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Letters

marketing departments with those who Philip Ridley And I just subscribed to your podcast
have concerns about their products, WAPF Honorary Board Member as well.
be it vaccines, thalidomide, socks and London, United Kingdom Tracey McCarriar
shoes or loaves of bread, that we can Lancaster, Pennsylvania
allow Adam Smith’s invisible hand and A LITTLE BIT OF LIGHT
not the whip hand and boot of govern- I just wanted to write to say thanks COOKBOOKS FROM THE PAST
ment to drive technological innovation? for being a little bit of light in this crazy I’m in Switzerland and in my
If you genuinely believe in vacci- time. When my daughter was born in small amount of spare time, I check
nation, you should focus on persuasion, the 1990s, I knew several moms who out many second-hand shops looking
debate, possibly reverse psychology and questioned the safety of vaccines and for cookbooks showing the history of
certainly free-market principles, not the were interested in diet. We read Moth- food from countries like Italy, Spain,
Orwellian boot-on-the-face that you re- ering magazine and had a whole com- Greece, France, Germany and Russia.
jected on the one hand, supported on the munity. Now, I constantly see people I even have one called Das römische
other. If you continue to demonize sov- being crucified online if they even dare Kochbuch des Apicius (From the Time
ereign individuals for their consumer to question vaccines! They are called of the Romans) with half the book writ-
choice in regards to medical products, anti-vaxxers and labeled as insane. So ten in Latin. I also have two or three
you transfer the debate from whether much change has come about in the last military cookbooks from Switzerland.
these are good products to a matter of twenty-two years, and it scares me to In Europe during and after the
principle about personal choice. This is death. Second World War, there was famine
not the sort of debate that is easily won I found a pamphlet about you in everywhere (because streets were
against the British, who tend to reject my local Amish health food store (I live bombed, roads broken, businesses
tyranny in principle regardless of its in Lancaster, Pennsylvania), so I felt disrupted, stores empty) and most
intention. compelled to write. I will be donating. folks were on food stamps in order to

Chef Boy-Hardee and his assistant Luigi (Will Farmer of the year Sarah Patterson addresses
Winter and his wife Rebekah Leonhart) entertain a festive crowd at the Raw Milk Fundraiser.
guests at the Thursday evening Raw Milk Fundraiser.

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