The Crazy Makers Date Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 05:07 AM PST Topic Books I've been meaning to check out this book called "the Crazymakers" (I'll get back to you with the author's name)... I listened to the interview with the woman who wrote it on art bell over a couple years ago (rebroadcast a few nights ago), and I was absolutely rapt. Here's the basic idea...the food we eat are driving us crazy, little by little, by chemically damaging our brains. Did you know that there are chemical plants that specifically re create the "flavors" of the things we eat, because after all the processing it goes through, it either tastes bad, or has no taste at all, so they have to REINTRODUCE the chemically devised flavor of the item that was stripped of it in the first place? Hamburger flavor, PICKLE flavor, CHEESE flavor...yummy, huh? The mass amounts of meat and dairy (and byproducts) that Americans consume yearly are literally destroying our brains? Okay, take this example. A human baby drinks human milk during infancy. Because of this, the child is absorbing the human hormones, human antibodies, and human nourishment it needs to grow into a human child. Then the child drinks bovine milk, given by a health concerned mother...children need milk, don't they? Not after infancy they don't...Humans are the only species on earth that continues to drink milk after infancy, let alone the milk of another species. Bovine milk is meant for bovine calves. It contains bovine growth hormones, bovine antibodies, and bovine nourishment to grow a baby cow into an adolescent cow. You give this to your child? Mother's milk is nature's super formula. It contains everything an infant mammal needs, genetically and nutritionally, to grow into whatever mammal it's supposed to be. Where is the logic in giving a biological fluid designed by nature to grow a baby cow to a still developing human child? Meat is also the same...it contains built up hormones and fats that are a part of the cow (duh, I know) and the meat is saturated with the cow's biological makeup. YES, I will admit that humans are omnivores by nature, but as migrating species, meat was a luxury, not a necessity. It was not consumed in the frightening quantities that it is nowadays by the American public, hence was sometimes necessary to survival, and since it wasn't eaten regularly it caused little harm. Plus the meat eaten by these primitive ancestors was not genetically mutated to be nothing but a walking food source, such as are most of today's "livestock". The author suggested with much conviction that our gluttonous diet of animal products is a major contributor to the outrageous peak in dangerous child obesity, behavioral disorders, physical disorders, mental illnesses, and mental disease. She spoke of these "societal" problems as a result of human children receiving mass quantities of non-human growth hormones, antibodies, and genetic components through mass-produced animal products. Parents are under the misconception that children NEED cow's milk and that it's the only source of calcium, which is a falsity. One cup of any green vegetable such as broccoli, brussel sprouts, asparagus etc. has more calcium than a glass of cow's milk, and contains none of the natural hormones, antibodies, excess body fluids, and fat. People think of bovine growth hormone as a human made concoction pumped into cows to make them produce more milk, not as a naturally being contained in milk designed to grow calves, not human children. I'm going to go find this book, read and read it thoroughly. Everything posted here was from memory after listening to a rebroadcast of the interview on Art Bell's "coast to coast AM" radio show. Let me know what you think...is this woman full of crap or do you feel there just may be something to this? And this isn't another bettie_x vegan tirade, this is genuinely interesting to me and poses a lot of questions...the main one of course being that is our food really driving us mad? I think there's a lot to this.... even if it can only be tied to the rising rates of child obesity. If you don't think kids are getting dangerously fat, dangerously young, you've not spent a summer vacation in Disneyland This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=369