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what happens to the milk from the teat to animals had eaten? put up with inferior food. Also it seems
the finished product. It didn’t used to be We also found a source for grass-fed that many traditional bistros have been
so complicated to get wholesome, clean, butter at Trader Joe's, and she has also purchased by holding companies and
nutrient-dense food―hopefully we will been eating that with no ill effects. The fixed up to look typique, but are only
get there again someday! rash seems to be disappearing fastest Disney versions serving fake food. I am
Zoë Groulx from the backs of her knees and her heartbroken!
Pagosa Springs, Colorado elbow, but I am so glad that I finally Victoria Bloch
found the reason, and I think it's the Los Angeles, California
Thanks for reminding us about cheese GMO grains that the animals are eating.
manufacturing processes. All the chees- I must add that she also reacts to METHANOL HAZARDS
es in our Shopping Guide listed as grains as well, even grains that are Not untypically, I had my eyes
“raw” are truly raw, not heated above soaked and organic. However it seems opened by something fascinating in the
about 105 degrees. Cheeses that are that wheat causes a faster reaction than latest issue of Wise Traditions. This time
thermized are listed under “good.” oats. I speculate that she may have also it was the hazard of toxic methanol in
inherited her sensitivity to toxins from canned fruits and vegetables.
GRAIN-FED VS GRASS-FED her father, as he is super sensitive to I don't eat any canned fruits and
I thought you would be interested toxins in any and all forms, and our vegetables at this time, because we have
in our experiences with grain fed-beef. daughter is a WAPF baby to boot. fresh vegetables all year round from our
Our daughter has had a rash that has Jennifer Murdock greenhouse. However, I do eat canned
been slowly spreading, starting first on mersiepoodledoodle@yahoo.com meat. Fortunately, the latter does not
the front of her ankle, then spots of it contain pectin, the substance in fruits
spread to the backs of both her knees, FRENCH RESTAURANTS and vegetables believed to morph into
then to the inside of her elbow. We tried My husband and I just ran into a the dreaded methanol. Methanol is also
elimination diets, and she still had it. She friend of his who just returned from a known as "wood" alcohol or "rubbing"
was down to only eating meat (grain- trip to France (his birthplace, where his alcohol . . . the stuff for sale in the super-
fed) and our own eggs from our hens family ran a restaurant). He reports to market that makes desperate winos go
(grass-fed). his horror that many of the mid-priced blind when they drink it. Some scientists
I was at a loss as to why she still restaurants and bistros he and his wife now think methanol from canning is the
had this rash, until I heard a broadcast saw in Paris and the Loire were all us- cause of many modern diseases of hu-
on Coast-to-Coast AM. They inter- ing pre-prepared food that was heated mankind, particularly multiple sclerosis.
viewed the lady who owns the website up to serve to customers. He said that I was wondering how the process
farmwars.info, and she was telling her the price range was from fifteen to fifty of canning created methanol . . . and
own story about GMOs and her health Euros per person, so the practice was not Google was my friend.
problems, which included a horrible rash just at fast-food places. You could tell, I read an article on the Internet sug-
she got from eating GMO foods. he said, because no smells of cooking gesting that with traditional cooking,
The light bulb went on in my head! were coming out of the kitchen and all methanol escapes by evaporation, so
So, although this was an unscientific the menus were similar. harmful levels of the chemical are not
experiment, I took my daughter off the High-end restaurants and a few bis- present in the finished product. But with
grain-fed beef and started only giving tros still cook, but corporate food seems canning, the metal cans or the glass jar
her some venison we had from last year. to have infected a country I thought lids are tightly sealed, thus preventing
It's only been a few days and her rash is would resist to its dying breath. He said any methanol from escaping. Here’s
actually disappearing! I wonder whether that the economy has been down for another case of technology supplanting
she is reacting to the GMO grains the long enough that people are willing to the traditional ways and surreptitiously
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