New World Order Conspiracy: Make Love, Not War?

When I was in college waaaaay back in the early
1970s, we popularized a saying which reflected
the philosophy of our era:

"Make Love, Not War"

That phrase was invented by George Legman, a
contemporary of counterculture poets such as
Allen Ginsberg and Marshall McLuhan. John
Lennon would often repeat the phrase in his
1970s songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkAuTQ8Sc4

On March 29, 2009, the Notmilk letter reported
that USDA had purchased 200 million pounds of
surplus non-fat milk powder from the dairy
industry. I only knew half the story when
writing:

"Nonfat milk powder is the waste product dairy
producers are left with after stripping liquid
milk of its fat which is used to produce butter
and ice cream. There was a time when nonfat milk
was used to feed hogs before slaughter to fatten
them up. Protein growth hormones do that.
In 2009, nonfat milk powder is stored in caves
(U.S. taxpayers pay tens of millions of dollars
in rental fees) and then is purchased by USDA
and fed to starving people in third world nations."

Last night, I learned the second half of this
remarkable story.

The milk powder was sent to nations in which people
are starving. Nations in which there are wars and
famine. Nations in which there is both overpopulation
and ethnic cleansing. Nations in which man's cruelty
to his fellow man is something most Americans turn a
blind eye to.

The second half of the story:

Under the guise of reducing flatulence, intestinal
discomfort, and other symptoms of lactose intolerance
from milk-powder consumption by people of color living
in African war-torn nations, a secret ingredient was
added to the milk powder.

The ingredient? Beano.

Although Beano is processed from green aspergillus mold,
it also contains fish byproducts from cod, flounder,
and redfish. The aspergillis mold also produces an
enzyme called alpha galactosidase which helps to break
the bond holding together glucose and galactose in
milk sugar.

Google "alpha galactosidase" and you will find vitamin
and supplement sites which market Beano and alpha
galactosidase as substances which increase sexual libido.

So...when starving people begin eating American-tainted
milk powder and that urge to reproduce their own
species strikes, credit America's dairy industry and
USDA and American government officials who are attempting
to create a new world order in which the new directive is:

Make Love, Not War!

Unfortunately, the last thing one wants to do is to
increase the libidos of savage soldiers who have refined
the art of rape and pillage.

How could America get away with tainting the milk powder
with chemicals that modify behavior? Another intentional
crime against those living in poverty?

There are many unanswered questions to this story.
Who made this horrific decision? Who added the Beano
to the milk powder before it was shiped? The action
is criminal.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Did This Brilliant Woman Predict Swine Flu?

I've written two books about America's first animal
rights activist, a woman who could have also been
called "The Notmilkwoman."

You can find my books in most bookstores or
purchase them from amazon.com. I've got a few
copies of each and would be happy to sign one
or both for you, should you wish to buy same.

GOD'S NUTRITIONIST
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Animal agriculture of 1860 had much in common with
farm-raised animals in 2009. In both eras, animals
passed on diseases to human consumers. Here are some
of Ellen White's commentaries. Today, with Swine Flu
making headline news, she might have had just four
words for those who continue to eat meat:

"I TOLD YOU SO!"

Ellen White wrote:

"Animals are often transported long distances and subjected
to great suffering in reaching a market. Taken from the
green pastures and traveling for weary miles over the hot,
dusty roads, or crowded into filthy cars, feverish and
exhausted, often for many hours deprived of food and water,
the poor creatures are driven to their death, that human
beings may feast on the carcasses.

"Some animals are inhumanly treated while being brought to
the slaughter. They are literally tortured, and after they
have endured many hours of extreme suffering, are butchered.
Swine have been prepared for market even while the plague
was upon them, and their poisonous flesh has spread
contagious diseases, and great mortality has followed.

"Some animals that are brought to the slaughter seem to
realize by instinct what is to take place, and they become
furious, and literally mad. They are killed while in that
state, and their flesh is prepared for market. Their meat is
poison, and has produced, in those who have eaten it,
cramps, convulsions, apoplexy, and sudden death. Yet the
cause of all this suffering is not attributed to the meat.

"Could you know just the nature of the meat you eat, could
you see the animals when living from which the flesh is
taken when dead, you would turn with loathing from your
flesh meats. The very animals whose flesh you eat, are
frequently so diseased that, if left alone, they would die
of themselves; but while the breath of life is in them, they
are killed and brought to market. You take directly into
your system humors and poison of the worst kind, and yet you
realize it not.

"The light given me is that it will not be very long before
we shall have to give up using any animal food. Even milk
will have to be discarded. Disease is accumulating rapidly.
The curse of God is upon the earth, because man has cursed
it. The habits and practices of men have brought the earth
into such a condition that some other food than animal food
must be substituted for the human family. We do not need
flesh food at all. God can give us something else.

"Often animals are taken to market and sold for food, when
they are so diseased that their owners fear to keep them
longer. And some of the processes of fattening them for
market produce disease. Shut away from the light and pure
air, breathing the atmosphere of filthy stables, perhaps
fattening on decaying food, the entire body soon becomes
contaminated with foul matter.

"Animals are frequently killed that have been driven quite a
distance for the slaughter. Their blood has become heated.
They are full of flesh, and have been deprived of healthy
exercise, and when they have to travel far, they become
surfeited and exhausted, and in that condition are killed
for market.

"Very many animals are sold for the city market known to be
diseased by those who have sold them, and those who buy them
are not always ignorant of the matter. Especially in larger
cities this is practiced to a great extent, and meat eaters
know not that they are eating diseased animals."

"The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat
eating.

"Worldly physicians cannot account for the rapid increase of
disease among the human family. But we know that much of
this suffering is caused by the eating of dead flesh."

"The animals are diseased, and by partaking of their flesh,
we plant the seeds of disease in our own tissue and blood."

Here are ten nutritional rules which Ellen White
wrote between 1868 and 1905:

Rule #1

"Cheese should never be introduced into the stomach.
(Ministry of Healing, 1905)

Rule #2

"It will not be very long before we shall have to give up
any animal food. Even milk will have to be discarded.
(Australasian Union Conference Record, July 28, 1899)

Rule #3

"When the time comes that it is no longer safe to use milk,
cream, butter, and eggs, God will reveal this. (Testimonies,
Volume 2, 1868)

Rule #4

"Large quantities of milk and sugar eaten together are
injurious. They impart impurities to the system.
(Testimonies, Volume 2, 1868)

Rule #5

"Sugar and the milk combined are liable to cause fermentation
in the stomach, and are thus harmful. (Christian Temperance
and Bible Hygiene, 1890)

Rule #6

"Animals from which milk is obtained are not always healthy.
They may be diseased. (Testimonies, Volume 2, 1870)

Rule #7

"As disease in animals increases, the use of milk and eggs
will become more and more unsafe. (Ministry of Healing,
1905)

Rule #8

"I would recommend that people eat flesh meats sooner than
large quantities of milk and sugar. It would not do the
injury that milk and sugar do. (Testimonies, Volume 2, 1870)

Rule #9

"The health food business purpose is to supply the people
with food which will take the place of flesh meat, and also
milk and butter. (Australasian Union Conference Record,
January 1, 1900)

Rule #10

"Let the people be taught how to prepare food without the use
of milk or butter. (Testimonies, Volume 7, 1902)

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

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Animal Virus Pandemic Can't Happen Here

"I would like to express my deepest sympathies
for those who have lost loved ones to the flu
as well as those who have been sickened. I also
wanted to reassure the public that there is no
evidence at this time showing that swine have
been infected with this virus.
--USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, April 26, 2009

The Swine flu continues to make headlines,
and dozens of Notmilk readers have asked me
to comment. Avian (bird) viruses mutate into
porcine (pig) viruses which then mutate into
homo sapiens sapiens (people) viruses. Today,
we are witnessing an accelerating world horror.

On May 7, 2007, the Notmilk letter reported:
____________________________________

Humans do not habitually die from the bird flu virus.
Ducks are carriers of that virus called H5N1. Ducks
occasionally spread the virus to chickens. When that
happens, health authorities do everything in their
power to destroy every chicken within a minimum of 1
kilometer radius of the outbreak. During this phase,
the virus can change or mutate. Occasionally, the
virus mutates into a form which can kill humans.

If it is not immediately controlled, a pandemic the
likes of which killed 50 million persons in 1918
becomes possible.

Today there is only one solution to prevent the
inevitable pandemic that will kill 1 billion or more
of the earth's human population.

Kill all that which is foul. Kill all of the fowl.
Eradicate the ducks and geese and chickens, which
bring nuggets of pleasure to fast food diners and
cardiologists who treat fast food diners. A pandemic
is coming, and there is no "if" to that conclusion,
just when.

There was a time when I believed that the bird virus
was a giant myth and hoax launched by pharmaceutical
companies with White House connections. They would
make zillions of dollars stockpiling antidotes for
each American. Let everybody else die.

We Americans and our way of life would outlive the
world's barbarians. We would be ready to battle the
virus, they would not. In the words of our supreme
Commander in Chief, "Bring it on."

Two books for your consideration:

"Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching" by Dr.
Michael Greger, the youngest, brightest, funniest,
most passionate, fuzziest veganist physician in America.

"The Great Bird Flu Hoax: The Truth They Don't Want
You to Know" by Dr. Joseph Mercola, the man who endorses
the consumption of saturated animal fat as a health
food. Hates soy. Loves raw cow's milk. Hates vegetarians.
Loves carnivores. Eats obese vegans for dessert topped
with whipped cream, caramel syrup, and nuts.

I've already cast my vote. Once on the side of the big,
fat hoaxsters, I now stand firmly behind Dr. Michael
Greger, hoping that his book, complete with 3,800+
references wins a Pulitzer Prize for investigative
journalism. Greger is a genius. His website:

http://www.veganmd.org

Alternatives? Wheat gluten and soy analogues make
great substitutes for diseased bird flesh, and as
of yet, there have been no sightings of the dreaded
tofu flu.

Sorry to be the messenger of such gosh-awful news.
Read Michael Greger's book and get back to me before
the mourning.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Milk & Yogurt Consumption & Stroke Risk

QUESTION:

What is the first thing which comes to mind when you
read that a scientific study was performed at the
Karolinska Institute?

a) Sounds Polish, and Poland is not the epicenter of science.
b) Karolinska Institute? They did research in a Polish Prison?
c) Gimme legitimate research from places like the Mayo Clinic.
d) Karolinska Institute? That's where Nobel Prizes are awarded.

CORRECT RESPONSE: D

The Karolinska institute is the facility from which Nobel
prizes are awarded each year and home to one of the most
respected medical colleges in the world. Karolinska was
founded in 1810 and is the European center for scientific
research.

Next month, the May 20, 2009 issue of the journal
Epidemiology assesses the risk of strokes from
dairy consumption. (Epidemiology. 2009 May;20(3):355-60)

A group of scientists affiliated with the Karolinska
Institute (Larsson SC, et. al.) examined 26,556 Finnish
male smokers, none of which had a history of strokes.

America's dairy industry claims that the consumption of milk
and yogurt are associated with a reduced risk of high blood
pressure and strokes. See:

http://www.whymilk.com/studies_print.php?study=milk_prevent_highblood

During a 13.6 year follow-up, researchers observed 2702 cerebral
infarctions, 383 intracerebral hemorrhages, and 196 subarachnoid
hemorrhages were ascertained.

They observed:

"...positive associations between whole milk intake and risk of
intracerebral hemorrhage and between yogurt intake and subarachnoid
hemorrhage."

Their conclusion:

"These findings suggest that intake of certain dairy foods
may be associated with risk of stroke."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Vermont's Department of Immigration No Comprende Ingles

Vermont is home to an estimated 1,100 dairy farms.

An estimated 2,000 Mexicans work on Vermont's
1,100 dairy farms.

Few Mexican Vermont Dairy workers have proper
immigration papers.

The Department of Immigration is a division of
Homeland Security. Vermont has numerous field
offices, but their agents avoid visiting dairy farms.

Illegal Mexican dairy workers are rarely arrested
in Vermont. In 2008, less than 100 Mexican aliens
were arrested in the entire state, despite the fact
that most either have no paperwork or forged papers.

Vermont's Secretary of State is Deborah Markowitz.
Her private phone number is  802-828-3710.

You might want to ask her why illegal aliens working
on Vermont's dairy farms are not arrested and why
Vermont's dairy farmers are permitted continue to
act in violation of America's Homeland Security laws.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Childhood Soy Intake & Breast Cancer

JOURNAL:
Cancer Epidemiology & Biomarkers Prevention

DATE:
2009 March 24

TITLE:
Childhood Soy Intake and Breast Cancer Risk
in Asian American Women

RESEARCHERS:
Korde LA, Wu AH, Fears T, Nomura AM, West DW,
Kolonel LN, Pike MC, Hoover RN, Ziegler RG

AFFILIATIONS:
Clinical Genetics Branch and Epidemiology and
Biostatistics Program, Division of Cancer Epidemiology
and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda,
Maryland; University of Southern California School
of Medicine, Los Angeles, California; Epidemiology
Program, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii;
and Northern California Cancer Center, Fremont, C
alifornia.

METHODS:
In this population-based case-control study of breast
cancer among women of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino
descent, ages 20 to 55 years, and living in San
Francisco-Oakland (California), Los Angeles (California)
  and Oahu (Hawaii), we interviewed 597 cases.

RESULTS:
Inverse associations with childhood intake were noted in
all three races.

DISCUSSION:
Soy intake during childhood, adolescence, and adult life
was associated with decreased breast cancer risk, with
the strongest, most consistent effect for childhood intake.
__________________________________

Summary:

Women who eat soy as children have lower breast
cancer risk than those not eating soy.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Would You Drink Milk from a TB Cow?

On April 24, 2009, Carla Everett, information
officer at the Texas Animal Health Commission
issued a press release revealing that cows in
a 2,600-animal Texas herd have tested positive
for tuberculosis.

It's not really all that bad, she claims, because:

"Milk from commercial dairies is pasteurized, killing
bacteria with heat, so there is not public health concern
from this herd detection."

Yeah, right. Would you drink body fluids from diseased
animals after trusting a bureaucrat who tells you that
there is nothing to fear? This herd has produced 12
million quarts of milk during the past six months.
Milk from tuberculosis-infected Texas cows may have
been used to produce the cheese, ice cream, and pizza
Americans will eat this summer. Can you taste the
difference?

Can live tuberculosis bacteria be found in pasteurized
milk? In 1970, the National Mastitis Council admitted:

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

Contact Carla:
1-800-550-8242  ext. 710
ceverett@...

According to Virgil Hulse, M.D. (Author of Mad Cows
and Milkgate), half of the dairy herds in America
have cows testing positive for bovine tuberculosis.

One cow infects another cow with tuberculosis, and
humans are infected by drinking unpasteurized milk
from infected cows. More than seventy years ago, the
Journal of Dairy Science (19:435, 1936) revealed:

"Infected raw milk is the chief means by which
milk-borne tuberculosis is transmitted to man."

In 1998, the Journal of Dairy Science (vol.71) revealed:

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

Will the Texas 2,600 be slaughtered so that their
body parts enter America's meat supply? USDA will
never tell.

"Often animals are taken to market and sold for food
when they are so diseased that their owners fear to
keep them any longer...Shut away from the light and
pure air, breathing the atmosphere of filthy stables,
perhaps fattening on decaying food, the entire body
soon becomes contaminated with foul matter."
- Ellen G. White

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Keeping Off The Grass

I do not own a lawnmower for good reason.
My lawn guy charges just $20 for his weekly
visit. He's a lot less money than would be
weekly visits to an allergist if I mowed
my own lawn.

For me, the simple sound of a lawn mower
breaking the silence of a Sunday morning
once triggered a Pavlovian response which
set me to sneezing.

Unless you live inside of an air-filtered
environmentally sterile plastic bubble,
you'll soon be breathing air filled with
trillions of irritating grass and tree pollens.

Like swallows returning to Capistrano, my
annual 6 week season of wheezing and sniffles
used to begin during the last week of April
and last until June 1st.

THE CURE

After discontinuing ALL milk and dairy products,
the allergies were gone. There would be an occasional
tickle in the nose, and when pollen counts are high
there is an occasional sneeze, but wonder of wonders,
I now sleep through the night without medication.

No longer do I need Actifed-C with codeine.
No more antihistamines. No more nose spray.

Milk and cheese. They made the difference. Dairy products
are what pushed me over the line separating springtime
allergy suffering and allergy relief.

If only my allergist had told me about this
publication nearly twenty-six years ago:

"Dairy products may play a major role in
the development of allergies, asthma, sleep
difficulties, and migraine headaches."

Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 1983;
19(9):806-809

Fourteen years ago, I read a revealing article
in the Townsend Medical Letter. I remember the
moment well. That was the last time I ate ice cream:

"In reality, cow's milk, especially processed
cow's milk, has been linked to a variety of
health problems, including: mucous production
...and allergies."

Townsend Medical Letter, May, 1995, Julie Klotter, MD

I paid thousands of dollars to various allergists,
receiving treatment that did not work. Why did not
any of them tell me the following:

"At least 50% of all children in the United
States are allergic to cow's milk, many
undiagnosed. Dairy products are the leading
cause of food allergy...Many cases of asthma
and sinus infections are reported to be
relieved and even eliminated by cutting out dairy."

Natural Health, July, 1994, Nathaniel Mead, MD

There is a simple cure.
Enjoy a dairy-free, allergy-free spring!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

YOU Can Become the Antidote

When a deadly snake bites a man in the leg, anti-snake
venom can neutralize the poison's effect.

A rather nasty snake called "the dairy industry" has bitten
Rush Limbaugh, and you are needed to neutralize their venom.

Rush recently praised the Humane Society. The dairy industry
abhors the Humane Society. Dairy insiders have launched a
campaign to flood Rush with letters asking him to reconsider
his praise of an animal rights organization. After listening
to Rush Limbaugh's comments, please decide which side of the
issue best reflects your position.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=654L6ohbnpw

Please write to Rush. When it comes to supporting animal
rights, Rush Limbaugh has earned my respect!

Rush Limbaugh's email address: ElRushbo@...

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Cow Theft Bill Passes Texas State Senate

Last week (April 15, 2009), the Texas State
Senate voted for a bill (SB 1163) which increased
the penalty for cattle rustling. The bill:

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/billlookup/text.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=SB1163
Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/cl69vu

The bill was introduced by Senator Kel Seliger
(R-Amarillo), and passed by an overwhelming vote of 28-2.

Senator Seliger was Mayor of Amarillo, Texas during the
famous trial in which Oprah and Howard Lyman were sued
by the meat industry after a television show disparaged
meat consumption and alerted the public to the dangers
of Mad Cow Disease. During that trial, it was rumored
that Mayor Seliger was the individual who said,

"The only Mad Cow in Amarillo is named Oprah."

According to Texas Department of Agriculture records,
in 2007, 2,400 head of cattle were reported stolen. In
2008, that number soared to 6,404.

Previously, the penalty for cattle rustling in Texas
was simply hanging. During the six years that George
Bush served as the Governor of Texas he presided over
152 executions, more than any other governor in the
United States.

While I've yet to read the actual bill, rumor has
it that it includes the following provisions:

The new law permits local law enforcement agencies
to conduct waterboarding on suspected rustlers, then
immediately carry out a public hanging after a
guilty plea is extracted from the accused rustler.

The bill has been sent to the Texas State House for
consideration.

One last thought. I cannot take credit for the following
which I found on an Internet How-To cattle rustling site.
Words of advice to Texas cattle rustlers:

1. Don't squat with your spurs on.
2. Don't interfere with something that ain't bothering
you none.
3. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to
do is stop digging.
4. Always drink upstream from the herd.
5. Telling a man to git and making him do it are two
entirely different propositions.
6. When you give a personal lesson in meanness to a critter
or to a person don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
7. If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back
every now and then to make sure it's still back there.
8. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over
and put it back in your pocket.
9. If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,
try ordering somebody else's dog around.
10. And never, ever, miss a good opportunity to shut up.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Cow Theft Bill Passes Texas State Senate

Last week (April 15, 2009), the Texas State
Senate voted for a bill (SB 1163) which increased
the penalty for cattle rustling. The bill:

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/billlookup/text.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=SB1163
Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/cl69vu

The bill was introduced by Senator Kel Seliger
(R-Amarillo), and passed by an overwhelming vote of 28-2.

Senator Seliger was Mayor of Amarillo, Texas during the
famous trial in which Oprah and Howard Lyman were sued
by the meat industry after a television show disparaged
meat consumption and alerted the public to the dangers
of Mad Cow Disease. During that trial, it was rumored
that Mayor Seliger was the individual who said,

"The only Mad Cow in Amarillo is named Oprah."

According to Texas Department of Agriculture records,
in 2007, 2,400 head of cattle were reported stolen. In
2008, that number soared to 6,404.

Previously, the penalty for cattle rustling in Texas
was simply hanging. During the six years that George
Bush served as the Governor of Texas he presided over
152 executions, more than any other governor in the
United States.

While I've yet to read the actual bill, rumor has
it that it includes the following provisions:

The new law permits local law enforcement agencies
to conduct waterboarding on suspected rustlers, then
immediately carry out a public hanging after a
guilty plea is extracted from the accused rustler.

The bill has been sent to the Texas State House for
consideration.

One last thought. I cannot take credit for the following
which I found on an Internet How-To cattle rustling site.
Words of advice to Texas cattle rustlers:

1. Don't squat with your spurs on.
2. Don't interfere with something that ain't bothering
you none.
3. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to
do is stop digging.
4. Always drink upstream from the herd.
5. Telling a man to git and making him do it are two
entirely different propositions.
6. When you give a personal lesson in meanness to a critter
or to a person don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
7. If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back
every now and then to make sure it's still back there.
8. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over
and put it back in your pocket.
9. If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,
try ordering somebody else's dog around.
10. And never, ever, miss a good opportunity to shut up.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Stalking Wild Maple Trees

I received a few precious bottles of homemade
organic maple syrup produced according to vegan
standards. Most commercially made syrups utilize
animal products as de-foaming agents.

I remember reading a series of books by Ewell Gibbons.
"Stalking the Wild Asparagus," was the best known,
but I could not swear that his asparagus book included
a discourse on tapping trees for their syrup.

What I do remember reading is that Gibbons would collect
sap from Elm, Hickory and Oak trees as well as from
Maples. In order for the syrup to flow, one must
first have a very cold below-freezing winter night,
followed by a warm spring-like day. One then collects
the syrup and concentrates its sweetness by boiling
and condensing nature's perfect natural sweetener.

Many maple syrup manufacturers produce their syrup
by using animal-derived chemical agents. One method
is to hang a slab of bacon over the thickening
liquid as it boils so that the fat drips down and
clarifies the maple syrup by de-foaming impurities.

Beverly and John Ventura were kind enough to send
me a gift of the maple syrup produced by their
son, Jacob. It's really a family affair, and
although their syrup is not "certified organic"
by the United States Department of Agriculture
(such a process requires a minimum $10,000
investment), I've relied upon their passionate
representation and description of their approach
to syrup-making so that I am comfortable
using their product to sweeten my herbal tea.

This morning before writing this column, I sipped
about 1/4 teaspoon of two different varieties;
light and amber. The sweet taste still lingers.

The syrup gets my highest rating! If you'd like
to order some, here is their contact information:

ventura.bj@...

or call:

716-496-7530

Jacob's wild maple trees are located in Chaffee, New
York, southeast of Buffalo, southwest of Rochester,
just to the right of Lake Erie.

Extremely limited quantities of syrup are available
for purchase at $15 per quart in glass bottles. They
can ship up to 2 quarts in a priority flat rate box
for $10.35.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Fascinating Agricultural Trivia

Questions:

1) As of 04/20/09, what nation imports the most wheat?
What nation is second?

2) How many bushels of wheat are grown on the
average acre of farm land? What does a bushel
of wheat weigh and what is the wholesale price
for one bushel of wheat? How much flour can one
process from a bushel of wheat?

3) This month (April 3, 2009), in order to protect dairy
farmers from having to pay taxes to settle estate transfers,
the United States Senate passed a bill to exempt heirs
on the first __________ (fill in the blank) inherited value.

4) How many pounds of potatoes will the average American
eat each year, and what percentage of potato consumption
is represented by French fries?

5) How many pounds of tomatoes will the average American
eat this year, and what percentage of that is ketchup?

6) How many pounds of bananas and how many pounds of
apples will the average American consume in 2009?

7) What is the wholesale cost of the corn used to fill
a box of Corn Flakes?

8) On Friday, April 17, 2009, the U.S. Environmental
Protection agency issued a remarkable report. The jury
is reached a verdict. Are greenhouse gases from
agriculture a threat to humans?

Answers:

1) Due to severe drought (seven lean years?), Iran has
become the world's number-one wheat importer. Egypt
is number two.

2) One acre of wheat yields an average of 37.1 bushels.
One bushel of wheat weighs 59.5 pounds.
The wholesale price for one bushel of wheat is
currently $5.23.
One bushel of wheat yeilds 42 pounds of white flour
or 60 pounds of whole-wheat flour.

3) On April 3, 2009, the Senate passed a death tax
exemption bill which will allow farm heirs to receive
tax-free farm assets valued at $10 million without
having to pay taxes.

4) The average American will eat 140 pounds of potatoes
in 2009. Seventy-seven pounds of those potatoes (55%)
will be French fried.

5) The average American will eat 22 pounds of tomatoes
this year. About half of those tomatoes will be consumed
as ketchup.

6) In 2009, the average American will consume 33 pounds
of bananas and 16 pounds of apples.

7) An 18-ounce box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes contains about
12.9 ounces of milled corn. The average price for corn during
the past 20 years has been $2.28 per bushel, so during that
time, the value of corn to fill a box of corn flakes has
averaged 3.3 cents.

In April of 2009, the cost for one bushel of corn is about
$4.00. The cost of the corn to fill today's box of Corn
Flakes would be about 5.9 cents.

8) The U.S Environmental Protection (EPA) agency report is
available online. You may post your comment or give testimony
at a future EPA hearing. See:

http://epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment.html

Bottom line: EPA has determined that "six key greenhouse gases" -

1) carbon dioxide (CO2)
2) methane (CH4)
3) nitrous oxide (N2O)
4) hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
5) perfluorocarbons (PFCs)
6) sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)

- "in the atmosphere threaten the public health
and welfare of current and future generations."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Stereotyping Women As Hormonal Inferiors

On March 19, 2008, the Notmilk column commented on
a dairy industry ad which suggested that a menstruating
woman can be a real witch until she drinks milk. See:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2964

The menstruating dairy industry witch ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ton9-15bc4g&feature=related

The new dairy industry message:

Once each month, pathetic women suffer the curse and
cry, waiting to be rescued by a man in shining armor.
That's the milk industry's version of reality. See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DvMn7zsKhk

The new ad begins:

"Una vez al mez..." which translates as: once each month...

This week (April 16, 2009), the dairy industry launched
their new message. Women are pathetically depressed weaklings
awaiting rescue by a man in shining armor bearing a glass of
milk to get them out of their monthly depression.

That message is targeted at female Hispanic milk drinkers
and is brought to you by the same people who promote
"California Happy Cows."

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the
second of two executive orders which resulted in his
monumental emancipation proclamation. Men and women
living in bondage were no longer slaves. It took another
seven years for congress to grant voting rights to black
men by ratifying the Constitution and passing the fifteenth
amendment.

Women did not get the right to vote until congress again
ratified the Constitution, passing the nineteenth
amendment on July 1, 1920.

Unfortunately for American women, they have never been
officially emancipated. Had the dairy industry chosen to
ridicule any other group of people, be they blacks or
Jews or Muslims, there would be a national cry of outrage.
I find no humor in the latest dairy ad which begins its
television run today. I hope you feel the same way and
share your anger with members of your local media.

We can no longer tolerate prejudice or abuse of any group
of people based upon gender, race, age, color, or ethnicity.

G=Gender
R=Race
A=Age
C=Color
E=Ethnicity

There ought to be a law.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Is Nothing Sacred?

"People - We believe in people - in valuing and recognizing
a work force of diverse individuals as the key to our success."
--Land O'Lakes Corporate Mission Statement

Madison Wisconsin is the epicenter of all things dairy.
Land O'Lakes (LOL) is one of America's largest dairy
cooperatives, producing 40 percent of America's butter.

Last week (April 15, 2009), LOL announced that it will
be closing its Madison, Wisconsin butter plant before
the beginning of summer, 2009.

Steve Dunphy, LOL Chief Operating Officer, said:

"Closing the Madison dairy facility was a difficult
decision that was driven by the economics of the business.

All 120 Wisconsin workers will soon be seeking new jobs.

In 2007, LOL was ranked #329 of the Fortune 500 companies.
In 2008, LOL had risen to #294.

Their 2008 balance sheet shows 2008 revenues of $8.92 billion
with profits of $162 million and assets of $4.44 billion.

Does LOL really believe in its people whom they credit
as keys to their success?

One can understand General Motors closing a Flint, Michigan
assembly plant. After all, the car business just ain't what
it used to be, but butter can be a slippery business, and
those who have previously been "valued and recognized" by
LOL executives have now been cast aside and betrayed, and
in of all places, America's dairy heartland.

I dedicate my all-time favorite cartoon to the LOL people:

http://www.gahanwilson.com/playboygalleries5.htm

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

We Always Knew This to be True

Dairy farmers are meat farmers. Their abuse of
animals is done during the darkness of witness-free
immunity. Dairymen abuse cows from the moment they
are born, separating mother and child, cutting off
highly ennervated budding horns, chopping off tails,
sending sentient creatures to slaughter when they
no longer produce.

Vegetarians who practice their lifestyle out of
compassion to animals while consuming dairy products
are silent participants in the continuing abuse.

The April 10, 2009 issue of Hoard's Dairyman, the
national dairy farm magazine, has finally admitted
that which we always knew to be true. On page 248
Hoard's writes:

"Survey your beef practices. We aren't just dairy
farmers; we are beef farmers too. Is this something
you think of often?"

Indeed, yes. It is something I think of often.

Drink milk and eat cheese and you are the reason
the horrific abuses continue.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Silencing Medical Critics

In May of 1999, Merck Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval
for Vioxx (Rofecoxib) after tests on laboratory animals
showed no adverse effects. Not one rat in any of Merck's
studies reported having a headache, tummy ache, or heart
pain. During the next five years, over 80 million
prescriptions were written for humans taking Vioxx,
but not even one for a rat, despite all the research.

Five years later, doctors noticed that patients taking
Vioxx suffered increased risk of strokes and heart attacks.
In September of 2004, Merck removed Vioxx from the market,
but not before generating $2.5 billion in sales from their
unsafe drug.

This week, after testimony was given in an Australian
courtroom, Merck's creative strategy was published in the
British Medical Journal (BMJ 2009;338:b1432). The April 6,
2009 issue of BMJ reveals:

"The drug company Merck drew up a list of influential
doctors and researchers it wanted to 'neutralize' and
'discredit,' as part of its marketing of the arthritis
drug Vioxx...Julian Burnside, acting for the plaintiffs,
read extracts from company emails sent between Merck
staff that discussed a list of 'problem' physicians
that we must, at a minimum, 'neutralize.'"

Had this trial been held 2400 years ago, I am certain
that expert testimony from Hippocrates would have
included this advice:

"Let thy food be thy medicine
and thy medicine be thy food."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Milk & Everything Else

I have been writing this daily column for 15 years.
The subject is milk.

There is milk and there is everything else.

THIS is everything else:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Should Vegetarian Diets Include Dairy?

The March 25, 2009 issue of the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition asks:

"Should dairy be recommended as part of a healthy
vegetarian diet?"

Dr. Amy Lanou writes:

"Although cow milk has been widely recommended in
Western countries as necessary for growth and bone
health, evidence collected during the past 20 years
shows the need to rethink strategies for building
and maintaining strong bones.

"Osteoporotic bone fracture rates are highest in
countries that consume the most dairy, calcium,
and animal protein. Most studies of fracture risk
provide little or no evidence that milk or other
dairy products benefit bone.

"Accumulating evidence shows that consuming milk or
dairy products may contribute to the risk of prostate
and ovarian cancers, autoimmune diseases, and some
childhood ailments. Because milk is not necessary for
humans after weaning and the nutrients it contains are
readily available in foods without animal protein,
saturated fat, and cholesterol, vegetarians may have
healthier outcomes for chronic disease if they limit
or avoid milk and other dairy products.

"Bones are better served by attending to calcium balance
and focusing efforts on increasing fruit and vegetable
intakes, limiting animal protein, exercising regularly,
getting adequate sunshine or supplemental vitamin D,
and getting approximately 500 mg Ca/d from plant sources.

"Therefore, dairy products should not be recommended
in a healthy vegetarian diet."

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

We applaud the wisdom of Dr. Amy Lanou. More and more
doctors are beginning to understand the link between
dairy consumption and disease.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Beware of Global Sameness

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the
majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
- - Samuel Langhorne Clemens

For the past ten years, people who have an innate
need to be politically correct have wasted no time in
climbing aboard the global warming bandwagon. Those
who question global warming by citing real science
have been outed by the know-it-alls and cast adrift
in a rising sea (due to the melting polar ice caps)
while bailing out a leaking canoe without a paddle.

Recent evidence shows that the earth has warmed less
than one degree Fahrenheit over the past 100 years.
See the Newsweek article of 1975:

http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

In the year 2009, politically correct scientists are
beginning to agree that the earth is experiencing
a cycle of global cooling. That is not good news
for flamingos or Club Med time share owners.

As for me...I am issuing an emergency notice that you
must immediately share with your friends and relatives.
It is neither global warming nor global cooling that
should be feared. It is the dire threat of global
sameness.

Historical studies show that when the temperature
remains constant over a 50 year period, one or more
of the 350,000 species of Amazon beetles becomes
extinct, women's hemlines become shorter, children
become disrespectful to their elders, and capitalist
societies turn communist. New diseases such as
atherosclerosis and cancer emerge as society's
number one and number two killers. The worst part
of global sameness can be reflected by consumer
sales data presented by the A.C. Nielsen Company:
During times of global sameness more deodorant
and mouthwash is sold...not good news for those
with refined olfactory senses.

So, there remains one final chance to save ourselves
from the consequences of global sameness but it
will require personal sacrifice. Go for long weekend
rides in your car. Burn hydrocarbons. Convert your
furnace from a gas-burning monstrosity to an economic
coal burner. End your vegan lifestyle and eat cows
and pigs, preferably by grilling them in your yard.

In unity there is a solution, but we all must
cooperate. Remember the inspirational words of our
spiritual leaders:

"Experts say this global warming is serious, and they
are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be
out of party ice."
--David Letterman

"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

"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

"We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric
hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if
they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem,
but if they find a leader -- a Captain Caveman, if you
will-we'll be facing an even more serious problem."
--Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman

"Environmental organizations are fomenting false
fears in order to promote agendas and raise money."
--Michael Crichton

On Tuesday (April 7, 2009), two hurricane experts
(Philip Klotzbach and William Gray) predicted that
the Atlantic Hurricane season of 2009 would produce
about six hurricanes. Klotzbach and Gray are professors
of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.

Although global warming experts blame increased
hurricane activity on warmer water temperatures
resulting from depletion of ozone in the earth's
upper atmosphere, the number of hurricanes for
the past sixty years has averaged 5.9 per season.

Robert Cohen
http://www.EndGlobalSameness.org

(Shhh) - IT Happened

Mad Cow Disease is not to be taken lightly.
In America, we believe that things like terrorist
attacks, recession, depression, inflation, plague,
cannot happen here. Well, bad things happen and
negative incidents will continue to occur, and
unless we prepare for potential downsides, we
will find ourselves in dire circumstances when
things go terribly wrong.

I recently applauded the United States position
regarding the prevention of Mad Cow Disease. Under
the George Bush administration, rules and regulations
regarding the feeding of downer cows were enacted
so as to protect consumers. I expected such rules
to continue during the Obama administration, but
forgot the power of cash-bearing lobbyists who
have turned the buying of influence into an art form.

The Notmilk letter is sometimes the first to report a
dairy or health-related story, often beating traditional
media by a day or a week or more.

When last we broke a major story, dozens of angry readers
accused Notmilk of making things up because they were
unable to locate Internet links to that story. It would
have been impossible for us to have done so. After
all---Notmilk was the first...

More than one month ago (Sunday, 03/07/09) Notmilk reported:

"The National Milk Producers and eleven other agricultural
organizations representing farmers who produce dairy
products or meat have lobbied President Barack Obama to
postpone the April, 2009 implementation of FDA's BSE
Ruminant Feed Ban.

"The ban takes place after many years of hearings and
scientific testimony regarding the spread of Mad Cow
Disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalitis,
or BSE. The rule which meat and dairy producers
ultimately wish to have overturned is that part of
the new FDA regulation which mandates the removal of
brain and spinal tissues from cows over 30 months of
age after they are slaughtered and before they are
rendered for human or companion animal consumption."

The original NOTMILK column:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/3195

Guess what?
It happened.
Just as predicted.
FDA does not care about human health.
Their mission is to obey milk and meat
producers. FDA has once again learned
the power of Washington lobbyists.

On Friday, April 10, 2009, FDA announced a two
month delay in the implementation of the 2008 BSE
rule which would have banned feeding cow brains
and spines from potentially infected animals back
to livestock as feed. Outrageous? Yes!

The FDA is giving you an extremely tiny window of
opportunity to comment on their insanity. You must
do so by Thursday, April 16, 2009.

Post an Internet comment at FDA's website:

http://www.regulations.gov

At the very top of the page you will be instructed to:

SEARCH DOCUMENTS.

Type in: 2002N–0273 and post your comment.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Easter Sunday

The Last Supper was a Passover Seder and both Easter
and Passover share traditions of families getting
together to impart epic stories which reflect justice,
compassion, and love.

Although I am Jewish, I often ask myself one of the
most popular questions when faced with decisions,
dilemmas, and challenges:

"What would Jesus do?"

Come this holiday season, most of us are faced with
unprecedented economic challenges which have resulted
in a rapid deterioration of cash flow. People who
never before lived on budgets are now finding that
making ends meet means sacrifices. Those who had
been living on tight budgets are being forced to
make very difficult decisions. Some face foreclosure
or eviction. Others are cutting out basic necessities
from their food budget. All in all, times have become
harder than ever before for most of us.

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. What would Jesus do if
he lived in today's world and was witness to so much
hunger and pain? I have no doubt that he would try to
make things just a little bit better for those in
need, even for just a day, and what better day to
do so than on Easter Sunday?

Why not start your day at the local supermarket and
purchase a package of small paper bags and Ziplocs.

Then fill those bags with "care packages" for homeless
people. The perfect meal would include an apple, a pear
a banana, a few dates, some nuts, and a bottle of water
to those who are in need. Whether you are able to fill
just one bag or a hundred, your action will become an
act of love and will touch one or more people of need
in just the right way.

I hope that you answered the "What would Jesus do?"
question in a way similar to my response. Turn your
compassion into action on Easter Sunday and join me.

Tomorrow is April 12, Easter Sunday, 2009. Imagine that
Jesus makes an appearance in New York City. Does the
Jesus you know wear a white flowing robe while standing
in a bubble-top limo, blessing the millions of worshipers
who line the streets during a ticker-tape parade, or,
does the Jesus you know put on his work clothes and
continue his mission by feeding and healing those in need?
I hope that your spirit has been created in his image,
for you have the potential to live according to his
example.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

When Fat People Die

The United States Centers for Disease Control estimates
that 2,448,017 Americans will die in 2009.

The leading cause of death will be cardiovascular events
which include heart disease and strokes (795,670 deaths).

The second leading cause of death will be cancer
(559,312 deaths).

There is a California company which recycles dead
animals by converting their bodies into motor vehicle
fuel. They collect downer cows and also send reps into
slaughterhouses to recapture fat and body wastes which
otherwise would not be eaten. Baker Commodities then
renders the dead animal parts into biodiesel fuel.

http://www.bakercommodities.com/animal-by-product.asp

That's an interesting word, biodiesel. Forgive my lack
of schooling in ancient languages such as Latin and
Greek, but I'll attempt to parse the word:

biology = the study of living things...so...

bio = living things.
die = when critters cease to be living things.
sel = what I should have done with my shares of
CitiBank and General Motors stock in April of 2008.

Put them all together and we get bio-die-sel.

Baker Commodities is constructing a new bio-die-sel
factory in Vernon, California. The city of Vernon
is just to the Southeast of Los Angeles and just
to the Northwest of Anaheim. When El Nino winds
blow Easterly from the Pacific Ocean, people
living in Los Angeles will hardly notice the bouquet
of freshly rendered tallow from dead cows. That
might not be the case for those living in Anaheim,
which is downwind from the new Baker bakeshop. The
new factory is expected to produce 10 million
gallons of bio-die-sel fuel during the next 12 months.

Which got me to thinking...If a few hundred thousand
animals can produce 10 million gallons of fuel, just
imagine the potential energy which can be recaptured
from 2.5 million dead human critters. Most of them
will be of the extra-large variety (you've heard of
the obesity epidemic, right?)

There's really no need for dieters to trim the fat
when there's a company ready, willing, and able to do
so in your afterlife. And there are additional upsides...
you'll be doing a good deed by helping the environment
by preserving natural resources and saving your family
thousands of dollars in humankind's most frivolous
pursuit: the tradition of burying lifeless flesh at
obscene ripoff prices.

EPA estimates:

Rendered (mixed species) Roadkill: city mpg: 11, highway: 14
Rendered Holstein Cow: city mpg: 24, highway mpg: 33
Rendered Human: city mpg 26, highway mpg 35
RFP (Really Fat Person): city 42; highway 54

If you wish to donate your body to Baker Commodies, go to:

http://www.slicediceandgetmepumped.com

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

When The Cow Chip Hits the Fan

The United States Government Accountability Office
(GAO) has completed a study concluding that
almost $50 million in subsidies paid to dairy
farmers in 2008 constituted larceny and fraud.

As a result of the GAO investigation, USDA is
requiring certain dairy farmers to allow them
to review previous year's tax returns.

The Farm bill of 2008 required that dairy farmers
were not to receive subsidies if their income (for
the previous three taxable years) exceeded $750,000.

In April of 2009 with decreased milk payments and
increased feed costs, dairymen have been asking
themselves how things could possibly get worse.

Many of these same farmers now find themselves
standing knee-deep in a cow-chip-littered field
during a torrential rainstorm. During the next
few weeks these conniving Bernie Madoffs of
agriculture will be discovering that April
showers bring more than May flowers.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

U.S. News & World Distorts

In biblical times, Lot could have saved the city
of Sodom had he found just ten righteous people.

In ancient Greece, Diogenes was said to have walked
the streets holding a lantern, searching for just
one honest man.

The challenges in the Bible and Greece were easy ones
when compared to today's impossible task: Finding one
magazine reporter with integrity.

The March 20, 2009 issue of U.S. News & World
Reports contains a milk column which more
resembles a paid advertisement than a carefully
researched unbiased article, typical of that
which usually appears in this magazine.

The author wrote:

5 Nutrition Facts About Milk and Healthy Kids
Including some surprising things about whole
milk, flavored milk, and lactose intolerance
By Kerry Hannon

U.S. News & World Reports
March 20, 2009
Here are five things you should know about
your kids and milk:

"They need to drink more. Milk contains nine
essential nutrients and vitamins..."

She listed the vitamins, but she did not list
the nutrients.

So I contacted Kerry Hannon through her personal
website on Saturday, March 21, 2009 and asked for
her to contact me as I had a question regarding the
validity of her opening comments.

I did not hear from Kerry on Saturday.
I wrote again on Sunday and asked the same question.
I did not hear from Kerry on Sunday.
I wrote again on Monday and asked the same question.
I did not hear from Kerry on Monday.
I asked the same question on Tuesday and Wednesday too.
It's been a week, and Kerry has not gotten back to me.

Perhaps she's been away from her desk.
Perhaps she is on vacation.
Perhaps she is out to lunch.
Perhaps she wrote her column and was simultaneously
out to lunch.
Perhaps, like many reporters, she unethically
spreads propaganda and is unwilling to defend
her position. You might get a response. Her email:

kerry@...

I wanted to know what she meant when she blindly
reported that milk contains "nine essential nutrients."

I've been around dairy long enough to know that
this is a marketing phrase developed by hired
Madison Avenue hacks. For her to repeat that phrase
in a nationally distributed magazine and not be
able to defend her comment indicates to me that
U.S. News & World Reports has hired hacks working
for it too.

What are these 9 essential nutrients? A few years ago, I
interviewed a few dozen people within the dairy industry.
My list of persons included doctors who work for dairy,
marketing agents, scientists who did milk research,
dairy nutritionists, and even FDA and USDA bureaucrats.

Not one "expert" had a clue as to the nature of those nine
essential nutrients. I do know the answer because I've been
following this story full-time for fifteen years and know
the "enemy" better than they know themselves.

In nature, there are twenty-eight amino acids. Nineteen are
manufactured in one's liver. The other nine amino acids are
universally referred to as "essential", which means that
they must be obtained in the foods we eat. The nine
essential nutrients which the dairy industry often refers
to are these following nine amino acids:

Arganine, Cysteine, Histadine, Isoleucine, Leucine,
Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, and Tryptophan.

Just for the record: soy milk also contains each of
the nine "essential" ingredients.

Just for the heck of it I invested a few hours
and looked up a few commonly eaten foods in order
to determine whether they also contained those
nine "essential" nutrients.

Do carrots contain these 9 essential amino acids? Of course
they do. So do broccoli and apples. Soymilk is loaded with
the same nine essential aminos as cow's milk, and in every
single category, an equal amount of tofu contains two or
more times the amount of each and every one of the dairy
industry's nine essential amino acids.

The dairy industry's claim is accurate, but it is also
phony. They would have you believe that cow's milk is so
very healthy because it contains something "magical."
Just about every fresh food appears to contain these
nine essential amino acids.

No reporter worth her pencil and notebook would base
her opening premise upon any industry's hype and then
ignore a claim after being challenged.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Top One Percent

Many years before learning about the dangers
of consuming milk and dairy products, I was
a pizza addict. Note that I did not write
that I was a pizza fan or a pizza gourmet.
I was an addict. I would often visit one of
the dozens of nearby pizzerias just about
every day for a slice to satisfy my
physiological craving.

It took years of searching to locate the "best"
pizza in the New York area. That "perfect pie"
was found in a Haworth, New Jersey restaurant
called Adiamos. A few years ago, the owner was
kind enough to experiment, just for me, and
he created a magnificent vegan pie which he
now regularly serves to appreciative customers.

The worst pie? Without any doubt, it was Domino's
Pizza. Yeech. Thick soft crust. Gooey tasteless
cheese. Bland sauce. They guaranteed delivery
within 30 minutes of my phone call, but so would
the local garden shop if I called for bags of
fertilizer.

Eight years before becoming the Notmilkman, I
read a book called PIZZA TIGER. It was written by
the founder of Domino's, Tom Monaghan. With his
fortune, Monaghan fulfilled a boyhood dream and
became owner of the Detroit Tigers baseball team.

You might be wondering what does any of this have
to do with the title of today's column, "The Top
One Percent."

In 2009, there are approximately 9.2 million
cows being milked each day in America. Each cow
will produce about 18,800 pounds of milk for the
year.

The cheese topping Domino's Pizzas will require
1,730,000,000 pounds of milk from 92,000 cows.
Domino's Pizza represents one percent of the
'gross' output of America's dairy industry.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

"You wascally wascal!"
- Elmer Fudd to Bugs Bunny

Despite the fact that Notmilk <http://www.notmilk.com>
has appeared in the top ten of every search engine
since 1994, a scientist named Melnik published a
scientific treatise blaming a vast array of major
diseases on the consumption of milk protein, claiming:

"A hypothesis is presented, showing for the first time
that milk protein consumption is an essential adverse
environmental factor promoting most chronic diseases of
Western societies."

For the first time?

Clearly, you've not been reading your Notmilk
letters for the past 14 years, Melnik.
;>)

Despite his/her claim that he/she is the first
Notmilkperson, I still love the Melnik person.

Melnik is a scientist/researcher working at the
Department of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine
and Health Theory, University of Osnabruck, Germany.

I don't know if the Melnik is male or female, but
his/her publication will appear in the June, 2009
issue of Medical Hypothesis (72(6):631-9).

Melnik's abstract as it appears on Medline:

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

"Common chronic diseases of Western societies, such
as coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, cancer,
hypertension, obesity, dementia, and allergic diseases
are significantly influenced by dietary habits.

"Cow's milk and dairy products are nutritional staples
in most Western societies. Milk and dairy product
consumption is recommended by most nutritional societies
because of their beneficial effects for calcium uptake
and bone mineralization and as a source of valuable
protein. However, the adverse long-term effects of milk
and milk protein consumption on human health have been
neglected.

"A hypothesis is presented, showing for the first time
that milk protein consumption is an essential adverse
environmental factor promoting most chronic diseases of
Western societies.

"Milk protein consumption induces postprandial hyperinsulinaemia
and shifts the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1
(IGF-1) axis to permanently increased IGF-1 serum levels.

"Insulin/IGF-1 signalling is involved in the regulation
of fetal growth, T-cell maturation in the thymus, linear
growth, pathogenesis of acne, atherosclerosis, diabetes
mellitus, obesity, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases,
thus affecting most chronic diseases of Western societies.

"Of special concern is the possibility that milk intake
during pregnancy adversely affects the early fetal
programming of the IGF-1 axis which will influence health
risks later in life. An accumulated body of evidence for
the adverse effects of cow's milk consumption from fetal
life to childhood, adolescence, adulthood and senescence
will be provided which strengthens the presented hypothesis."

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

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

***Correction***

The May 1, 2009) isue of the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition 2009 contains a study which asks:

"Diet and the environment: does what you eat matter?"

Researchers wrote:

"The nonvegetarian diet required 2.9 times more water,
2.5 times more primary energy, 13 times more fertilizer,
and 1.4 times more pesticides than did the nonvegetarian
diet."

I wrote to one of the study's authors and suggested
that he had made an error, intending to write:

"...more pesticides than did the vegetarian diet."

Indeed, he had.

I received this email from Dr. Willam Hayes of Loma
Linda University:

William K. Hayes, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Department of Earth and Biological Sciences
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA 92350 USA
Phone: (909) 558-4300, extension 48911
Fax: (909) 558-0259
Email: whayes@... <mailto:whayes@...>

I appreciated your pointing out the typo. The final draft
I saw had it right, so I suppose we can thank an editor
for the snafu. Hal Marlow, the lead author, has already
communicated with the editor about the problem so
hopefully that final version will get it right!

Cheers,

Bill

Diet & Environment: Where's the Evidence?

Do vegetarians tread upon the environment with a tinier
carbon footprint than carnivores? Are meat eaters more
responsible for global warming than Humvees? Average
surface temperatures have increased six tenths of one
degree (Celsius) over the past hundred years. Is global
warming a myth? How many hydrocarbon units are wasted
by Al Gore's Gulfstream jet aircraft which burns fuel
at the rate of one gallon per mile on a round-trip flight
from Arlington, Virginia to Kyodo, Japan? So many debates.
So many questions. Not enough real science. Until now.

The current issue (April 1, 2009) of the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2009 contains a study
which asks:

"Diet and the environment: does what you eat matter?"

Researchers (Marlow HJ, et. al.) compared the environmental
effects of vegetarian diets to nonvegetarian diets in the
state of California by assessing these factors:

Agricultural production including pesticides, fertilizers,
water, and energy used to produce various foods.

Researcher's Results

"The nonvegetarian diet required 2.9 times more water,
2.5 times more primary energy, 13 times more fertilizer,
and 1.4 times more pesticides than did the nonvegetarian
diet. The greatest contribution to the differences came
from the consumption of beef in the diet. We found that a
nonvegetarian diet exacts a higher cost on the environment
relative to a vegetarian diet. From an environmental
perspective, what a person chooses to eat makes a
difference."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Foolish Fuelish Rocket Scientists

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to add one plus one,
but scientists at America's Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
are having trouble identifying the obvious. So...this
rocket scientist joke (the worst of 2009) is dedicated to
CDC scientists and bureaucrats who recently determined:

"Unsafe Levels of Rocket Fuel Have Been Found in Powdered
Cow's Milk Baby Formulas."

After the recent successful landing of a passenger jet in
the Hudson river when a flock of geese took out both engines,
NASA rocket scientists developed a catapult designed to launch
dead chickens at the windshields of jetliners simulating
flight in wind tunnels.

Engineers in England learned about NASA's experiment and made
arrangements to apply the test to the windshields of their
high speed HST trains (which travel 125 miles per hour).
When the catapult was engaged, the British engineers were
flabbergasted as the chicken hurtled into the shatterproof
glass, smashed it into thousands of shards, crashed through
the control panel, shattered the engineer's seat, and put a
large dent in the rear retaining wall of the train's cabin.

Details of the horrifying test were immediately shared with
NASA rocket scientists, who responded with this four-word
Email:

"Thaw the damned chicken."

We offer similar advice to CDC scientists who reported
that perchlorate was found in 28 commercial powdered baby
formulas in the March 18, 2009 edition of the Journal of
Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.
(Perchlorate exposure from infant formula and comparisons
with the perchlorate reference dose, J. Schiera, et. al.)

CDC scientists found unsafe levels of perchlorate, a key
ingredient of rocket fuel in baby formula made from cow's
milk. Forty-eight different formulations were tested,
including baby powder made from soymilk. The cow's
milk baby powder contained 8.2 times as much perchlorate
as did the soymilk-based baby powder.

Great news for baby? Manufacturers of baby formula add
iodine to their product to counter the ill effects of
the rocket fuel. BUT...is it really rocket fuel?

Politically correct CDC employees feel safe to blame
the problem on rocket fuel while ignoring the truth
of this extremely dangerous matter.

The perchlorate which contaminates baby formula is
not rocket fuel, and the truth to this fraud is truly
not rocket science.

The EPA recently proposed a safe "Reference Dose" for
perchlorate in drinking water as one part per billion.

If you live in the state of Maryland, you will not
be pleased to learn that whole organic milk produced
and sold in your state was tested and contained over
11 times the safe level of perchlorate. Kansas milk
tested at over 10 parts per billion, while Georgia
milk tested at more than 9 parts per billion. Texas,
Pennsylvania, and Washington milk all were found to
contain in excess of 7 parts per billion.

Fertilizer contains perchlorate. Fertilizer is used to
treat crops. Fertilizer is used to grow feed for cattle.
Perchlorate is used to manufacture rocket fuel, but
that is not what pollutes America's streams. Dangerous
fertilizers are applied to fields. Cows eat the feed and
these fertilizers become concentrated in their bodies.
Cows urinate and defecate and their perchlorate-rich
wastes enter our streams and pollute our drinking water.
Cows drink the same drinking water.

This is America where rockets once glared red, and bombs
burst into the air, and the environment suffered the
ill effects of perchlorate. The practice of exploding
bombs over Baltimore harbor rarely happens these days.
So, when it comes to rocket fuel in powdered baby
formula, don't believe government lies. They may
hold degrees in rocket science, but their advice is
one big dud.

A few members of CDC get the Notmilk letter. I invite
you all to adopt a phrase from today's column as part
of your new standard operating procedure. When seeking
the answer to future food related problems, repeat my
directive:

"Thaw the damned chicken."

When it comes to the dairy industry excuse makers,
the bigger the lie, the more believable it seems.
This time, they are blaming the rocket scientists!

http://i.scribd.com/profiles/images/h6e4le7s8xppn-large.jpg

Rocket Science defined:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSxbmUcR8ao

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com