Milk: The Deadly Poison (Hardcover)

What happens when this moratorium ends? In Cohen's words "Some people just do not want to listen". Robert Cohen is so firm in his belief about this that he is currently on hunger strike over the issues involved.

Cohen presents detailed analysis of the evidence he found; unfortunately some of his research was blocked with a statement that "Release of the information would cause substantial competitive and financial harm to the company...".

As Cohen probed deeper and deeper into the issues he discovered that milk is far from the wonder food the dairy industry tells us it is. An increasing number of people suffer allergic reaction to milk and the substantial argument throughout the book is the fact that cows milk is not a natural food for the human race, after all do we see cats drinking dogs milk?

Data presented in the book shows that communities that don't consume milk suffer far less incidence of disease (example given relates to breast cancer). There is the suggestion that Mad Cow Disease is more prevalent in the World than previously believed. There is the overhanging evidence presented in The Times (UK) (23 Aug 97) that a 24 year old vegetarian had contracted the human variant of Mad Cow Disease - Cruetzfeld-Jacob Disease. All this leads me, a former dairy farmer, to believe that the argument Cohen presents must be thoroughly investigated URGENTLY, certainly there must be no question of further approval of the use of rBHG - added to that the whole food safety argument presented against milk as we know it must also be looked at in detail.

Geoff Brewer.

Co-ordinator for the Additives Survivors' Network (UK) (Affiliated to the Green Network Charitable Trust)

UK Spokesperson for Mission Possible International e-mail geoff.brewer@clara.net

I decided to buy the book out of curiosity and I found it very interesting and informative. I'll give some information contained in the book which can help you even if you don't buy it.

Basically the author started out investigating the difference between rBST milk and 'normal' milk. Well the difference is about %26 increase in IGF-1 for a start. If you haven't heard, IGF-1 is a growth hormone (or Insulin Growth Factor 1 of 5) which can help grow cancers cells as well as normal cells. The FDA says that the IGF is broken down by stomach acids. Now it doesn't take a genius to know that milk buffers stomach acidity, ask mum, i.e., your mum knows better than the FDA. Also tell her that there are numerous publications on the link between IGF and breast and ovarian cancer to name a few.

The shocker is that the IGF-1 content in normal milk is the same magnitude as the free IGF-1 in an adult. So why waste money on steroids?