Between www.notmilk.com and www.hungerstrike.com there are over 400 WEB pages of valid information. Common sense should hint that the body fluids from ANOTHER SPECIES are not meant for human consumption. Especially something designed as SHORT TERM nutrition packed with growth hormones and COW-SPECIFIC immunizing agents.

However... more to the point... here is what the USDA says about cow's milk... along with what they have chosen to omit from WHOLE MILK!

Dear Clint,

Every dairy farmer in America is aware of the phrase:

"Somatic Cell Count." The abbreviated form is "SCC"

Farmers are paid a premium for milk with a low SCC. Milk with a SCC exceeding 750 cannot legally be sold. That would represent 750,000 cells per milliliter of liquid milk, or 750 million cells per liter.

Regards,

NOTMILKMAN'S COMMENT:

One wonders why somebody who already "knows it all" has to "bust his butt" studying as you admit you do.

You miss the point of my LUNG WORM column. I merely reviewed the ads contained in HOARD'S DAIRYMAN. There are hundreds of bovine diseases I could have reviewed. If companies advertise their products, one must assume that animals have the diseases.

BOTTOM LINE Humans drink body fluids from diseased animals in the name of good health. Those body fluids can contain PRIONS (the cause of mad cow disease), bovine leukemia virus (which passes to other species), bovine immunodeficiency virus, paratuberculosis (irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's).

One day you may learn a little more than you wish to admit to in vet school. Although Staphlococcus Aureus is killed by pasteruization, the toxin it secretes into milk is not. You may learn that listeria lives in cheese for up to six months, and takes up to 45 days to culture in the human body before the first symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea, high temperature) are observed.

The idea of eating the lung worm-infected flesh from animals is offensive to most people, Clint. That tickle in one's chest...that permanent cough may very well be caused by a wiggly friend.

Regards,

NOTMILKMAN'S COMMENT:

Biblical scholars agree that heaven on earth was located in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 1:29 reveals the ideal menu for man:

"I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food."

I ask you to use your imagination, and visualize a judgement day audience with whomever might be your concept of God. At that one-on-one meeting, there is a buffet table. Do you imagine that there would be rare lambchops dripping with blood, and beef tongue sandwiches? How about pink veal, cut from a baby cow? How about arms and legs from freshly butchered chickens? Ever visit Chinatown? A Chinese God might even include the head. Don't forget to eat the eyes and face.

My concept of the last/first supper would include the bounty of those fresh fruits and seeds. There would be ripe dates and olives, corn and apples, bananas and the very ripest of pineapples and mangos. The meal would include walnuts and almonds, and dozens of sprouts. Edible flowers and ripe peas and beans.

Dine in heaven, my friend, and eat those fruits with the brightest of colors, and the sweetest of perfumes and bouquets. Reject the dead flesh, which contains those hormones secreted at the moment of a fearful and stressed death. Eat a diet of foods with life including fresh enzymes. Let the live food nourish your cells and spirit.

Regards,

You posted a comment at the NOTMILK guestbook on September 6th, asking a question about a milk hormone, insulin-like growth favtor-I. (Guestbook letter #1889).

I see that you did not like the answer.

Milk also contains casomorphin, a morphine-type substance associated with attention deficit disorder and autism (according to Robert Cade, MD, University of Florida). One out of five children in America take RITALIN for this condition.

Your most recent letter makes it clear that you are not taking your medication, Russell. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Regards,

     Please read Mr. Cohen's update on this issue at:

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

     For a letter of apology by the culprits... please read the scanned letter at:

I have been accused of being a right winger, left winger, communist, Nazi, and capitalist pig. I've been called a male chauvinist and women's libber. I've been ridiculed as a know-nothing who never went to college, and been called a disbarred attorney, malpracticed physician, real estate developer, and failed dairy farmer.

While all of the above accusations are "perfectly true", why not focus upon the things I say and the science behind them. For centuries, critics have had to resort to attacking the messenger while ignoring the message. You are like many others who accuse me of using poor science, then fail to come up with just one example to substantiate your claim.

Regards,

Would you call informing the public of polluted water a "scare tactic" or common sense?

If informing the public about tainted water IS simple common sense... then why is informing the public of polluted milk more than common sense?

Then, just like tobacco, another subsidized bad-news substance, the consumer can (and will) choose as they see fit.

Dear Clint,

Either animal science majors, text books, and professors are wrong, or nursing mothers and pediatricians are wrong. You cannot have it both ways.

Does breastfeeding work? According to all that you learn in college, it cannot possibly work. In theory, lactoferrins and immunoglobulins must be destroyed in the nursing infant's tummy. There is of course, a flaw in your thinking and logic.

Breastfeeding does work! Children who are breastfed have higher IQ'S and greater immunological protection. These facts are not in dispute, having been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Milk was designed to allow its components to survive digestion. Milk buffers gastric pH so that strong acids are diluted. Milk proteins such as casein protect the hormones from gastric degradation.

By homogenizing milk, mankind has improved upon nature's natural mechanism, and made milk an even more efficient and powerful hormonal delivery system. Tiny fat molecules resulting from homogenization (micronized liposomes) act as carriers for these protein hormones, and are small enough to bypass the gut intestinal wall where they are absorbed intact into the bloodstream.

BOTTOM LINE, Clint. Does brestfeeding work? If your answer is that it does, you must recognize that drinking cows milk is merely another form of breastfeeding. Those growth hormones survive digestion in your tummy too.

You and your professors need re-educating, and those textbooks will one day be re-written by somebody possessing greater wisdom than the present-day authors.

Regards,

The NOTMILKMAN

In theory, NO SINGLE thing will ever be accepted by all people. Test something on six billion people? Perhaps that would satisfy you. Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, but the real scientific support for that universally accepted conclusion has never been demonstrated. In this case, there is much more evidence and an existing mechanism for cancerous growth. IGF-I, a milk hormone, is the key.

Three years ago, I helped 60 MINUTES do a story (Isadore Roesmarin was the producer) in which aspartame/NutraSweet was implicated as the cause of increased brain cancers.

In that case, epidemiologist John Olney, MD had traced an increase of brain cancers (astrocytomas and glialblastomas) to the five year period after aspartame was approved. Olney found a three percent increase across the board (sex/age) in these brain cancers.

I now reject animal research and do not cite it, with one exception. When I find research performed and fraud committed, I go for the jugular.

During the aspartame experiments, FDA concluded that there were no biological effects on lab animals from aspartame ingestion. I and others found otherwise. The same exact brain cancers in rats (extremely rare) occurred in humans (also extremely rare) and FDA lied.

I used this example to expose the system, and the fact that animal research is also a deception because pharmaceutical companies lie and deceive.

Well...the same thing happened with the bovine growth hormones. One difference...instead of a three percent increase, we are seeing increases of over two thousand percent in some age groups.

Regards,

PETA is PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). PETA is a large organization with people all over the planet. They have thousands of helpers who also donate time, effort and money to the cause.

http://www.peta.com/ They have LOTS of other appropriate sites

NOTMILK is NOTMILK (for the Ethical treatment of the NUMBER ONE ANIMAL, humans, who in turn, should ethically treat all other creatures). The Diary Education Board is a one man operation by someone who learned the WHOLE truth about cow's milk and dairy. NOTMILK operates on a shoestring, and Mr. Cohen pays for all the shoestrings.

As WEB site designer and WEBmaster I *donate* my time and efforts to his cause. Why? Because I am convinced that the powerful growth hormone IGF-1 (which is IDENTICAL between cows and humans) that I obtained through a lifetime of typical dairy consumption... CAUSED my surprise case of prostate cancer to GROW so fast that it was declared "terminal" (already spread) by the young age of 55. Call IGF-1 a "Plug and Play" hormone!

I am the FIRST among my hardy and long-lived Danish/German ancestors to acquire ANY form of cancer. I went looking for and FOUND the most likely reason(s) for its trigger. Visit http://www.dorway.com for over 500 WEB pages of good reasons WHY I am convinced that Equal in my coffee (aspartame) for fifteen years was the prime trigger for my cancer.

Shortly after that I went looking for what made it GROW so fast. When I learned about milk and IGF-1 I found the most likely reason why my cancer flourished in a cancer-resistant lineage. I felt duty-bound to help create the over 340 WEB page site http://www.notmilk.com and the 100+ page http://www.notmilk.com/hs to help spread the WHOLE truth on this tasty but sickening cancer fuel.

This is why I donate around 240 hours a month (for the past four years) to a very cost effective means to spread the WHOLE truth concerning aspartame, MSG and cow's milk and dairy... via Internet WEB sites. MSG is a kissing cousin "mind-blower" to aspartame that is in almost all processed foods. Aspartame was used in the placebos BEFORE it was even a legal sweetener. For more info on MSG (which has over 30 different "names") see http://www.truthinlabeling.org.

PETA and the Dairy Education Board have no connection other then linking to each other for obvious reasons... to promote the ethical treatment of all creatures... especially humans, maintaining Internet websites with free information, and caring for all critters (especially humans),

NOTMILK has no official affiliation with PETA... independently we share humanity.

I've addressed all biblical references to goat's milk in the following column:

http://www.notmilk.com/deb/081698.html

The land of MILK AND HONEY was a land in which breast milk would flow for a people whose first born child was slain in Pharaoh's Egypt. It would be a land of freedom and sweetness.

Regards,

Dear Michelle,

The MILK QUIZ is a parody, not a scientific argument. The following is no joke:

Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) has been called the key factor in the growth and proliferation of male prostate cancer (Chen, Science, vol. 279. January 23, 1998, p. 563), breast cancer (Hankinson, The Lancet, vol. 351. May 9, 1998, p. 1393), and lung cancer.(Yu, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, vol. 91, no. 2. January 20, 1999)

Regards,

Imagine how much needless suffering and worry could have been avoided... IF the media, medical system and others who consider cow's milk to be "natures almost perfect food", supposedly "necessary for proper nutrition", crucial to "good bones", etc. actually told the WHOLE story.

Mr. Cohen adds: "Robert Cade, MD (Univ. of Florida) identified a naturally occurring cow's milk hormone, casomorphin, as the cause of attention deficit disorder and autism. Congratulations! Now that you have learned the truth about milk, your child will not become the one-out-of five American kids on Ritalin."

Creating and maintaining a list of products containing milk or parts of it... would be impossible. The majority of processed foods seem to have something from milk in it. Anything that has something "caseinate" or whey... has dairy in it. You can find it in "non-dairy" creamers, many brands of canned tuna, ... anyplace where the manufactures needed a "binder" (casein is best used as an excellent furniture glue). There are whole lines of "health food" products that use whey, casein binders, and even colostrum .... the cows FIRST (and most potent) milk.

Just like the "flavor enhancer" called MSG (a mind blower) that has 30 different names (see http://www.truthinlabeling.org), and aspartame (the fake sweetener with 92 FDA acknowledged symptoms of poisoning... see http://www.dorway.com) ... components of milk can be found throughout the American food chain.

Dear Russ,

Bovine somatotropin (bST) and bovine growth hormone (bGH) are both different names/abbreviations for the same protein hormone.

Protein hormones are usually destroyed or broken down by gastric activity in the stomach, or enzymatic activity in the human intestines (gut).

When the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH/rbST) is injected into dairy cows, it works upon their pituitaries to promote the secretion of increased amounts of growth hormones, i.e., bGH and insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I).

While you are correct that bovine growth hormone and human growth hormone are different (both contain 191 amino acids, but the sequence differs by about 35%), IGF-I is identical in humans and cows.

Milk was designed (whether you believe in God, mother nature, or evolution) so that the lactoferrins, immunoglobulins, and hormones so contained would survive digestive processes and nurture the nursing infant of each mammalian species.

Milk first buffers gastric pH in the stomach. Meat from cows containing the same hormones would be broken down. Milk hormones are not degraded because of the buffering effect. A gastric pH of 1.8 (very acidic) is changed to a more basic 6.0 so that these proteins survive, intact.

Homogenized milk micronizes (makes smaller) fat molecules so that they become carrier vehicles for these protein growth hormones. These micronized liposomes survive gut breakdown, and are small enough to get through the gut wall and be absorbed directly into the bloodstream.

In October of 1999, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association published a study (Heaney, et. al) in which IGF-I levels in milk drinkers increased by a factor of ten percent!

IGF-I has been identified as the key factor in the growth and proliferation of prostate cancer (somebody tell Rudy Guiliani), lung cancer (somebody alert the cigarette industry), and breast cancer (tell that to the 1 out of 7 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer).

Regards,

The above referenced ADA test showed a 10% IGF-1 increase in participants who consumed only TWELVE OUNCES MORE milk per day (three 8 oz. glasses), than the control group (1 and a half glasses per day).

Dear Jeanne,

Sterilization works. One detonated thermonuclear device will generate 10 million degrees Fahrenheit. Should you be holding a glass of milk at that moment, you will ingest no antibiotics.

Consumers Union and the Wall Street Journal recently tested milk in the New York metropolitan area for the presence of antibiotic residues.

They independently found 52 different antibiotic residues in milk samples. Imagine that?

Dairy farmers will tell you that they are lying, and that every truckload of milk is tested. Who would you believe?

Regards,

Dear Shari,

As a result of your letter, I have been in close contact with the Washington State department of Agriculture. The head of the dairy division is a veterinarian, Candace Jacobs. As a result of my investigation, I have identified the dairy farm. Dr. Jacobs is taking this complaint very seriously, and will send inspectors to that farm.

I also spoke to your health department. I was told that what happens on that farm is not in his jurisdiction. I informed him that in my opinion, it was. Rotting bodies of downer cows may very well contain PRIONS, the particles that cause the human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease. Dr. Jacobs agrees that the health department should be involved.

I will keep you and all readers of my newsletter up to date.

To subscribe to the notmilk letter, send a blank EMAIL to:

notmilk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Regards,

Situation has been handled. Here is Mr. Cohen's update:

Early this week, a disturbing letter was posted to the NOTMILK Guest Book. The author, Shari from Spokane, Washington, described the most horrible of conditions on a local dairy farm. As a result of that letter, Robert Cohen spoke with the Spokane Health Department and the State Department of Agriculture.

Cohen learned that the farm in question had a very poor history of mistreating animals and of complaints.

Candace Jacobs of the State Department of Agriculture took an immediate "hands-on" approach and sent inspectors to the farm. She reported that the conditions described in that letter no longer exist.

The last cow death on that farm occurred in early July. Inspectors found the dairy cows to be free of disease and the stalls to be clean.

The farmer in question is milking 400 cows and has made substantial improvements to his operation insuring the comfort and safety of his animals.

Dear Nameless,

During the Korean war, 18-20 year old American soldiers who died in battle (in supposedly perfect physical condition) were autopsied and found to have athersclerosis--butter-like placques in their arteries.

It is now accepted by every scientific agency that animal fats and cholesterol do not make for a healthy heart.

I imagine that hearts from plant-eating PETAites are a lot pinker and healthier than the cholesterol-clogged hearts of cheese and meat eaters.

Regards,

Dear Cowboy,

You wrote:

"...have you ever heard a cow say 'I hate living in this barn where I get high quality feed, plenty of water, a roof over my head, and my manure cleaned up after me."

Substitute the word "negro" for cow, and you sound like the owner of an 1860 Alabama cotton plantation.

You also wrote:

"Your cause is nothing more than a greasy spot on the highway of the American dairy industry."

May I use that quote?

The 170 billion pounds of milk your industry produces in the year 2000, will contain 10.5 trillion milligrams of greasy cholesterol. That's one slippery highway, and a roadway to heart disease. Divide that by 270 million Americans, and we find the average American, thanks to dairy products, consuming 38,875 mg of cholesterol this year. The daily intake of cholesterol is 106 mg. There are 2 mg of cholesterol in a small piece of Armour bacon.

Thanks to your product, the average American consumes from milk and dairy products the same cholesterol in 53 slices of bacon, every day of his or her life. By age 52, that equals the same cholesterol in one million slices of bacon. Care to HAZARD a guess as to what is America's number one killer?

Thanks for your letter.

Regards,

Hey... if you ARE a dairy farmer you MUST know that within the past three years you had RECORD high prices ($17 and change per hundred weight) and that at the end of last year prices had fallen BELOW PARITY ($9.73) ... for the first time ever. Considering that prices are still very low, around eleven bucks per 100 pounds, it would seem that oversupply (thanks to genetic engineering and factory farms) and less demand as a result of the NOTMILK campaign... constitute a whole lot more than a "grease spot". :-)

However, PETA, http://www.peta-online.org and their affiliate site, http://www.milksucks.com are the folks who did the Guiliani advertisement, the beer is safer than milk ad, and I suspect they will be doing more to help ALL animals (humans included).

We are NOT trying to tell YOU what to eat. We simply inform consumers of what is IN what they are eating... and what it can do to them.

You can do whatever you please with yourself... just as long as it does NOT impact negatively on OTHERS. However, trying to mislead others DOES cause harm. That makes you an unwelcome "guest".

As for your "Drink Milk, It's good for you!" comment. Milk and dairy are good for the Fluid Milk Processors, Monsanto, USDA, FDA, doctors, hospitals, drug companies, morticians... and for thinning out the ranks of Social Security recipients... and many who never make it that far thanks to heart disease, cancer, etc. There is NO requirement or reasonable necessity for cow's milk or dairy in the human diet. Period.

Common sense should make you admit that if ALL, of the over 43,000 mammals on this planet (including humans) WEAN their young from ALL milk, when appropriate... and that consuming ANY milk after being weaned is NOT appropriate. Especially the milk of an alien species! Cow blood is alien to yours, her digestive system is alien to yours... etc. So... common sense should prevail that her MILK is alien to YOUR systems requirements (as it is to every human system).

What DO you consider GOOD for you?

http://www.notmilk.com and http://www.notmilk.com/hs exist primarily for the HUMAN animals... which does, in turn, impact on the welfare of cows and calves (and the many bulls that get the ax because they are not needed).

Denial of the truth will NOT improve your health or lengthen your life (for free, yet). Rather... by ignoring the truth you aid and abet such medical problems as obesity, heart disease, faster growing cancers, osteoporosis, diabetes, asthma, behavioral problems, and more.

Read and heed... or ignore and go to seed. Your choice.

Dear Russ,

Monsanto sent their top scientists and attorneys to work at FDA to gain approval for their genetically engineered bovine growth hormone. A revolving door has rewarded two ex-FDA Commissioners with Monsanto employment.

History will judge the approval process for rbST as one of the great scientific frauds of the twentieth century.

Levels of IGF-I always increase after cows are injected with rbST. IGF-I, the most powerful growth hormone in a cow's body, is identical in structure and amino acid sequence to human IGF-I. This powerful growth hormone has been identified as the key factor in the growth and proliferation of breast, prostate, and lung cancer.

Should Monsanto or FDA wish to reveal the scope of their betrayal, they would release the Richard, Odaglia, and Deslex study in which every lab animal treated with Monsanto's hormone got cancer. They will never do so, of course.

FDA concluded that there were no biological effects on lab animals from rbST-treatment. A few months ago, as a result of my hungerstrike, FDA admitted (in a ten page letter) that their original conclusion was not based upon truth. Lab animals produced antibodies to these proteins, negating their untested conclusion that bovine proteins are degraded in the stomach and gut.

BOTTOM LINE: Milk is a hormonal delivery system. Genetic engineering increases the amounts of naturally occurring growth hormones in milk.

Regards,

No, that is NOT true.

"FURTHERMORE," FDA's conclusion that heat treatment inactivates 90% of the BST in milk was a complete fraud.

They based that conclusion upon an experiment conducted by Paul Groenewegen and a group of scientists with Monsanto ties. (MacBride, Elsasser).

In the study, milk was pasteurized at 162 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes and only nineteen percent of the BST was deactivated. Milk is normally pasteurized for 15 seconds at that temperature, NOT 30 minutes!

Monsanto and FDA nearly got away with that lie. The fraud was published in the August 24, 1990 issue of SCIENCE (Juskevich & Guyer). Not one of SCIENCE'S 500,000 readers caught this error. If not for my efforts, the world would not have learned of this deceit.

Apparantly, Russ, you are still being brainwashed by this lie. By any chance, are you studying dairy science at Cornell University?

Regards,

Actually, no president has ever been "ideal". For too many years too many folks have said it seems to be a choice between the lessor of evils. Many say Regan was great for America... but he is the one who let aspartame get to market, and if he used it... that may have cost him his mind.

Nixon was said to have been great at foreign policy, but he is the one who took three million from the dairy folks and then twiddled with milk price supports that still bite the American taxpayer in the wallet.

The purpose of NOTMILK.com has nothing to do with politics. It has more to do with the RESULT of bad politics. NOTMILK, hungerstrike, DairyEducationBoard.com (new), and others are concerned with human health and the provable fact that cow's milk and dairy is VERY detrimental to the health of all who consume it.

However, a bit over two years ago I was introduced to the WHOLE truth about cow's milk. After learning about the powerful IGF-1 growth hormone, that is identical between cows and humans, I now understand WHY my surprise case of prostate cancer grew so rapidly that it had already spread by the young age of 55. IGF-1... is a key factor in the rapid growth and proliferation of cancers.

I have been dairy-free for over two years... and my often-cursed cancer now grows FOUR TIMES more *SLOWLY* without that extra IGF-1 my blood. For me, and I would submit FOR ALL CANCER VICTIMS... cow's milk is NOT a "taste to die for"!

The problem is, dear misguided Sara, that thanks to *MOST* governments, medical systems, insurance companies, and forms of mass media... THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH ARE DENIED IT!

For those who are not yet fighting an already diagnosed cancer... there are still the OTHER 58 hormones, scores of allergens, herbicides, pesticides, PCB's, dioxins, extra iodine, traces of up to 52 antibiotics, species-specific lactoferrins and immunoglobulins that create antibodies, calcium-depleting protein (casein), saturated fats (50% of whole milk, 34% of "2%" milk), enough cholesterol in three glasses of milk to equal 53 slices of bacon, viruses, perhaps some paraTB, prions (that lead to Mad Cow Disease)... all topped off by an FDA limit of 20 MILLION live bacteria and 750 MILLION somatic (PUS!) cells per liter. And... there is MORE!

Dear Nora Lee,

Thomas Edison was once asked to explain the secrets to his successes and include his credentials. Edison's response bears tribute to age-old advice regarding human discovery and progress:

"My success is due to one-precent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

I have basic tools, of course. As an undergraduate, I performed research in the field of psychoneuroendocrinology. One lesson, taught well, was to identify and eliminate extraneous variables during the course of designing an experiment. This skill enabled me to peel apart layer after layer of scientific fraud during the course of FDA's approval process for Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.

I consider myself to be a messenger. Is there any other individual or group on the World Wide Web with 1784 letters in his guestbook? Can you find one man or woman who has written a column, in his or her field for every single day during a continuous 500 day period? Read the letters, with my responses. Read the 'squirts' of notmilk wisdom. Every day I continue to learn new evidence about milk's harmful effects, and share them with my readers. My life work is who I am. Those are my credentials.

Regards,

Dear Carmen,

I disagree with you. I continued to make RUDE comments during my hungerstrike. One simply has to read my testimony before USDA & FDA to understand that I will use my brand of humor, sarcasm, and wit to call 'em as I see 'em.

Visit http://www.notmilk.com/hs/fdatestim.html for the FDA testimony.

Visit http://www.notmilk.com/hs/usdatest.html for the USDA testimony.

It is true that I insulted my wife for buying non-dairy creamer. She should have read the ingredients and have noted the presense of sodium caseinate, a milk derivative. My wife has heard me lecture about this at least eleventy-seven times, and knows better than most the effects that casein has on our children.

When it concerns milk and dairy consumption, I will continue to be the same obnoxious character that I have always been! I promise to be a bit gentler with those who have not previously heard the truth about milk!

Regards,

However, for the majority of dairy consumers the road to an early demise from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, asthma, etc. has a far slower, much more expensive, and more cruel path to the end.

http://www.notmilk.com/deb/squirts.html

The link to that specific document is:

Not facts, not logic, not even a youth on the right track.

Enjoy your 59 hormones, scores of allergens, toxins, cholesterol, fats, blood, feces, virusus, bacteria, pus and more... my cancer grows MUCH slower without it... and it is NOT a "taste to die for".

His original columns are posted at http://www.notmilk.com/deb/column.html

Dear Mike,

There are 270 million Americans. If your number is true, then the average American eats about one slice of bacon every 11.74 days. On the other hand, in the time it takes for the average American to eat just one slice of bacon, that same individual ingests (from milk and dairy products) the same cholesterol contained in 622 slices of bacon!

Regards,

The NOTMILKMAN

What we "say" only reports the facts. We report that THREE GLASSES OF WHOLE MILK A DAY, the "recommended" daily amount, contains the CHOLESTEROL equivalent of 53 slices of bacon. That amounts to the cholesterol equivalent of 19,345 slices of bacon a year that add up to the equivalent of 1 million slices by the early fifties. IF you, or anyone, consumes the American AVERAGE daily amount of dairy (well over three glasses of milk a day) ... well... you take it from there, Mike.

• 59 hormones -- Worst? Perhaps the powerful IGF-1 growth hormone (think fast growing cancers)
• Scores of allergens -- Worst? Probably casein (80% of the protein) Think glue! (powerful histamine or mucus maker)
• blood -- Even under the best of conditions
• feces -- Even under the best of conditions
• fat -- Of the calories in whole milk 49% come from fat (35% for 2% milk)
• cholesterol -- 3 glasses a day = the equivalent of 53 slices of bacon
• herbicides -- From the feed and water (they become concentrated in the milk)
• pesticides -- From the feed and water (they become concentrated in the milk)
• dioxins -- From the feed and water (they become concentrated in the milk)
• viruses -- (most likely many kinds of them)
• up to 20,000,000 live bacteria per liter (FDA max limit)
• up to 750,000,000 somatic (PUS) cells per liter (FDA max limit)
• up to 52 different antibiotics (they only test for a few)
• Perhaps some TB (bovine mycobacterium paratuberculosis, the bacterium linked to Johne's disease in cows and Crohn's disease in humans)
• Perhaps some Prions (a crystal that acts like a virus - think mad cow disease, with a 5-30 years "incubation" for something that cannot be destroyed by 900 degree Celsius heat)

Sixty Percent of America's dairy cows have leukemia virus.

87% of milk is WATER (mother natures truly perfect drink).

The milk of each of the over 40,000 mammals on earth is formulated specifically for that species. There are special lactoferrins and immunoglobulins. In cow's milk the protein lactalbumin is considered a key factor in diabetes (and a major reason for NOT giving infant children cows milk). Cows milk has three times the calcium as does human breast milk. No matter, neither are very usable because in order to be absorbed and used their MUST be an equal quantity of magnesium (as exists in the greens that cows eat to get all the calcium they need for their big bones). Milk has little magnesium.

80% of the protein in milk is casein. Milk can be considered as a "liquid meat", which, when added to all the OTHER protein in an average diet, may actually leach calcium from the bones. Countries with the highest intake of milk and dairy have the highest rates of osteoporosis. Milk moustaches = good bones are a milk industry 100% lie.

Mother-natures perfect milk-delivery system is directly from teet to mouth. When anything is exposed to air the oxygen in it CHANGES things. Metals oxidize (rust). Freshly sliced apples or pears turn brown. Paper does a slow burn. Milk not consumed via mother natures intended delivery system is automatically different.

There is no need in human nutrition for cow's milk. Dr. Spock (the famous baby doctor whose books have been outsold only by the bible) said it several years ago. Nor is the consumption of milk medically sound or desirable. Considering that milk and dairy plays a significant role in obesity, heart disease, cancer, asthma, diabetes, eczema, irritable bowel syndrome, leukemia, poor digestion, lactose intolerance (according to WHO 90% of world blacks are lactose intolerant), gas, bloating, behavioral problems, osteoporosis, and more.

Considering that cow's milk is a fluid from diseased animals that impacts heavily on human health ... it should NOT be considered a "taste to die for".

Guess what... neither YOU nor your friend Penny have even a CLUE to the truth. As to your silly remark about two people in different rooms... the milk and dairy industry SPRANG from the old European tradition of collecting UNCONSUMED milk (by the calf, of course) from the old 1-4 quart a day cow (now up to 55 quarts a day) and quickly making it into either butter, or hard cheese, as a HIGH FAT EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLY FOR HARD TIMES! Most of the first wave of Pilgrims died the first winter... because they were forced to sell MOST of their butter to buy passage for the trip to American.

Of course the fellow consuming milk will survive... because it is EIGHTY SEVEN PERCENT WATER... mother natures truly perfect drink. How much do you pay for a gallon of tap water? How much do you pay for a gallon of milk? That 13 percent of substance that is 50% of fat in calories in saturated fats, provides the equivalent cholesterol of 53 slices of bacon (per three glasses of milk), and all those other "goodies"... is VERY EXPENSIVE POLLUTION!

I hope that the IGF-1 cancer fuel does not do YOU in before YOUR time... like it has me.

Bon appetite, Erich Heino

Dear Penny,

The studies cited on my website are not "my" studies. Thousands of unbiased studies published in respected scientific peer-reviewed journals converge upon one conclusion: Milk does NOT do the body any good.

I agree with you about rat studies. Animal studies are only good for one thing. They provide research funds for scientists to torture animals, and perpetrate a system that ultimately betrays humans. We cannot extrapolate rat research to human physiology, and each animal study is a non-reliable fraud.

However, the ADD study was performed on humans. A morphine-type hormone in milk (casomorphin) has been associated with attention deficit disorder. When milk is removed from their diets, children with autism and attention deficit disorder often improve. This therapy is a successful alternative to ritalin treatment.

Regards,

I was not aware that "most pill-popping, vitamin-gulping, supplement-addicted people around are the vegetarians," as you claim. Do you have a reference for that statement?

Vitaminbusiness.com website reveals:

"It's estimated that nearly 50 percent of Americans use vitamin supplements every day."

It is clear that those eating the Standard American Diet (the S.A.D. diet) need supplements! Meat eaters and Vegans have one thing in common. All humans need to consume essential amino acids, vitamins, and enzymes. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables remains the most efficient way of providing the body with its nutritional needs. Why not take the VEGPLEDGE and discover great health:

http://www.vegpledge.com

Regards,

Dear Steve,

Last year 2,400,000 Americans died from heart disease.

Almost every scientific agency in America and almost every physician recognizes that saturated animal fat and cholesterol are contributing factors in the etiology of heart disease. The average American consumes 5 ounces of meat each day, and 29.2 ounces of milk and dairy products. In his/her dairy consumption, the average American will consume every day the equivalent cholesterol contained in 53 slices of bacon.

After 52 years, the average American will have consumed from dairy the same cholesterol contained in one-million slices of bacon. Doctors have no clue to the cause, prevention, and cure for heart disease.

Please join me and Ralph Nadar in three weeks at our Washington, DC biotechnology conference. We have a message for you. Drinking milk is "Unsafe At Any Speed!"

Regards,

Dear Scott,

The Knicks might have met their match in those "hicks" from Indiana. The Pacers may have the advantage because Reggie Miller and Rik Smits do not pose for milk mustache ads. On the other hand, Patrick Ewing did. Indiana outhustled and outplayed the Knicks in game one of their playoff round. The New York team looked sluggish. Casein, a milk protein will do that to you.

Please assist our team! When the series returns to New York, send free pizza's to the Indiana Pacers hotel! We can still win this thing.

Regards,

Should the abundance of saturated fats and cholesterol lead to heart disease... sorry... no easy salvation from that one.

Dear Erich,

I do not imagine that the residents of Atlantis domesticated dolphins and whales so that they might drink their body fluids.

What is a fringe vegan? Are you a fringe lamb chop eater? Does brain food for you consist of animal brains?

In colonial times, the average American did not reach the half-century mark. As a matter of fact, an American child born in 1900 was expected to live for only 47.3 years (World Almanac, year 2000 edition).

The single greatest stride in longevity resulted from improvements in sanitation and safe water supplies. In the year 2000, nations not possessing these two resources experienced high mortality rates.

By 1920, the average American's lifespan jumped 14 pecent (54.1 years). By 1940, the expected lifespan jumped another sixteen percent (62.9 years). The average expected lifespan of a child born in 1960 jumped another eleven percent (69.7 years). By the mid 1980's, the 75 year lifespan was reached, and that number has remained relatively unchanged. Has mankind reached a limit?

I say NOT.

During the Renaissance, mankind was "plagued" by high infant mortality rates. Cows produced only one-quart of milk per day, and lack of refrigeration meant that dairy consumption was very low. Although infant mortality rates were high, history suggests that people lived to ripe old ages.

Leonardo DaVinci died when he was 67. Cervantes died at 69. Copernicus, 70. Galileo, 78. Donatello died when he was 80, and Bellini lived until age 86. Michaelangelo died when he was 89, and Titan lived until age 99.

Regards,

Dear Erich,

Raw uncooked foods? What's wrong with that? Many people have returned to a raw food diet and enjoy better health as a result.

I love the comforts of home. Man has created tools and in doing so, has tamed his environment. We have gained much wisdom throughout the millennia.

Our ancestors knew the effects of food/fuel on our bodies. Twenty-first century man has become so sophisticated, that such wisdom is no longer a part of our psyche.

Why avoid the "trappings?" Our destiny is to utilize our natural resources and enjoy heaven on earth. Part of that destiny is to live over 100 years. By giving up just one food group, man will discover and enjoy his previously unattainable "Fountain of Youth."

Regards,

Dear Carla,

Oh, to be young again!

You, Carla, are no teenager! Your daughter goes to high school with others her age who have RHS (raging hormone syndrome). For teens, it's a blemish on their exteriors.

For you, it's your insides that concern me. You are a milk drinking, milk promoting dairywoman, and you've visited before...and I like your sense of humor.

By age 52 the average American will have consumed from milk and dairy, the equivalent cholesterol contained in 1,000,000 slices of bacon. Heart disease is America's number one killer, and I know you have a good spiritual heart, Carla, but your arteries should concern the two of us. Ease up on those dangerous animal fats, cholesterol, and powerful growth hormones.

Your exterior might resemble a shiny new Ferrari, but your insides may very well be a rotting Corvair -- "Unsafe at any Speed."

Regards,

NOTMILKMAN'S COMMENT:

Dear Sheree,

That's where you come in!

The dairy industry markets their myths with $500 million dollars of their money and hundreds of millions of dollars of goverment subsidies.

We have the INTERNET. Please help spread the message.

Regards,

Continue thinking, John. Why stop at gorilla?

How about a nice cold glass of human breast milk with your cookies?

Instinctively, you are aware that milk contains substances that should not be in your body.

From aardvark to zebra, drinking milk from any species of animal sounds disgusting, but humans subordinate their innate wisdom to brainwashing ads (billions of dollars of milk marketing over the past 75 years).

Regards,

He says, "I will be appearing in Washington with (hopefully) 1000 dairy farmers, Pete Harden, Ralph Nader, etc. on June 17th.

Each truck driver only tests for the presence of four antibiotics, while many dozens more are in use.

Consumers Union and the New York Times tested independently selected milk samples and found the presence of 52 different antibiotics in the milk."

"how much of each item is in a gallon of prossed milk"

When a toxins or poison do CUMULATIVE damage... how much from nasty stuff like arsenic or cyanide is "too much"?

Read the numbers on obesity, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, asthma, behavioral problems and more... and answer your own questions. Especially so, when you take into account that the USDA food pyramid suggests that 8% or less of daily intake be from cow's milk and dairy... AND OTHER FATTY FOODS, and statistically Americans consume almost 40% of their diets in only cow's milk, dairy, and its derivatives.

"Isn't igf-1 a normal component in in blood"

Of course. But mother nature is smart (and kind) enough to STOP PRODUCTION of it when our needs have been fulfilled. Any additional amount simply adds fuel to a flickering cancer fire... which makes IGF-1 a KEY FACTOR in the rapid growth and proliferation of breast, prostate, lung and colon cancers!

The truth is there... over 400 WEB pages (around 2200 MORE
pages then are in Mr. Cohen's book... and all FREE!

Forget what you THINK you know and READ (for your health!).

Dear Amanda,

Read a doctor's advice to his patients:

KRADJIAN http://www.afpafitness.com/milkdoc.htm

I have written thousands of things. Tell me one that you disagree with
in any of my hundreds of columns:

COLUMNS http://www.notmilk.com/deb/column.html

How about just one thing you disagree with in the following:

CALCIUM http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092098.html
DIABETES http://www.notmilk.com/deb/011099.html