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Folic Acid and Glyphosate Wise Traditions IN FOOD, FARMING AND THE HEALING ARTS A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION® Volume 17 Number 1 Spring 2016 CONTENTS FEATURES WAPF Podcast Interview Page 52 A Letter from FTCLDF Page 14 Hilda Gore interviews Sally Fallon Morell on traditional diets Folic Acid and Glyphosate Page 17 Stephanie Seneff describes a perfect Food Feature Page 58 storm of ill effects Min Kim gives us detailed instructions on einkorn sourdough bread Vital Roles of Saturated Fat Page 26 Chris Masterjohn makes it clear All Thumbs Book Reviews Page 64 just why we need them What the Fork Are You Eating? Miraculous Abundance Testing Cod Liver Oil Page 34 Psychiatry Under the Influence Sally Fallon Morell looks into the safety The Big Book of Kombucha and vitamin levels of this superfood Fields of Farmers The Adventures of Andrew Price The LDN Book One Straw Revolution DEPARTMENTS 50 Human Studies President’s Message Page 2 Love your farmer? Then please support Tim's DVD Reviews the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Page 74 Tim Boyd looks at the latest offerings Letters Page 3 Legislative Updates Page 77 Caustic Commentary Page 10 Judith McGeary, Esq, updates us on Sally Fallon Morell challenges the Produce Safety Rule the Diet Dictocrats A Campaign for Real Milk Page 80 Reading Between the Lines Page 42 Sylvia Onusic visits Jeff Biddle's Merinda Teller looks into Flint, Michigan's beautiful dairy farm cautionary tale Raw Milk Updates Page 84 Healthy Baby Gallery Technology as Servant Page 47 Page 88 Local Chapters John Moody describes his favorite Page 89 Shop Heard ‘Round the World kitchen gadgets Page 102 Homeopathy Journal Page 50 Joette Calabrese provides homeopathic remedies for digestive disorders 165661_text.indd 1 4/4/16 12:17 AM THE WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDatION® President’s Message Education Research Activism BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sally Fallon Morell, MA, President Kim Schuette, CN,Vice President Sarah Pope, Secretary “What we need, Sally, is a legal defense fund for raw milk farmers, Valerie Cury, Treasurer something like the Home School Legal Defense Fund.” The year was Tom Cowan, MD Cherie Calvert 2005 and the suggestion came from Valerie Cury, a board member of Leslie Manookian Phil Ridley the Weston A. Price Foundation. At that time, our Campaign for Real Milk was taking off. Raw BOARD MEMBERS IN MEMORIAM Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS milk availability was increasing, but so were cases of bureaucratic Nicholas Gonzalez, MD Jerry Brunetti harassment. Our office began receiving calls from beleaguered farmers, accused of making people sick, or simply hampered by over-zealous GENERAL COUNSEL James Turner, Esq. application of the regulations. WAPF had no resources to help these HONORARY BOARD folks—we were not set up to provide legal advice. Often I had them Jen Allbritton, BS, CN talk with attorney Pete Kennedy, who had compiled all the raw milk Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH Marie A. Bishop, CDC state laws for us. Pete was extremely helpful, but we needed more. Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom(NA) Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD So I began asking every attorney I met—would they be willing to Lee Clifford, MS, CCN set up such a fund, and serve as the organization's legal counsel? After Christapher Cogswell, MA Monica Corrado several negative answers, I met Gary Cox at a raw milk hearing in Janice Curtin Ohio. Gary agreed and we were on our way! The Farm-to-Consumer Katherine Czapp Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) was born on July 4, 2007, with a big Maureen Diaz William Campbell Douglass, MD farm picnic at Jake Zook's farm in Christiana, Pennsylvania. That first Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS year, WAPF footed the bill for expenses while the Fund got organized James A. Duke, PhD Carol Esche, DNP, MA, RN, CAN and their membership began to grow. Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD The whole idea was to level the playing field for small farmers, and Ruth Ann Foster, MA Donna Gates, BS, Med the Fund has done that very well. Have you noticed that we no longer Joann S. Grohman Suzanne Humphries, MD have much trouble from state regulators? They have backed off raw Beatrice Trum Hunter, MA milk because they know they will have a fight if they cause trouble. Mark A. Kastel Fred Kummerow, PhD Under the able leadership of Pete Kennedy, FTCLDF has helped us Felix Liao, DDS get closer to our goal—clean raw milk available to everyone in the Sandrine Love Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon) U.S. When the Fund was set up, raw milk was available through sales, Judith McGeary, Esq. Carlos Monteiro pet milk or cowshares in twenty-seven out of fifty states—now that Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM number is forty-two, so only eight more states to go. And FTCLDF David Morris, BS, DC Jill Nienhiser, BS, MA has worked to liberalize state laws that already allowed raw milk sales Sylvia Onusic, PhD, CNS, LDN Kathryne Pirtle, BS, MA but were overly restrictive. Jessica Prentice FTCLDF provides legal counsel for small farmers in so many Bruce Rind, MD Sir Julian Rose, BT ways. President Pete Kennedy helps farmers set up cowshare and Julia Ross, MA herdshare agreements at the rate of two or three per week. The Fund Beverly Rubik, BS, PhD Adrienne Samuels, PhD has also defended small farms for the right to engage in direct sales Pam Schoenfeld, MS, RD Andreas Schuld of all farm products, fought for less restrictive zoning laws, and even Stephanie Seneff, BS, MS, EE, PhD helped farmers whose crops were ruined by pesticide overspray to get C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD Ted Spence, DDS, ND the compensation they deserve. Alana Sugar, CN That is why I am asking you to turn to page 14 and read their Beverly B. Teter, PhD, FACN, CNS John Umlauf appeal letter carefully. If you drink raw milk and consume farm-fresh Susun S. Weed David Wetzel, BS products, you owe it to the Fund to support them by being a member, Bruce West, DC renewing your membership or donating to their important work. The Louisa L. Williams, MS, DC, ND Will Winter, DVM future of food in this country depends on your support! 2 Wise Traditions SPRING 2016 Wise Traditions 165661_text.indd 2 4/4/16 12:17 AM Letters SPRING WATER THYROID MALFUNCTION Dr. Mary Enig, an expert and pio- Norm LeMoine’s feature on filthy “Sewage in a Glass? Technologies neer in the field of trans fats, tackled water and filtration options really hit for Cleaner, Safer Water” (Winter 2015) this problem in her book, Know Your home. Especially the dizzying number discusses the adverse health effects of Fats (2001). “Why is there so much of filtration options. Over the past eight chlorine and fluoride, but misses one lactation failure today?” she asks. In years I’ve tried many with varying adverse effect entirely: thyroid gland this section of the book (page 190), she success. While spring water was men- (mal)function! If you look at the pe- explains that trans fats in the diet of the tioned as being one of healthiest waters riodic table you will find the halogen nursing mother translate into trans fats you can consume, little information was group (column) with fluorine, chlorine, in the breast milk, which can decrease given on how and where to procure. bromine, and iodine. The laws of nature the overall level of fat in the milk. There’s a wonderful website, dictate that fluorine, chlorine and bro- Nature intended that fat be the major www.findaspring.com, that contains mine will displace iodine in a chemical component of breast milk. a Google map interface with loca- reaction. Much of the fat quantity and qual- tions of springs around the world. It’s Iodine is necessary in the body for ity of breast milk is related to diet. But entirely user-driven, meaning health the thyroid gland to work properly. The some saturated fats are “must-haves” conscious folks like us add and update thyroid gland regulates metabolism; so and so important that the body will the various spring locations. If you’re maybe our weight problems aren’t all make them in order to supply the baby lucky enough, there’s a spring not far due to calories. We’re probably looking if they are not supplied in the diet. from where you live. Thankfully, I was at a three-factor interaction as a cause If the infant does not receive finally able to locate a spring near my of obesity: calories (sugar calories enough fat in the breast milk, she will home. are probably the worst); metabolism not be satisfied, will cry and be fussy. For those who don’t have access (thyroid gland functioning and couch “A typical parental response is then to to a spring, what do the water experts potato behavior); and fats (lowfat diets feed formula, which in turn decreases think about commercial spring waters replacing fats in the diet with carbs, milk production by the mother,” said such as Mountain Valley? While these which is doubly bad because you need Dr. Enig, who advocated actively avoid- are treated, it seems this is a better fats in the diet to lose weight). ing trans fats. option than filtered toilet water replete Roger A. Wacek Trans fats are still used in foods in with chemical additives that’s delivered Owatonna, Minnesota the U.S., especially snack foods, baked via ancient water piping, no matter how goods and the like. Even if not named good the filter on the other end is.
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