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the factory farm feed-and-be-fed-to system, a highly recommend that you use all-organic ingredients—including the
cow may be fed grain fortified with ground-up spices, which ideally should be non-irradiated. If possible, buy locally
chicken, while the chickens in turn are eating produced items.
feed containing grain fortified with ground-up
cow. And so on. If disease enters this system, Sandrine Perez previously worked as a family therapist, art therapist,
it could suddenly be everywhere. teacher and as an educational therapist in private practice before she
[Editors’ note: Not satisfied with the con- established Nourishing Our Children in 2005. Convinced that the chil-
ventional explanation, the late Mark Purdey dren she worked with were well-fed but malnourished, Sandrine closed
(an organic dairy farmer in the UK) performed her private practice to devote herself to creating educational materials
geochemical analyses and furnished a different that would inspire parents to return to the nutrient-dense foods that have
hypothesis about BSE (and other diseases such produced generation after generation of healthy children. She founded
as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s). Purdey sug- the San Francisco chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation in 2004
gested that the causal agents might be “common and currently leads the Portland, Oregon chapter. She has also taught
toxic denominators”—specifically, metal micro- Nourishing Traditions and Moroccan cooking classes, and has written
crystal pollutants such as manganese, barium two children’s books, The Adventures of Andrew Price and A Real Food
and strontium—capable of seeding “aberrant Alphabet. Sandrine received WAPF’s activist award for her leadership
growth of rogue metal-protein crystals within role twice—in 2006 and again at WAPF’s twenty-year anniversary. In
brain tissues.” ] 2014, she was named to the Honorary Board.
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Regardless of which hypothesis one finds
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to obtaining liver from grass-fed animals, I

IN A MARKET IN
ESSAOURIRA

LEFT: Sheep with
heads and wool

RIGHT: Whole lamb
for sale

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