[Homestead] Excellent NYT editorial

Leslie cayadopi at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 11 11:39:16 EST 2008


Bev and I were talking about RA before I joined the board.
 
As a kid I drank fresh milk, fresh cream, and homemade butter.  I never had any trouble with any arthritis symptoms.
 
However when I moved to FL I was drinking and eating typical supermarket food including dairy products.  By the time I was 35, I could barely walk, and after a battery of tests including genetic testing for RA, was told I had sarcoidosis and would need meds forever.    Sarcoidosis is some kind of autoimmune disease.
 
All I can say is fortunate for me, I can never remember to take pills for more than a couple of days...  Not too long after Andrew I was in a health food store and spotted a book called, I Cure My Arthritis And So Can You.  Long story but the bottom line the lady had RA all her life and found out it was really food allergies.
 
I followed a slightly modified version of the fasting and ruling out foods thru reintroduction and wallah, dairy was the culprit.... in thinking about it this morning, I can't help but wonder if it is caused by those big dairy farms and all their drugs....
 
I've seen videos on the chicken egg farms, hens smashed in small cages.  I haven't seen anything about the pig farms.  google time....

--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Excellent NYT editorial
To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 11:21 AM

Unfortunately, the  dairy farm you describe is the norm today. They are 
called "confinement" or factory farms. There are 'grazing
daries', that 
operate like your grandparent's farm, but they are few and far between. We 
have quite a few in the northeast, because pastures grows so well here, and 
dairy farms tend to be smaller, in the 50-200 cow range, and not the 1000+ 
cow dairies that are common in the west. The confinement pig and chicken 
farms are even worse; the animals never get to go outside.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

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From: "Leslie" <cayadopi at yahoo.com>
To: <homestead at lists.ibiblio.org>
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Having been on my grandparent's dairy farm as a kid - where the cows were 
turn out and rotated thru various tracts of land during the day,,,, I was 
shocked, I mean drop dead shocked when I saw how dairy cows are treated here 
in NM. I now wonder if this is what dairy farms have become all over the 
country.

There are literally hundreds of cows enclosed in a hot sunny, manure filled 
pens, with a central metal roof. The pen is fenced around the permiter with 
the "things" the cows put their heads thru to eat food. The workers
spread 
alfalfa all around the perimeter, and the cows eat whenever they want. Then 
they lay in piles of manure chewing their cud. The smell can be smelled a 
mile away.

And there are pens after pens after pens,,,, The largest that I have seen so 
far is along I-10 between Las Cruces, NM and El Paso, TX

No wonder they need antibiotics! The cows were filthy. I'm sure they must
go 
thru some kind of a shower before milking but what a waste of water in the 
desert. On top of truly horrible conditions for those cows.

Maybe the NYT needs photos of where milk comes from....

--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Homestead] Excellent NYT editorial
To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:02 AM


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/opinion/11kristof.html?_r=1

As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as agriculture secretary, he should
reframe the question. What he needs is actually a bold reformer in a
position renamed "secretary of food."

Lynn Wigglesworth

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