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Tim’s DVD Reviews

Processed People as an example of healthy people. True, they were
Mostly Magic, Inc. healthy but were they supposedly expending all
Some of our chapter leaders have seen this energy hunting and chasing plant foods?
a trailer for this movie that could lead one to If you buy into the idea that this planet is
believe it is a good one, but since our chapter overcrowded, then this would be a good DVD to
leaders are pretty sharp, they saw a few warning show to everybody for good population reduction
flags and thought we’d better review this more options. I’ll be blunt. This movie isn’t just bad,
carefully to make sure. it is awful. I can’t tell you what I really think
It would be easy to make a trailer full of because it wouldn’t get past the editors. Every
excerpts that would make this film look quite thumb I have is DOWN on this one.
good. It points out the flaws in the health care
system, including the misleading name “health Chore Time
care” when “sick care” is what is really going on. Tim Wightman
A lot of time is also spent focusing on the well- Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
publicized, uncontroversial villains responsible Some of you may know about the Raw Milk
for poor health in America. Besides junk food, Production Handbook by Tim Wightman pro-
poor lifestyle makes the list. We hear that Ameri- duced for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense
cans are “stuffing themselves like ducks on a foie Fund. You may have heard (correctly) that it is
gras farm.” Well, maybe some of them are and very good but you’re waiting for the movie. Wait
I think the main reason for that is because what no more. There is now a two-DVD set featuring
they are stuffing themselves with doesn’t have Tim Wightman himself.
much in the way of real nutrition—and this film You get a first-class tour of everything from
says that. All this is fine as far as it goes. milk house design and setup through equipment,
Then I start seeing familiar names and faces milking, processing cream, to final cleanup. The
like Fuhrman, McDougall, Esselstyn Jr. and only thing you don’t get to see is the actual build-
other harbingers of things to come. Sure enough, ing of the milk house. I’m guessing that would
I’m treated to a full-scale, unveiled attack on make the video too long. There is a lot of good ad- You get a
meat and dairy. The issue is almost always vice on things like planning ahead for upgrades first-class
fogged up due to confusion between industrial you may want in the future and minimizing flat
meat/dairy and local, organic meat/dairy. Claims surfaces that collect dirt. This is probably not the tour of
abound that humans thrive on plant-based diets, video for a regular chapter meeting but would everything
that we don’t need to eat animals to be healthy, be excellent for anyone entertaining the idea of from milk
that whole milk products promote obesity, that a getting into milk production. This video will give
starch-based diet is the key to good health, that you a good idea what it’s like and many good house
it’s good to have a cholesterol level of less than pointers that will make life easier. You even get design and
150 and that meat-eating causes global warming. a lesson on how to break in a cow that is new to setup through
That’s why it’s snowing in Dallas. the milking scene so you don’t end up getting
Once again I hear the popular myth that kicked into the next zip code. equipment,
hunter-gatherers ran themselves ragged every- And there is a brief message from his cat at milking,
day chasing after their food. The first thing that the end which I enjoyed very much. THUMBS processing
comes to mind when I hear that is, no, they didn’t. UP.
Next, I find it interesting that, even among veg- cream, to final
etarians, the hunter-gatherers so often come up cleanup.

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