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to it; it's just a matter of getting the in- aspartame-laced strontium that landed to converge to bring this about. Why
formation out there. her in the hospital in March. should the innocent then suffer need-
WAPF advice has been a truly won- lessly?
Sita Benedict, Chapter Leader derful gift for us. Sharing the wisdom After all is said and done, even if the
Jyvaskyla, Finland of consuming nutrient-dense delicious prisoners deserve to be detained, they
foods and beverages with our young are still human beings—and we limit
Sita, thank you for all you are doing Australian guest, who is experiencing our own goodness as fellow human be-
in Finland! Finns in general have high the healing power of foods first hand, ings when we justify ill treatment of any
cholesterol levels and in North Karelia is inspiring and uplifting. We’re finally person. If we justify hurtful treatment of
after the Second World War, there were getting the chance to teach, teach, teach prisoners, we would not be building the
high rates of heart disease. Researchers and he is soaking it up like a sponge. treasures in heaven that we should be if
blamed this on high cholesterol but the we are a follower of Christ or Buddha,
likely explanation is large numbers of Anita Reusch and Doug Mitchell, or any other religious leader. We should
immigrants from Russia, who had lost Chapter Leaders feed prisoners what we would want to
everything and were living in govern- Grosslangenfeld, Germany eat if we were imprisoned, as that is the
ment housing. Lots of broken hearts and infallible and inevitable outworking of
lots of heart disease. In the rest of Fin- the Golden Rule or the Law of Cause and
land, heart disease rates are relatively Effect—which every religion at least
low, in spite of high cholesterol levels. gives lip service to.
Why are we "helping prisoners"
REPORT FROM GERMANY someone had asked (Spring 2009). I
Merry Christmas from the WAPF say because they need a lot of help.
chapter in Germany! Another year has If some day they should be released
passed and Doug and I are now embark- onto the streets of America, wouldn't
ing on our eleventh year of following we rather they be rehabilitated human
the WAPF diet ever more closely with beings rather than desperate, ill, still-
continued health and happiness. criminals—the kind of person that
For all of you who worry that all that usually issues forth from contemporary
butter, good animal fat and fermented prisons?
raw dairy might make you fat or sick, There was a "golden period" in
take a look at Doug in the picture. Where our nation's history at the end of the
he was thick and puffy twelve years ago, nineteenth century and early part of the
he’s now lean and strong, and where his twentieth when we sincerely sought to
hands used to be crippled by chronic rehabilitate prisoners. We taught them
inflammation (he has several scars to trades, healed them, treated them like
prove the ineptitude of modern medicine sentient beings while in prison—not
to help him resolve his problems), he SOY PRISON LAWSUIT like animals and callous criminals—and
now plays guitar. Having worked in a prison for three they came out rehabilitated and able to
I only wish my sister the doc had years, I so support your position on start a new life.
listened to me and taken cod liver oil opposing the feeding of soy products This can't happen anymore because
for her recurring bouts of bronchitis. to prisoners! There are many people there are so many political and economic
I am glad that my eighty-six-year- unjustly detained in prisons. So many interests that make money off of them
old mom is taking hers instead of the political and economic interests seem and set up an environment that pushes

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