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None escaped Kellogg’s favourite treatment: a daily ritual to purify the gut of ‘harmful bacteria’ consisting of the administration of the ‘Bulgarian milk preparation’ at both ends.
Carolyn Steel • Sitopia
John Milton—later the author of Paradise Lost—published a pamphlet in which he argued against a law passed by Parliament requiring printers to secure licenses from the government for everything they printed. No book should be censored before publication, Milton argued (though it might be condemned after printing), because truth could only be establ
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As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Dr Robert Mendelsohn MD indicates in Confessions of a Medical Heretic that one of the main ‘problem foods’ for young babies and small children is cow’s milk. He regards human breast-milk as the only suitable food for a baby and refers to bottle-feeding with cow’s milk as, “…the granddaddy of all junk food…”
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
In 1858, rising politician Abraham Lincoln told an audience: “I ask you in all soberness, if all these things, if indulged in, if ratified, if confirmed and endorsed, if taught to our children, and repeated to them, do not tend to rub out the sentiment of liberty in the country, and to transform this Government into a government of some other form.
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The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
interminablerambling.comIndeed men, women, and children alike should eliminate all pasteurized dairy products from their diets, for these denatured products only gum up the intestines with layer upon layer of slimy sludge that interferes with the absorption of organic nutrients. Rule: Eliminate pasteurized and homogenized milk entirely from your diet. If raw certified mil
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