[AT] Restriction on selling raw milk...JD "B"

[Don Bowen]

On 5/4/2011 11:58 AM, Dean VP wrote:
> But I would like to caution that today's environment isn't the same as then. We were raised on this stuff from infancy, our bodies developed resistance and antibodies to what people today would call filthy environments.

This is an important point.  Those of us who grew up on the farms of the 
fifties were exposed to all sorts of things.  We drank water from 
cisterns that had to be occasionally cleaned of dead things or from 
ponds that cattle stood in and did what cattle usually did.  We drank 
from creeks that drained fields.  Many illnesses were treated at home 
because finances or weather prevented trips to the doctor.  We spread 
chemicals that are mostly banned now.  Those of us that survived (and 
some did not) had a good grounding to all sorts of exposures in later life.

Contrast that to the modern household where everything has to be 
antiseptically clean.  Ads for cleaning products tout their 
antibacterial properties.  Every little sniffle requires a trip to the 
doctor for an anti biotic.  I have seen antiseptic wipes near the rack 
of grocery store shopping carts even in little towns here in the 
Ozarks.  Kids and people are not being exposed to many things and that 
is a real problem.

I remember a woman visiting a Southern California antique tractor adn 
farming museum.  SHe arrived in a late model BMW, wore the latest 
fashion business suit with high heels.  Her pre teen daughter looked 
like she was trying to pass for 21.  Her comment about the museum, 
"There is too much dirt!"

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Don Bowen           KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html