I do drink milk, but living in Phuket it’s easy to get raw goats milk, mine being sourced from an organic farm. I’m sure that organic cattle/goat farms in most countries where the sale of raw milk is permitted don’t operate with the inhumane procedures listed by Jenny Moxham and JC Wilcox. The wisdom of sourcing according to our health needs and the animals’ well-being is not disputed.
Eric Bahrt states that I repeat the “biggest lie” – that drinking milk prevents osteoporosis. If Eric had calmly read my letter (and not panicked when he saw my signature, assuming an all-out attack on vegans), he would have noted that I stated (as I’ve done in every letter I’ve submitted on milk drinking), that pasteurisation destroys 90 per cent of the phosphotase enzyme needed for calcium absorption. As almost 100 per cent of milk drunk worldwide is pasteurised, I fully agree that osteoporosis is not prevented by drinking (pasteurised) milk with it’s mere 10-per-cent calcium availability. This is further affected by low vitamin D intake of the general population. Idiotic mainstream health advice is for 800iu of vitamin D per day, when we need 8000iu. Multi-vitamins recommended by ill-informed doctors and dieticians for “insurance” and also contained in most fortified foods, contain the toxic, almost useless synthetic Vitamin D2, not the natural D3.
Maybe Eric needs to calm down a little as his letters get more hysterical and abusive every week. May I suggest some active meditation to slow his overactive Beta brain waves (14-28 cycles per second) down to a calmer Alpha state of 7-14 cps. In the Beta state, information from the conscious and subconscious is exchanged millions of time a second, causing “clutter” and a flood of uncontrolled emotions.
Simple meditation needs just 15 minutes a day: Sit in a dark, quiet room on a chair or the floor, facing North, with hands on knees and palms facing up. Place a small candle about 1 metre away, just below eye level, and stare at the base of the flame (not at the flame). Concentrate on that and breathe slowly, fully and deeply in through the nose, feeling the breath coming in the nostrils and going all the way up, but not into the head. Breathe out slowly and fully, feeling the breath now going all the way down and out of the nostrils.
During this active meditation, you learn to take full control of your mind by preventing any positive or negative thoughts coming into your conscious from the subconscious. If a thought comes in, restart. If you can do one minute without any thought coming in, you’ve moved ahead and will remain in a calm Alpha state most of the time. You’ll be able to pause before any decision, with the first thought coming in being the correct one.
Thomas Turk
Phuket