For many years I read National Review regularly, trusting their positions, beliefs, arguments, and judgment. The first several years of this blog will testify to this statement. However, as I have previously written, I have abandoned the conservatism...

Early in The Untold Story of Milk, Ron Schmid recounts the history of milk in America. He does so at great length, though I'll summarize the history. Milk and its byproducts proved to be critical to the growth, health, and advancement of the United...

I began reading Jacques Ellul's book Violence today. I encountered a few quotes worth pondering. Christians and Culture "What troubles me is not that the opinions of Christians change, nor that their opinions are shaped by the problems of the times;...

Schmid documents eight enzymes in raw milk, their function, and how they respond to pasteurization. Lactase – Lactase is a sugar found only in milk and "splits lactose into simple sugars galactose and glucose." Pasteurization inactivates lactase...

I previously reviewed studies on primitive Eskimo diets consisting of raw and fermented meats and fats. In direct contrast is the case study is of the Swiss of the isolated Loetschental Valley. Schmid writes that, "The completion of an eleven-mile...