A Little Girl Teaches Consumers a Lesson

"Research is four things: brains with which
to think, eyes with which to see, machines
with which to measure, and fourth, money."
  - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A little girl has made a 2-minute youtube
video which will change many lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exBEFCiWyW0

Her school science experiment is worth watching.
It is about something I did not previously know
existed.

After watching the short film, I did some
research about Bud Nip. Here is what I found.

The major chemical ingredient in Bud Nip is
a substance called Chlorpropham.

According to Wikipedia:

Chlorpropham (commercial names: Bud Nip,
Taterpex) is a plant growth regulator and
herbicide used as a sprout suppressant for
grass weeds, alfalfa, lima and snap beans,
blueberries, cane berries, carrots,
cranberries, ladino clover, garlic, seed
grass, onions, spinach, sugar beets, tomatoes,
safflower, soybeans, gladioli and woody
nursery stock. It is also used to inhibit
potato sprouting...

I searched Medline for information on
chlorpropham. Most of the scientific studies
were performed on laboratory animals. I reject
every one of those on ethical grounds and on
logical scientific grounds.

Half of the cancers rats get, mice do not get.
Half of the cancers mice get, rats do not get.
One cannot apply a study from one rodent to
another, and therefore, one cannot apply a
rodent study to humans. I will not see an animal
tortured so that illogical research Can deceive.

I first found this study in the November, 2011
issue of the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination
and Toxicology. Researchers tested 228 potato
samples sold at 34 farmers' markets and discovered
that chlorpropham was the most frequently occurring
pesticide detected. The authors reported:

"No pesticide residues were detected in
23 potato samples obtained from certified
organic farmers."

Virtually no studies on humans or human tissue
samples exist, but I did find one performed
three years ago.

In March of 2009 the journal Environmental
Science and Technology reported a study in
which scientists exposed human tissue samples
contained in glass vials to chlorpropham. In
their abstract, the researchers reported:

"The potential for agricultural chemicals to
cause endocrine disruption (ED) in humans and
wildlife is an increasing concern; however,
the effects of commonly used pesticides at
environmentally relevant concentrations are
largely unknown."

The scientists then tested various chemical
pesticides on in-vitro (test tube) samples
of ovarian follicles containing human chorionic
gonadotropin (hCG) and found that chlorpropham
stimulated hormone production. Their final
recommendation was that "the effects of these
compounds on humans and/or wildlife warranted
further future investigation".

I have found no scientific evidence of such
research during the past three years, except
for the minimally financed study performed by
one little girl.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Sex and the Single Apple

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so...Much
pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow..."
--John Donne (1609)

On Friday, March 16, 2012, Ben & Jerry's announced
the creation of a new dessert which is to be released
only in England. That treat markets same-sex marriage.
Their new flavor is loaded with apples and is called
Apple-y Ever After.

On the same day, Reuters News reported that people
who regularly eat apples have a lower risk of diabetes,
according to the Harvard Nurse study.

The simple apple made earth shattering news three times
last week but nobody seems to have noticed the final
event, with the exception of a lone notmilkman. Does
an apple a day keep the doctor away? That saying has
been a point of controversy forever and a day.

On March 7, 2012, the Journal of Agricultural and
Food Chemistry found that the addition of 5 percent
apple skins to cooked hamburgers reduced the levels
of E. coli O157:H7 to below detection limit.

From the moment that Eve took her bite of the
forbidden fruit, the apple has been embroiled
in controversy.

First there came Eve. Many Millennia (millenniums?)
later, Hippocrates recommended sweet apples as an aid
to good health and digestion. An evil witch poisoned
Snow White's bright red apple and she fell into
a coma. Next, a dad (William Tell) was forced to
shoot an apple off of his son's head. At about the
same time, Bishop Albertus Magnus proposed that apple
trees have souls. A few centuries later, Sir Isaac
Newton developed the laws of gravity after watching
an apple fall to the ground. One hundred years ago,
J.T. Stinson's keynote address at the St. Louis
Exposition included this line: "An apple a day keeps
the doctor away." St. Louis then became home to a
biotech company (Monsanto) that would attempt to
engineer children's vaccines and medicines into
apples. And of course, let us not forget alar.

Of the 2000+ emails I get each day, one or two come
from meat eaters intent on debating serious issues
by using convoluted logic. One line of their thinking
often involves the apple.

I have been accused of heinous crimes, including being
a broccoli murderer, carrot torturer, and apple killer.
I've just about had all that I can chew regarding
accusations of apple-homocide.

So, let us explore the very core of the apple. Eating
apples is actually about sexual reproduction. Human
males have been gifted with an enormous feeling of
pleasure while passing their seed to receptive females
during the act of reproducing their species.

Such must also be the way of apples. One must assume
that each one of Mother Nature's animals and plants
has appropriately been given a similar innate gift of
pleasure during that magic moment.

And what constitutes the climatic moment for an apple
tree? Having her fruit eaten by a mammal, that's what.
The apple contains seeds for the mother-tree's offspring.
The mammal enjoys the fruit of her labor by taking the
perfumed fruit containing seeds far from the mother tree.

The animal then becomes an important part the apple's
reproductive cycle by depositing the seed with a copious
amount of organic nitrogen-containing fertilizer to
nurture that seed's growth.

Each summer I reserve a part of my garden for broccoli
seeds. The plant produces beautiful florettes which would
make for a wonderful dish when sauteed with a bulb or two of
my organically-grown garlic. However, I allow those plants
to flower and go to seed for two wonderful reasons. First,
few flowering plants are as stunning as the yellow sunburst
produced by the broccoli plant. Second, those flowers are
delicious in salads. To the broccoli plant, her be all and
end all is to produce seeds. These are her potential
children. The act of picking the plant must then be an
act of infinite pleasure. Premature seed-shedding still
provides some pleasure, even in non-plants, for that is
how living creatures have been programmed. In other words,
a broccoli plant lives to be eaten, for in life's final
act, she dies and exists for future generations.

Such is the nature of the broccoli, carrot, apple,
orange and strawberry. Give pleasure to a pear or
a peach or bunches of grapes as often as you can.
The next time you, as a vegetarian or vegan, are
accused of being a plant killer, let those who
criticize be made aware of nature's perfect plan.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

They Taught How to Negate Animal Rights

Fascism is a religious concept.
  - Benito Mussolini

Fascism is capitalism in decay.
  - Vladimir Lenin

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
  - Upton Sinclair

On March 9, 2012, Missouri (The "Show Me" state)
turned back the clock on animal rights progress.

Missouri State representative Ward Franz introduced
House Bill (HB 1513) which excludes future legislation
that would give rights to animals.

Whip or kick a family dog? Sure, why not. Animals
do not have rights, according to Show-Me state
politicians.

Beat the cows and pigs before slaughter like the
Chinese do to dogs because adrenaline flavors
meat? Sure, why not? Animals do not have rights,
according to Show-Me state politicos.

Language included in the proposed bill:

"The laws of this state shall not confer upon any
animal a right, privilege, or legal status that is
equivalent or that exceeds a right, privilege, or
legal status as that which this state confers by
law upon a human being."

Ward Franz is a real American. At a recent
fundraiser, he offered Missouri supporters a
chance to own one of these show-me-state tools:

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/images/M4LE-2.jpg

Who is Ward Franz? Representative Franz attended
Southwest Missouri Baptist University and is employed
by the state of Missouri as a Juvenile officer. Last
year, after his 18-year-old son was arrested for
stealing a Taco Bell sign, Franz called in favors so
that his son was charged as a juvenile and got off
with community service. Nobody messes with a guy who
raffles off assault rifles.

The same day that Missouri's proposed animal-wrongs
bill was introduced, The editor of an online dairy
website (Dairy Herd Network, Tom Quaife) wrote:

"Take the threat of agroterrorism seriously"

In Tom Quaife's Dairy Herd Network editorial, we read:

"Since 2005, I have had the opportunity to attend four
conferences on agroterrorism sponsored by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. They are serious affairs,
considering the subject matter...An intentional attack
on the food supply could cost billions of dollars and
undermine public confidence."

Note to animal rights activists: If you belong to
an animal rights or vegetarian organization, be
cautious of that new radical member. He is there to
entrap you and score points for his miserable career
which views honorable and ethical vegans as America's
worst form of terrorist. Like generals leading troops
during the Viet Nam war, exaggerated body counts were
essential tools which continued an unjust war. Today's
new unjust war is the one America is waging against
those who would see animals treated with compassion.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Which Presidential Candidate is Pro Animal Rights?

For the record, I have already written that I
do not intend to vote in the next Presidential
election. to me, each candidate is virtually the
same, having been hatched from the same fetig egg.

Today's column, then, is unbiased. As a matter of
fact, today's Notmilk letter can be categorized as
one of those "blow-me-over-with-a-feather" columns.

Animal rights? It's a republican. Who could it be?
They are all goofballs; the lone democrat (he who
shall not be named) and the four men with 100 percent
of the republican delegates, Romney, Santorum, Gingrich,
and that idiot who promotes raw milk and has as much of
a chance of being elected as America has of winning
their police action in Afghanistan.

It's Rick Santorum!!!

I found an online Forbes Magazine column revealing
that Santorum is an animal rights advocate.

Forbes Magazine makes these arguments:

A careful review of Santorum's voting record in
the Senate finds that he votes for bills which
animal rights organizations support, and votes
against bills which sportsmen's organizations
support.

Eleven years ago, Santorum introduced S. 1478.
The name of Santorum's bill was the Puppy
Protection Act which attempted to improve
conditions at puppy mills.

He also proposed a "three strikes you're out"
amendment for people who violated the Animal
Welfare Act.

It gets better. In 1995, Santorum held a press
conference and was photographed standing side
by side with Wayne Pacelle who is now the
President of the Humane Society of the United
States (HSUS). Wayne's photo is attached to a
dartboard inside of every dairy barn, chicken
coop, and confined pig breeding facility in
America.

In 2006, the Humane Society gave Santorum an
80 percent approval rating. I believe that
Ingrid Newkirk was given an 79, but don't
quote me on that one. It might have been
an expression of professional jealousy.

While in the Senate, Santorum has voted to
prevent horse slaughter by federal agencies.

Does the agricultural community appreciate
Santorum's positions?

The director of the Missouri Farm Bureau, Blake
Hurst, issued this statement:

"I can say with a great deal of confidence that
Santorum's relationship with HSUS is a deal
killer for much of the agriculture community."

And yet, Missouri voters gave Santorum 55 percent
of the vote in February's Presidential primary.
Over the weekend in an effort to show themselves
that the primary vote was legitimate, Missouri
held a second primary in the form of a caucus
which resulted in chaos. Police and national
guardsman were called, a helicopter was sent
out, voters were arrested. They sure showed me
how not to conduct the Democratic process.

In yesterday's Notmilk column, I wrote about
the cretins who populate Missouri's state
legislature. Although Missouri hates the concept
of animal rights, they cast their primary votes
for the one man whose voting record shows
compassion to animals. I am changing Missouri's
mickname from the "Show me" to the "Schizo" state.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/4313

Of the four possible republicans and one democrat
who will lead America in 2013, I have now found
something positive about one of them. To support
animal rights issues as a politician is a form
of political suicide, but it shows courageous
compassion. How could I not applaud that?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Does Drinking Cow's Urine Cure Cancer?

"I drink too much. The last time I gave
a urine sample it had an olive in it."
  - Rodney Dangerfield

Do you drink:

A) Cow's Urine? Producers claim it cures cancer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9bxnQWTFQI

B) Cow's Blood for good health:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIL5ursK3c

C) Milk? Some claim it cures AIDS & cancer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9d3T02PjKo

D) Some people learn the truth about milk:

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

These three bovine body fluids have much in common.
They come from diseased animals, and the consumption
of each body fluid results in revulsion among those
living in more enlightened cultures; particulary
those aliens living on the planet Vega.

But...back to the question posed as the subject to
today's column. Everybody knows that drinking cow's
urine does not cure cancer. Camel urine does, but
the pee must come from a virgin camel.

Stop laughing.

Where's the research? I checked Medline and
found this publication from the January, 2011
issue of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology:

TITLE: Camel urine inhibits the cytochrome P450
1a1 gene expression through an AhR-dependent
mechanism in Hepa 1c1c7 cell line.

SOURCE: Department of Pharmacology, College of
Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

AIM OF THE STUDY: "We examined the ability of three
different camel urines (virgin, lactating, and pregnant
source) to modulate a well-known cancer-activating
enzyme, the cytochrome P450 1a1 (Cyp1a1) in murine
hepatoma Hepa 1c1c7 cell line."

RESULTS: "All types of camel, but not bovine urines
differentially inhibited the induction of Cyp1a1 gene
expression by TCDD, the most potent Cyp1a1 inducer
and known carcinogenic chemical. Importantly, virgin
camel urine showed the highest degree of inhibition..."

CONCLUSION: "The present work provides the first
evidence that camel urine but not that of bovine
inhibits the TCDD-mediated toxic effect by inhibiting
the expression of Cyp1a1, at both transcriptional and
post-transcriptional levels through an AhR-dependent
mechanism."

*   *   *   *   *

My final thoughts on this matter.

How do researchers at King Saud University in Saudi
Arabia identify a virgin cow from all other camels?

Easy! She's the one without any humps.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Triathlon Training Update

I lost a few weeks due to severe pain in my
back and groin which I incorrectly diagnosed
as being related to a muscle tear I suffered
last June after being hit by a car while riding
my bike.

I had trained one day in February with husband
and wife triathlete coaches who completely
re-worked my swim stroke.

http://www.RidgewoodTriathlete.com

Coincidences happen. The pain continued to worsen.
I imagined that it was due to the new stroke.

After two weeks, I gave in and visited a doctor
after having previously sworn off doctors. A simple
in-office test confirmed that I had a bladder
infection. It had gotten so bad that I had severe
pain walking.

A seven-day antibiotic (nitrofurantoin-100 mg.)
did the trick. I lost $90 and three weeks of
training, but I am completely healed.

Last night, the temperature hit 55 degrees at
3 AM. I wore my UnderArmor, but really did not
need it. I attached two new toys to my new
Specialized bike; a powerful red superflash turbo
tail light, and a 480 lumen Mitycross Cygolite
which illuminated the road as well as my motor
vehicle.

Tonight and tomorrow night we expect even
warmer temperatures in the New York area, so
I will be biking 30 mile round trips to
nowhere. Early morning cycling is delightful.
:>)

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

They're Here (Again)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVC2vyVCWJI
___________________________

(Un-edited) Notice published on dairyherd e-newsletter
March 21, 2012

Raw milk-linked outbreak prompts Kansas warning
Angela Bowman, Staff Writer

"Kansas officials have issued a warning for raw milk
consumers and producers following a Campylobacter
outbreak linked to unpasteurized milk from one of
the state's dairies.

The outbreak, which was first confirmed in January,
has now affected 18 people according to Food Safety
News. This is the state's third Campylobacter outbreak
linked to raw milk since 2007.

Now, officials from both the state's Department of
Agriculture and Department of Health and Environment
have issued a warning on the sale of raw milk and the
dangers associated with consuming it. Raw milk can
only be sold in the state through individual sales
on the farm, and the only promotion can be farm
signs. All raw milk containers must be labeled.

'While dairy producers can legally sell raw milk
on farms directly to consumers, the practice is not
recommended,' the joint release noted.

Officials also cited a recent study from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which found
the rate of outbreaks caused by raw milk 150 times
higher than those caused by pasteurized milk.

'Consuming raw milk is an unnecessary risk,' Kansas
Department of Agriculture Dairy Inspection Program
Manager George Blush said in the news release.

'You cannot tell if milk is safe by just looking at,
smelling or tasting it. Even milk from the cleanest
dairies can pose risk without the pasteurization
safeguard.'

Raw milk supporters have had a tough year. In addition
to the CDC study, another Campylobacter outbreak
linked to raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy sickened
more than 78 people, including a toddler. Another Pa.
raw milk producer faced a federal court-granted
injunction preventing him from distributing raw milk
and raw milk products across state lines."
___________________________

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

A Fool's Errand

Many years ago, when I was a probie volunteer
firefighter, one of the officers assigned the
task of finding a left-handed screwdriver to
yours truly. I spent hours looking for the tool
until another firefighter told me that there
was no such thing.

I had been on a fool's errand. Later, when that
same officer asked me to look for a can of elbow
grease, I was a bit wiser to the nature of fool's
errands. Years later, I passed on the proud
tradition of our department by assigning the task
of finding a three-pronged blivet to another probie.

The dairy industry's continuously assigns itself
fool's errands. Milk promoter's worst (my favorite)
is their ongoing campaign to promote milk consumption
as the perfect weight-loss diet.

There are 250,000 journals on planet earth. Some
are quite good. Some are very bad. Some are
extremely biased. I rarely pay attention to the
heavily marketed dairy studies published in the
Journal of the American College of Nutrition. This
journal was founded by and is controlled by America's
Dairy and Milk Industry. I refer to the JACN as the
"Whore's Journal."

The first president and director of that journal
was Dr. Greg Miller. I've debated Greg three times;
twice on radio and once on the Fox Health News channel.
Greg has milk flowing through his arteries and veins,
and is one of the most powerful men employed by the
dairy industry.

Of course, JACN publishes biased milk studies, and
has the financial support of hundreds of millions of
dairy dollars. Which leads us to witness an enormous
surprise...

Funny thing happened on the way to the milk forum.

A few months before the dairy industry began to spread
their most notorious lie: Drinking milk results in weight
loss...

The Journal of the American College of Nutrition,
(Vol. 24, No. 3, 210-216, 2005) reported the results
of a most curious weight loss study which compared
soy milk consumption to cow's milk consumption.

How could these dunderheads have blundered and allowed
the truth to be told? Beats me!

Researchers concluded that Soy milk use (over a 12-week
period) resulted in greater weight loss than cow's milk
milk consumption.

I laughed myself to bed after reading that conclusion
from the original study. Sadly, no one in media will
report that truth. By their insistence that milk
consumption leads to weight loss, the dairy industry's
fool errand denies God's plan, Mother Nature's plan,
and evolution's plan.

Final word on the milk industry Fool's Errand:

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/3/559

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

The Two Most Amazing Coincidences in American History

"I don't know what hovers over this house.
I've never sensed anything like it."
  - Zelda Rubinstein (Tangina in Poltergest)

Coincidences. I love 'em. Is it a coincidence that
the heavens deposited ten inches of snow atop my
driveway in October of 2011, while I rode my
bike outdoors in balmy weather during much of
February and the month of March which did not
come in like a lion?

Is it a coincidence that Anchorage, Alaska has received
129 inches of snow this winter, five feet more than
their average, while twice the number of tornadoes have
struck America, double the average? There is so much
snow piled high in Alaska, that Sarah's view of Russia
will be blocked until late Spring. Experts blame the
odd weather on La Nina and the Arctic Oscillation,
whatever the heck that might be.

Global warming is dead. Oscillation seems to be
affecting the majority of Americans. Today in
the New York area, there will be no oscillation,
and if the Mayans are correct, there might not
even be any weather. (If it rained in the woods,
and nobody was there to get wet, would there still
be weather?)

Today we explore two of the most amazing coincidences
in American history. These coincidences occurred
one hundred years apart. I have yet to decide which
coincidence ranks as number one. Each coincidence
defies all odds.
______________________
Coincidence Number One
______________________

In July of 1861, an enormous Confederate army
marched onto a Virginia farmer's land. That
farmer was Wilmer McClain. Union forces attempted
to stop the forward progress of the rebel army.
These actions resulted in the first major battle
of the Civil War, known as Bull Run.

Imagine the look on this poor farmer's face
thirteen months later in August of 1862 when the
first skirmish repeated itself. I flash back to
the look of the patient who acted as the subject
of Gene Wilder's neurological experiment being
wheeled out the medical class in the movie "Young
Frankenstein." The look on that unfortunate guy's
pained face represented one of the funniest scenes
in cinematic history.

That look can be seen at the 7:57 mark of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V65B6roEkk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=\
PLF20E7A8BD5F23E90

Thirteen months later, history repeated itself in
the same farmer's field resulting in the second
battle of Bull Run. That rare event was an oddity,
but this story gets even more amazing. Completely
disgusted with the bloodshed and destruction of his
farm, Mr. McClain loaded two large wagons with what
remained of his possessions, and moved two hundred
miles away. Now for the fun part.

Ever see the movie "Dave?" Remember the look on
Charles Grodin's face when his best friend is
occupying the Oval Office, posing as the President?
Farmer McClain must have been stunned.
See the 35 second mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ECxHkSzSMA

...Three years after the second battle of Bull Run,
the Union Army was about to win the Civil War.

Farmer McClain's final reaction as played by
Macaulay Culkin at the 35–40 second mark in
Home Alone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnDuK2t211E&feature=related

General Ulysses S. Grant met face to face with
the leader of the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee.
They talked for many hours and negotiated a truce
which ended the war between the states. At that
moment of signing the agreement, the two great
generals sat in the living room of our gentleman
farmer, Wilmer McClain. The town which he moved
to after his farm was destroyed in Bull Run II
was called Appomattox Court House.
______________________
Coincidence Number Two
______________________

One hundred years after the signing of that truce which
ended the Civil War, mankind had developed a miraculous
technology which allowed a group of scientists to identify
a powerful protein growth hormone in the body of a cow
which was named insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-I.
Many years later, another group of scientists would
identify the same exact hormone existing in the bodies
of all humans. Many years later, other scientists would
identify that same hormone as the key factor in the
growth of every human cancer.

There are approximately 4,700 different mammals in the
animal kingdom, and millions of different proteins and
hormones in nature. Life has such remarkable diversity,
that there are no hormones exactly alike which are
shared by two different species of mammal. Many
paleontologists argue that man is descended from
ape-like ancestors. Possibly Leakey's Australopithecus,
or Peking  man, or Zinzanthropic man. Democrats would
agree with this conclusion. Republicans would not.
Either way, something miraculous occurred. Either
God punished man by delivering cancer to those who
drank milk, or the process of a bizarre evolutionary
coincidence resulted in the same improbability.

Human IGF-I and bovine IGF-I each contain 70 amino
acids in the identical sequence. The number representing
the odds of that occurring is greater than the total
number of subatomic particles in the universe. In other
words, possible, but highly improbable, yet, it happened.
That is a coincidence of extreme magnitude.

This video is for you, Monsanto. This one is for what
you have accidentally done to our food supply in the
past, and armed with the knowledge of your crimes, for
monstrosities you will intentionally create in our future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ytjaMfoF2M

"What's Happening?"
  - Dominique Dunne (The eldest daughter in Poltergeist,
who coincidentally and tragically died at the hands
of a monster five months after Poltergeist was released).

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Another Dairy Coincidence

"Coincidence is the word we use when
we cannot see the levers and pulleys."
  - Emma Bull

Yesterday, the Notmilk column revealed
two of the most amazing coincidences in
American history. See:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/4319

In 2009, Notmilk posted two columns reporting
how easily contaminated dried milk powder
becomes with toxic bacteria.

The first revealed:

"...nearly 20,000 pounds of (dried) milk formula
imported from Taiwan and Australia had been found
to contain bacteria which can cause meningitis..."

The second revealed:

"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."

"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."

Non-fat dry milk has historically been responsible
for outbreaks of bacterial-related diseases. Bacteria
in non-fat dry milk are not always killed by heat
treatment. Dry milk infected with staphylococcus
toxins have infected thousands of people with
gastroenteritis. The Centers for Disease Control
has blamed increased outbreaks on milk powder.

The U.S. Standards for Grades of Nonfat Dry Milk
allows for 10,000 bacterial cells per gram.
Since there are 454 grams in one pound of dry milk
powder, expect to find no more than 4,540,000
live bacterial cells in each pound of product.

*   *   *   *   *

Now for the fun coincidence.

This study was published in the March 17, 2012 issue
of the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology
and Infectious Diseases:

"Emergence of multidrug-resistant NDM-1-producing
Gram-negative bacteria in Bangladesh"

The following comes from the United States
State Department Website:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3452.htm

"The United States has provided more than $5.5
billion in food and development assistance to
Bangladesh. Food aid under Titles I, II, and
III of PL-480 (congressional "food-for-peace"
legislation) has been designed to help Bangladesh
meet minimum food requirements."

America's leading export is nonfat dry milk power.
Most of our exports are double-subsidies. The dairy
industry is subsidized to produce dried milk powder
which is purchased by USDA and shipped overseas.

In 2011, The United States exported 73 million to
86 million pounds of nonfat dry milk/skim milk powder
every month which adds up to over 1-billion pounds.

Consider the dozens of columns I have written
about the creation of new antimicrobial-resistant
bacteria created by Monsanto during the process of
genetically engineering the bovine growth hormone
and my subsequent effort of working with FDA to
close Monsanto's European manufacturing facility
for over a year.

Is the plague in Bangladesh from consuming infected
milk powder containing antibiotic-resistant bacteria
and Monsanto's GMO errors a coincidence, or is
Monsanto expertly operating the correct levers and
pulleys so that the truth remain hidden?

Although 38 different languages are spoken in
Bangladesh, the most common one is Bengali.

Trivia Question:

What are the six most-commonly spoken languages
in the world?

Answer:

Chinese (937 million), Spanish (332 million),
English (332 million), Bengali (189 million),
Hindi (182 million), Arabic (175 million)

"Two babies were born on the same day at the same
hospital. They lay there and looked at each other.
Their families came and took them away. Eighty
years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay
in the same hospital on their deathbeds next to
each other. One of them looked at the other and
said, So. What did you think?"
  - Steven Wright

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Sanitized Milk Cleanliness Myths

First, let's get raw milk out of the way and then
today's column will get to the pasteurization myth.

On their website, California's Claravale Dairy asks:

"What's So Special About Claravale Farm Milk?"

http://claravaledairy.com/

The answer given by Claravale includes these points:

"It's fresh. Claravale Farm milk is often sold
the day it comes out of the cow and is never more
than a few days old...It's clean. Cleanliness standards
for raw milk are stricter than for pasteurized products...
It tastes great. Because Claravale Farm milk is natural,
pure, clean, and fresh, it tastes wonderful...Because
it is not processed or adulterated, Claravale Farm milk
is the last real, honest milk you can buy."

On Friday, March 23, 2012, the California Department of
Public Health issued an emergency recall of Claravale's
raw milk and cream because campylobacter bacteria was
discovered in their products. More on Campylobacter:

Kansas, March 22, 2012:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/4317

Pennsylvania, February 12, 2012:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/4276

New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee, October 11, 2011:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/4165

Alaska, August 22, 2011:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/4103

South Carolina, July 18, 2011

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/4065

DOES PASTEURIZATION REALLY WORK?

The dairy industry continues to deceive consumers
about the pasteurization myth. They want milk
drinkers to believe this lie, and that deception
sickens millions of people each year, according
to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The March 15, 2012 issue of the International Journal
of Food Microbiology (154(3):162-8) contains a study
in which various species of enterococci were isolated
from storage tanks containing pasteurized milk.

Here is what the dairy researchers found:

"Enterococci are reported to survive pasteurization..."

"...the most heat resistant isolates were E. durans,
E. faecium and E. hirae. The data show that heat
resistance in enterococci is highly variable."

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Information re: the above terms, according to Wikipedia:

"Important clinical infections caused by Enterococcus
include urinary tract infections, bacteremia, bacterial
endocarditis, diverticulitis, and meningitis."

"Enterococcus durans is a species of Enterococcus.
Prior to 1984, it was known as Streptococcus durans.

"Enterococcus faecium...can be commensal (innocuous,
coexisting organism) in the human intestine, but it
may also be pathogenic, causing diseases such as
neonatal meningitis."

"The Enterococcus hirae species is widely known to
cause infections."

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Question: Having read all of the above, how is it
humanly possible that you or your friends or loved
ones continue to eat and drink this stuff?

Hint: Where do you imagine the pathogen named
Enterococcus faecium comes from? Got Milk?
Got fecal-yummies...

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Forcefeeding Fruit to Your Significant Others

"Be like a child – clear, loving, spontaneous,
infinitely flexible and ready each moment to
wonder and accept miracles."
  - Kamala Reddy

Each piece of fruit is a miracle. Every grape. A
single strawberry. The tiniest ripe blueberry.
The largest and sweetest watermelon. Accept the
bounty of the earth and taste the essence of
the mango or pineapple or papaya. Fill your
refrigerator with miracles, and accept aromatic
rainbows as your nourishment.

Each Sunday, I do the bulk of my weekly food shopping
at the local supermarket and produce stores. I plan on
purchasing ten portions of fruit per day for each and
every member of my family, and the usual Monday-Friday
routine used to be to then watch apples turn soft, and
oranges turn green. Bananas would ripen, and sometimes
end up as banana bread. Tomatoes would ooze stinky-brown
liquid from which would spontaneously generate fruit flies.
A variety of living creatures would then feast upon my
fruit, with the exception of the people sharing my home.

There is the force feeding funnel tube method, but I
hate seeing my children thrash, gag, and choke.
The rope burns take weeks to disappear from their
wrists and I hate the sound of my dog crying in
sympathy.

Then there is a second option.

How many of us take time to slice up wedges
of fruit for our loved ones?

I write this at 1:00 AM, having just spent the past
ten minutes cutting chunks of papaya and pineapple
for my daughter Sarah. Without my efforts, she'll
fly out the door to her grad school classes without
breakfast.

Oranges were juiced for an additional dose of Vitamin C.

Most kids do not eat fruit...certainly not even the
inadequate number of portions recommended by the USDA
on their poorly planned food plate which replaced
the ancient wonder of the world, AKA food pramid..

Fruit is a treat, but I've learned through experience
that in my home it will sit in a bowl, untouched,
unless I make the presentation on a silver platter.

After taking the initiative to cut it up, everybody
appreciates the effort. Whether for breakfast or a
computer or television snack, fruit is the best way
of getting children and adults on a daily vitamin
regimen.

Visit a produce store today. Buy organic, if possible.
If you live anywhere near me (Bergen County, New Jersey),
it is well worth the trip to visit that farmstand on Old
Hook road in Harrington Park. The store is open all year
round and also has a large walk-in refrigerator containing
hundreds of varieties of grains, flours, beans, and dried
fruit.

Add a cornucopia of fresh fruits to your home today.
Whether placed on a kitchen counter or living room table,
here's one still life that promotes a long and healthy
lifestyle.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Never A "Duh" Moment? (from Italy)

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your
campylobact-ears. I've come to bury Caesar
salad, not to braise it."
  - Marc Antony (Eulogy for Parmesan cheese,
anchovies, and raw egg yolks with lettuce;
fractured translation from Latin to English)

The March 23, 2012 issue of the journal
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease includes
research which reveals:

"Study Finds Pathogens in Italian Vending
Machine Raw Milk"

Who would let raw milk sit and ferment in
vending machines? Probably supporters of
those same people who propose bills (HR 1830,
S-1955) allowing bacteria in raw milk to ferment
on trucks as it is being packed, shipped, and
then unpacked after long-distance trips over
state lines.

Who knows why raw milk sold from vending
machines in Northern Italy contained Salmonella
Campylobacter, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis
(MAP) and E. coli O157? I believe the three-word
answer is exactly the same as George Mallory's
response in 1923 when asked why he wanted to
scale the summit of Mount Everest:

"Because it's there."

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

What we do know for certain is that the
fall of the Roman Empire is due to the
"duh" gene which some modern-day ancestors
of this once-great civilization possess.

Scientists Federica Giacometti, et. al. found:

"...44.8% of samples collected from vending
machines had, respectively, somatic cell count
(SCC) greater than 300,000 per milliliter..."

That translates into more than 300 million pus
cells per liter of raw milk which represents
an udder infection rate of about 35 percent
of the cows in the raw-milk herd.

The researchers concluded:

"Three samples (3%) were positive for MAP,
suggesting that raw milk is a significant
source of MAP exposure for consumers."

More information regarding MAP which is
responsible for ulcerative colitis, irritable
bowel syndrome, and Crohn's Disease in human
dairy consumers:

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

When contacted, vending machine owners Rondo
and Randino Paoli-Romano issued this statement:

"We don'ta get mad atta your column.
We gedda even."

Notmilk responded:

"It's not personal, Signores Paoli-Romano,
it's strictly business."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7zkd0kRS4

A few weeks ago, the Secretary of Defense, Leon
Panetta hosted the annual (127th) Gridiron Dinner
in Washington, D.C. and joked about his negotiating
skills with other nations.

The Gridiron dinner is an annual affair in which
Democrats, Republicans, and members of the media
have the opportunity to poke fun of each other and
themselves. Since 1885, every President of the United
States has attended that function with the exception
of Grover Cleveland. President Obama attended in 2011,
but missed 2009, 2010, and 2012. Perhaps he is just
too busy running the U.S. economy...into the ground.

Panetta was making light of his advantage in being an
Italian-American. In referring to "The Godfather"
movie, Panetta related that he is able to get away
with with creative negotiating tactics by using this
line:

"I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeldwfOwuL8

I make the same offer to the dairy industry. Stop
allowing children to get poisoned from raw milk
and I'll stop ridiculing the two members of Congress
who introduced legislation to legally transport raw
milk over state lines, Rondo and Randino Paoli-Romano.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Got Constipation?

Early this morning, I opened an email letter from
a notmilk reader, Ron E., whose friend was about
to have bowel surgery. His doctors have put him
on a pre and post-operative white food diet
which includes white flour, white bread,
eggs, milk, and cheese.

This man will soon become constipated, complicating
his health. What he needs is a healing diet, not
a disease-causing diet.

Dear Ron - This is for your friend!

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Eighty percent of milk protein is casein, the
world's most efficient mucous producer. Casein
from cow's milk is a foreign protein. When you eat
this antigen, your body's immune system manufactures
antibodies. The antibody acts to create histamines.
As a result of histamine production, many people
open their medicine cabinets or rush to their
pharmacies in search of antihistamines.

Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on your pasta and ten
hours later, you'll have produced enough mucous to
fill the empty quart container of Ben & Jerry's
Nitty Gritty. Now, that is a pity. As the body's
digestive mechanism removes the water from the mucus,
that same mucus becomes internal mortar which
results in constipation.

Most Americans continuously eat one form or another
of dairy products. The average American eats the
equivalent of 29.2 ounces per day from this food group.
For them, bad bowel movements are a way of life. They
have never known what it is like to be regular. They
never will have a perfect pet-like bowel movement if
they continue eating dairy. It just cannot happen.

The cure is so simple. One week completely off dairy,
and you'll be as regular as Fido. Is it not worth the
experiment?

That question was addressed by doctors in the Pediatric
Gastroenterology Unit of Spain's Basque Country School
of Medicine. Their study has been published in the
August, 2010 issue of the Journal of Pediatric
Gastroenterology and Nutrition (2010 Aug;51(2):171-6).

TITLE: Cow's-Milk-free Diet as a Therapeutic Option in
Childhood Chronic Constipation

AUTHORS: Irastorza I, Ibañez B, et. al.

STUDY CONCLUSIONS:

"A clear association between CM (cow's milk) consumption
and constipation has been found in more than one third
of children...

"Cow's milk is not suited for human consumption. Milk
causes constipation, biliousness, coated tongue, headache,
and these are the symptoms of intestinal auto-intoxication.
Soybean milk, and nut milks are excellent substitutes,
and have practically the same analyses, and the danger
of disease is removed."
  -Jethro Kloss, Back to Eden, 1939

"At least 50% of all children in the United States are
allergic to milk, many undiagnosed. Dairy products are
the leading cause of food allergy, often revealed by
constipation, diarrhea, and fatigue. Many cases of
asthma and sinus infections are reported to be relieved
and even eliminated by cutting out dairy."
- Frank Oski, M.D., Chief of Pediatrics at Johns
Hopkins Medical School Natural Health, July, 1994

"There was an increased frequency of wheezing and
constipation and a higher frequency of delayed
reactions...infants with persistent cow's milk
protein intolerance exhibited atopic disease:
asthma, rhinitis, eczema."
- Clin Exp Allergy, 1998 Jul, 28:7

"Chronic diarrhea is the most common gastrointestinal
symptom of intolerance of cow's milk among children...
cow's milk can also cause severe perianal lesions
with pain on defecation and consequent constipation
in young children. In young children, chronic
constipation can be a manifestation of intolerance
of cow's milk."
  - New England Journal of Medicine, October,1998
(339:16, 1100)

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Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.TheRealNotmilk

Antibiotics in Dairy & Meat

"Zoonotic: Pertaining to a zoonosis - a
disease that can be transmitted from animals
to people or, more specifically, a disease
that normally exists in animals but that
can infect humans. There are multitudes of
zoonotic diseases". (from Medicined.net)

"In a study of 1415 pathogens known to affect
humans, 61% were zoonotic". (from Wikipedia)

Dear Notmilk Readers,

I have reported many instances of how often
diseases are passed from cows to humans who
consume milk. Today's column is one of the
most shocking I have ever written.

Coincidentally, I am in contact with an
editor of one of America's most powerful
and well-read magazines who is doing a
major (cover) story on this subject. She
is looking to interview people who have
gotten a disease that is resistant to
antibiotics. Something such as meth-resistant
staphyloccus aureus (MRSA) or irritable
bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, or Crohn's
Disease from that bacterium in milk which is
not killed by pasteurization, mycobacterium
paratuberculosis. If you would like to be
interviewed, please contact me and I'll put
you in touch with this editor and her reporter.

i4crob@...

Now for today's shocking news.

LS-50 is an antibiotic made up of two other antibiotics,
Lincomycin and Spectinomycin. LS-50 is commonly used
for chickens.

Use of LS-50 on lactating cows in America is illegal,
yet, LS-50 is the most commonly found antibiotic
residue found in slaughterhouse cows. How can that be?

On January 18, 2012, The French Journal, Patlologie
Biologie determined that a mycin antimicrobial resistant
Strain of Staphyloccus aureus was recovered with
resistance to lincomycin, gentamicin, tetracycline
and other antibiotics commonly used on humans.

On February 14, 2012, the Journal Antimicrobial
Chemotherapy determined that spectinomycin, once
used to treat humans with various diseases of love
which include gonorrhea, no longer works as a
result of:

"...an alarming increase in strains with reduced
susceptibility to oral extended-spectrum cephalo-
sporins associated with clinical treatment failure."

In other words, some of the most powerful
so-called "miracle drugs" no longer work.

In their "Green Book" of drug use regulations,
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns:

"Do not use in female dairy cattle 20 months
of age or older. Use in this class of cattle
may cause residues in milk."

Of course, since cows are not usually milked until
they reach the age of 20 months, this statute
governs all milking cows. Period. The single-most
commonly found antibiotic residue detected in the
bodies of slaughterhouse cows in America is LS-50.
America's dairy industry seems to be breaking the
law, and there is only one thing consumers can
do about it. Don't drink the milk. Don't eat the
cheese. Don't chew the fat.

LS-50 is illegally being used to treat lung diseases
in cows being milked for your cereal, ice cream,
and cheese. After these diseased animals cease
being productive agricultural milking units for
factory farms, they become your hamburgers and
steaks. You, your family, and your friends continue
to eat flesh and drink body fluids from diseased
animals. In doing so, consumers also ingest
antibiotics that were used to treat animal diseases.

This information should motivate you to immediately
explore the virtues of a plant-based diet.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Dosing Kids with Toxic Pesticides

"A proposed rule on human pesticide testing
that fails to protect children and families
should be shelved immediately. A protective
rule must be issued in its place."
  - Senator Barbara Boxer

Every man, woman, and child living in America
would test positive for a pesticide called
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, otherwise
known as DDT. How can that be? The use of
DDT was made illegal in the United States
more than 40 years ago.

Should DDT continue to be a concern for American
consumers in 2012? What is the latest science?

Researchers in the Department of Wildlife at
Mississippi State University recently published
a study in the February 2, 2012 journal Pest
Management Science in which Mississippi River
delta sediment was tested for 17 different
pesticide residues. The scientists found DDT
was present in 47.5 percent of samples tested.

A second group of researchers at the Department
of Chemistry at City College of New York tested
water sediments for Organochlorines including DDT
in the Long Island Sound and published their findings
in the March, 2012 issue of the Journal of
Environmental Monitoring. Their conclusion:

"The results indicate that the three (organochlorines)
were still widely present in Long Island Sound
surficial sediments two decades after the use of
these pesticides in the United States was banned."

The March, 2012 issue of PLoS One (published by the
Public Library of Science) includes a study in which
human breast cancer samples were analyzed for the
effects of DDT by doctors at the College of Pharmacy
at Xavier University of Louisiana. Their conclusion:

"We have shown, for the first time...that DDT...
alters the expression profiles of microRNA in
MCF-7 breast cancer cells."

Every supermarket in my geographic region
(Northeastern New Jersey) offers organic
bananas for sale at an average price of 20
cents per pound more than non-organic, yet,
a division of USDA, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) requires every crate
of exported produce coming into America be
sprayed before getting on the boat or airplane.
Organic bananas are not organic, nor is any
produce grown outside of American borders.

APHIS does so to prevent "pests" such as the
Mediterranean Fruit Fly from entering our
borders. If you eat Mexican-grown produce,
you eat DDT. Look for the signs in Whole Foods
supermarkets extolling the virtues of Mexican
produce.

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" resulted in the
banning of a horribly toxic pesticide, D.D.T.
Ironically, Carson died a few months after
publishing the best selling book that changed
America. Or did it? Her breasts became toxic
dump sites for chemicals approved by government
agencies, and her breast cancer overwhelmed
healthy cells, resulting in her death.

The United States Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP) established so-called safe
levels for pesticides in foods, but their
tolerance levels make absolutely no sense in
21st century America.

EPA's math is one level below dyslexic, hovering
between unethical and criminal.

If humans and animals eat the same plants,
and humans then eat the flesh of these same
animals, or drink their milk, the pesticides
become concentrated in the bodies and body
fluids of those food-animals. Humans sit
atop the food chain.

Unfortunately, EPA standards for farm animals
allow greater amounts of pesticides in animal
feed.

Let me cite you one example.

If soy crops are sprayed with one of the most
toxic substances used in agriculture, malathion,
EPA will allow no more than 8 parts per million
on those soybeans.

Soybeans are harvested, roasted and served to
dairy cows and beef cattle. If soy forage is used
for animal feed, the permitted level of malathion
is nearly seventeen times greater (135 parts per
million).

Humans may eat a few ounces per day of malathion-
treated soy products. Dairy cows might eat ten
pounds per day or more of that same product with
higher permissible residues. Day after day. Week
after week. Thousands of doses.

The actual human dose of malathion for milk drinkers
or meat eaters may very well be thousands of times
greater than the maximum standard for human tolerance
as set by EPA.

Mal means bad, and malathion (Dimethoxy Phosphino
Thioyl Thio Butanedioic Acid Diethyl Ester) is the
baddest of pesticides. Exposure to malathion can
result in a vast array of human conditions, including
birth defects, cancer, chromosomal, brain, and kidney
damage, leukemia, and often-times death.

Many hundreds of different pesticides are used on
America's farms. In most cases, the allowable
levels of pesticides in feed for farm animals is
significantly higher than it is for human food.

Other pesticide ranges include acetochlor (7 times
higher for animal feed), alachlor (3.5 times greater),
bentazon (60 times greater), carbaryl (20 times
greater), chloroneb (20 times greater), diflubensuron
(10 times greater), diphenamid (5 times greater),
fenvalerate (20 times greater), methomyl (50 times
greater), methyl parathion (10 times greter),
metolachlor (40 times greater), and norflurazon (10
times greater). Many more pesticides are used.

Eat soy or any fruit and vegetable, and you get
one dose. Eat organic soy, or organic fruits and
vegetables, and you receive zero doses of pesticides.

Eat animals who are permitted many more times
than the levels of pesticides tha are humans,
and who eat many hundreds or thousands of doses,
and you introduce poisons into your own flesh.

Is there any living creature higher on the
food chain than human adults who eat poisoned
flesh and dairy products?

Sadly, the answer is yes. The highest creature
on the food chain is the growing fetus whose
mother is exposed to these concentrated toxins.
After birth, her mother delivers these concentrated
pesticides to the child through breast milk.

Who protects Americans from pesticides? It is
the Environmental Protection Agency.

Why does EPA allow 8 parts per million of
malathion on soybeans grown for human consumption,
and 135 parts per million for farm animals?
Animals eat many more doses, and it is
concentrated in their milk and meat.

Those levels are established by scientific studies
performed on laboratory animals, whose systems do
not resemble human systems.

EPA establishes tolerance levels for pesticides
more as an enforcement standard than a safety
assessment. When humans eat soybeans, some of the
pesticides are lost after the beans are washed,
ground up, and made into other foods. EPA
attempts to reflect the "dinner-plate values" of
various pesticides, but does not do the same with
animal feeds containing dangerously high and
untested levels.

Who should care most about animal health? Those who
eat animals! Who should eat animals? Those people
who have no care regarding their own health.

In the case of malathion, cow soy forage is permitted
contain 17 times the level of pesticides as human soy,
and cows eat thousands of portions to our one portion.
The steak or ice cream contains fat, which captures
that pesticide, which does not degrade. In milk and
meat, consumers eat many more doses. Should not the
standard for animal feed be lower and safer than
human feed for that identical reason?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Jurisimprudence

"Litigation: A machine which you go into
as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
  - Ambrose Bierce

Wikipedia: "Jurisprudence is the theory
and philosophy of law"

On Friday, March 30, 2012, the Bergen County
Sheriff's department sent one of their officers
to my home. I heard the knock and met a uniformed
peace officer at the front door.

He then served me with papers. Many papers.
Notices of multiple lawsuits against me.

I have often said jokingly (semi-serious) that
when the revolution comes, I will be the first
to perish. Every side will have me atop their
hit list.

Friday proved me correct.

I am being sued, but not by whom I hoped and
expected. The dairy industry is not a part of
my new legal challenge.

I recall the story of Maximilien Robespierre,
who, during the French Revolution, headed the
committee which liberally used a device designed
by a French physician (Joseph-Ignace Guillotin)
to separate citizens from their opinions. Towards
the end of the revolution, Robespierre would
fall victim to that same machine.

I am being sued by four separate parties for four
separate reasons. Each one involves things I have
written in various Notmilk columns.

I have been advised by my attorney not to get into
specifics, but the four plaintiffs are Congressman
Ron Paul, Sally Fallon and the Price Pottenger
Institute, Ingrid Newkirk of PETA, and the Humane
Society of the United States (HSUS).

I can hardly afford to defend myself against one
lawsuit, and my attorney is not acting pro bono,
so I am appealing now for your help.

Please contribute to my legal fees by following the
instructions at this website:

http://www.NotmilkLegalFund.org

Thank you in advance for helping to save my ass-risk!

Prilay Oolsfay!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.TheRealNotmilk

How Can a Sinking Feeling be So Elevating?

Captain Kirk: "They say the sea is cold,
but the sea contains the hottest blood of all."
Dr. Gillian: "Whales Weep Not, D. H. Lawrence."
  - Star Trek Movie, The Return Home

Today's column is about an arrogant man whose
destiny it is to experience a violent death, and I
really want to be wrong about that, but he and I both
know it to be true. Today's column is about a man
who puts his life and convictions on the line. It's
about dedication to a cause. It's about passion and
an underlying theme of universal wisdom which connects
each of the creatures of this planet to one another.

What do you do for a living, and what is your
life's work?

I've worn many hats in my life. Warehouse manager,
production supervisor, dishwasher, chef, restaurant
owner, laboratory vivisectionist/researcher, real
estate salesman, real estate developer. Today, when
asked that question, I respond that I am an author,
lecturer, activist, historian, manufacturer, trouble
maker. I thought that all of my responses were kind
of cool, until I met a man to whom I posed that same
question.

"What do you do," I asked Paul Watson.

He smiled. The woman holding onto his arm giggled.
The bystanders who knew more about the man than I did
laughed good naturedly, conspirators in knowledge to
my ignorance. His response:

"I sink whaling ships."

That is how I met Paul Watson, the ocean warrior
who commands a vessel called "The Sea Shepherd."

Last month, March, 2012, Paul won one of the greatest
victories in the history of the animal rights movement.
He single-handedly beat the Japanese whaling industry.
He did not sink their ships. The captains of those
boats sailed home in shame with their rudderless
tail flippers between their legs.

Paul Watson and crew chased the Japanese whaling
fleet over 17,000 miles of Antarctic ocean as they
hunted Minke whales. The Japanese were given a
quota of 935 Minke whales which they could legally
kill in 2012. Due to Watson's courage and diligence,
the whalers gave up their destructive hunting mission
after taking the lives of 266 magnificent sea mammals
with their harpoons. We mourn the deaths of those
266 graceful sea-mammals while celebrating the lives
of 669 which were provided sanctuary through Paul's
heroic actions.

The Japanese whaling fleet had been given a $30
million subsidy to counter Watson's leviathan methods.
Watson's reaction:

"They allocated $30 million from the tsunami
earthquake relief fund this year to do what they're
doing. I don't know if they can continue to do that
every year. But you know it's become a glorified
welfare scheme and just to satisfy their national
pride. How much longer can they afford to do that?
I don't know."

Paul Watson and his crew look death in the face on
every voyage. Remarkably, many members of his crew
enlist for one or more voyages out of a sense of
adventure and enlightenment. These are not rum-laced
pina colada midnight cruises to San Juan. This is
something to which volunteers return, forever touched
by the reality of that link between all creatures.

Great philosophers have said that man can never
understand life until he looks death in the face.
Those who sail with Paul simultaneously look whales
in the face, while facing angry motivated hunters.

In 2006, Paul Watson's Sea Shepherd sideswiped a
whaling vessel off the coast of Australia. A vessel
ready to kill one of the whales that Paul risks
his own life to save. A whale that is protected by
man's treaties which are violated by those seeking
extremely expensive flesh sold by the ounce in
Japanese fish markets.

Perhaps you would like to thank Paul for his work:

http://www.seashepherd.org

If the spirit of adventure and justice is tempting,
there is a downloadable form waiting for you to
enlist as a future member of Paul's crew.

Paul Watson's Sea Shepherd is an ocean sanctuary
for non-human earthlings who rely upon such men
and women of conviction for friendship and survival.

A second crew that has saved whales:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYHfJks15jY

*   *   *   *   *

Whales Weep Not!
by D. H. Lawrence

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest,
the most urgent.

All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they,
as they urge on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs.
The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads,
the killers there they blow, there they blow,
hot wild white breath out of the sea!

And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual
ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas,
and through the salt they reel with drunk delight
and in the tropics tremble they with love
and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.

Then the great bull lies up against his bride
in the blue deep bed of the sea,
as mountain pressing on mountain, in the zest of life:
and out of the inward roaring of the inner red ocean
of whale-blood the long tip reaches strong, intense,
like the maelstrom-tip, and comes to rest
in the clasp and the soft, wild clutch of a
she-whale's fathomless body.

And over the bridge of the whale's strong phallus,
linking the wonder of whales
the burning archangels under the sea keep passing,
back and forth, keep passing, archangels of bliss
from him to her, from her to him, great Cherubim
that wait on whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the
waves of the sea, great heaven of whales in the
waters, old hierarchies.

And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling
their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange
whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning
and the end.

And bull-whales gather their women and whale-calves
in a ring when danger threatens, on the surface of
the ceaseless flood and range themselves like great
fierce Seraphim facing the threat encircling their
huddled monsters of love.

And all this happens in the sea, in the salt
where God is also love, but without words:
and Aphrodite is the wife of whales
most happy, happy she!

and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love
and the sea
she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among
the males and dense with happy blood,
dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

*   *   *   *   *

You might now begin to understand the bliss felt by
Captain Paul Watson, as the Japanese whale hunters
ended their hunt and sailed home through pounding
antarctic waves to the meter of a D. H. Lawrence poem.

Finally...as his crew sleeps, Paul Watson is serenaded
by a beloved concert which resonates from ocean depths
through the steel hull of his ship:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabT1L-nN-E&feature=related

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

The Biggest, Fattest Dairy Lie Ever

"Do not consider it truth just because it is
written in books, for a liar who will deceive
with his tongue will not hesitate to do the
same with his pen."
  - Maimonides

Reader's Digest (RD) is the dairy industry's
biggest cheerleader, but lately, they have
been promoting milk as a way of shedding
pounds. RD dairy-cheerleader highlight reel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnsu8O6EjZY

"Drink Milk and Lose Weight"

The dairy industry questions why the per capita
consumption of milk has been dropping every
year for the past 17 years, coincidentally,
just as Notmilk began its crusade against
dairy consumption. The 2012 dairy strategy is
to promote weight loss by drinking milk. Does
anybody really believe that lie? People are
not losing weight, but the dairy industry's
credibility can be compared to a falling
space shuttle.

Men's Health Magazine recently promoted the
milk-drinking program as an effective weight
loss diet. On March 29, 2012, MSNBC reported
that the best way to lose weight was to drink
milk, and plenty of it!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46880168/ns/health-mens_health/

The Hindu newspaper continuously promotes unreal
claims of the dairy industry and they also reported
the weight-loss myth in their March 30, 2012 edition:

http://www.thehindu.com/life-and style/metroplus/article3258226.ece

Was milk designed for infants to lose weight?

You are asked to sacrifice your innate knowledge
and blindly accept the dairy industry's latest claim:

"Drink milk and get skinny".

What could be any more absurd than concluding that
a substance containing fat, cholesterol, plenty of
calories, and powerful growth hormones be considered
a miracle weight loss product?

Let's examine a bit of real science: a June, 2005
publication in the journal Archives of Pediatrics
& Adolescent Medicine (2005;159:511).

The study of 12,829 American children determined that those
who consumed more than three servings of milk per day were
35 percent more likely to become overweight than those who
drank little or no milk.

How about the additional dairy industry claim that fruit
juice is responsible for America's obesity epidemic. All
of the above nonsense is brought to you by the National
Milk Producers who claim that everything else causes
obesity in American children, particularly fresh fruit juice.

The average American receives nearly 12 times the amount
of calories from dairy products (547 calories per person)
each day as from juice (47 calories per person). Yet, the
dairy industry blames America's obesity epidemic on juice
consumption. Can they get away with this lie? Of course
they can, because television, radio, newspapers, and
magazines tell us so. The media grows rich supporting
the lie thanks to dairy advertising.

In a press release from those who would have
you drink body fluids from diseased animals:

"Increasing Numbers of Children Are
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge"

Milk and dairy foods are high calorie foods
laden with saturated animal fat and cholesterol.
They pack an additional wallop by containing
powerful growth hormones.

The dairy industry wrote:

"Childhood obesity has reached epidemic
proportions. To help children maintain healthy
weight, parents may be keeping sight of what's
on their kids' plate, but they often overlook
what's filling their glasses."

The milk processors cite Susan Baker, M.D.,
chairperson of the American Academy of
Pediatrics' Committee on Nutrition.

Dr. Baker's comment:

"Many parents don't realize that many fruit juices
contain a lot of sugar and calories with relatively
few nutrients in return. As a result, kids who drink
juice all day long are depriving themselves of
essential nutrients their growing bodies need."

Aside to Dr. Baker:

Kids don't drink juice all day long.

Just for the record:

1 cup of apple juice vs. 1 cup of milk

Apple Juice = 117 calories, 0.27 gms. fat,
0.0 cholesterol, zero growth hormones.

Milk = 150 calories, 8.15 gms. fat, 33.18 mg.
cholesterol, the most powerful human growth
hormone known to science, insulin-like growth
factor (IGF-I).

The most powerful growth hormone in a cow's
body is identical in structure (70 amino acids
in the same sequence) to the most powerful
growth hormone in the human body.

According to USDA food consumption data (edited by Putnam
and Allshouse), in 2011, the average American drank just
over 1/2 ounce of apple juice each day. (.558 oz)

Last year, the average American drank a total
daily juice consumption of 3.23 ounces.

At the same time, the average American consumed
the equivalent of 29.2 ounces per day of dairy.

Let's summarize:

Total calories each day from milk and dairy: 547
Total calories each day from fruit juice: 47

Children eat cheese. Apple juice is not
concentrated into cheese or ice cream. Ten
pounds of milk are required to make one
pound of hard cheese. Twelve pounds of milk
are required to make one pound of ice cream.

Where are the calories? Where are the obese kids?
Compare 47 juice calories to 547 dairy calories
and ask yourself how these lying dairy people
get away with it.

Drive by school yards and see the roly-poly
children. Where else on this planet can one find
obesity so positively correlating with
poverty? Malnourished children living in inner
American cities receive subsidized dairy products
for breakfast, snacks, and lunch. Their little
bodies become large bodies after consuming
a combination of high caloric, high fat food with
growth hormones.

The lies from America's dairy industry marketing
people are more than just deceptive. They are
criminal and they do harm to our children. The
dairy industry is America's biggest liar
for their continuous deceit.

Four other famous liars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX2tMmVVTiw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUW8JsLDsNo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M

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

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Angry Cows Kill Dairy Farmers

"If you prick us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?
And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
  - William Shakespeare

A few weeks ago, it happened again. The headline
read: "Cow kills dairy farmer's wife". When the
cow was a calf, they cut of her tail with a
carving knife. The dairy industry's term for that
is tail docking. Tail docking keeps a cow from
swatting its dirty rear end which is a buffet
for stinging barn flies. This procedure is done
so that tails do not also swat farm workers.

This time it was an English cow:

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/16/03/2012/131991/Farmer39s-wife-killed-by-her-own\
-cow.htm

The article explains that authorities are
opening up an inquest. They are going through
motions that are simply not necessary. At the
time of death, the farmer's wife was loading the
cow into a trailer. Where do you imagine that the
trailer was heading, for a lovely ride in the
British countryside? The cow knew. Yet, there
will be a formal inquest. The magistrate must
be a bloody twit.

Every time a dairy farmer dies after being
attacked by a supposedly placid dairy cow,
farmers pretend that they do not know the
reason. They do, of course, but to admit
understanding is to admit that the dairy
business is the least compassionate of all
farming methods.

Articles appear with writers searching for
the meaning, but dairymen refuse to reveal
what they know to be the cow's motive. In
their hearts dairy farmers know. The dairyman's
kids know too, and that is the reason many
go off to college to major in dairy, and then
do not return to their family farms which
continue to torture and torment cows.

What makes a cow angry enough to attack and kill
a human? During the Ides of March, 2012, a dairy
farmer's wife became a cow's revenge.

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

Everybody who has worked or lived on a dairy farm
knows the painfully anguished cry of the mother
cow, and the softer and more tragic call of the
calf. The crying keeps human witnesses from sleeping
for many weeks. Given the opportunity, the
outraged mother cow often seeks revenge upon
the clueless human caretaker who knows in his
heart her anger. In a 100-cow herd, he sees this
protest 100 times each year.

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

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

According to the Post:

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

Canadian researchers have demonstrated that dairy cows
are more sophisticated than farmers realize. We prick them.
We tickle them. We wrong them. And then, we expect that
they will not remember...

In the United States, we shall kill ten million animals
today for our food, and as each one's neck is sliced,
we expect that they will forget and forgive the sum of
their life and death experience. We eat and absorb
their pain into our own flesh.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Dairy Bastards Come to Terms With Their Treachery

"Illegitimis non carborundum. Don't
let the bastards grind you down."
  - Joseph Stilwell (AKA Vinegar Joe)

The April edition of the Journal of Dairy
Science (J Dairy Sci. 2012 Apr;95(4):1699-708)
made my day on April 1, 2012. This was no April
Fools Day joke.

Dairy scientists measured the levels of steroid
estrogens in commercial cow's milk and goat's
milk and concluded:

"A lower combined concentration of estrone and
estradiol was found in goat milk than in any
of the cow milk products tested...Goat milk
represents a better dietary choice for
individuals concerned with limiting their
estrogen intake."

Can you believe they admitted this truth in a
pro-dairy journal? Yippee!!!

Wait--it gets even better.

In their abstract, the authors (Farlow DW, Xu X,
Veenstra, TD) admit:

"Increased levels of estrogen metabolites are
believed to be associated with cancers of the
reproductive system. One potential dietary source
of these metabolites that is commonly consumed
worldwide is milk."

Pinch me please. I must be dreaming...

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood
there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming
dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
  - Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Variations on a Theme of Ice Cream-Politics

Ben & Jerry's ice cream got its start in Vermont
during the same year that Jimmy Carter ran America's
economy into the ground. There have been six American
presidents during the 34 years that Ben & Jerry's has
been scooping us their dioxin ice cream cones. See:

http://notmilk.com/benjerry.html

Question:

How many United States Presidents have been
honored by Ben & Jerry's with a flavor named
after them during the past three+ decades?

Answer:

It's only happened once, and the award goes
to President Barack Obama. In honor of Obama's
2009 inauguration, Ben and Jerry's created
"Yes, Pecan" after Barack's campaign slogan,
"Yes, We Can".

This time around, we are hoping for a new flavor
with which to honor Mr. Obama. Something like
"No, We Can't" with large chunks of cantaloupe
mixed with vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate
sorbets.

And then I got to wondering...

If raw milk supporter Ron Paul wins, perhaps
Ben and Jerry's can come out with an ice cream
containing large chunks of orange lox and name
it after his supportive wife, Ella. We'll call
the salty dessert, "Got Salmon, Ella?"

Moving up the line, here's one for ultra-right
wing religious zealot, Rick Santorum: "Got a
Prayer-of-a-Chance?" filled with all sorts of
mixed nuts.

Let's not forget Newt Gingrich who gains his
support from numerous major corporate special
interests groups. Gingrich bashes Romney for
his ties to a private equity corporate greed-type
firm like Bain Capital, while simultaneously
having ties to a similar firm, Forstmann Little.
Newt's largest donor has been Sheldon Adelson, a
company owning casinos and recently investigated by
the Securities Exchange Commission for bribes of
foreign officials related to gambling casinos.

Many hope that Gingrich will never again have the
opportunity to reproduce his own species by
marrying a younger woman as he has done before.
Saturate vanilla ice cream with the artificial
sweetener, NutraPoison and name the new dessert,
"Neutered Gang-Rich."

Last but not least comes Mitt Romney. Mitt is a
tough one. He seems so normal compared to the
other Republicans running for President.

Romney, unlike many others, seems to speak his
mind and does not say idiotic things to get himself
into trouble. Fill his vanilla ice cream treat with
chunks of date-nut bread and call it: "Normal
Republican Candid-Date" and add this asterisk on
the carton: *This product is completely free of
pecans, walnuts, and cashews.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Athletes Cheating by Taking Growth Hormones in 2012

On Thursday of this week (April 5, 2012), I listened
to the New York Mets on radio as I drove home from
New York City after doing a television show for
a major network investigation on milk. On Friday,
I listened to the New York Yankees lose their
opener while writing this column, wishing that
they had taken a performance-enhancing drug or two.

It's baseball time, and that can only mean one
thing. Ballplayers will be seeking illegal and
undetectable drugs to increase their muscle
mass; drugs which cannot be tested. Have I
got a drug for you!

Today's column contains information instructing
student athletes or professional competitors in
the art of cheating by enhancing muscle growth
after skin-popping growth hormones sold without
a prescription. No ID is necessary for purchase.
These hormones are being sold in America's schools
to children as young as eight years of age, under
the supervision of school administrators without
parental knowledge.

When muscle-bound ironmen such as Ray Nitschke and Jerry
Kramer helped Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers win
Super Bowls I and II with natural non-steroid induced
brawn, there existed a group of European athletes who
began their unique program of artificially sculpting
their upper torsos of their own bodies with hormones.

When the Berlin Wall came down, documents revealed
widespread cheating by the 1976 female East German
swimming team, but the program actually began eight
years earlier, with a unique hormone therapy called
milch.

In private conversations with the same Sports Illustrated
reporter who broke numerous steroid hormone use stories,
I was told that the East Germans were skin-popping liquid
milk. They would inject milk directly into their muscles
and the growth effects were astonishing.

The East German women's swim team consisted of muscle-
bound females with frighteningly broad shoulders. These
hormone freaks stood out because of their physiques,
because they won 12 of 14 gold medals in swimming
competition in the 1976 games, and because of the fact
that they were popping pills and injecting steroids at
a rate that would make Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire,
Jose Canseco, and Jason Giambi seem like Hardy Boys
and Bobbsey twins in comparison.

Why do I want to make it so easy for athletes to cheat?

Because, in a world in which there has been enormous
publicity regarding the natural presence of growth
hormones in milk, society still does not get it. Cow's
milk is a dangerous substance for growing children, and
only a small percentage of people are aware of the
significance of consuming growth hormones.

Whether one drinks the milk or injects it, or drinks
directly from the cow's udder, it's still hormones,
stupid! How could mothers and fathers of young kids
continue to wear blinders regarding this issue?

Perhaps, if there was just a little bit more abuse,
and a little bit more publicity as a result, the world
would get what they've been missing. "Got milk" means
that users are getting hormones, and those hormones
work to do exactly what they were designed to do.

Since the most powerful growth hormone in milk is
identical to the most powerful growth hormone in
the human body, IGF-1, and since IGF-1 has been
identified as the key factor in the growth and
proliferation of every human cancer, understand
what motivates me.

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

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Ya Don't Hafta be Jewish to Enjoy Passover Traditions!

At the Last Supper, Jesus drank wine and shared
bread with his disciples. Wine and bread (unleavened)
play a major role in the seder meals Jews share with
family and friends during their Passover feasts. Was
the Last Supper a Passover Seder, as some scholars
suggest? As a part of this annual tradition, Jewish
people ask four questions. The first, is "Why is this
night different from all other nights?" Those who adore
Jesus wonder about this same question and answer on
this holiest of weekends.

http://bible.org/question/was-last-supper-passover-seder

If you are like most Americans, you will be sharing
this Sunday with family and friends for a celebration
ending with a joyful feast. Happy Easter!

Today is the third day of the Jewish celebration
of Passover. One traditional dish that we enjoy is
charosis, a mixture of grated apples, cinnamon,
chopped walnuts, and blackberry wine. Charosis is
supposed to symbolize the mortar used by Pharoah's
Jewish slaves to construct buildings, cities, and
pyramid schemes.

God offered to deliver the Jews to a land filled
with milk and honey. It did not seem like such a
bad offer at the time. My direct ancestor, Aaron
(every male named Cohen has the brother of Moses
in his family tree) pondered, "Slavery or milk?
- Slavery or milk?" It was a tough decision...

Charosis is eaten with matzoh during the seder meals.
Most Jewish families in the New York area take advantage
of supermarkets that offer for a complimentary package
containing 5 1-pound boxes with every $25 purchase.

Matzoh is that traditional bread replacement which Jews
baked in the desert while escaping from Pharaoh's troops.
Having no time to leaven bread, matzoh became the 18-minute
staple (from mixing of dough to eating). If you're not
Jewish, you'll recognize matzoh as a giant wafer-thin
perforated Saltine-like cracker, seven inches long and
seven inches wide. This remarkable food contains just two
ingredients, wheat flour and water. Its texture is crunchy
and its taste is neutral.

After Passover, leftover matzoh can be enjoyed with Hummus.
Hummus is probably the number one calcium-rich food on this
planet unless you are a scavenging hyena who crunches and
munches on discarded bones left over from lion kills.
Hummus is made with chick peas (Jews do not eat chick peas
during Passover), which contain 150 milligrams (mg) of
calcium per 100-gram portion and sesame seeds (1160 mg).
Compare that to human breast milk containing 33 mg calcium
per 100-grams.

Every Jew worth his salt (with the exception of Lot and his
lovely wife, Wattzernaym) is left with multiple boxes of
unopened matzoh after each Passover, to be stored on the
very top shelf of the least accessible kitchen cabinet.

I am baffled by a riddle of biblical proportions.

How did the Caananites develop a technology to put milk into
a bottle and keep it from poisoning thirsty consumers? Four
thousand years ago, there were no outlets in which to plug
General Electric refrigerators. Was milk ultra-pasteurized?
Did the Israelites put drawings of missing prophets on the
sides of their milk bottles?

Milk & the Bible (King James Version) - JUDGES 4:19

"And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water
to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk,
and gave him drink, and covered him.

RIDDLE:

How did a Bedouin open a bottle of non-pasteurized milk in
the desert heat three thousand years ago?

ANSWER:

Verrrry carefully!

JUDGES 4:21

"Then (she) took a nail of the tent, and took a hammer in
her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into
his temple...for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died."

If the nail didn't kill him, the rancid milk might have done
so. What powerful stench awaited those milk drinkers? Did
the children of Israel buy "sicks" packs?

In the third edition of his dairy textbook, Modern Dairy
Products, Lincoln Lampert writes:

"A drop of sour milk may contain more than 50 million
bacteria...a new generation may be formed every 20 minutes."

So...where did those bottles of milk come from, where were
they stored, and who had the courage to drink something that
must have stunk to high heaven?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Olympic Athletes Were Given Hormones Without Their Consent

So too are some American School Children.
The truth must be known.
The truth must be shared.

I watched an astonishing documentary on Easter
Sunday. The theme was about a group of teenage
athletes who were given illegal anabolic hormones
to increase their Olympic performances. See:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/episodes/doping-for-gold-2/42/

The 53-minute video is was one of the most powerful,
informative, and shocking documentaries I have ever
seen.

The athletes were doped without their knowledge
and gained enormous success by winning Olympic gold.

All of them grew enormous muscles. Some of them
died after being drugged. All of them had bodies
which experienced tragic hormonal consequences.
Women grew beards and hair on their back.

The nation was East Germany. Their bodies were
used by politicians with an agenda, and the kids
and their parents were never told. One whistleblower,
a medalist, is currently being shunned by her colleagues.

If a professional athlete takes human growth hormones
and works out in the weigt room, that athlete will grow
large muscles rapidly and outperform competitors.

If a professional athlete is caught taking human growth
hormones, he or she can be banned from competition or
spend a season or two in jail where that athlete will
receive complementary growth hormones three or more times
each day.

If a child takes growth hormones and works out as hard
as a professional athlete, that young person will grow
large muscles.

If that youthful hormone user spends half of his life
on the Internet or in front of the television, he/she
and his/her fellow adolescents and teens will collectively
be called "The Obesity Epidemic." Instead of muscles,
those same growth hormones will instruct tummies and tushies
to grow quite large. Pass a schoolyard or attend a June
high school graduation for confirmation of this
"growing" trend.

Human growth hormone (hGH) once was the drug of choice
for athletes wishing to excel. Then, insulin-like growth
factor (IGF-I) was identified as the most powerful
growth hormone in the human body.

The only hormone in the animal kingdom (4,700 different
mammals) identical between two species is IGF-I. The two
species are human and cow. Drink thir milk; eat their
cheese; ingest that same hormone. In our bodies, when
IGF-1 is manufactured, it rapidly breaks down or binds to
IGF-I receptors. When we eat IGF-I from the cow, it is
protected by casein which "clumps" to prevent breakdown,
and in homogenized milk, micronized liposomes (very tiny
fat molecules) envelop and protect the growth factor
allowing it "survive" for 30 minutes or more. There can
be one-trillion such fat molecules in a pint of milk.

Every tiny half-pint of milk given to kids eating lunch
in school will double the amount of IGF-I in their
bodies. IGF-I is the key to cellular growth. IGF-I does
not discriminate between fat cells, muscle cells, or
cancer cells. IGF-I makes all exisiting human cells and
tissues grow.

There is more. Much more. The following is guaranteed
to put a sour milk taste in your mouth:

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

Robert Cohen
http://www/notmilk.com
http://www.notmilk.com/TheRealNotmilk

California's Unhappy Cow Farmers

"Let us be grateful to people who make us
happy, they are the charming gardeners
who make our souls blossom."
  - Marcel Proust

The California Dairy Industry finances a
nation-wide campaign intended to have us
think that California is home to "Happy Cows".

Two contrary versions of Happy Cow reality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s1z61vtmo0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbZSojMvikw

Most male calves never make it to auction
where farmers net $5 per calf while transport
costs $15 per animal. Bullets are cheap, and
composting manure piles are an efficient
means of getting rid of the evidence that
male California calves are not-so happy.

The screams of female calves meant to one
day produce milk are additional evidence
that there is no happiness when a cow's
horns are burned or severed from her head
by dairymen who do not use anesthesia on
sensitive richly-ennervated horn buds.

The spent dairy cows transported to slaughter
stuffed tightly into trucks with other pained
creatures; the ones with tumors and bone
injuries and Johne's Disease and mastitis; all
soon to be prodded with painful electric devices
as they walk around the auction ring, parading
before those bidders who seek the choicest animals
to feed cats and dogs and hungry human kids who
go to fast food restaurants seeking toys in white
bags; these are not happy cows.

The stun gun to the head before slaughter;
the knife cutting through the aorta and carotid
artery; the choking to death on one's blood;
the flailing legs cut off with chain saws so
that slaughterhouse workers not be injured;
the painful indignity of death to those who
remain conscious during the entire process;
these are not "Happy Cows".

In 2011, California's "Happy Cow" farmers were
paid an average of 18 cents for each pint of
milk they trucked to dairy processors.

In 2012, these same sad dairy farmers will
pay more than double what they paid for corn
to feed their cows than they paid just three
years ago. The price of hay has tripled in three
years. The price of medicine has soared. Even
the price for the genetically engineered
bovine growth hormone which results in
more un-needed milk for America (ending up
as subsidized dried food paid by overtaxed
citizens and sent to third world nations).

In 2012, it will cost an unhappy California
dairy farmer 19 cents to produce a pint of
milk for which he (or she) will be paid
13 cents.

Just who is happy? Members of Senate and
House agricultural committees who are paid
bribes by the dairy industry (legal PAC money)
so that happy legislation is kicked back to
the unhappy California dairymen who torture
"Happy Cows".

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Aging & Adversity

When I crossed the finish line after completing
my first triathlon two years ago following a
one-mile swim, 25-mile bike ride, and a 6-mile
run, my daughters Sarah and Jennifer were there
at the finish line to applaud my effort. They had
no idea that after the bike portion and before the
10K run, I had depleted my glycogen and "hit the
wall" having nothing left. The last 6 miles began
with one painful step, and more than ten thousand
steps later, I finished the race because it was
something I just had to do.

A few years prior to the race, while unsuccessfully
attempting to recover from a failed spinal fusion
operation, Sarah had said to me,

"Hey dad. You told me that you were never going to get
old. You now walk with a limp and a cane and sometimes
get around by wheelchair and complain about the pain
in your back...you're looking like an old man to me,
but I still love you."

In 2007, I wrote:

Our family has a funny way of showing we care, and I
laughed along with Sarah's comment, but his year has
been one of personal adversity and a recognition that
my body is rapidly aging. Although I still still believe
that I look at the world through 18-year-old eyes, the
reality is that I am feeling closer to 81, and these
eyes have experienced two cataract operations followed
by two painful detached retina surgeries. At the very
ripe olde age of 55, for the first time in my life, I
am not doing the things that I could do at age 18.

I am not playing racquetball every day as I did just
one year earlier. I am not body surfing in the ocean or
taking long walks or going to Yankee stadium or riding
my ten speed bike through the 20+ miles of park-like
bike trails in Ridgewood, NJ near my home.

Aging and adversity. They sometimes visit hand in hand,
and when they show up unexpected, it can be a physical
and emotional shock to one's system.

As we age, our bodies change. I wish that there was a
concept called "youthing" but despite the promises of
modern-day snake oils, potions, and phony vitamins
and supplements, most of us are fated to grow shorter,
get weaker, need serious dental work, deal with receding
hair lines, experience weakened cardiovascular and
skeletal systems, and very simply, grow old. Some of us
do it with grace, while others just fall apart, relying
upon pills and television to help pass the time and hide
the symptoms.

Each episode of aging is a challenge. To some, each
episode of aging becomes an adversity from which there
is no recovery.

I've had my own wake-up call after a 2005 accident and
subsequent 5-hour unsuccessful spinal fusion surgery.
Another surgery is planned to undo the first round. So
far, medical bills have exceeded $300,000.

Wanna see a magic trick? I can make money disappear.

I am getting older, but I've made the decision not to
die "old", even if that actual age of death becomes 80,
90, or 100. My back injury and subsequent surgery have
created a disability of sorts, but I'm going to work
my way through this first-time adversity. I predict
that you will one day see me speaking with greater
vitality and looking a whole lot healthier and fitter
than the last time you saw me.

I hope one day to be approaching recovery mode. At
that time I hope to do more than just recover from my
injury. I plan on putting a halt to my own personal
bout of aging and begin to "youth" myself. That
means rehabbing through pain by swimming and working
out at the gym. That means taking fewer drugs to mask
the excruciating back pain. That means early to bed,
early to rise, and watching what I eat.

Of course, diet plays an enormous role in both youthing
and aging. I eat a pretty strict vegan diet, but my
choice of foods can sometimes be better. I have not
been eating organic foods to the degree that I should,
and will be adding more organically grown produce to my
diet.

In this week's New York Times science section (July 17,
2007, page 6) I read:

"People who choose organic fruits and vegetables to
avoid pesticides and other chemicals may have another
reason to buy organic. A new study finds that organically
grown tomatoes have higher levels of flavonoids, which
may protect against cardiovascular disease."

I am inspired by the work of writer Ellen White, who
happens to have been the most translated author in
the history of American literature. Her work has meant
so much to me, that I have written two books to honor
her wisdom, "God's Nutritionist" and "Food For Thought."

Some passages from "Food For Thought" are appropriate to
my own past year of aging and adversity.

On the subject of adversity, White wrote:

"So long as we are in the world, we shall meet with
adverse influences. Day by day and year by year we
shall conquer self, and grow into a noble heroism."

{Ellen G. White, Ministry of Healing, page 487}

During the American Revolutionary War, Thomas
Paine's Common Sense mirrored White's wisdom:

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is
dearness only that gives everything its value. I love
the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress and grow brave by reflection."

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

On the subject of aging, White wrote:

"So far as possible let those whose whitening heads
and failing steps show that they are drawing near to
the grave remain among friends and familiar associations.
Let them worship among those whom they have known and
loved. Let them be cared for by loving and tender hands."

In "Food For Thought, I mirror White's advice with a
quote from Douglas Macarthur:

"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to
live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a
number of years. People grow old only by deserting their
ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up
interest wrinkles the soul."

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

Most people know General MacArthur by his words,
"I shall return." Those words work for me too, but
I'd just as well recognize that to give up interest
"wrinkles the soul." For as long as I live, I intend
to combine that with Ellen White's "...we shall conquer
self, and grow into a noble heroism."

Robert Cohen
i4crob@...
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Revisiting an Animal Researcher who Doesn't Get It

"Of the billionaires I have known, money just
brings out the basic traits in them. If they
were jerks before they had money, they are
simply jerks with a billion dollars."
  - Warren Buffett

Six years ago, I wrote about a company called
Myogen, calling it a "potential billion dollar
company." The founder is an animal reseaarcher
named Leslie A. Leinwand, and she performs
absurd heart research on laboratory animals
at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

How absurd is $2.5 billion? That's the price
Dr. Leinwand received in early March of 2012.

I found this posted on March 18, 2012 on
her website:

http://www.hhmi.org/grants/professors/leinwand_bio.html

"One day last year, a dejected cardiology research
fellow in Leslie Leinwand's lab sought her out.
He could not begin his experiments to test the
role of estrogen in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,
a genetic form of heart disease that leads to
thickening of the walls/chambers of the heart,
because none of his mice were showing any symptoms
of the disease."

"The only thing he had done differently with the mice,
he told Leinwand, was to switch them from their
usual soy-based diet to a comparable milk-based
diet. He did so because a colleague mentioned that
soy, with its large concentration of plant estrogens,
might confound the estrogen experiment."

"Leinwand's students will also do research using a
colony of green and brown Burmese pythons housed
in the basement of the psychology department."

*   *   *   *   *

The student's mice had been genetically enginered
and bred to naturally have heart disease.

Soy does not contain estrogen.
Milk contains estrogen.

Her graduate student does not get it either,
but since her mice did not get heart disease as
she planned, Dr. Leinwand now finds it approprite
to test her heart theories on snakes living in
the basement of her laboratory. I wonder whether
lightening bolts play a role in her experiments.
I also wonder whether she brings them back from
the dead so that she can do research on reptiles
with two-chambered hearts and apply her theories
to humans with four-chambered hearts.

I wrote the following six years ago in a Notmilk letter:

Soy Causes Heart Failure

Hundreds of years ago, Jonathan Swift wrote (in
Gulliver's Travels) about an island of research
scientists living atop a cloud that floated
above the earth's surface. Swift's descriptions
of research studies appear as absurd to today's
reader as present-day research will appear to 22nd
century philosophers, sociologists, and scientists.

That being said, I have been called upon by a few
dozen of my own readers to explain a recent
publication by Dr. Leslie Leinwand of the University
of Colorado regarding soy consumption and heart disease.

I came, I saw, I conquered. I obtained the study.
I analyzed same. I've finally conquered my desire to
ever again frustrate myself by searching for hidden
agendas, biases, and conflicts of interest.

This study takes the cake for the worst abuse of
deception yet, that has become the new nature of
scientific research.

My conclusion, first. Can soy consumption cause
heart disease? Absolutely, so long as you are an
unethical scientist willing to bend the rules of
logic and ethics, and then, only if your subjects
are genetically engineered male transgenic mice,
created to naturally have heart disease by the
insertion of, and re-combination of human genetic
material and rodent genetic material.

The darndest thing is that the lead researcher
(Dr. Leslie Leinwand) is the founder of Myogen,
a potential billion dollar company who
unscrupulously gathers NIH government funding
at taxpayer's expense to conduct Frankenstein-like
research. If things do not go their way initially,
such scientists change parameters midway, like
changing the rules of a basketball game, and add
layer upon layer of deceit to a study which
laypersons and investigative reporters lack the
skills to decipher. So, allow me to share the
evil. You will then understand why I have little
desire to return to the scene of such crimes.

I am completely disgusted and anti all rodent
research. Half of the cancers that rats get, mice
do not get. Half of the cancers that mice get, rats
do not get. To expect me to accept applied data
from one rodent species to humans, when one rodent
species cannot fairly be applied to another rodent,
is one of the key fatal flaws in animal studies.
Animal research is a betrayal to both humans
(who rely upon such data) and animals (who
needlessly die in pain).

One example of the betrayals is what was learned
from polio research in the 1940s. The Polio vaccine
would have been approved for use 15 years earlier,
had not all of the test subjects (chimpanzees) died.

In the case of the soy/heart study, a new creature
was developed as the test model. This creature was
neither man nor mouse. It was man-mouse. I refer
to the subject as the not-so-mighty mouse.

Imagine 21st century technology. Cells from
extremely ill human heart patients, waiting to die,
were extracted and implanted into mouse embryos.
A new species of mouse with thin arterial walls
was thus created. Such an animal model never
occurs naturally in this world. The study was more
than undignified. It was deceptive.

Rats and mice are both fed standard animal feeds.
When I was a young researcher, we used Purina rat
chow. Unfortunately (for me at the time), the rat
chow was made from alfalfa, a substance high in
phytoestrogens. As my work was performed in the
field of neuroendocrinology and mammalian sexual
behavior, the feeding of phytoestrogens to rodents
presented an extraneous variable which compromised
and negated my own work.

In Dr. Leslie Leinwand's lab (and others, all of
the test animals are given a standard animal feed
that is rich in soy, even the control group subjects.

Dr. Leinwand feigned shock (she wrote, "much to our
surprise") when commenting upon the results of her
manipulated research data.

Consider this. There were no such results until she
changed the rules in the middle of her own game. When
she did not receive headline breaking news to fit her
agenda from her original data, she unethically
added additional isolated soy proteins (genestein
and daidzen) into the feed and random surprises
occurred.

She fed one group of animals this added supplement,
and another group milk protein (casein). The group
fed the milk protein grew obese. This potential
earth-moving information (milk protein causes obesity)
did not become the good doctor's revelation, because
it did not fill her agenda. Instead, her carefully
manipulated data exposed the random absurdity of
conflicting scientific results. The male transgenic
mice, designed to die from heart disease, did so at
a faster rate than the females.

The 21st Century Scientific Credo:

"Allow me to select the species of mammal. Tell me
what you want me to prove, in either direction. Give
me enough money. I will be your whore."

In the future, when asked to comment upon a
scientific study, I may very well throw my hands up
into the air and refer you to today's column. Digging
for truths often unearths treasures accompanied by
curses.

Now, for the good news. If you are reading this
and you are a transgenic male mouse, please forward
this study to your cardiologist. It seems clear that
if you were to immediately become a cheesehead, you
may become an obese happy rodent who might even live
a few weeks longer than the expected time in which
your heart was genetically designed to explode.

So what was Dr. Leinwand's hidden agenda? As founder
of Myogen, she has sent a message to Wall Street how
easy it is for a scientist in high places to move
the market. If this is not insider trading, what is?
In late December, as this news was being announced,
a Wall Street headline revealed:

"Myogen Vaults Higher on Trial"

It seems that Myogen's premarket trading value
gained 50%. Does anybody still not get it?

"Money often costs too much."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

Secs is a Four-Letter Word!

"When life does not offer Cointreau;
gratify your inner self with Triple Secs."
  - Robert Cohen, Friday, April 13, 2012

The secret of happiness and fulfillment for
each one of us is to be enjoy an excess of Secs.

1) Sleep
2) Exercise
3) Clean Food
4) Study the first three items,
either in books or on the Internet.

A more detailed explanation:

Sleep at lest 8 hours daily (to repair muscles)
from your daily aerobic workouts.

Exercise hard to stay loose and feel good.

Consume clean foods in order to have clean blood
to cleanse all of your body's tissues and organs.

Study (books or internet articles) all of the above.

Getting great Secs is advice we should all take to heart.

When life does not offer Cointreau;
gratify your inner self with Triple Secs.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."
  - Cicero

The April, 2012 issue of Actas Urologicas Espanolas,
the official publication of the Spanish Urological
Association (Actas Urol Esp. 2012 Apr;36(4):239-245),
contains a study in which dietary factors associated
with prostate cancer were evaluated. Researchers
compared the typical American diet (meat and potatoes
and dairy) to the "Mediterranean diet" (based upon
an eating plan containing an abundance of fresh
fruit and vegetables) and concluded:

"Diet risk factors have a role on prostatic carcinogenesis.
...Prostate carcinoma risk is reduced in persons on
Mediterranean diet compared with those on western diet.
The preventive effect of Mediterranean diet is due to
the great number and quality of phytochemicals with
antioxidant and antinflammatory properties..."

Scientists identified negative food factors as:

"..animal saturated fat, processed red meat, milk
and dairy products..."

Researchers identified protective factors which include:

"high daily ingestion of vegetarian products (cereals,
legumes, dried and fresh fruits, tubercles, vegetables..."

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"The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is
diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned
how to cook."
  - Andy Rooney

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk