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REVIEWS © products, is it wise for engineered growth B oO oO K Ss hormones to be foisted on consumers? All this and much more is excruciatingly MILK: The Deadly Poison documented by Robert Cohen in Milk: The by RobertCohen Deadly Poison. Following the US FDA's Publisher: Argus Publishing, USA, 1998 approval of rBGH in 1993, he embarked on ISBN: 0-9659196-0-9 (330pp h/c) a fact-finding crusade that revealed collu- Price: STG£22.00; NFGf54,90; sion between Monsanto (the company that USD$24.95; CAN$34.00 developed rBGH), various authorities (the Distributors: UK/Europe—NEXUS offices; | FDA, NIH, USDA, AMA) and Congress. USA—Argus Publishing, Inc. 301 Sylvan Between them they sanctioned a substance Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632, ph that has never been tested in human trials, (201) 871 5871, toll-free 1888 668 6455, —_ and that the European Community has even fax (201) 871 9304. deemed unsafe. You have been warned! ontrary to what the dairy industry would have us believe, milk and dairy products THE MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND are by no means a recipe for good health. by Katherine Routledge Cow's milk contains bovine growth hor- Publisher: Adventures Unlimited, USA, mones, bacteria and antibiotics, cholesterol 1998 (first published 1919) and tat pesticides and virukes, ° name but a ISBN: 0-932813-48-8 (404pp s/c) ew substances, and is implicated in causin, ina. : . : breast cancer, osteoporosis, heart diseases . Nara 9b Teotin ge roe STGE15; and chronic childhood illness. It cannot be Distributors: AustNZIUK/Eor NEXUS digested by any mammals beyond infancy— —Gfricas. YgA—Adventures Unlimited, PO and humans are no exception. Box 74, Kempton, IL 60946, ph (815) 253 But what happens when dairy cows are injected with a genetically engineered 6390, fax (815) 253 6300. . . bovine growth hormone? Apart from the n 1913 a scientific expedition set sail from cows suffering adverse health effects like Southampton, England, aboard the yacht mastitis (they're not meant to produce milk Mana on what would be a 24-year journey. in the quantities demanded by modern The Mystery of Easter Island (first published industry), their milk creates significantly in 1919 and now reprinted), documents their increased levels of the insulin-like growth outward voyage down South America and factor 1 (IGF-1) which is identical incows around Patagonia, the eighteen months they and humans. The hormone is not killed by spent on Easter Island, and their homeward pasteurisation or human gastric acids, and journey via Pitcairn Island, Tahiti, Hawaii its bioactivity rises nearly 30 times in the and San Francisco, through the Panama presence of oestrogens. When nations with | Canal to Jamaica and Bermuda and then the highest rates of breast cancer have the back home to England. highest per-capita intake of milk and dairy The author, Kathleen Routledge, accompa- nied her husband not only to document the voyage in words and sketches but, particu- arly on Easter Island, to study the inhabi- tants’ cultural and historical background while he investigated their artefacts. Her book remains a valuable sourcebook or what it tells of the Easter islanders' lives and the legends about their origins and wars, their strange rongo-rongo script (only recently deciphered), their "bird cult" rites (still being practised in 1914), and, of course, their enigmatic stone statues—most of which had been toppled or destroyed in the preceding 200 years of European pres- ence on the island. Routledge surmises that the islanders' ancestors migrated there in ‘waves’ no longer than 1,000 years ago. The expedition members explored the island's secret caves, roads, pyramid plat- forms and rock carvings as well as the stat- ues, some still only half-cut in their quarries. Their intrepid wanderings and meetings were amply photographed, illustrated and mapped for this now-classic text. THE MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND by Katherine Routledge Publisher: Adventures Unlimited, USA, 1998 (first published 1919) ISBN: 0-932813-48-8 (404pp s/c) Price: AUD$28.00; NZD$34.90; STGE15; NLGf37,90; USD$16.95 + p&h Distributors: Aust/NZ/UK/Eur— NEXUS offices; USA—Adventures Unlimited, PO Box 74, Kempton, IL 60946, ph (815) 253 6390, fax (815) 253 6300. n 1913 a scientific expedition set sail from Southampton, England, aboard the yacht Mana on what would be a 24-year journey. The Mystery of Easter Island (first published in 1919 and now reprinted), documents their outward voyage down South America and around Patagonia, the eighteen months they spent on Easter Island, and their homeward journey via Pitcairn Island, Tahiti, Hawaii and San Francisco, through the Panama Canal to Jamaica and Bermuda and then back home to England. The author, Kathleen Routledge, accompa- nied her husband not only to document the voyage in words and sketches but, particu- arly on Easter Island, to study the inhabi- tants’ cultural and historical background while he investigated their artefacts. Her book remains a valuable sourcebook or what it tells of the Easter islanders' lives and the legends about their origins and wars, their strange rongo-rongo script (only recently deciphered), their "bird cult" rites (still being practised in 1914), and, of course, their enigmatic stone statues—most of which had been toppled or destroyed in the preceding 200 years of European pres- ence on the island. Routledge surmises that the islanders' ancestors migrated there in ‘waves’ no longer than 1,000 years ago. The expedition members explored the island's secret caves, roads, pyramid plat- forms and rock carvings as well as the stat- ues, some still only half-cut in their quarries. Their intrepid wanderings and meetings were amply photographed, illustrated and mapped for this now-classic text. 78 NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1998