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would love to hear your comments on itchy and bloodshot eyes, improved the grazing land for over seventy weeks.
this. It may well warrant an article in appearance of her skin, lost enough Fecal indicator bacteria are thermotoler-
Wise Traditions. weight (even though bed-ridden) so that ant E. coli and Klebsiella; the high heat
Glenn Mingo, her pants are all loose, and increased of the fecal coliform test injures most
Churchville, Virginia her energy and focus. Of course, this other gram negative bacteria known as
is an artificial situation and one can’t coliform.
The position of the Weston A. Price normally make changes to one’s habits EPA documents claim that the Clean
Foundation is that we should obtain overnight, but when you can, it’s power- Water Act mandated the disposal of sew-
our vitamins A and D from foods like ful! age effluent and sludge on agricultural
cod liver oil rather than from isolated Jill Ebbot, Chapter Leader land; therefore EPA, FDA and USDA
supplements. Your experience with the Brookline, Massachusetts created a federal policy to accomplish
supplements proves our point. It is more that goal, along with a perception man-
likely that the problems you experienced Thank you for that testimonial. Had your agement program.
were caused by taking the large doses friend been eating a consistent WAPF- In the past few years private sector
of A and D as isolated supplements, friendly diet she may have avoided the scientists not involved in the perception
leading to an imbalance or deficiency broken leg in the first place! management program have documented
of another vitamin—such as vitamin what EPA has known for three decades.
K —rather than an intolerance for vita- SLUDGE REDUX But the perception management pro-
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min D because of autoimmune disease, Thank you for publishing my article gram has the public blaming doctors and
especially as vitamin D is known to on sewage sludge in Wise Traditions farmers for the problems EPA created.
support immune function. (Fall 2009). This issue is not going to Jim Bynum
die; it has taken on a life of its own. Our Smithville, Missouri
WAPF BOOT CAMP problem to overcome is EPA’s percep-
A friend of mine took her Labrador tion management program of creating DRY-AGED BEEF
retrievers to the beach on Thanksgiv- its own truth out of lies. Most report- I am looking for any studies sug-
ing morning, and as it happened, they ers repeat the lies because they are on gesting that dry-aged beef is more nu-
rushed out of the water and into her. deadlines and don’t have the time or tritious and/or digestible. I have spoken
She was talking to a friend and didn’t inclination to check the facts. with many folks in the know who say
move out of the way. Her leg was broken I have just gone through some that dry-aged beef (versus wet-aged
in three places, and she had to be taken seven thousand documents in EPA’s beef) is not only more palatable but more
to the hospital, where they implanted a web archives. Early studies revealed digestible and beneficial to gut flora. I
titanium plate. that treatment does not inactivate or kill am sure most traditional cultures would
My friend is fifty-seven. As she all bacteria but instead injures them, have aged meats since refrigeration was
lives in a third floor walk up, she has and actually creates antibiotic-resistant not available.
come to stay with us, which means, bacteria. Furthermore, the documents Dry aging is a process whereby
coincidentally, Weston A. Price boot showed that the injured bacteria are either an entire carcass or specific cuts
camp. Not that it’s intentional exactly; viable but nonculturable by standard of beef are held at temperatures above
it’s just the way we eat. But in the space methods; in other words, they can still freezing for a given amount of time in
of about a week of eating exclusively cause disease after treatment. These order to let naturally occurring bacteria
nutrient-dense foods she has resolved studies show that injured bacteria can and enzymes break down and flavor
acid reflux, gas and bloating, serious be reactivated one year later and that the beef. Hunters do this by hanging
morning nasal congestion along with E. coli and Salmonella can survive on carcasses in a root cellar or in a game
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