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Is the way that milk is produced now that much different than from a generation ago? McDougall, Frank Oski, Gary Null and Neal Barnard. All of the above-mentioned health problems cleared up and my energy lev- els increased. It was 10 years later that I gradually reintroduced dairy prod- ucts into my diet (I still couldn't bring myself to drink straight milk). In a little over a year, my weight is out of control, excess mucus and upper respiratory problems are back with a vengeance, and I'm beginning to have joint and arthritis-like pains. I directly attribute this to my dairy product consumption. Your site has reaffirmed my conviction to live dairy-free. I look forward to reading your book and I'm grateful to you and others who are trying to re-educate all of us. It was 10 years later that I gradually reintroduced dairy prod- | The NOTMILKMAN's comments: ucts into my diet (I still couldn't bring myself to drink straight Dear Michael: A generation ago, the average dairy cow yielded milk). In a little over a year, my weight is out of control, excess _—_ just eight quarts of milk per day. Today, a typical cow yields 50 mucus and upper respiratory problems are back with a vengeance, quarts per day. and I'm beginning to have joint and arthritis-like pains. I directly A generation ago, cows ate grass. Today, cows are fed bone attribute this to my dairy product consumption. meal and blood meal from their brothers and sisters. Your site has reaffirmed my conviction to live dairy-free. I A generation ago, the cream rose to the top of the glass bottle. look forward to reading your book and I'm grateful to you and Today the milk is homogenised, the fat molecules are made small- others who are trying to re-educate all of us. er and become carrier mechanisms for protein hormones which survive digestion and bypass the gut. Milk, once put into glass Letter 167: Lauri Bartlema, Texas, 27 February 1998 bottles, is now put into plastic containers. I was fine until I read the "pus" part. Is it just as bad if you A generation ago, farmers were allowed to put one part per drink skim milk? hundred-million of antibiotics in milk. Today, farmers can put 100 times that level of The NOTMILKMAN's comments: antibiotics in milk. Dear Lauri: Skim milk is worse! A generation ago, there were few antibi- Americans have changed their diets. In . otics, ergo few antibiotic residues in milk. 1979 the average person drank 149 pounds A generation ago, cows Today, there are 52 different residues of of whole milk and 78 pounds of low-fat ate grass. Today, cows antibiotics found in milk. milk. By 1994 the numbers were nearl A generation ago, it was against the law to reversed. 75 pounds of whole milk, 104 are fed bone meal and approve a drug for our food supply that pounds of low-fat. We drink, on average, blood meal from their caused cancer in laboratory animals. Today, three ounces per day more of low-fat milk. thanks to Monsanto's attorney (Mike Taylor) Take the fat out of milk and you have a brothers and sisters. hired by FDA, the law prohibiting cancer in higher proportion of protein. Proteins in lab animals has been changed, minimising the milk, particularly casein, are what cause way FDA now looks at cancer. most of the allergies which I have written A generation ago, A generation ago, one out of 20 women about in my book, Milk: The Deadly farmers were allowed to was expected to get breast cancer. Today, Poison. according to an article in the New York A column in the US News & World put one part per hundred- Times (Nov. 8, 1994), 39 per cent of million of antibiotics in Report (Jan. 12, 1997, p. 22) revealed American women between the ages of that asthma deaths have more than . 40 and 50 have cancer in their breasts. doubled from 1979 to 1994. The milk. Today, farmers can A generation ago, it was rare to hear put 100 times that level of antibiotics in milk. National Lung Association is at a of a child getting cancer or leukaemia or complete loss to explain why. They needing a bone marrow transplant. conclude that there is no dietary fac- Today, this all breaks my heart. tor. Time for a wake-up call, don't Regards, the NOTMILKMAN you think? If you drink Elmer's glue (casein), wouldn't you expect those bronchioles in your lungs to close up? The horror of an asthma attack: the Interesting. The conclusions leave out victim gasps for breath but the glue in some steps, but worthy of consideration. the lungs brings on a terrible death. For 2,598 Americans in 1979 The fact that 60 per cent of cows have the leukaemia virus—do and for 5,487 Americans in 1994, milk was a deadly poison. The —_ humans catch leukaemia from bovine leukaemia virus? Is it in the US News & World Report article revealed that most sufferers milk? I am willing to buy a lot of what you say. were African Americans. They blamed asthma on poverty. What a lack of wisdom! Ninety per cent of African Americans are lac- | The NOTMILKMAN's comments: tose-intolerant. These people cannot digest bovine proteins. Dear Paul: Herds having 80 per cent or more cows infected Solution? Hire African Americans like Spike Lee, Patrick Ewing with leukaemia are not uncommon. Dairy industry expert Virgil and Naomi Campbell to wear those "milkstaches". Pay 'em each Hulse, MD, recently testified in pre-trial depositions for Oprah to betray their own race. Winfrey that 60 per cent of the cows are infected with bovine Regards, the NOTMILKMAN leukaemia virus. Hulse details how leukaemia crosses the species ho. h thank Mad Cane and Mill Qata Ve 1 Letter 269: Paul Gadebusch III, 5 April 1998 Letter 167: Lauri Bartlema, Texas, 27 February 1998 I was fine until I read the "pus" part. Is it just as bad if you drink skim milk? = A generation ago, cows ate grass. Today, cows are fed bone meal and The NOTMILKMAN's comments: Dear Paul: Herds having 80 per cent or more cows infected with leukaemia are not uncommon. Dairy industry expert Virgil Hulse, MD, recently testified in pre-trial depositions for Oprah Winfrey that 60 per cent of the cows are infected with bovine leukaemia virus. Hulse details how leukaemia crosses the species barrier in his brilliant book, Mad Cows and Milk Gate. You can buy the book from Marble Mountain Publishing at (541) 482 2048. Hulse identifies leukaemia clusters among school children and dairy workers, which he traces back to infected herds. I have devoted a chapter of my book, Milk: The Deadly Poison, to leukaemia. Lab animals treated with the hormones found in America's milk had an average spleen increase of 46 per cent after just 90 days. The same-size spleen increase in humans would Letter 175: Michael Stanley, New Jersey, 2 March 1998 Heard you on WFAN NY this morning. What a way to wake up on a Sunday morning! You definitely got our attention. I must admit, though, that it is a hard way for us to look at the product. My wife's first husband's family operated a dairy farm for years. I grew up down the street from a dairy farm. I spent many days there growing up. I remember many glasses of fresh milk. NEXUS - 29 blood meal from their brothers and sisters. " of antibiotics in milk. AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1998