Recently the repression of local community dairies has reached a surreal frenzy. How do you feel about raw milk? Do you feel governments are really protecting OUR safety spending so much money to harass small local farms when the biggest killers come from mass production and industrial farming?
More info here about the US Food Crisis and your food freedom.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...