Free Death By Supermarket by Nancy Deville

beneficial and inhibit bad bugs from growing,” Mark said. “Coliforms kill pathogens.” Organic Pastures eventually passed by taking away steps from the cow to the bottle and by developing new cleaning systems. “We spend fortunes on cleaning. But bad bugs don’t come from milk lines, they come from unhealthy cows. Less than ten coliforms doesn’t measure those kinds of bacteria.”
    Of his battle, Mark said, “We oppose the FDA when they say that only a drug can cure or improve an illness with their ‘pill for every ill’ policy system, which protects companies’ profits. We work hard every day to teach how foods heal and foods prevent disease, which the FDA can’t say about the drugs they support that kill hundreds of thousands of people every year. We fight alongside our consumers every day. And in the dying words of Weston A. Price, ‘you teach, you teach, you teach.’”
    Natural milk, meat, and eggs that come from well-treated animals are healthy, historically consumed foods that produce the vibrant good health that Dr. Price documented throughout his research on indigenous peoples. On a balanced diet of real, organically produced food, including natural animal products, Americans could quell our unnatural hunger and achieve our genetic gifts, and thus become as tall, attractive, cheerful, robust, sexy, and fertile and as relatively free from mental, dental, and degenerative diseases as our genetics predispose us to be. But we have been actually discouraged from eating natural foods. The vendetta against raw milk is one example. And Mark—a true American hero of the real-food movement— and his fight to provide real food to consumers, is a microcosm of what is happening in the fight between factory-food producers and real-food farmers and ranchers.
    A huge part of this battle is the fact that corporate agribusiness has gobbled up all federal farm subsidies so that small farmers and ranchers have been driven out of business and off their lands, making natural food either very hard to find or more expensive than factory food. As a result, we have been indirectly encouraged to consume the diseased and drug-and hormone-infused animal products that are produced in CAFOs by these mega-corporations.
    While the government endeavors to prevent us from drinking natural milk, there are health professionals who discourage the consumption of milk in general. The standard argument is that humans are the only species to drink milk past infancy and the only species to drink the milk of other species. I have never seen back-up research for those statements. Yet as I’ve said, I’ve seen 1,000-pound steers nursing from their mothers and cats anddogs lapping saucers of cow and goat milk. And we’ve all gotten the cute animal emails with photos of wild baby animals rescued by humans and nursed by their family cats and dogs.
    Another argument is that animal milk was not a food of hunter-gatherers and thus is too “new” for modern humans to have adapted to. S.C. Gwynne writes about the hunter gatherer Comanches in
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
, “Buffalo was the food the Comanches loved more than any other… If a slain female was giving milk, Comanches would cut into the udder bag and drink the milk mixed with warm blood. One of the greatest delicacies was the warm curdled milk from the stomach of a suckling calf.” We also know that elsewhere in the world and much earlier in history, once easy-picking food supplies began to dwindle and hunter-gatherers began to dabble in domesticating plants and animals for food, animals that produced milk were of immediate interest. According to Jared Diamond in
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
, a domesticated animal is defined as one whose breeding and food supply are controlled by humans. Writes Diamond, “Milked mammals include the cow, sheep, goat, horse,