrote about obesity epidemics: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2935 Many...
Letter From a Reader Regarding Breasfeeding Dear Notmilkman, Can you give me just one good reason to breastfeed my future baby? I need real science to convince...
Monkeys Writing Scientific Papers If you've nothing better to do, flip a penny ten thousand times and you might be intrigued by the outcome. Would you expect...
My Grandmother Was a Dairy Farmer Had my grandmother been alive today, she would be celebrating her 118th birthday. In 1890, Grandma Ruth was born in a small...
Essential Fat Nonsense For as many years as I can remember, I've been reading and hearing that people need Conjugated Linoeic Acid (CLA) in their diets. The...
The Inhumane Society "If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?" --Steven Wright Consider: In America, we have a group of people who call ...
Letters From Dairy Farmers Each issue of Hoard's Dairyman (the national dairy farm magazine) contains letters to the editor. I find that such letters reflect...
Here's How One Lady Got Meningitis Journal of Medical Microbiology March, 2008 (57373-5), Jovanovic M, et. al. Abstract: "A 72-year-old woman was hospitalized...
Understanding Dairymen's Secrets An army of...frogs. A business of...ferrets. An exaltation of...larks. A covey of...quail. A gam of...whales. A kindle...
Crash and Burn Yesterday was a depressing day for me. I lost everything stored in my email including today's column. I promised to announce the winner of the...
