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The Birth of a Biome

Amazing artwork by Kd Neeley titled My Soul. Click image for prints.

Amazing artwork by Kd Neeley titled My Soul. Click image for prints.

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The Birth of a Biome

Our microbiome, the population of symbiotic microorganisms that lives with us on our skin and in our guts, is an ecosystem of unimaginable proportion. Much like the vastness of the cosmos, it is doubtful that we will ever truly comprehend the sheer magnitude of its influence on our evolution, our health, and even our existence and the future of our species.

But how does our microbiome form? What shapes it and influences its composition? Like most things, there must be a beginning – a birth, so to speak.

A Child’s Food Preferences Begin in the Womb

A Child’s Food Preferences Begin in the Womb

Source: The Guardian How a child's food preferences begin in the womb Tests have shown that what a woman eats during her pregnancy is easily detectable in her amniotic fluid, and the foetus develops a taste for familiar flavours It may be a survival mechanism that's come back to bite us o ...

From Mother’s Gut to Milk

From Mother’s Gut to Milk

Source: Milk Genomics Consortium From Mother's Gut to Milk In a world filled with harmful bacteria, viruses, and parasites, it seems quite paradoxical that a human infant would be born with an immature and inefficient immune system. That is, of course, until you realize the infant benefits ...

The Family Cow – Raw Milk Safety and Government Manipulation

The Family Cow – Raw Milk Safety and Government Manipulation

Mark McAfee visits the family cow. The following article is reposted with permission. It is Edwin Shank's personal exploration of what may be going on behind the scenes of North American government regulatory departments in regards to their accelerated paranoia around raw milk. The Family Cow pr ...

Fresh Milk Food Politics Overview

Fresh Milk Food Politics Overview

Well it has been a long and talkative day for us raw milk lovers here in BC so I will try to just do a quick summary of the speakers and some of my favorite quotes from each of them for the folks who were unable to attend the Fresh Milk Food Politics conference today. I have uploaded a bunch of ...

The Benefits Of Raw Milk Cosmetics

The Benefits Of Raw Milk Cosmetics

The Benefits Of Raw Milk Cosmetics by Marcela De Vivo Raw milk is natural and unmodified by any chemicals --unlike the milk you might buy at your local grocery market. Pasteurized (or “sterilized”) milk is altered with added protein, and lactose. This allows companies to cut a gallon of milk ...

Interview: Why Can’t We Purchase Raw Milk?

Interview: Why Can’t We Purchase Raw Milk?

Daytime Ottawa hosts ask why we can't purchase raw milk and is it safe to consume. More info at rawmilkconsumer.ca ...

Fermentation of the Future

Fermentation of the Future

Fermentation of the Future Dairy products are often fermented to improve their taste or preservation. Fermentation of dairy products has been associated with beneficial health effects. Can dairy fermentation be further optimized for superior consumer health? Using populations of ba ...

History of Harassment: The Little Chilliwack Dairy

History of Harassment: The Little Chilliwack Dairy

With The Little Chilliwack Dairy back in the courts again it seems appropriate to revive this article about Alice Jongerden, written in 2010 by Chad Hershler. Hershler does a very good job of presenting the history of the Home on the Range cowshare and when the harassment by Fraser Health began. ...

The ‘Sugar of Intelligence’

The ‘Sugar of Intelligence’

I was just given this lovely cookbook: French Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Loomis in exchange for a cranio session. In a rather synchronistic manner when I opened it I immediately came to this page with a little blurb about what is called in France "le sucre d'intelligence" which is the result of ...