Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Good to get different points of view. My own is that most of us do not need 
any form of milk for the calcium, since the usual bone problems do not 
respond to extra calcium anyway but do respond to vitamin D.  And the D they 
add to commercial milk isn't enough to justify the cost IMHO. And apparently 
unpasteurized milk is largely indigestible. After all, nature makes it for 
growing heavy calf bones. True there's the African culture living on milk and 
oxblood, but I'm not going to try it myself. Nor meat only or whale blubber. 
Humans are omnivorous, but radical changes in diet to different cultures 
cause problems. I'll admit Weston Price has some good points. I happen to 
crave certain kinds of cheese. But there is no medical evidence that cows 
milk is nature's perfect food for adults. Bananas come a lot closer.

I still ask how much food could we produce on the land it takes to support 
one dairy cow?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/4/2010 at 2:17 PM Aliza Vanderlip wrote:

>This is about pasturized CAFO dairy foods - not pastured raw
>goats/sheeps/cow (though it is generally more difficult for folks to
>digest cow) milk.  The pasteurization/homogenization is what causes most
>of the issues that folks have with dairy products.  I wish folks wouldnt
>generalize about dairy.  Raw dairy from grazing animals has a different
>vitamin/mineral profile then the crap at the store and is used by the body
>differently.  There are cultures that eat mostly dairy for their entire
>diet.  There are cultures that have thrived well on meat only - think
>inuit people on the north slope.  There are many ways to build a healthy
>diet and healthy raw dairy can be one of the ways.
>
>Here is an article from Weston A Price foundation on traditional diets and
>the many varied ways that peoples ate and created healthy strong bodies.
>
>https://www.westonaprice.org/Ancient-Dietary-Wisdom-for-Tomorrow-s-Children.html