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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sally Fallon Morell, MA, President
Tom Cowan, MD, Vice President
Carolyn Biggerstaff, Secretary
Valerie Cury, Treasurer
Pam Schoenfeld, MS, RD, Government Relations Pete Kennedy, A Campaign for Real Milk
BOARD MEMBERS IN MEMORIAM Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS Jerry Brunetti
Fred Kummerow, PhD
Kim Schuette, CN Cherie Calvert
GENERAL COUNSEL James Turner, Esq.
HONORARY BOARD
Jen Allbritton, BS, CN
Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH
Marie A. Bishop, CDC
Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom(NA) Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD
Lee Clifford, MS, CCN
Christapher Cogswell, MA
Monica Corrado
Janice Curtin
Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN
Maureen Diaz
Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS
Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD
Ruth Ann Foster, MA
Donna Gates, BS, Med
Joann S. Grohman
Laura Hayes, BA
Suzanne Humphries, MD
Mark A. Kastel
Felix Liao, DDS
Karen Lyke, BA, MS, DSc
Leslie Manookian
Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon)
Judith McGeary, Esq.
Leigh Merinoff
Carlos Monteiro
Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM
David Morris, BS, DC
Ronda Nelson, PhD, MH, CNC
Hon. Frank Niceley
Jill Nienhiser, BS, MA
Suroush Niknamian, BSc
Sandrine Perez
Kathryne Pirtle, BS, MA
Gerald Pollack, PhD
Jessica Prentice
Phil Ridley
Bruce Rind, MD
Sir Julian Rose, BT
Julia Ross, MA
Beverly Rubik, BS, PhD
Joel Salatin
Adrienne Samuels, PhD
Stephanie Seneff, BS, MS, EE, PhD
C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD
Ted Spence, DDS, ND
Alana Sugar, CN
Beverly B. Teter, PhD, FACN, CNS
John Umlauf
Susun S. Weed
David Wetzel, BS
Bruce West, DC
Louisa L. Williams, MS, DC, ND
Lindsea Willon, MS, NTP
Will Winter, DVM
“May you live in interesting times” is said to be a Chinese expression, a blessing or a curse depending on your point of view. Unfortunately, the times we are living in are getting just a little too interesting, with the elimination of the religious exemption to vac- cinations this year in Maine and New York—following California’s removal of the philosophical and religious exemptions in 2015.
While we at the Weston A. Price Foundation like to emphasize the positive, it’s hard to see a solution if you live in those states and want to protect your children. The choices are narrowing down to home school or move—and even requiring vaccinations for home schoolers may be in the sights of the vaccinators.
While the recent votes in Maine and New York are bad news indeed, they have not discouraged us from redoubling our efforts. Let’s be thankful we did have some victories this year—staving off attempts to remove religious and philosophical exemptions in Alabama, Arizona and Minnesota. Many of our members have been extremely active in these efforts; for example, in Minnesota WAPF chapter leaders purchased copies of Neil Z. Miller’s recent book, Review of Critical Vaccine Studies, and gave a copy to every legis- lator. See page 86 for a review of our victories and setbacks so far in 2019. Also, see Kendall Nelson’s excellent article on the sordid history of polio vaccinations on page 77.
On a more positive note, we are gearing up for another great an- nual conference, this time in Allan, Texas, north of Dallas. The loca- tion is a brand new hotel that is offering great prices for us allowing us to offer you lower registration fees than last year, and lower the overall cost thanks to a more reasonable room rate. We will have our additional activities: a pre-conference raw milk fundraiser reception on Thursday and our annual guided farm visit on Monday. As usual the exhibit hall is free and open to the public.
In addition to perennial favorite speakers, new faces this year include David Diamond, PhD, Becky Plotner, ND, Robert Quinn, Timothy Weeks, DC, Peter Ballerstedt, PhD, Joseph Tarantolo, MD, Jerry Tenant, MD, Esther Gokhale, Janin Farzen, Ben Edwards, MD, Pam Schoenfeld, RD and Karen Randall, DO.
No other health conference offers participants such delicious meals, along with so many interesting speakers and exhibits at such a reasonable rate. Early bird rates apply and we also have drawings for early registrants, so register early.
For details, see pages 14-17, or visit wisetraditions.org. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
President’s Message
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