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almost impossible to duplicate Price’s work exactly but a professor in the USDA food pyramid recommends for the
Australia confirmed some of it with a group of Aborigines who grew up on optimum human diet. Are we being fattened up
their traditional diet. They were healthy up to that point, then moved into for the slaughter?
civilization, gained weight and developed other related health problems. More evidence that we are not adapted to a
When she observed them return to the outback and the old ways, they lost rabbit diet comes from archaeological and an-
weight and their health issues were resolved. Their traditional diet was thropological studies. Many thousands of years
64 percent animal-based and they were less active in the bush than in the ago humans moved far enough north that only
city. That clashes with a lot of belief systems. Jay Wortman, MD, has seen animal food would be available for large parts
similar results with First Nation peoples in Canada. of the year. They have not found any evidence
We are next treated to the vegetarian view. We hear Joel Fuhrman, that they had produce trucked up from the south
MD, claim that not only should we eat more fruits and vegetables but ought at that time. Professor Mike Richards has done
to make those foods the foundation of our diet. Alan Goldhamer, DC, says extensive bone analysis to determine what the
the mistake vegetarians make is trying to make up for the lack of meat original owners of those bones ate. He has found
in the diet. He wants us to just get rid of the meat, period. The creator of no vegans until recently. There were a few cases
soy jerky says that anatomically we are herbivores. I’m not sure whose where they thought they found an exception but
anatomy he is looking at, but I don’t have multiple stomachs nor do I have later discovered they accidentally got a cow bone
the intestinal capacity of a gorilla. mixed in with the human bones. How that could
Michael Eades, MD, points out that we can only get vitamin B from happen, I’m not sure, but if some people think
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animal foods and that fact alone does irreparable damage to the theory that we anatomically look like herbivores, I suppose
we are naturally pure vegans. A series of other experts reinforces the need that would be an easy mistake to make.
for animal-based nutrition, including Sally Fallon Morell. She points out A wide range of experts was interviewed
that the Framingham study has been used to promote margarine and other in this movie and so, as you might expect, even
foods that don’t contain saturated fat. What the study really showed was those who are on the same side of the issue do not
that those who ate the most saturated fat, cholesterol and calories weighed agree on every detail. One detail everyone might
the least, had lower levels of serum cholesterol, and were more physically agree on is made by Getoff toward the end of the
active. film. A healthy diet may not be convenient but an
USDA guidelines are decided mostly by politics and politicians, not unhealthy diet will lead to even more inconve-
science. Eades analyzed the feed used by factory farms or feedlots to nience. The big picture message does agree with
fatten up their cattle and pigs and found it almost exactly matches what my thumb, which is UP for this movie.

RAW MILK FREEDOM RIDERS IN MINNEAPOLIS

Kimberly Hartke, WAPF Publicist, pictured in back row,
third from left, gave her new presentation, "The Real Deal
about Raw Milk," in Minneapolis. She is pictured here with
the Raw Milk Freedom Riders of Minnesota,
who sponsored the event.

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