Sally's Milk-Drinking Habits

April 22, 2005

I just saw Sally give her Oiling of America lecture last night. It was great. I

brought my mother and my girlfriend and they enjoyed it too. (Hopefully this

will finally convince my mom to stay off statins and stop drinking pasteurized

milk.) It was the first time I'd seen her speak and I liked her relaxed style,

although I wish she would have gone a bit faster so she didn't have to skip so

many slides.

Anyway, I remember a few months ago on Native Nutrition there was discussion of

what Fallon and Enig and other WAPF leaders ate in their daily diet, and I

recall some people being surprised at how much fresh milk Sally drank and the

absence of fermented milk products in her list.

Well, I found out why. In response to a question at the end of the lecture,

Sally mentioned that tolerance to fresh milk (which I assume is mainly dependent

on tolerance to lactose) varies greatly among individuals and that she, perhaps

owing to her Swiss and Irish ancestry, has no problem with fresh milk products.

She further stated that she does not like fermented milk products.

Someone needs to give this woman a glass of top-notch kefir! Although I tend to

agree somewhat; nothing beats a tall glass of fresh sweet milk for taste and

convenience...but then again, a tall glass of sour milk doesn't make my tummy

feel as overfull and is quite enjoyable to boot....

The recently formed Madison WAPF chapter, which brought Sally in, introduced her

as " our icon " but then noted that Sally had replied that she was more of an

iconoclast than an icon. I was pleased by this anecdotal modesty and by Sally's

low-key demeanor in general because it often seems that too many WAPFers worship

Sally as if she were some omnipotent god, which is, of course, a dangerous and

intellectually unresponsible practice to follow in any group.

Tommy J.

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Faith and knowledge are related as the two scales of balance; when the one goes

up, the other goes down. . . . The power of religious dogma, when inculcated

early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of

humanity. . . . For, as you know, religions are like glow worms; they shine only

when it's dark. A certain amount of ignorance is the condition of all religions,

the element in which alone they can exist.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)

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