Forever Crying Wolf

According to Idaho's Department of Fish & Game,
the State of Idaho is home to 846 wolves. That's
about one wolf for each 100 square miles, or one
wolf for every 64,000 acres. You can see that
wolves have become a major problem for Idaho's
bureaucratic potato heads.

The Idaho wolf population includes 50 packs of
wolves, and ten percent of those 846 wild wolves
wear radio transmitters attached to their collars.

Wolves were once an endangered species in Idaho,
but as of May 1, 2009, they are fair game to Idaho's
hunters. The hunting season begins today. During last
Monday's official licensing day, some 4,000 permits
were sold to hunt Idaho wolves. State residents pay
$11.50 while out-of-staters pay $186 for the 2009
Idaho wolf hunting license. Once 220 wolves are
reported killed, the hunt immediately ends.

Which got me to wondering...

Who thought up those absurd numbers?
$11.50?
$186?
220?

Is a wolf a potato?
I did not think so until I called the State of Idaho's
Fish and game department's toll-free number:

1-877-872-3190

I was seeking information on Idaho's proposed wolf
hunt which is to begin today (September 1, 2009).

The message:

"Thank you for calling the Idaho Fish & Game Wolf
Harvest Line..."

Harvest?

Potatoes are harvested. Rutabegas are harvested.
Are wolves a crop? If so, that's a big load of crop to me.

I found Farley Mowat's "Never Cry Wolf" ten years after
it had been written. It was on the assigned reading list
for a comparative animal behavior class I was taking.
The year was 1973, and I was still in college. Never
Cry Wolf had an intense affect on me, and I trace my
interest in environmental issues back to that introduction
to Mowat's work. Ten years later, Mowat's book became
a popular Disney movie.

Farley Mowat was the man who introduced me to the injustice
of animal abuse. Wolves are the most humane of non-human
mammals and live in loving well developed family groups.
Read 'Never Cry Wolf' and I guarantee that you will share my
profound appreciation of these gentle intelligent creatures.

Canadian authorities once suspected that wolves were
destroying caribou herds. Mowat taught them something they
did not want to know. Man was the mass murderer, not wolf.
Hunters with guns, not wolves with sharp teeth. Sure, they
ate an occasional caribou. Native Inuit Canadians respect
the wolves. They thin out the herd by eating the sick and
infirm. In that regard, wolves keep the herd strong. Mowat
observed that the major food source for wolves in the
Canadian wilderness was field mice, not caribou.

Will Idaho wolf hunters be required to wear little
red riding hoods to camouflage their bad intentions?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

An Experiment For You To Try

"Something sure smells good, dad."

Sarah's compliment surprised me. I was mincing
freshly harvested red onions on my butcher block
cutting board.

I had purchased the onions at a local farmer's
market. Tis the season.

I also brought home freshly harvested celery,
carrots, parsnips, kale, cabbage, leeks, and beets.
All of the produce had their original roots and
leaves on. That's how they are stored in my
refrigerator. The celery leaves take up a greater
volume than the celery. The cabbage weighed
12 1/2 pounds and the extremely large leaves
will soon be the basis for a few gallons of vegan
stuffed cabbage which I'll pre-cook and store in
my freezer in quart containers.

A recent report published in the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition (Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Jul 29.
Dangour AD, et. al.) concluded that organically grown
vegetables were no better nutritionally than
conventionally grown veggies. Researchers examined
162 studies before reaching their conclusion.

Today's column does not compare the merits of organic
versus non-organic. Today's column praises the merits
of freshly grown and freshly harvested vegetables.

My own experience: fresh is best.

YOUR EXPERIMENT:

Visit your local farmer's market. If you live in my,
neighborhood of Bergen Couty, NJ, Ridgewood has a
market on Tuesday, Hackensack's is on Wednesday,
Teaneck's is Thursday, and Emerson's market is Sunday.

Visit your local market and buy whatever produce looks
good. It will probably not be organic. Then, go to your
supermarket and buy the same items from the organic
section and from the conventional. Then...do a smell
test followed by a taste test.

Your senses cannot be fooled. The freshest produce
smells like life. Can you smell vitamins and carotenoids?
I think so!

A friend of mine grew her first tomatoes this summer.
Few last longer than the duration of her walk in the
garden. They rarely end up in her kitchen for good
reason.

Fresh fruits begin to lose their magic the moment they
are harvested. A small percentage of the original
Vitamin C remains within a carrot that has been sitting
on a supermarket shelf for five days and in your frige
for an additional week. Eat the tomato or zucchini three
seconds after you pick it from the vine and you eat the
foods of the gods.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Got Dairy? The End Result is Your Beef

If you are a lactovegetarian (you eat no meat,
chicken, or fish, but you do eat dairy), then you
are consuming animal protein. If you're motivated
to continue that lifestyle out of compassion to
animals, consider:

Beef is the End Product of All Dairy Animals

Glenda Flora, a member of the National Beef Board
was recently interviewed. Her most revealing
admission:

"Beef is the end product of all dairy animals."

Flora admits that dairy cows represent more than
20 percent of the beef America eats.

The next time you eat cheese, consider that
the cow responsible for that cheese will end up
in a slaughterhouse and then as the main course
of a meat eater's lunch or dinner.

Flora's final comment should be debited to
every dairy user's balance sheet:

"If we can keep beef, center of the plate, it
only means more green back in our pocket."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

"All we want are the facts, ma'am."
- Jack Webb (Sgt. Joe Friday), Dragnet, 1951

On August 5, 2009, LuAnn Heinen gave just the facts to
to the United States Congressional Subcommittee on
Nutrition, Prevention, and Wellness. LuAnn Heinen is
the V.P of the National Business Group on Health. She
can be reached at:

heinen@...

Just The Facts

Costs of Chronic Disease

In 2005, 133 million people, almost half of all
Americans lived with at least one chronic condition.

Chronic diseases account for 70% of all deaths in the
United States.

The medical care costs of people with chronic diseases
account for more than 75% of the nation's $2 trillion
medical care costs.

Chronic diseases account for one-third of the years
of potential life lost before age 65.

Hospitalizations for pregnancy-related complications
occurring before delivery account for more than $1
billion annually.

The direct and indirect costs of diabetes is $174
billion a year.

Each year, arthritis results in estimated medical care
costs of nearly $81 billion, and estimated total costs
(medical care and lost productivity) of $128 billion.

The estimated direct and indirect costs associated with
smoking exceed $193 billion annually.

In 2008, the cost of heart disease and stroke in the
U.S. is projected to be $448 billion.

The estimated total costs of obesity was nearly $117
billion in 2000.

Cancer costs the nation an estimated $89 billion
annually in direct medical costs.

Nearly $98.6 billion is spent on dental services
each year.
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Phew!
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LuAnn Heinen's testimony also referred to the latest
death data from the Centers for Disease Control. In 2005,
America's top ten leading causes of death were:

1) Heart Disease - 652,000
2) Cancer - 559,000
3) Stroke - 144,000
4) Chronic Respiratory Disease - 131,000
5) Unintentional Injury - 118,000
6) Diabetes - 75,000
7) Alzheimer's - 72,000
8) Pneumonia & Influenza - 63,000
9) Kidney Disease - 44,000
10) Blood Poisoning - 34,000
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Thanks to Pamela Boteler for a copy of this report.
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Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

How Many Plagues Can Dairymen Tolerate?

I imagine Ingrid Newkirk (PETA's director)
standing before the owners of a 10,000 cow
factory farm demanding:

"Let my Holsteins go."

She then inflicts one plague after another until
all of the cows no longer live in slavery and are
free to travel to that promised land flowing with...
milk and honey?
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A NEW PLAGUE

(The article was published DAIRY HERD, an
online newsletter which I subscribe to.)
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Hay Buyers Beware

Due to drought conditions across the country, you may
be purchasing hay from a new source or purchasing hay
for the first time.

Something to keep an eye out for are imported fire ants
(IFA). This particular type of ant is a serious threat to
people, crops, agricultural equipment, newborn and young
animals. And, these exotic pests often make their nests
in hay bales.

Imported fire ants look like typical everyday ants, but
according to USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, these ants are far from ordinary. IFA are best
distinguished by their aggressive behavior and mound-
shaped nests. These ants are 0.125 to .25 inch long
and reddish-brown or black. They live in colonies inside
hard, mound shaped nests. These mounds can get
quite large, growing to 300,000 ants. This can inhibit
field-worker activities and damage farm equipment.

An estimated 14 million people are stung by IFA each
year in the US. IFA respond rapidly and aggressively
when disturbed, clamping onto their victims with powerful
jaws and stinging repeatedly. Each sting injects venom
causing a burning sensation, earning these pests the
name fire ants. These stings produce itching blisters
that can become infected. Although uncommon, in
severe cases, the stings can send sensitive victims
into anaphylactic shock.

They feed on almost any type of plant and small
animals, including insects and livestock. IFA pose a
direct danger to many plants, trees, and agricultural
crops. They eat the buds of young trees and the
germinating seeds of more than 125 native wildflowers
and grasses. The impact of IFA in Texas alone is
estimated to be $1.2 billion each year.

As of 2008, IFA infested more than 320 million acres
in 13 south eastern states including our bordering
states of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

To help reduce new IFA infestations:

Ask if the hay contains ants;
Visually inspect the hay bales when they are delivered;
If possible, request that the hay be certified for movement
by the shipping State;
Monitor for IFA where hay bales are or were located;
and
If any suspected ants are found, get them correctly identified.
Read more.

Source: USDA and CattleNetwork

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Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
  - Dr. Seuss, 1960

On Monday (August 24, 2009), 100,000 gallons of
liquid manure from a dairy farm spilled into the
Rock River near Lester, Iowa. The name of the
farm? Rock Bottom Dairy. I'll say.

Rock Bottom Dairy is located in Rock Rapids, Iowa.
Their listed phone number is 712-478-4101. There
was no answer to my telephone call which switched
over to a FAX machine.

Last week (August 19, 2009), the Detroit
Press reported:

Fish Kill Blamed on Dairy Farm Runoff
by Jim Lynch
jlynch@...
(313) 222-2034

Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality revealed
that liquid feces and urine from Noll Dairy's cows
emptied into Michigan streams and waterways killing an
estimated 200,000 smallmouth bass, catfish, northern
pike, rock bass, sunfish, suckers, minnows and darters.
The spill has tainted a 12-mile section of the Black
River, which thanks to a grassy Noll, is just a little
bit blacker than it should be.

Noll Dairy Farm is located at 7425 Fargo Rd, Croswell,
Michigan. Noll's phone number is 810-679-2738. My phone
message was not returned.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Who Takes Cancer-Study Placebos?

I hate that damned radio commercial in which
a little old lady says:

"I had cancer and NOVARTIS let me participate
in their clinical trial."

"NOVARTIS let me take the medicine and
I've gotten to see two more grandchildren
in the two years I've been alive."
_____________________________

Just once, I want to hear this:

"NOVARTIS gave grandma the new experimental
medicine which accelerated her suffering and
rapidly brought on her death. That's why we
called 1-800-411-4LAW and hired Jacoby
and Meyers."

Or:

"NOVARTIS put grandpa in the group which received
the placebo pill. That group of cancer sufferers never
had a chance. They received no other therapy as
their cancers progressed, but at least they did not
have to suffer and die from chemotherapy or radiation."

If so-called ethical pharmaceutical companies suspect
that their wonder drugs will accomplish wonderful things,
how could they not treat everybody needing miracles
and then simply rely upon historical controls from
thousands of prior studies?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Jubilation T. Cornpone's New Dairy Farm

When nobody is buying cars, what's the wrong
business to go into?

If you answered "car dealership" give youself a point.

OK, the questions will be getting tougher.

The New York Yankees have 5,000 unsold $1,500
tickets at each home game. Should they raise
the prices to $2,000?

If you answered "No" give yourself a point.

With consumers drinking less milk each and every
year since Notmilk began its anti-dairy campaign in
1994, and with the costs of operating a dairy
farm escalating while each cow costs each farmer
$200 per month, does it pay to open up a dairy farm?

If you answered "If I did, I'd have to have my head
examined" give yourself two points. If you answered
"NO!" give yourself one point.

Remarkably, Michigan State University's Pasture Dairy
Research and Education Center will be spending $1.8
million on their new dairy farm. What irony! A
learning institution is teaching by bad example.

It's been years since I saw a showing of the Lil Abner
movie based upon the 1956 Broadway play, but I'll
not forget the song which became that play's
showstopper. The "Dogpatch, USA" local hero was
a Civil War General, Jubilation T. Cornpone. This column
and song is dedicated to all of those shortsighted
dairymen investing in new dairy operations:

(Sung by Stubby Kaye & Cast)

JUBILATION T. CORNPONE
Lil' Abner : The Musical (1956)
(Gene De Paul / Johnny Mercer)

When we fought the Yankees and annihilation was near,
Who was there to lead the charge that took us safe to the rear?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;
Old "Toot your own horn - pone."
Jubilation T. Cornpone, a man who knew no fear!

When we almost had 'em but the issue still was in doubt,
Who suggested the retreat that turned it into a rout?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;
Old "Tattered and torn - pone."
Jubilation T. Cornpone, he kept us hidin' out!

With our ammunition gone and faced with utter defeat,
Who was it that burned the crops and left us nothing to eat?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;
Old "September Morn - pone."
Jubilation T. Cornpone, the pants blown off his seat!

HURRAY!

When it seemed like our brave boys would keep on fighting for months,
Who took pity on them and ca-pit-u-lated at once?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone; Unshaven and shorn - pone.
Jubilation T. Cornpone, he weren't nobody's dunce!

Who went re-con-noiter-ing to flank the enemy's rear,
Circled through the piney woods, and disappeared for a year?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;
Old "Treat 'em with scorn - pone."
Jubilation T. Cornpone, the missing mountaineer!

Who became so famous with a reputation so great,
That he ran for president and didn't carry a state?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;
Old "Wouldn't be sworn - pone."
Jubilation T. Cornpone, he made the country wait!

Stonewall Jackson got his name by standing firm in the fray.
Who was known to all his men as good ol' "Paper Mache?"
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;
Jubilation T. Cornpone, he really saved the day!

REPRISE ( FINALE ):

Though he's gone to his reward, his mighty torch is still lit.
First in war. First in peace. First to holler, "I quit!"

History says that General Grant was pretty good with a jug,
Who went drink for drink with him and wound up under the rug?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;
Passed out until morn - pone.
Jubilation T. Cornpone, his whiskers in his mug!

Hearing that a Northern spy had come to town for the night,
Who gained entrance to her room and lost the glorious fight?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;
Old "Weary and worn - pone."
Jubilation T. Cornpone, he fought all through the night!

There at Appomatox Lee and Grant were present, of course.
As Lee swept a tear away, who swept the back of his horse?
Why it was Jubilation T. Cornpone;

Thanks for the laughs, dairymen!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Animal Fat & Pancreatic Cancer

Dear Meat and Dairy Consumers,

Go ahead. Make my day. Criticize the validity
and/or conclusion of this study.

_______________________________

Dietary Fatty Acids and Pancreatic Cancer
in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study
J Natl Cancer Inst 2009 0: djp233v1-969
June 26, 2009

Authors and NIH Affiliations:

Anne C. M. Thiébaut: Nutritional Epidemiology Branch
Li Jiao: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
Debra T. Silverman: Division of Cancer Control and Population
Amanda J. Cross: National Cancer Institute
Frances E. Thompson: National Institutes of Health
Amy F. Subar:Department of Health and Human Services

Number of human subjects in study:
Male: 308,736 (ages 50-75)
Female: 216,737 (ages 50-75)
Total: 525,473

METHOD: All participants were given a food frequency
questionnaire in 1995–1996. An average follow-up of
6.3 years determined number of cancers.

CONCLUSION:

"Dietary fat of animal origin was associated with
increased pancreatic cancer risk."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Land Flowing With Milk & Honey & Tetracycline

Talanta is the name given to the International
Journal for Analytical Chemistry.

The August 15th issue of Talanta (2009 Aug 15;79,3:
926-34) includes a study in which researchers tested
for the presence of antibiotic tetracyclines in honey
and milk samples by using a newly invented high
performance analytical measure.

What did the scientists find?

"The recoveries of this method for six tetracyclines
antibiotics such as tetracycline (TC), oxytetracycline
(OTC), minocycline (MINO), chlortetracycline (CTC),
metacycline (MTC) and doxycycline (DTC) were
investigated, and high recoveries of 73.3-90.6%
from milk samples and 62.6-82.3% from honey samples
were obtained."

It is easy to understand how powerful antibiotics were
detected in milk samples. After all, cows get sick and
are treated with antimicrobials.

But, honey?

Here's how tetracyclines get into honey.
No---it's not from milk-drinking bees, but that's close.

Crops are sprayed with liquid fertilizers consisting of
cow manure and urine. Bees then carry dangerous residues
back to the hive, make their honey, and then set up
retail stands where naive humans purchase one-pound
jars of tetracycline honey.

So, the author of that biblical promise probably meant
well, but 21st century mankind has polluted more
than just his own environment.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Another Champion Vegan Athlete

Carl Lewis is a vegan and is one of the best known
athletes in the world. His Olympic gold medals and
numerous track and field accomplishments are legendary.

Dave Scott is a vegan and he still holds the record
for winning five Ironman Trathlon races in which
competitors must swim 2.3 miles, bike 110 miles,
then finish by running a 26.2 mile marathon race.

Pam Boteler is a raw food vegan.

This week, Pam competed in the 2009 National Canoe and
Kayak championships at Lake Lanier, Georgia. Earlier
this year Notmilk congratulated Pam on her dedication
to her sport and work ethic as she celebrated her
41st birthday although you wouldn't know it to see
her photos. See Pam:

http://www.justcanoeit.com/Content/pamboteler.asp

On Thursday (August 20, 2009) Boteler competed in
the grueling 1000 meter C-I (one person) sprint canoe
race. She finished first in the time of 5:30.94. The
second place finisher (18-year-old Anna Crawford)
was over 17 seconds behind at 5:48.002.

Pam has won another gold medal!!!

With Pam's time, she would have finished eighth in the
men's 1000 meter race. The seventh place men's finisher's
time was 5:23, while eighth and ninth place competitors
were each timed in 5:42.

Congratulations Pam!

Should you wish to send your congrats to Pam:

PamCanoe@...

Pam's website:

http://www.JustCanoeIt.com

Pam receives another 15 minutes of fame as she
is featured in the current issue of Veg News
magazine.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

When Cows Get Q-Tip Subsidies

Cows have dirty ears.
Should dairy farmers be given Q-Tip subsidies?

Diarrhea from cows drips down their legs, down
their abdomens and into the milk. Shall cows get
adult diaper subsidies? That Depends upon if
and when the seemingly endless government
subsidies for connected dairy farmers end.

Meanwhile...

The United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) will be giving $17 million to California
dairy farmers so that water quality on their
farms can be improved.

One would assume that before opening each
well-financed multi-million dollar factory
farm, the investors submitted environmental
statements guaranteeing that they located
those farms within close distance of plentiful
enviornmentally safe water.

One would also assume (it's the law!) that
each factory farm operation guaranteed that
future waste products would be properly
cleaned and disposed of so that existing
waterways would not become polluted. These
hollow pledges were made before their farms
became operational. Who pays the penalty?
We doi, in more ways than one.

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service
now recognizes that previous safeguards have
failed so that existing private investors are
about to be well rewarded with new subsidies
at the expense of America's taxpayer's.

Dairy farm attorneys are now preparing the
paperwork for those subsidies. In less than six
weeks (October 1, 2009) The funding will begin.

You'll not read this "insider" story in
your local newspaper.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Can You Solve This Mystery?

This past week, the New York area has had
multiple days with the temperatures soaring
into the mid 90s.

When I need a special snack to cool off my body
from within, I count my blessings for my VitaMix
machine.

Here's the mystery.

It takes me about twenty seconds to make a
thick sorbet which I slowly sip through a straw.
The ingredients are:

Two ripe bananas
1 1/2 pints of ice cubes
1/4 - 1/2 cup of water

I add the ingredients together and puree.

The mystery is: Since the smoothie/sorbet is
diluted by ice and water, why is the resulting
iced banana taste experience infinitely sweeter
than just eating a plain banana?

There has got to be a scientific explanation.
Can you solve this one?

My Theory

The average human tongue has about 10,000 taste
buds. These flavor receptors measure varying
degrees of five sensations which include sweet,
salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and last but certainly
not least, umami, or something which scientists
call savory.

When I eat and chew a banana, it's broken down into
hundreds or thousands of tiny chunks which bounce
around the inside of my mouth and tongue before they
are swallowed. But...when I put that same banana
into my VitaMix, the machine creates 17 zillion (or
more) tiny little banana essence packets which bathe
each one of those taste buds thousands of times.
Who could ever claim that there is no such thing
as magic?

It is 4:30 AM as I post this, and I am sucking up
the remainder of last night's simple banana smoothie
which has undergone chemical changes and turned into
banana cream. I wish you could be here to join me.
:>)

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Tripping Over Improbable Gems

One day during America's Vietnam War era, Mary Leakey
tripped over a very old stone and fell to the desert
floor in Tanganyika's (Tanzania) Olduvai Gorge. Most
of us would have assessed our injuries and then brushed
the dust off our clothing. Instead, Leakey recognized
something in that rock which most people would have
missed.

It was more fossil than stone, and it was actually
a complete lower jawbone from a 3-million year old
apelike creature which Leakey named Zinzanthropic
man and then renamed Australopithecus.

This week, a 21st century gem was discovered, but
unlike Leakey, researchers making the discovery missed
the true meaning and value of their scientific find.

JOURNAL: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2009 Aug;63(8):956-63.
TITLE: The effects of whole milk and infant formula
on growth and IGF-I in late infancy.
SCIENTISTS: Larnkjaer A, Hoppe C, et. al.
AFFILIATION: Department of Human Nutrition, Centre
for Advanced Food Studies, Faculty of Life Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
STUDY OBJECTIVE:  The objective was to investigate
the effects of high protein intake in the form of
whole milk on growth and IGF-I from 9 to 12
months of age.

SUBJECTS/METHODS: Healthy infants (n=83) were
randomized to receive either whole milk or infant
formula. (Notmilkman's Note: IGF-I is destroyed
during the high-heat processing of infant formula.)

CONCLUSION: The positive effect of whole milk on
IGF-I in boys...is consistent with the hypothesis
that a high milk intake stimulates growth.

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So...what is the gem which was discovered, then ignored?

Milk contains powerful growth hormones which work!
Duh...

Drink milk as a child or as an adult and you will grow
larger than the genetically pre-determined blueprint
for your own body.

Exercise while you consume dairy growth hormones and
you will grow muscles.

Do not exercise and you will grow fat.

It's all about hormones which dramatic direct growth.
IGF-I does not discriminate. When this protein hormone
finds an existing cancer, it becomes the key to
that cancer's growth.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Raw Roar to Ignore

I once loved those raw food gurus.
Some have been getting under my skin lately.
A few are burrowing so deep that they've painfully
exposed MY raw nerves.

Should I name names? OK, I'll name just one.

Dr. Douglas Graham.
This man does everything right, in my opinion.
He writes and sells books, but has never taken
advantage of the good reputation he's built to
sell the thousands of his followers expensive
non-working snake oils.

http://www.foodnsport.com

Others have not been as honest.

One now has Acai berries growing under the
organic mold on his toes. Another is selling
powered deer antlers with IGF growth hormones,
I kid you not. One raw food guru's mailings have
increased so that they arrive in my email every
day. They tempt and tease, but no longer
offer free information to inform, which once
helped Mr. Raw Food Guru to build a large and
loyal following.

Other raw foodists are leaving the animal rights
movement by selling bee pollens to restore health,
royal jelly to restore youth, and drone sperm to
restore, well, you know. Many raw food gurus
joined the money first movement by marketing
multi-level products selling at dozens of times
their original cost.

Chocolate nibs? They're cooked, not raw, but raw
food gurus seem not to care, so long as it puts
dollars into their expanding pita pockets. One
author (whose book I once recommended) is now
using and recommending unpasteurized dairy
products, just because they're raw. I'd like
to deliver a raw cow pie to this one's face.

I am not too pleased to see the direction the
raw movement is headed. From idealism to crass
commercialism.

I've got a bad raw food taste developing in my
mouth as one attempts to outdo the other.

How can you identify a raw food con job?
Easy.

The self-proclaimed experts selling you dried
organic mango, dates, and pistachios at many
times the price that you might find the same
products in health food stores---those are the
raw foodists whose hype is no longer ripe.

The raw food gurus telling you to load up on
watermelons and mango and bananas...they make
no money but offer great advice. Follow it!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Joy of Vegan Baking

A few months ago a vegan friend from El Paso urged
me to pick up a few cookbooks. I love Greg Lawson,
but immediately forgot the names of the books and
the name of the author and his recommendation
soon slipped from my memory.

I recently heard a radio interview conducted by Greg
(he's the host of an animal rights show) and he again
mentioned those books and the author. This time, I
had paper and pen handy and ordered the books.

They arrived in last weel's mail. Thank goodness for
Amazon.com!

My favorite television show is anything on the cooking
channel. My favorite books are anything with photos
of food on the cover.

If first impressions are fifty percent of the game, the
front covers of each book immediately earned two
out of my maximum stars.

VEGAN BAKING by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau has a
photo of a beautifully stained olde-fashioned
wooden platter displaying cookies that rarely last
long enough to be eaten cold. You know the ones...
Amos...David...specialty shops in high-end mall
food courts. I could feel the exterior crunch and
sense the internal softness of lightly browned
treats covered with chocolate chips, walnuts,
and pecans...and then I opened the front cover
and saw those perfect creamy lemon squares
dusted with powdered sugar...lemons sitting
nearby just out of camera focus, but close
enough to smell and taste their grated essence.

THE VEGAN TABLE by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
features a vegan version of that Panera Panini
which I never get to enjoy because it is not
vegan, despite the fact that I salivate and
disguise how badly tempted I am and how much
I salivate to take just a little taste...

I open the book at random (page 114) and find a
recipe for Soba Noodle Soup. I scan the recipe
and am immediately impressed. I admire anybody
who cooks with white miso paste and grated
fresh ginger.

With dozens of variously hued eggplants rising from
my garden's earth, I rapidly run out of different
ways to prepare these odd-shaped purple, red, and
white varieties. On page 136, I find a recipe for
Eggplant and Caramelized Onion Lasagna. Wow,
does that sound good...basil leaves...toasted
pine nuts...capers. A chef after my own heart!

Each book reminds me of Ina Garten's cookbooks
(the Barefoot Contessa), but Colleen's books
contain more recipes, more glorious photographs,
more interesting ingredients, and much more
information about key ingredients. Example:

"For a special touch, replace plain balsamic vinegar
with the fig version."

Wow! Fig version of balsamic? Yummm.

And then author Colleen Patrick-Goudreau earned
my fourth star and my most passionate rave.
There on page 211:

Matzoh Ball Soup

What can I say that I have not already said?
These two cookbooks are the New York Yankees
of cookbooks; the Mount Everest of mountains;
the Rachmaninoff of piano concertos; the
Chateau d'Yquem of dessert wines.

They are now on my night table, because I enjoy
reading the recipes and savoring the photos before
sleep and then dreaming of visions of vegan
sugar plums.

To purchase a copy of Vegan Baking:

http://tinyurl.com/kq7spf

To purchase a copy of The Vegan Table:

http://tinyurl.com/lyjpqt

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Eat Ice Cream to Enslave Pandas in Atlanta

The headline in Thursday's (August 13, 2009)
Atlanta Journal Constitution caught my eye, much
the same way that a steel gaff sharpened to a
razor-sharp point slides easily into the side
of a gracefully swimming swordfish or tuna
before it is violently taken from the ocean
and roughly dropped onto the unyielding floor
of a sportfisheman's boat.

In today's Parade Magazine (Sunday, August 16, 2009
newspaper insert) Jane Goodall is asked:

"Some say zoos are cruel and unnatural. Do you agree?"

Dr. Goodall's clueless response:

"Life in the wild can be even more cruel. Wild chimps
may have their forests destroyed or be hunted for
food. In a really good zoo, you can see chimps playing
together in the setting sun. I know where I'd rather be."

With all respect to the revered animal behaviorist/
anthropologist, I know where I'd rather not be, and
I certainly would not want anybody making that freedom
or captivity decision for me based upon their values.

Zoos suck. Period. Exclamation point.

In any event, here's the article which grabbed
me by the, er...which got my attention.

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"Eat ice cream to keep pandas in Atlanta
By Howard Pousner
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Giant pandas like snacking on bamboo, but if you
like Zoo Atlanta's chubby stars and also enjoy
snacking on ice cream, we've got a scoop for you.

Jake's Ice Cream hopes to raise $10,000 toward
Zoo Atlanta's 'Give So They Stay campaign'.

Jake's Ice Cream has just introduced the flavor
Pandamonium, with 50 cents from every scoop sold
benefiting Zoo Atlanta's Give So They Stay campaign.
The drive aims to raise $500,000 by year's end to
help extend the zoo's panda loan from China an
additional five years.

Pandamonium is a fusion of Sencha green tea,
cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg with a sweet cream base.

Jake's hopes to raise $10,000 toward the panda
campaign, which has received donations of $66,000
since its mid-June launch."

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Using ice cream to enslave pandas? If enslaved cows
and calves had human-like vocal cords and could speak
more than just moos...only then might humans (such as
yogurt-eating Jane Goodall) take full responsibility
for their actions.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Miraculous Mother's Milk Molecule

In 2002, Notmilk posted a breast feeding column
written by Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician.

http://www.DrGreene.com

Dr. Greene suspected that there were yet-to be
discovered substances in human breast milk which
help to nurture the human infant. Dr. Greene wrote:

"There may well be other important micro-nutrients or
factors that we don't even have instruments to measure
yet. Not many decades ago, immunoglobulins weren't
even imagined."

Seven years after Dr. Greene's prediction,
one such substance has been discovered.

British scientists have confirmed the role a hormone
manufactured in the human breast called pancreatic
secretory trypsin inhibitor (PSTI). PSTI protects and
repairs newly formed intestinal mucosa in newborn
human infants.

Although live human subjects were not used in this
study (imagine the implications), researchers examined
the mechanisms of PSTI by introducing the hormone to
vials containing human intestinal cells. After inducing
damage to the cultured cells, the scientists found that
PSTI stimulated new cells to cover the damaged area
forming what they called a "protective plaster" so that
those damaged cells could heal with nature's perfect
bandage.

The study was published in the American Journal of
Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
(Apr 2009; 296: G697 - G703).

TITLE: Pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor is a major
motogenic and protective factor in human breast milk

AUTHORS: Tania Marchbank, Raymond J. Playford, et. al.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Average Retail Price of Milk

The American Farm Bureau (AFB) has calculated the
average retail costs of whole milk from cows treated
with the bovine growth hormone, rbST-free whole milk,
and organic milk.

AFB's "Market Basket Survey" for the second quarter
of 2009 (April 1 - June 30) was taken in 33 states.

The average price for a half-gallon of milk from
treated cows was $1.92.

The average price for a half-gallon of rbST-free
milk was $3.18.

The average price for a half-gallon of organic
milk was $3.63.

_______________________________

It has become clear that dairy consumers are seeking
alternatives to milk with hormones. It is also clear
that the public is not informed that all milk naturally
contains powerful steroid and protein growth hormones,
even organic milk.

The public is ready to pay 66 percent more for rbST-free milk.
The public is ready to pay 89 percent more for organic milk.

If you drink two glasses of organic milk, you consume
more hormones than one glass of milk from rbST-treated
cows.

It's all the same to me, but I am ready to endorse dairy.
Just take out the virus, pus, bacteria, growth hormones,
proteins which cause allergies, fat, cholesterol, and
dioxins and you'll find me wearing a milk mustache.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Dangers of Vitamin-D Supplements

In 2002, I wrote and published a book (MILK: A-Z)
which included this chapter on Vitamin D:

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

Vitamin D belongs to a category of steroids called
secosteroids.

Secosteroids are similar to a steroid hormones except
that a secosteroid's molecular structure contains a
"broken ring."

Baseball players who illegally use steroids hormones
after injuries and usually show some improvement from
from pain. Some of those same ballplayers have developed
tumors after steroid use. They include Jason Giambi and
Alex Rodriguez of New York Yankee fame.

Steroids and secosteroids reduce inflammation, but there
are side affects which include cancers, bone loss, and
other autoimmune diseases. See:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autrev.2003.10.001

The author writes:

"Studies delineating the hormone responsible for
phagocyte differentiation in the Th1 immune response,
1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, are discussed, and its
utility as a marker of Th1 immune inflammation is
reviewed. Finally, data showing that the behavior
of this hormone is also aberrant in rheumatoid arthritis,
systemic lupus erythematosus, and Parkinson's, raise
the possibility that these diseases may also have
a CWD bacterial pathogenesis."

Scientific data supports a conclusion that supplemental
Vitamin D creates an cellular environment in which
pathogenic infections result which cause a vast array
of complications.

Finally...a presentation (transcript) linking the
connection between Vitamin D supplements, cell wall
bacterial infections, disease...and a possible cure
for those previously incurable diseases:

AutoimmunityResearch.org/transcripts/ICA2008_Transcript_GregBlaney.pdf

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

What Becomes of the Surplus Milk?

With so many cows being milked in America,
the last thing dairy farmers needed was
the genetically engineered bovine growth
hormone which increases milk yield by
a factor of about fifteen percent.

With milk prices at a record low, and
consumers drinking less milk as they learn
about dairy's adverse effects, what are
dairy producers doing?

They are turning surplus milk into cheese.

On June 24, 2009, USDA released their monthly
Cold Storage data which reports the amount of
cheese being stored by America's dairy industry.
According to USDA:

"Commercial cheese stocks reached their highest
level since August 1985, with total stocks climbing
to 957 million pounds on May 31. That's a 9 percent
increase from a year earlier. Commercial American
cheese stocks were tagged at just over 608 million
pounds, up 7 percent from 2008."

Consider: It takes ten pounds of milk to produce
one pound of hard cheese. That translates into the
equivalent of 9.57 billion pounds of milk being
stored in the form of cheese.

You will probably not learn about the fate of that
stored cheese.

What will probably happen?

Our government will purchase the cheese, then ship
it at American taxpayer's expense to nations in
which starving people will soon be able to grill
cheese sandwiches. Will starving American-haters
be told that they are getting old American cheese
which American consumers have rejected?

I do not know the definition of a "household" unit,
but America's Census Bureau estimates that there
are about 110 million of 'em.

The cheese currently in cold storage represents
87 pounds of milk per household.

Is there space in the basement refrigerator for
your ten gallon share of surplus milk?

Meanwhile, let's answer the question which begins
today's column: What Becomes of the Surplus Milk?

Yesterday's (August 11, 2009) Columbia (Missouri)
Daily Tribune reported:

Food pantries all over Mid-Missouri will be saying
"cheese" this month, thanks to a shipment of the
dairy product made possible through federal stimulus
money.

article written by Sara Semelka at  573-815-1717
or e-mail ssemelka@...

A photo of Missouri Governor Jay Nixon runs with the
story which reports:

"Gov. Jay Nixon was on hand this morning at the
Central Missouri Food Bank to help unload some of
the 843 boxes of Bongards' Creameries pasteurized
American cheese. They were delivered to the food
bank today as a result of The Emergency Food
Assistance Program, a part of the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009."
________________________________________

OK, I know what they're recovering and it's also
clear what the needy people will be reinvesting:
human fertilizer, and plenty of it. Can anyone
explain to me how that will stimulate our economy?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Dioxins and Furans

"Mares are dosed and does are dosed and little
calves eat poison, a kid'll eat poison too,
wouldn't you?"
  - Robert Cohen

What are furans? We all know that dioxins are
bad news, but what about furans?

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Thanks to Dow chemical for a basic
understanding of dioxins & furans:

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According to Dow:

http://www.dow.com/facilities/namerica/michigan/dioxin/what/

"Dioxins and furans refer to a group of chemical
compounds that share certain similar chemical
structures and biological characteristics. Dioxins
and furans are an unwanted byproduct of combustion..."

"In the United States, the primary way people are
exposed to dioxins and furans is through eating meat
and dairy products...Over time, we accumulate dioxins
and furans in the fatty tissues of our own bodies."

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The July, 2009 issue of Food Additives & Contaminants
(Volume 26 Issue 6) contains a study that considers
the risk of furans in commercially jarred baby foods.

(Pages 776 - 785, Lachenmeier D., Reusch, H.)

The authors write:

"Furan is a possible human carcinogen with widespread
occurrence in many types of foods."

"In this study, a survey of furan contamination in 230
commercially jarred ready-to-eat infant food products
was conducted..."

"The incidence of furan contamination in jarred infant
beverages, cereals and fruits was relatively low..."

"Significantly higher concentrations were found in pasta,
meals containing meat, and meals containing vegetables."

"The margin of exposure...points to a possible public
health risk."

"Furan was especially prevalent in reheated foods
containing potatoes."

NOTMILKMAN'S COMMENT:

Dow Chemical reported:

"Over time, we accumulate dioxins and furans in the
fatty tissues of our own bodies."

The July, 2009 issue of Food Additives & Contaminants
reported:

"The incidence of furan contamination in jarred infant
beverages, cereals and fruits was relatively low..."

Since furans accumulate over time and are stored
in the human liver, any research calling the incidence
of furan contamination "relatively low" naively ignores
this truth:

The permissible dose of furan for
human infants or adults is no dose.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Extreme Soy Sex

FERTILITY & STERILITY is the journal for the American
Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). The July,
2009 issue of that journal contained a study authored
by Jill M. Hamilton-Reeves, et. al. After a rigorous
review of the scientific literature, The researchers
conclude:

"Clinical studies show no effects of soy protein
or isoflavones on reproductive hormones in men."

They also determined that neither testosterone
levels nor sperm counts were lowered in males
consuming soy products.

The study's co-author (William R. Phipps,
reproductive endocrinologist at the
University of Rochester Medical Center)
wrote:

"As a high-quality source of protein that is
relatively low in saturated fat, soy can be
an important part of a heart-healthy diet and
may contribute to a decreased risk of coronary
heart disease. Some men have avoided soyfoods
because of worries about estrogen-like effects
of soy isoflavones. It is important for the
public to understand that there is no clinical
evidence to support these ideas. After
conducting a comprehensive review of the
existing literature, we found no indication
that soy significantly alters male sex hormone
levels."

Just about one year ago, (July 31, 2008) the
Notmilk letter responded to a ridiculous scientific
study which claimed that soy consumption lowered
levels of sperm in males. Notmilk wrote:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/3100

Counting Sperm For Science

Some people count their blessings.
Others count cards while playing blackjack.
One woman at my local produce store insists upon
counting the number of lemons in my plastic bag
each time I purchase 20 at four-for-the-dollar.
(The last time I intentionally soured her day by
filling the bag with 19 lemons while paying for
20. She never said a word but I could see that
she knew...)

There are discounts and miscounts, viscounts,
and the Count of Monte Cristo, and when it
comes to writing college papers, spelling counts.
Then there are those who count the number of sperm
in male ejaculations in the glorious name of science.

I've done my own Internet research and prefer to have
faith and blindly accept the work of previous scientists,
so I will not be checking for myself first hand the actual
number, but here is what seems to be universally accepted
by sperm-counters:

"A normal number of sperm per ejaculate is 40 million
sperm (20 million per milliliter times 2 milliliters)."

http://www.thenewjerseymaleinfertilitycenter.com/sperm_detection.php

That standard was established in 1950, more than one-half
century ago. I suppose that sperm counting techniques
have changed during the past 58 years as technology
has improved, but the 20 million sperm per ml standard
continues to be the baseline used in similar studies.

Which brings me to dumb study time. This past week,
some highly-publicized nonsense was distributed claiming
that the consumption of soy products lowered the number
of sperm in those males attending a Harvard fertility clinic
in the Boston area. Red Sox fans, I suppose. I anxiously
await a follow up study for the Bronx. There is good reason
New York Yankee fans are called the "Bronx Bombers" while
Red Sox fans continue to live under the curse of Babe
Ruth. You might recall that the Babe had two wives and
only one daughter, but I digress.

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THE SOY STUDY ABSTRACT

Soy food and isoflavone intake in relation to semen quality
parameters among men from an infertility clinic.
- Human Reproduction, July 23, 2008

Chavarro JE, Toth TL, Sadio SM, Hauser R.

Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health,
665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, USA.

METHODS The intake of 15 soy-based foods in the previous 3
months was assessed for 99 male partners of subfertile couples
who presented for semen analyses to the Massachusetts General
Hospital Fertility Center. Linear and quantile regression were
used to determine the association of soy foods and isoflavones
intake with semen quality parameters while adjusting for personal
characteristics.

RESULTS There was an inverse association between soy food intake
and sperm concentration that remained significant after accounting
for age, abstinence time, body mass index, caffeine and alcohol
intake and smoking. In the multivariate-adjusted analyses, men
in the highest category of soy food intake had 41 million sperm/ml
less than men who did not consume soy foods.

CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that higher intake of soy foods
and soy isoflavones is associated with lower sperm concentration.

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Did you notice what I noticed? Researchers observed:

"Men in the highest category of soy food intake had 41
million sperm/ml less than men who did not consume soy foods."

How can men have 41 million less sperm per milliliter when
the standard for all men (established and unchanged since
1950) is 20 million per milliliter? Do soy eaters have
negative sperm counts...?

...Or, is somebody cheating?

I have asked to examine the raw data, minus the sperm by
leaving a phone message (       617-43...      ) for Jorge E. Chavarro,
the head scientist. I've also emailed my request to Dr.
Chivarro at: jchavarr@...

I am disappointed that my phone call was not returned.
Nor did I get even a limp response to my email. The hours
go by while I wait for a response, but who's counting?
Perhaps my expectations are premature...

Bottom line:

Sperm counts of 5-10 million per ml are the defining line
for sterility problems. According to the above link
(male infertility center of New Jersey):

"Many experts in male factor infertility now believe that
only very low concentrations, such as 5-10 million per
milliliter, accurately reflect a decrease in concentration
that is important for fertility."

The Harvard researchers claimed that men who did not eat
soy had average sperm counts between 80-120 million per ml.

What the heck were these superstuds doing in a fertility
clinic?

Even with 40 million less sperm, soy eaters would have
averaged 40-80 million sperm per ml, between two and
four times the historical average.

Final comment:

I did not reach the senior author, but after many phone
calls did speak with somebody associated with the study
who asked not to be identified. I respect that.

I was told:

"Asian men consume 5-10 times the amount of soy as
did the men in our study, yet, it remains obvious that
Asian males have no fertility problems."

If you are a male and eat soy, continue to do so.
Even the scientists doing this research suspect that
obesity plays a much greater role in sterility than
any possible soy consumption. Be aware of another
study:

"The study measured testosterone levels in 696 Oxford
University men. Of the study participants, 233 were vegan
(ate no animal products) and 237 were vegetarian (ate milk
and dairy products). The remaining 237 subjects were men
who ate meat on most days of the week...vegans had higher
testosterone levels than vegetarians and meat eaters."
  - British Journal of Cancer, 83(1), July 2000

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Curse of the Karst

The largest dairy factory farm in the world is
located in Oregon and is home to 55,000 cows.
It is owned by A.J. Bos, and there is a website
designed to stop Mr. Bos from building a similar
bovine monstrosity in Illinois. See:

http://www.stopthemegadairy.org/A_J_Bos.html

Can a 55,000 cow dairy fairly be called a monstrosity?
Imagine the daily mountains of feces and rivers of
urine it produces. Each day, the average dairy cow
produces the same bodily wastes as 23 humans (Dairy
Talking Points, Karen Hudson, GRACE Factory Farm
Project). Multiply that by 55,000 cows. The same
bodily wastes produced by 1,265,000 humans.

The residents of Dallas, Texas (population 1,265,000)
and San Diego, California (population 1,265,000)
deposit their bodily wastes into toilets. Those
wastes are eventually processed and sanitized by
modern state-of-the-art sewer treatment facilities.
The cows on monstrosity farms are not yet toilet
trained. Their unsanitized wastes find their way
into the drinking water of America's human consumers.

Each and every morning until the end of time, the
53 cows not producing as much milk as the 54,947
others will be loaded onto trucks and sent to
slaughter. That death march will continue until
the end of eternity or until that dairy farm
closes. Each of the 53 cows will be rewarded for
her previous milk production by one or two
terror-filled days of discomforting travel while
being roughly loaded onto and off of trucks and
chauffeured to the auction ring and then to the
slaughterhouse, culminating with a severed neck
artery from the executioner's knife.

Anti-factory farm protestors have tried just about
everything to stop such farms from devastating
various regions of America's geography.

Where passionate activists and $500 per hour
attorneys failed, Illinois geologists have come
up with the sling and stone to slay their Goliath.

It seems that Illinois State Geological scientists
have discovered that the intended farmland sits
atop a karst.

What exactly is a karst?

Karst is the Serbian word for:

"The earth swallowed up little Stanislav."

Karst's are best known for such horrifying features
as sinkholes and underground caves. The last thing
one wants to do is to fall thirty feet and be skewered
by a stalagmite. Or would that be a stalactite? No
matter. I'd be dead before hitting the ground. I've
got an irrational fear of free falling upside down
into the darkness of an abyss.

Illinois State Geological scientist Samuel Panno
issued this analyses after discovering the karst:

"If there were spills, leakage or a catastrophic
breach in the waste lagoon's containment system,
the crevice-karst network would allow the contents
to rapidly enter the aquifer and create widespread
contamination of groundwater and surface water."

Now, if we can just locate a karst large enough
to instantly swallow up the entire dairy industry.
Some might call that a karst-atrophy, but I would
stand up and jeer!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

America's Senate Has One Registered Socialist

"We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads
to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads
to extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to
make the right choice."
- Woody Allen

It's impossible to tell the players without
a program these days. Many have become switch
hitters, and then there are those highly paid
free agents who pledge their loyalties to
the highest bidders...

This ain't baseball. It's politics, but so far
as I am concerned, it's bawl four for America.
For taxpayers, it's a no-hit, no-run shutout
riddled with errors.

The United States Senate has 100 members. Fifty-
nine describe themselves as Democrats and 40
are registered as Republicans. Then there is
Bernard Sanders from Vermont. Sanders is listed
as the Senate's lone Independent Socialist.
These days, they are all socialists. Sanders is
the only honest man in the Senate.

Vermont is still a dairy state. There are still
three or four dairymen who have not yet gone out
of business or fallen upon their pitchforks as
California dairymen have chosen to do. So, what
is Sander's Socialist manifesto for dairy farmers?

On Tuesday (August 4, 2009), the Senate passed a
$124 billion agriculture bill. Thanks to Sander's
effort, a last minute clause was added to the Ag
bill before passage. America's number-one socialist
wrote a $350 million amendment which increases
funding so that USDA can overpay for surplus cheese
and milk powder. Where will the money come from and
who will benefit? From each according to his ability,
to each according to his need.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Idaho Farmers Not Doing So sWELL

This morning (August 7, 2009) Idaho water officials
will begin enforcing an order for dairy farms located
within a 14 square mile area of Southern Idaho to no
longer use groundwater wells.

The well water has become depleted and what's left has
been polluted by those dairy farms.

The wells in question supply cheese factories, dairy
farms, and are used to irrigate crops.

Those not following the order to cease and desist
using the well water are subject to daily fines
of up to $300 per irrigated acre of farmland.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

"Today, all day I had the feeling
A miracle would happen..."
  - West Side Story, 1961, Lyrics by Stephen
Sondheim, Music by Leonard Bernstein

In response to the frustrations caused by the
highly refined bureaucratic art of "passing the
buck" President Harry Truman had this sign made
for his Oval Office Desk:

"The Buck Stops Here."

Tonight (Thursday, August 6, 2009),
the buck stops here.

Dairy farmers have not succeeded in getting
any real relief in these inflationary times,
partly because one government body after another
continues to reject responsibility and passes
the buck.

They asked for assistance from their co-ops,
but that did not work.

They begged for help from national dairy
associations, but their pleas fell on deaf ears.

They paid lobbyists to go to congress to bribe
congressmen and senators to enact legislation,
but that only provided a trickle of support.

They then went to the Secretary of USDA and he
raised retail prices which hurt taxpayers and
consumers, but even that did not fix what's
broken.

Their representatives paid exorbitant sums to
gain access to the White House inner sanctum, but
alas, Obama referred them back to USDA Secretary
Tom Vilsack who offered additional subsidies, but
these cash payments were just drops in a leaking
bucket.

Finally, somebody figured it out. Go directly to
the big guy who runs things. The one who controls
the weather. No...not Mother Nature. Higher.

They are now appealing directly to God!

On August 4, 2009, The Bellingham Herald (Washington
State) reported:

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"Dairy community leads prayer meeting at Lynden church"
by Isabelle Dills <isabelle.dills@...>

The dairy community of Whatcom County is inviting the
public to an interdenominational prayer meeting at
7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, at Sonlight Community Church
in Lynden.

Many dairy farmers have been struggling to get by since
the beginning of this year, said Cheryl DeHaan, community
education program manager for Whatcom Farm Friends. The
price dairy farmers are getting for their milk is way
below the production cost, she said. Meanwhile, feed
costs have not come down, and the hot weather has
increased the costs to grow the grasses and corn for
winter feed, DeHaan said.

Prayers of praise and thanks and for hope and
perseverance will be led by local dairy farmers.
A social time with coffee will follow.

Sonlight Community Church is located at 8800 Bender Road.

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I now wonder, if God listens to the dairy farmers,
feed costs will go down. If that happens, people
who supply feed will be in economic distress and
then they might have to hold a special church
service too. This could get ugly. If the price of
oil goes down, do the American gas executives hold
a special church service, or do Opec executives
hold a special mosque service?

I then wonder, did God equally create Karl Marx and
Adam Smith in his image? Is God a Capitalist or a
Communist or both? Does God have a "Buck Stops Here"
sign on his desk, and if not, who does he pass such
dilemmas on to? My guess is that he refers them back
to Tom Vilsack.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Milking & Bilking Sulking Milkmen

On April 5, 2007, when dairymen were paid 68
percent more for each quart of milk they produced
than they now receive in July of 2009, Notmilk
reported:

"The wholesale cost for the milk that fills a quart
container is about 35 cents. It costs processors less
than one penny to fill that same-sized container with
soymilk."

America's #1 soymilk distributor is Dean Foods.
America's #1 cow's milk distributor is Dean Foods.
Dean Foods purchases 40 percent of America's
milk supply from dairy co-ops or directly from
dairy farmers.

Keep all of the above in mind when considering the
direction and long term strategy of Dean Foods.
With their right hand, Dean foods is shaking
the hand of the dairyman while simultaneously
stabbing him in the back with their left hand.
I could get more graphic. Picture Lorena Bobbitt
as Dean Foods. The dairy farmer is dear John.

Yesterday (August 4, 2005), the wholesale
price dairy farmers were receiving for their
Class I milk was less than 22 cents per quart.
Processors were receiving $1.24 per pound
of butter.

Yesterday, I shopped at my local supermarket
(Shop Rite, Emerson, NJ) and observed that butter
was selling for $4.24 per pound. The price for
one quart of whole milk was $1.19.

The dairy industry is dying. Farmers are going
out of business at an unprecedented rate. Some
are first selling their cows to slaughterhouses.
Others are taking their own lives. Each month,
the average dairy farmer in the United States
loses between $100 and $200 for each cow that
he milks. Those are reasons for sulking!

In the midst of America's recession, dairymen are
deep into their own dairy depression.

Due to decreased milk consumption by American
consumers, gross sales of Dean Foods for the first
quarter of 2009 was ten percent less when compared
to sales in the first quarter of 2008.

Yet...

Dean Food's net profits have skyrocketed from $30
million in the first quarter of 2008 to $76.2
million in the first quarter of 2009.

Believe it or not...I have friends in the dairy industry.
One man (Pete Hardin) is the editor of a pro-dairy
monthly newsletter, The Milkweed. I called Pete for his
opinion and was told:

"The dairy business is incredibly crooked and when
you have companies with such monopoly-like market
power like Dean Foods, they often abuse it. Dean Foods
in my opinion is run like a cash cow for insiders. The
ultimate victims are dairy farmers and consumers."

Farmers in my part of the country are netting 29
percent of the retail price of butter, and 19
percent of the retail price for the milk their
cows produce.

Dear Foods is laughing all the way to the bank.
Once the dairy industry is destroyed, they will earn
even greater profits as consumers become soy users.
Soy yogurt. Soy butter. Soy cheese. Soy milk. This
is America's future. Say goodbye to California
Happy Cows.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

They're Here!

I still get chills every time I see or hear
little Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) announce:

"They're here."

See the scene on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9X4g8MirY

Yesterday's Notmilk letter (August 2, 2009)
presented how milk changed the bodies of
Japanese girls. See:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/3346

Today's Notmilk column (November 26, 2009) confirms
the worst fears which Notmilk expressed nine years
ago regarding the Chinese people:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/3347

In November of 2000, Notmilk warned:

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"China has launched a nationwide campaign to
persuade children to drink milk and grow up
bigger and stronger than their "rivals" in Japan.
...the Japanese - dismissed for centuries as
"dwarfs" by the Chinese - are growing up
taller and heavier than their own young people.

The official China Daily newspaper, quoting Zhang
Baowen, vice-minister of agriculture, said last week:
"The only solution to the problem is drinking more milk."

In Japan...milk and dairy consumption increased by
twenty-one times from 1950 to 1975. In 1950 the
average twelve-year old girl was 4'6" tall and weighed
71 pounds. By 1975 the average Japanese girl,
after guzzling a daily diet of milk and dairy products
containing 59 different bioactive hormones, had grown
an average of 4 1/2 inches and gained 19 pounds. In
1950 the average Japanese girl had her first menstrual
cycle at the age of 15.2 years. Twenty five years later,
after a daily intake of estrogen and progesterone from
milk, the average Japanese girl was ovulating at the
age of 12.2 years, three years younger.

Is early sexual maturity a good thing? Girls who mature
earlier also have higher rates of uterine and ovarian
cancer later in life. Is taller better? Bone growth is
genetically pre-determined to support a body's growth.
Growth hormones promote growth, and the skeleton may
be unable to support such unnatural growth."

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THEY'RE HERE! (Dairy demons)

Chinese girls are maturing much earlier.

The August 2, 2009 issue of PEDIATRICS (Vol. 124 No. 2,
August 2009, pp. e269-e277) (doi:10.1542/peds.2008-2638)
offers this evidence which validates Notmilk's prediction
made nearly nine years ago. Abstract taken from Medline:

TITLE:

Onset of Breast and Pubic Hair Development and Menses
in Urban Chinese Girls

AUTHORS:

Hua-Mei Ma, MDa, Min-Lian Du, MDa, Xiao-Ping Luo, MDb,
Shao-Ke Chen, MMc, Li Liu, MMd, Rui-Min Chen, MMe,
Cheng Zhu, MDf, Feng Xiong, MMg, Tang Li, MMh, Wei Wang,
MMi, Ge-Li Liu, MMj

AFFILIATIONS:

Pubertal Study Group of the Society of Pediatric
Endocrinology and Genetic Disease, Chinese Medical
Association;

Department of Pediatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital,
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China;

Department of Pediatrics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji
Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, Wuhan, China;

Department of Pediatrics, Maternity and Child Health
Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning,
China;

Division of Endocrinology, GuangZhou Children's Hospital,
Guangzhou, China;

Department of Growth and Development, Fuzhou Children's
Hospital, Fuzhou, China;

Department of Internal Medicine, Beijing Children's
Hospital, Affiliate of Capital University of Medical
Science, Beijing, China;

Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital of
Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China;

Department of Pediatrics, The Affiliated Hospital of
Medical College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China;

Department of Pediatrics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai
Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China;

Department of Pediatrics, Tianjin Medical University
General Hospital, Tianjin, China

OBJECTIVES:

To determine the current prevalence and mean ages
of onset of pubertal characteristics in healthy
urban Chinese girls.

METHODS:

A cross-sectional study of sexual maturation of
healthy Chinese girls was conducted in 9 representative
cities of the eastern, western, southern, and northern
parts and central region of China between 2003 and 2005.
At examination, stages of breast and pubic hair
development were rated on girls 3 through 19.83 years
of age, and height and weight were also recorded. Data
on menses were collected by the status quo method. Probit
analysis was used to calculate the median age and 95%
confidence interval (CI) for onset of breast and pubic
hair development and menarche.

RESULTS:

Data were analyzed for 20654 apparently healthy girls.
At age 8 years, 19.57% of these girls had evidence of
breast development. The median ages of onset of Tanner
stages 2 and 3 for breast development were 9.20
(95% CI: 9.06–9.32) years and 10.37 (95% CI: 10.28–10.45)
years, respectively. The median ages of onset of Tanner
stages 2 and 3 for pubic hair development were 11.16
(95% CI: 11.03–11.29) years and 12.40 (95% CI: 12.25–12.55)
years, respectively. Menses occurred at 12.27 years
(95% CI: 12.16–12.39).

CONCLUSIONS:

These data suggest that urban Chinese girls are
are actually experiencing earlier breast development
than currently used norms. The up-to-date reference
for normal pubertal development in urban Chinese
girls needs to be established for the purpose of
determining precocious puberty or pubertal delay.
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The dairy demon is here. There is no turning back
for China. Their little girls now mature earlier.
Cow's milk hormones did just what they were designed
to do. Early sexual maturity is the result.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Applying the "N" Word to Japanese Children

The dairy industry once referred to Japanese girls
as "nippers."

Today's Dairy Council of California dedicates a
portion of their website to Milk Myths:

http://www.dairycouncilofca.org/Milk-Dairy/MilkMain.aspx

Their first myth: "Drinking milk causes early puberty."
Their Myth Buster: "There is no scientific evidence that
drinking milk causes early puberty"

Yet, the dairy industry has taken credit for early
sexual maturity, and I've got the evidence. Oops!

I sometimes read through old issues of Hoard's Dairyman,
the national dairy farm magazine. The October 26, 1963
issue contained an editorial with this shocking admission:

"Japanese Taller With Milk."

The Hoard's editor commented on a major change in Japan,
just 18 years after cow's milk consumption began there:

"The average height of 15-year-old boys in Japan has jumped
3 1/2 inches since World War II. According to the Christian
Science Monitor, clothing and school equipment manufacturers
are faced with the problem of revising size standards to keep
pace with the sprouting Nippers."

Sprouting nippers? Talk about being politically incorrect!
I do not know what is the viler act. Verbal insult upon
the entire Japanese race, or the arrogance which follows.
Yes, it gets much worse. Hoard's continues:

"Milk is credited as being the primary cause of today's
Japanese being taller and broader. According to the 'Monitor,'
milk is sweeping Japan. It is readily available in railway
stations, in offices, and it seems more common for young people
to drink milk for refreshment than carbonated beverages.
Consumption is expected to rise 500 percent within 10 years."

OK, so America's dairy industry admitted that the enormous
growth spurt was due to cow's milk consumption, and they did
so without mentioning the "H" word, hormones. The healthiest
milk from the healthiest organically raised cow naturally
contains powerful growth hormones. These steroid and protein
hormones work. Japan is the largest living laboratory study,
in the world, an example of how an entire society changed in
in just one 18-year generation.

Is taller better? With surges in height, there came a
decrease in the age of sexual maturity. In 1950, the
average Japanese girl menstruated for the first time at
15.2 years of age. Twenty-five years later, thanks to
milk hormones, she grew 4.5 inches, gained 19 pounds,
and the age of her first period dropped 3 years to
12.2 years.

Humans were designed with just the right skeletal system
to hold a body's organs. Stretch the girders and in any
structure, be it a building or living system, and you
compromise the integrity of the plan. That is exactly
what man has done, with the help of dairy cows. Is it
any wonder that osteoporosis plagues milk-drinking nations?

I first wrote about the milk/Japanese growth connection in
1998. At that time, I cited a study published in "Preventive
Medicine" in 1978. Now, additional evidence identifies the
criminal who takes responsibility for his crime. The dairy
industry, guilty as charged. My 1998 column:

http://notmilk.com/deb/072698a.html

The 1963 Hoard's editorial concludes:

"This report has some interesting ramifications.
We could send a few of our quick-shooting heart
attack 'authorities' to Japan to scare the poor
kids out of drinking milk. Or we can suffer
along with their headlines here and arrange for
a swap of clothing and furniture. Our kids could
soon shrink to Nippon size if we followed the
advice of the confused cholesterol crowd."

The dairy industry has declared war upon Japan.
Up until now, the Japanese people have been waging
a losing battle. America's bottle of milk has been
the Japanese people's Pearl Harbor.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com