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them back into prison so that the vicious is the first time I cooked with a whole digestion. Could you please explain the
cycle may continue, rather than healing chicken, instead of just using boneless, science behind this? Or are you going
their spirits and helping them to begin skinless chicken breasts. The soup was to claim it’s all in my head because the
civil life anew. Whatever we can do to delicious! My husband thinks it needs government says so?
make their imprisonment more humane more salt and misses that potent MSG “I would respectfully request that
and healthful can only make this a better flavor from bouillon cubes. However he before you make sweeping statements
world. didn't get a headache from eating this and render colossally incompetent judg-
Carroll English soup! Thanks for everything! ments based upon ‘science’ that does not
Stelle, Illinois comport with my objective assessments
Dana Berthiaume of your reality, it behooves you to back
DELICIOUS CHICKEN SOUP Auburn, Michigan up your claims regarding the safety of
I learned about nourishing tradi- pasteurized milk and the dangers of
tional foods recently, and I completely THE SCIENCE OF RAW MILK raw milk with some real and unbiased
believe in the healing power of scientific analysis. Your govern-
foods. As a thirty-seven-year-old ment, or rather our government
who suffers from severe arthritis loses credibility by sending out
in my neck, I have turned to the the type of emails you just did.
healing powers of foods instead “Better yet, try a glass of pas-
of nerve blocks and surgery. I am teurized milk and a glass of raw
hoping this helps. I also have two milk side by side before you write
young, very active children and your next email. Shame on you
I want to support their diet and for your shoddy and irresponsible
health however I can. Both suffer denunciation of a good, healthy
from chronic ear infections and food product; one that has saved
have tubes. One has asthma, sensi- my life.”
tive skin, and ADD. Sushama Gokhale
My husband was raised on a Larkspur, California
farm fresh diet, but now after moving I am in receipt of the note from
to the city, he eats a highly processed Doug McKalip, Senior Policy Advisor WHAT LOCAL CHAPTERS CAN DO
diet and dines out daily. He has stomach for Rural Affairs in the White House I just found a new goat milk pro-
aches every day, mostly in the evening. Domestic Policy Council regarding the ducer who makes kefir and soap. After
Getting him to eat this food will be safety of raw milk. The letter insists that e-mailing our group, Julia, one of our
my biggest challenge. I was raised on opposition to raw milk is based on “good members, questioned the farm about
home cooking and my mom bought non- science.” Here is my reply: their feed and educated the farmer about
homogenized milk fresh from the dairy, “Sir, there is only one problem with the dangers of GM and soy. The farmer
several times a week. It was wonderful! I your 'in support of good science' argu- has now worked with a feed provider to
never had a weight problem until becom- ment. I have not been able to drink pas- create a proprietary GM-free and soy-
ing a working, stressed-out mom. teurized milk for close on thirty years free feed for goats that they will make
Here are my pictures of the chicken now—without instant and severe diar- available to other farms. To date, our
broth I made per the recipe in your book. rhea. I can drink gallons of raw milk, organic farms have been GM free, but
It gelled like it was supposed to. I sim- with no problems, and to boot, excellent not soy free.
mered it for six hours, but next time I am health results. Raw milk has cured my I think this is a fabulous story about
going to try to do it for twenty-four. This rhinitis, seasonal allergies, asthma and the power of the chapter system and the

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