Letters, Winter 2022
SOCIAL CREDIT SCORES Yesterday I went to the Weston Price website to order DVDs and flash drive recordings of the Wise Traditions conference. Three times I tried to […]
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Letters, Fall 2022
Mercury, Low-Sulfur Diet, 5G, Raw Milk and more… DEVIL IN THE MERCURY? Your article, “The Devil in the Garlic: The Paradoxical Roles of Sulfur in Human Physiology” (Summer […]
Letters, Heart Disease Issue
STATIN PAYMENTSYou may have read that doctors receive payment or bonuses for prescribing statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs. I’m a chapter leader in Kauai, and a family physician, so […]
Letters, Summer 2022
HOMEMADE FORMULA I want to thank WAPF for helping me two years ago when I was navigating the switch of formula for my son. Since he was adopted, […]
Letters, Healthy Baby Issue
Website Changed Our Lives Thank you for the information provided on your website. It has literally changed our lives! About two years ago, I began researching nutrition because […]
Letters, Spring 2022
Covid Shots for Babies Regarding the FDA wanting to approve these Covid shots for babies, I think it is absolutely horrific! Of course, this is not the greatest […]
Letters, Winter 2021
HUGS I never thought I was the huggy kissy kind, but the hugs I got and gave at the conference were simply the best part of the show. […]
Letters, Fall 2021
CRIMINAL HOSPITAL PROCEEDINGS In my article “Questioning Covid” (Summer 2021), I noted that many doctors all over the world have noticed that the condition of Covid-19 patients worsens […]
Letters, Summer 2021
EMERGENCY ROOMS ARE FULL A friend was riding a mountain bike on a ten-mile road last night. He came upon a preacher from this area that I used […]
Letters, Spring 2021
AUTISTIC NO LONGER I am so thankful for the Weston A. Price Foundation. It is because one of my friends went to a presentation by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride […]
Letters, Winter 2020
A SENSE OF COMMUNITY I am writing to extend my love and appreciation for Hilda Gore and the WAPF family. Listening to the Wise Traditions podcast has been […]
Letters, Fall 2020
MfG AND OBESITY Without MfG (manufactured free glutamate, also called MSG), processed food wouldn’t sell—and there would be no obesity epidemic. Have you ever stopped to consider that […]
Letters, Summer 2020
JUST SAY NO TO COVID TESTING! My daughter was tested in a clinic for flu last November. They did one of these deep nasal swabs. The test hurt […]
Letters, Spring 2020
5G MORATORIUM NEEDED The Caustic Commentary in the last Wise Traditions journal (Winter, 2019) has a section entitled “Mental Problems,” in which you state that 50 percent of […]
Letters, Winter 2019
ALS AND ELECTRICITY Mainstream medical literature has finally confirmed that workers in certain occupations are more at risk of Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS). The […]
Letters, Fall 2019
RAW MILK FOR CATS AND HUMANS As a senior in college, I became seriously ill with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. After ten months in and out of the […]
Letters, Summer 2019
HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE, VACCINATIONS AND AUTISM According to a new study, children with autism tend to have rapid head growth from six to twelve months. Results of this interesting […]
Letters, Spring 2019
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS I live in Maine, a state that is currently trying to do away with our religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions. I am a mom of […]
Letters, Winter 2018
THE WISE MINORITY We rarely run into or hear of a large group of wise people, that is, the wise are rarely in the majority. This is a […]
Letters, Fall 2018
A BRIGHT SPOT IN CHILE I recently visited Chile, which I found terribly sad and discouraging. I went to take a course on a “farm,” a “permaculture farm,” […]
Letters, Summer 2018
AUTISM SERVICE DOG I am grateful for the education I have gotten from the Weston A. Price Foundation. I highly value information that helps us be healthier and […]
Letters, Spring 2018
A WELL-DEVELOPED FACE Just thought I would let you know that after listening to your talks at the 2017 Weston Price Conference, I have been noticing everyone’s facial […]
Letters, Winter 2017
FRESH MILK IS HEALTHY! My daughter’s opera company, Orlando Youth Opera, is presenting Brundibar by Czech composer Hans Krása. The opera was composed right before World War II and tells the story of […]
Letters, Fall 2017
PHYSICAL DEGENERATION IN EGYPT I have followed your Weston A. Price research and diet for years. I host a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping combat veterans who struggle to reintegrate back into […]
Deja Vu – Is Animal ID Making a Return
Twelve years ago, American farmers started to hear about a federal program called the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) documents called for […]
Letters, Summer 2017
A JOURNAL FOR NEWBIES I have just finished reading the Spring 2017 journal—what an absolutely wonderful journal for the newbies! I think it should be given to all […]
Letters, Spring 2017
STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD The diet of Paul Trappen in the early 1900s demonstrates how far removed from real food are the modern protein powders and gel […]
Letters, Winter 2016
BRAINWASHING Tim Boyd’s thumbs down review of My Beef with Meat by Rip Esselstyn (Fall 2016) touched on the most important aspect of Rip’s storytelling: his lack of […]
Letters, Fall 2016
ON THE WISE TRADITIONS JOURNEY IN KENYA “I know and I promise that there will be a very huge u-turn for my community. We will be turning to […]
Letters, Summer 2016
WISE TRADITIONS 2016 IN ALABAMA What a great place for a conference! We are now seeing a major growth of sustainable farming in such states as Georgia, Alabama, […]
Letters, Spring 2016
SPRING WATER Norm LeMoine’s feature on filthy water and filtration options really hit home. Especially the dizzying number of filtration options. Over the past eight years I’ve tried […]
Letters, Winter 2015
VACCINE CHOICE IN CANADA Thank you for the vaccination issue of Wise Traditions (Summer 2015). On page fifteen is a list of vaccine websites, which are all very […]
Letters, Fall 2015
CALLOUS DISREGARD I am alarmed by the callous disregard shown by some in the media and the general public toward parents who choose to opt out of vaccines. […]
FDA Undermining the Tester-Hagan Amendment Yet Again
Past articles in Wise Traditions have discussed the federal Food Safety Modernization Act and the Tester-Hagan amendment at great length. The focus has been on the high-profile aspects, […]
Letters, Summer 2015
MURDER OF THE INNOCENTS It is important to be honest and accurate when we describe what is happening today as we vaccinate our children for any and all […]
One Federal Agency?
For almost two decades, officials have made proposals to combine all federal food safety regulation into a single agency. Currently, a total of fifteen federal agencies have some […]
Letters, Spring 2015
DISTRESSED I was distressed to receive the press release from the Weston Price organization (westonaprice.org/press/studies-show-that-vaccinated-individuals-spread-disease/). I recently joined, as I think it is a valuable voice in the […]
The Latest Installment on the Federal Food Safety Regulations
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just wrapped up its second public comment period on proposed regulations to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The […]
Letters, Winter 2014
TRIBUTE I was saddened to learn recently that Mary Enig passed away. The world has lost one of the earliest pioneers for fat. I liked Mary’s no-nonsense handling […]
Staying Involved With Congress, FDA, and the USDA
FOOD SAFETY REGULATIONS: SHOULD DAIRIES HAVE TO PREPARE FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS? As WAPF members know, the federal Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) poses many challenges for our farmers […]
Letters, Fall 2014
A TANTRUM FOR BUTTER I had a funny experience I wanted to share with you. I live in northern India, just outside Delhi, and last week, my sister-in-law […]
Letters, Summer 2014
GMO VICTORY I live in Jackson County, Oregon, where local people recently passed a GMO crop ban initiative that made national news. Here’s what happened: Over two years […]
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Chapter Guidelines Basic Requirements To create a Food Resource List for milk products from pasture-fed livestock (preferably raw), pasture-fed eggs and livestock and properly produced whole foods in […]
Progress in the Continuing FSMA Saga and GMOs Heat Up For 2014
The debates over the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) started back in 2009 and appear nowhere near a conclusion. While one chapter of the story closed with the […]
Letters, Spring 2014
INTEGRITY IN SCIENCE I was shocked to learn, in reading the Winter 2013 journal, that the Weston A. Price Foundation had chosen to honor Andrew Wakefield with its […]
Comments to FDA on the Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement
April 11, 2014 Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061 Rockville, MD 20582 Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0921 RIN 0910-AG35 Submitted online via […]
Conflicting Signs in the Long Fights over Food Safety and GMOs
And Why It’s Important to Stay in the Fight! As the second round of the national food safety debate draws to a close, the future of our food […]
Letters, Winter 2013
HYPNOTIZED BY A CULT? Thank you for your articles on GMO dangers (Fall 2013). I have been here on the farm for around forty years. I’ve seen all […]
Congress Flexes New Muscles While Becoming Mired in Farm Bill Debates
When Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in 2010, it gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) significant new powers. For a couple of years, the […]
FDA Flexes New Muscles
FDA Flexes New Muscles While Becoming Mired in Farm Bill Debates When Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in 2010, it gave the Food and Drug […]
Letters, Fall 2013
PALEO COMMENTS I was offended and turned off by Sally Fallon’s recent editorial discussing the paleo diet. Her description of the paleo diet is inexcusably inaccurate. I became […]
Letters, Summer 2013
FUNDING FOR RESEARCH LAB When I saw your request for research funds it touched my heart. So many charity campaigns or health research campaigns (cancer research, heart disease, […]
FDA’S Food Safety Rules
YOUR WORK HELPED CHANGE USDA’S POSITION ON ANIMAL ID! NOW WE NEED TO DO THE SAME ON FDA’S FOOD SAFETY RULES In March of this year, the U.S. […]
Letters, Spring 2013
AGENDA 21 It would not be surprising if a small beleaguered organization as WAPF would be prone to believe in conspiracy theories like the UN Agenda 21. Obviously […]
Policy Update: State Raw Milk Bills, Farm Bill and GMOS
STATE RAW MILK BILLS AND MORE As we head into 2013, the state legislatures are gearing up for their legislative sessions. Although a few state legislatures meet year-round, […]
Letters, Winter 2012
FLAWED INFORMATION I would like to take the opportunity to thank all who work at the Weston A. Price Foundation for all the hard work you do in […]
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Policy Update: Farm Bill and GMOs
As many people predicted, it’s looking more and more likely that the 2012 Farm Bill will actually be the 2013 Farm Bill. But the congressional saga is not […]
Letters, Fall 2012
HIGH IN THE ANDES I am in the high Andes, in Cusco, Peru, which has a pretty big tourist population. I wanted to share what I see in […]
Policy Update: Critical Turning Point
It sometimes seems as though we’re being buried in a landslide of different issues on all different levels and topics, from international trade agreements to local zoning restrictions. […]
Letters, Summer 2012
TOOTH BUTTER I was looking on the net last night for a recipe for a Danish bread called Rugbrod. I found the following on this site, www.danishsandwich.com/2011/01/real-danish-rye-breadrugbrd.html, where […]
Policy Update: Defending Raw Milk in the Policy Arena
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status,” said Laurence Peter, author of The Peter Principle. The raw milk movement […]
Letters, Spring 2012
A IS FOR ANTI-AGING A is also for Andrea Arias Alberto. Andrea is the abuelita (grandmother) of my friend and she just turned one hundred one years old […]
Policy Update: Activism, Food Safety and GMOs
Our community frequently talks about “voting with your dollar.” Using the power of your wallet is important—you get healthy food to nourish your body, and you help the […]
Chapter Updates & Emails
Email info alerts to chapter leaders Memo to Chapter Leaders Winter 2011 Sally Fallon Morell started the meeting with opening announcements and a review of the basic requirements […]
Letters, Winter 2011
IT REALLY WORKS! I wish you all could have seen the look on the face of my eight-year-old daughter’s dentist today when we came in for a checkup […]
New Chapter Leader Welcome Video
WAPF president Sally Fallon Morell and Tampa chapter leader Sarah Pope welcome new chapter leaders and provide a basic overview of chapter requirements. Chapter Leader Welcome Video
Staying Involved to Protect Our Farms and Our Food
In the world of activism, there is a “power ladder.” A group or movement starts by being powerless, then moves up to being recognized, at the table, able […]
Letters, Fall 2011
A STRATEGY Raw milk proponents could learn a lot about strategy in studying how the USDA and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) were stopped regarding toxic […]
Hard Lessons Learned in Texas Raw Milk Fight
The path to changing laws is frequently long and difficult. This year’s battle over a raw milk bill in Texas was particularly difficult and took some unexpected twists […]
The Food Safety Bill Implementation Process Begins
Even after the long fight over the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the reality is that much of the work is just now beginning. The […]
Letters, Summer 2011
PARTIAL REFINEMENT Modern nutritional theory claims that too much dietary salt is unhealthy, yet does not distinguish between “natural” sea salt and highly refined commercial salt, which have […]
World Premiere of Farmageddon Comes to Three Cities
Weston A. Price Foundation Contact: Kimberly Hartke, Publicist For Immediate Release First Time Documentary Filmmaker Fights for Small Farmers Washington, D.C. –June 10, 2011–If the FDA wasn’t defensive […]
WAPF Social Media
The Weston A. Price Foundation uses a number of social media tools to disseminate our message and connect with people. Here are links to all our social media […]
The Food Safety Bill Passes: What Does It Mean?
People inside and outside the Beltway had trouble keeping up with the many procedural turns taken by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. In the end, the bill […]
Letters, Spring 2011
A PHYSICIAN DISCOVERS WAPF This is first of all a message of gratitude. I am forty-six years old, an MD practicing in San Francisco. In 2007, I hurt […]
Letters, Winter 2010
BUTTER OIL FOR THYROID HEALTH My father was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism in February 2008. We had already been getting raw milk and eating a WAPF diet, so continued […]
Chapter Annual Report
Chapters are required to file a chapter report annually. It is due February 28, 2023 If we do not receive your report within the reporting period, we will […]
Chameleon Politics
It seems every time a bad bill or Agri-Business program stalls, it just changes colors like a chameleon, and comes back. The fight against S. 510, the Food […]
Letters, Fall 2010
RAW MILK TO THE RESCUE Two and a half years ago, I had no idea what I was in for. I was seven months pregnant with my first […]
Letters, Summer 2010
EATING IN FEAR? Regarding your issue focused on plant toxins (Spring, 2010), I wish people would stop dissecting their food so much and enjoy what our Creator has […]
Letters, Spring 2010
GREETINGS FROM NORWAY Greetings to all WAPF members from Norway. Life in its fullness is not only about obeying; life is a marvelous, unbelievable gift, as is raw […]
Letters, Winter 2009
SOY ATTACK My thyroid didn’t bother me at all my whole life. Then my doctor recommended soy milk because of my love for milk. I was at Costco […]
Letters, Fall 2009
HYPOTHYROIDISM OR IODINE DEFICIENCY? Our youngest daughter was born in May, 2001. Through routine newborn screening at the hospital, she was diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism. The doctors said […]
Letters, Summer 2009
Healthy Twins Since the birth of my twin girls, Moriah and Tsameret, almost four years ago, I have wanted to let you know how grateful I am for […]
Letters, Spring 2009
Corporate-Inspired Nutrition As you can see by the photo, my corporate-inspired nutrition education started early, when we learned to eat cornflakes for breakfast. Later, I decided to study […]
Letters, Fall 2008
Our Future I was reminded yesterday why we do what we do. I signed up for a cowshare. The farmers are a cute young couple, she is 26, […]
Websites of Interest
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (PPNF): http://www.price-pottenger.org (Official source of the book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS) Bird Flu Hype: http://www.birdfluhype.com/ Cholesterol Cholesterol and Health: http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com […]
Blogs
We recommend these blogs but they may not always reflect the philosophy of WAPF The Bovine (follows the Michael Schmidt case): thebovine.wordpress.com Cooking Traditional Foods: cookingtf.com Coping with […]
Letters, Winter 2008
Raw Milk Recovery I grew up in the Netherlands. For 25 years there, I consumed raw milk. My family would take a bucket full of milk and put […]
Letters, Summer 2008
Amazing Recovery My son Gregory had his first episode of mental illness about eight years ago. Soon after, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, followed by schizophrenia, then […]
Letters, Spring 2008
Outstanding Conference I have been implementing a healthy traditional diet in our family since 2003. I have had chronic fatigue for over ten years. I don’t know whether […]
Letters, Winter 2007
GMO RENNET I recently went to a cheese-making workshop at a grass-fed organic dairy farm in Massachusetts. After coming home I looked up rennet on the Internet to […]
Letters, Fall 2007
Copper-Zinc Article Worth Weight in Gold Laurie Warner’s piece on the copper-zinc imbalance (Spring, 2007), is worth its weight in gold! I am a longtime advocate of the […]
Letters, Summer 2007
Red Meat and Colon Cancer Does red meat cause colon cancer? Dr. Joel Fuhrman, in his comments about the Weston A. Price Foundation, and Dr. Joe Mercola state […]
Letters, Spring 2007
Long Road to Recovery I thought your readers would be interested in the chain of events that has helped me with my recovery from abdominal surgery six years […]
Letters, Winter 2006
Raw Milk, Happy Baby This is a short description of my experience with raw milk, which began over five years ago when I was diagnosed with systemic candidiasis. […]
Letters, Fall 2006
Conflicting Message As much as I enjoyed “The Town of Allopath” in the last issue of Wise Traditions (Summer 2006), I was dismayed when I went to the […]
Foundation Update, Summer 2006
LINKS New Membership Database I am thrilled to announce that the Foundation has purchased and implemented a new and very sophisticated association-management software system, including membership tracking. The […]