Letters, Winter 2025

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TESTIMONIALS WELCOME

During the closing panel of yet one more great conference —and thank you to all who attended!—I suggested an idea that could make the Foundation’s dedication to their (our) mission even more effective. It was based on a study from several years ago, which demon­strated that, in communicating with others about how to better the world, or even just ourselves, what really mo­tivates people to take positive actions in their lives is what other people do!

So, in our efforts to create even better outreach for our movement, we’re requesting that participants send in a little write-up (similar to the letters printed in the Wise Tradi­tions journal)…a short description of a solution, practice or insight that has improved your life or the lives of oth­ers as a result of knowledge or support you’ve received from any activity of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Your expression of health and satisfaction will be the model readers will emulate to improve their own lives!

We’ll be happy to receive all your testimonials, which will be organized and collated into a number of gen­eral topics for easy access and perusal. (These can come in the form of PDFs, standard word processing documents, or just in the body of an email.) Please send to wap.jewels@gmail.com.

With ongoing gratitude for every­thing we’ve all done and continue to do.

Mark Hurwit
Eugene, Oregon

REFERENCES TO WESTON PRICE

My grandfather, William A. Deans, was a pioneer missionary in the North Eastern corner of the Belgian Congo. I’ve been sifting through things that my mom had held onto and found some of his notes referring to Weston A. Price. Most of the pages have to do with my grandfather’s missionary work, but these two indicate his interest in other fields as well!

August 1935: “Dr. Weston A Price (who received bamboo specimens from us) came to us and conducted a lengthy examination of natives’ teeth in this section. He found the greatest amount of decay in this place of all others he has ever visited, and he has been all over the world—Alaska, Northern Canada, Switzerland, Hawaii, South Sea islands, etc.—besides having examined exten­sively the immigrants of Ellis Island. This in spite of our fertility of soil. . ..”

Undated: “Dr. Price tells of coun­ter propaganda to his diet teaching in Switzerland where, particularly in the Lötschental, girls are not married until they’ve gotten a set of false teeth. Diet propaganda which would retard the decay of the teeth was not well received because it meant postponement of mar­riage. They would rather have papa buy the teeth than the husband!”

Amy Schirmer
Ogdensburg, New York

We thank you for these fascinating ex­tracts! I searched the Internet but could find nothing on Dr. Price’s observations of the immigrants on Ellis Island. If anyone has any information on this, please let us know.

FERTILITY DIET

The Wise Traditions diet is such a delicious way to support fertility. I recently gave a young woman, strug­gling to conceive, the advice to eat butter, eggs and cream, and told her she needed the saturated fat in order to produce hormones. Within a couple months she was pregnant.

Janice Curtin, Chapter Leader
Alexandria, Virginia

TRUE AIRPLANE MODE

I’ve noticed for years—and also at this last conference—that when people put their phones on airplane mode, they don’t realize that the phones are still emitting radiation if the WiFi and Bluetooth are on (even though not con­nected). So, you need to turn off WiFi and bluetooth in addition to putting your phone on airplane mode.

I wanted to share a graphic I’ve used in the past to help people discern true airplane mode, in case it’s helpful for next year’s conference.

Thanks for a wonderful event and I can’t wait for next year!

Valerie Marsh
Scottsdale, Arizona

NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURE

My two cents worth on the con­versation about raw milk confinement versus GE feeds. I’m a regenerative organic farm consultant, who has raised and milked a small Jersey herd and who is currently battling with our government’s push to eviscerate New Zealand’s GE-free status. This is a big deal here because our biggest industry is grass-fed milk products which we export as clean, green and GE-free.

I have looked into the question of what happens to cows and their milk when fed GE/GMO feeds of soy hulls or dry distillers grain, which is the gunk at the bottom of the GMO corn-to-ethanol distillery tanks in the USA. Since both these GMO feeds carry heavy loads of glyphosate and the corn comes with additional residual formaldehyde, these feeds impair the rumen microbiome, causing poor feed efficiency, prompt immune decline and increased inflam­mation. The result: less milk, more mastitis and antibiotics, mineral lock-up and nutritional deficiencies, liver damage, failure to get pregnant and unhealthy or defective calves. Overall a shorter, less productive and less enjoy­able life.

While there have been few pub­lished tests on genetically engineered gene constructs detected in milk or meat, there is a clear indication in a 2006 Italian study that altered genes do come through into the dairy products when cows eat GMO feeds.

This is likely to predispose the milk consumer to allergies, inflamma­tion, hormone disruption and metabolic “disturbances”—in effect, all the health issues that have risen dramatically in the last thirty years.

The lack of actual testing—even an apparent reluctance to develop the abil­ity to cheaply test for GMO constructs in food or the environment—indicates to me that there is something being at least ignored, if not purposely hidden. It is increasingly documented that both transgenic (insertions of foreign genes) and gene editing (mutations through radiation or chemical means) cause hundreds and sometimes thousands of off-target changes in that modified organism’s gene expression. So, genes are activated or silenced in unintended and unpredictable ways, a “highly significant” proportion of which are in pathways associated with cancer, according to an article in Nature Ge­nomic, May 2024.

Finally, the most important aspect of cow’s milk that is nutritional and health-giving to us and our children is whether the cows are fed on rapidly growing, diverse, high-Brix, nutrient-dense pastures. That’s where the beta carotene and hence the vitamin A, vita­min K2 and CLA come from. CLA, by the way, is the most potent cancer pre­ventative we know of; and it is in milk only when diverse green pastures are fed. It cannot be produced in a lab. Dr. Price documented the health benefits of dairy products from cows on green pastures eighty years ago, yet our food industry is still choosing to be in the dark about it.

I can’t see much point in consum­ing pasteurized milk but I see decided danger in consuming confinement GMO-fed milk.

Phyllis Tichinin, Chapter Leader
Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

WE LOVE BUTTER! THE ANTI-AGING DIET

My husband and I are members and I just wanted to say thanks for ev­erything! We just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary, August 16, 1975 to August 16, 2025! I am sixty-nine and Steve is seventy-two.

We are happy and healthy, and we love butter and broth! We follow the WAPF Wise Traditions dietary prin­ciples. We learn so much at the confer­ences and from your podcast with Hilda and the quarterly magazine.

We take no prescription drugs. We never vaccinate. Steve is a chiropractor and I am a nutritional therapy practitio­ner. We believe our excellent health is due to your dietary principles.

Donna Nelson
Star Prairie, Wisconsin

COWS WITH HORNS

For those who read German, here is an interesting document on the impor­tance of leaving the horns on cows: fibl. org/fileadmin/documents/shop/1662- kuhhorn.pdf.

I met the researcher Claudia Schneider several years ago on her farm in Münsingen, just outside of Bern. The research was done some years ago.

Unfortunately, I do not see the research in English, but even if you just scroll through it, it contains great pictures of horns.

Just like we should not pull good teeth, we should not dehorn cows. I cover this topic in my Swiss farming presentation. Horns are very much needed by the cow. The proof is mi­croscopically in the milk, the blood of the cow and more. If a horned cow gets aggressive, it may not have gotten the loving care and touch when younger.

A great film on horned cows (in German) is Das Liebe Rindvieh. In it, the vet shows how dehorning was done in the 1980s, when it first began. Grue­some! They gave many excuses for why a cow needed to be dehorned.

Several years ago I had a chance to meet Franz Josef Kögel, who was featured in that film dehorning his cows and later learning the importance of horns. At that time I gave a presentation in Germany on milk and Franz Kögel gave one on how he transitioned from dehorned to horned cows. His good, common-sense wife was behind it all.

Judith Mudrak
Southampton, New Jersey

MOM HALL-OF-FAME NOMINATION

I write to tell you about the im­pressive measures taken by my WAPF friend to help facilitate the nutritious diet of her newly off-to-college daugh­ter. After some initial online inquiries, the family arrived a day early for col­lege drop-off. They went straight to the farmers market, where, in addition to picking up a jar of local honey, my WAPF friend secured a half herdshare of weekly raw milk for her daughter. She then purchased a cooler bag and an ice pack for her daughter’s upcoming weekly walk from the farmers market to campus. My WAPF friend told her daughter’s roommate that there would be plenty of milk, so she should help herself to it in the dorm fridge.

Isn’t it lovely to think of the kids in this dorm being introduced to raw milk throughout the year thanks to the steady herdshare supply? The head of the college kitchen says the staff will cook individual portions without seed oil for her daughter. Fingers crossed! With a stockpile of Dr. Cowan’s sprouted gra­nola and nut butters for her dorm room, it seems like my friend’s daughter is in as good shape as she can be food-wise given the circumstances!

Lisa Friel
Northeast Ohio

HONORING 25 YEARS

The leather hats that Sally and Tom are wearing (below) were presented to them at our conference for their 25 years of WAPF leadership. The hats were handmade in Mexico and imprinted with the WAPF logo. The presentation was: “On behalf of the members and the countless people your 25 years of united work have helped, we present you with this gift. When you wear it, let it remind you of our love and gratitude.”

SHOCKING ORGANIC STANDARDS

Exactly when Covid was an­nounced in the USA, January 2020, new standards from the Organic Stan­dards Board (OSB) became effective. The new standards did a few things.

First, the new standards allowed much higher toxic pesticide residues in organic food, especially dairy. The main thing they did was change the withdrawal/withholding period (the time after which the milk had to be thrown out after treating an animal with a pesticide) from ninety days to only two days! The new standards changed the withdrawal/withholding period of organic dairy cows treated with de-worming pesticides moxidectin and fenbendazole to so short a time that you can be sure that most of the pesticide will come out in the final organic prod­uct: the milk, the cream, the cheese, etc.

Moxidectin is an “avermectin” class of pesticide, which are also called “macrocyclic lactones.” Moxidectin is a relative of the now-infamous ivermec­tin. It is important to note that these drugs are described in the literature as “highly lipophilic,” meaning that they go right into the fat of the animal, or the cream that it makes. This being the case, it is a reasonable assumption that many, some or even all of the cases of “Covid” that followed this change during the subsequent “epidemic” had as at least their partial cause the in­creased exposure to this pesticide (and to fenbendazole as well, since it is also allowed in the standards).

Since conventional farming tends to follow organic farming, conventional dairy likely also increased the use of this chemical since it could be said that it is an “organic” pesticide, which is a good selling point. The massive in­crease in moxidectin and fenbendazole exposure that came from this change following the start of Covid must track with the increase in Covid cases.

Another change the OSB made with these new standards was the re­moval of ivermectin from organic dairy use. It had been allowed in organic dairy right up until that time, and had been first approved for organic dairy as early as 1999. It is very interesting to note that in January 2020 when these changes went into effect, the synthetic pesticide ivermectin was just a couple of months away from being hailed (in­sanely) as a treatment for Covid. I find the timing unlikely to be a coincidence. I think it would have struck people as suspicious if they had started research­ing this new “miracle drug,” only to realize they had already been consum­ing it in their organic dairy products for the previous twenty-one years!

I originally saw the OSB news release, which announced all these changes effective in January 2020, and it had that date on it. During Covid, I told many people about this change, suggesting it was one of the causes of at least some cases of the new pandemic. But I have since looked for that same news release, and it appears to have been scrubbed off of the Internet, as well as off of the OSB/USDA websites. Any search of those terms brings up only the OSB standards dated 2016, which are similar, but not identical. There was also another similar OSB standards release dated December 2019, but that appears to have been removed. Perhaps both of these were removed due to the implications of the perhaps suspicious timing of the reclassification of the new “miracledrug” ivermectin.

However, tonight I searched the terms “usda organic standards board january 2020 rules ivermectin” on Google. The default AI search still returns the correct information, stating that the effective date of the changes was indeed January 2020. However, the link provided in the AI search next to the January 2020 reference goes only to the old 2016 documents; the December 2019 and January 2020 docs have been removed at those links and replaced with the older ones.

A couple of hours after doing the first search, the same search has now been altered to refer to the January 2020 re-classification effective date, but to claim as its effective date the earlier De­cember 2019 document effective date, which is of course impossible since it preceded it by one month. This is a fascinating readjustment of reality in real time! This search also refers to both fenbendazole and moxidectin, which were also mentioned in the January 2020 standards, but were not mentioned in the first Google AI search.

Then, only a couple of minutes after I did the second search, I did the same search with Google AI for the same terms, by specifically selecting “Dive Deeper in AI Mode.” Apparently, the scrubbing was then complete, be­cause in this third search it claimed that there were no January 2020 standards changes! It mentioned the removal of ivermectin from the organic standards, a different effective date, and the two other alternative pesticides. This more Covid-revisionist-friendly search also claims that the use of the two other pesticides is limited to emergency use only, which I do not believe is true. In any case, a veterinary emergency can be declared at any time if you read the law, with no restrictions, just the opinion of the veterinarian that an emergency exists, so that is no barrier to the use of these two pesticides.

I’m not sure which of these is the most shocking:

1. That synthetic pesticides have been allowed in organic dairy for so long, at least since 1999;

2. That their legality and dosing guide­lines change so frequently, disallow­ing consumers time to observe and figure out what is happening when they eat these products and why;

3. That the Organic Standards Board would allow their use with a two-day withdrawal time, meaning you will be eating these chemicals in your expensive organic yogurt;

4. That this increased toxic exposure happened the exact month that “Co­vid” cases started appearing in the USA; or

5. That this information is so easily and quickly alterable with Google AI.

I guess it’s now the rule that if you see anything interesting on the Internet, you should PDF-print, screenshot and save it immediately, because it may not be around long!

Robert Bonadeo

GRATITUDE

I have all the Wise Traditions journals since I became a member in 2010. There is no way to calculate how much clear thinking, health-enhancing, ahead-of-the-times ideas and informa­tive thoughts have been clearly laid out in these volumes. So many people saved from medical untruths. Keep up the good work forever.

Devorah Helig
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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