FW: NOTMILK - - WHERE'S THE CHEESE?

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NOTMILK - - WHERE'S THE CHEESE?

Dear Friends,

Wanna know how I spend my Friday afternoons?

I read, research, and investigate.

I fax, e-mail, and talk to government

bureaucrats. I learn secrets. I identify problems.

I develop solutions. I get frustrated. I get

pissed off. I come, I see, I conquer.

Veni, Vidi, Vici, Vaca, Vomitus.

Tomorrow night, the Green Bay Packers football

team will be playing Florida's ville

Jaguars.

Commonly seen at Wisconsin's NFL franchise

games are legions of fans wearing enormous

cheese-head hats.

However, Wisconsin can no longer lay

claim to the title of America's dairy state.

The new number one cheese producer in

America is California. How did that happen?

There's a great mystery to the cheeseheads of

America who use calculators to count beans and

wheels of cheddar. Why? The numbers just don't

add up.

From September 2000 to September 2001,

California's overall milk production was

up nearly 5%, to just over 2.8 billion pounds.

At the same time, California's production of

cheddar cheese rose an astounding 43%.

Why so high? Food additives, and plenty of

them. Fake cheese, sold to Americans as the

real thing.

There's no whey this should be happening.

Speaking of whey, as curds become cheese,

an appropriate amount of whey should

also be produced…and it was not,

according to Pete Hardin, editor of the

dairy industy newsletter, The Milkweed.

More milk means lower prices, and America's

dairy farmers are preparing themselves for

the coming shock of crashing prices.

Dairy farmers are being betrayed by their own

producers, who buy cheap milk protein powder

from overseas. Casein (80% of milk protein)

has become big business, and America's

casein is imported from the Ukraine, in the

shadow of Cherynobyl. That's why it's cheap.

October 2001 witnessed one of the worst

collapses in modern dairy industry history.

According to The Milkweed:

" At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

(CME) block cheddar fell 49 cents per

pound…Grade AA butter, already down

nearly 50 cents per pound in the second half

of September, started October 1 trading

at $1.75/lb and fell as low as $1.25.

These price declines have, or will,

devastate much of the dairy industry. "

What adds up?

Food additives, that's what.

Hardin's one-man campaign has proven that

Kraft, Borden, and other dairy processors

market cheese products adulterated with

illegal substances.

Did you know that Cheeze Whiz contains no

real cheese? The same may one day be said of

California cheddar. What's now added to cheese

is milk protein concentrate (MPC) in the form

of casein.

A recent analysis (by Hardin) of Borden's Singles

American Cheese proved that vegetable starch

is one of the key ingredients, despite the fact

that this ingredient is not even listed on the label.

Vegetable starch is not on the list of approved

substances for cheese, as mandated by the Food

and Drug Administration.

I called FDA, and, after dozens of calls and two

hours of not giving up after dealing with bureaucrats,

was finally able to reach a woman who seems to give

a damn. She promised to follow through on my

complaint. Time will tell. She won't last long at FDA

with that attitude, I assure you.

Her name is Mimi Remache, and I reached her at

973-526-6017.

People at 1-888-SAFE-FOOD (FDA's emergency

line) would not even offer their names when I asked.

Unfriendly personnel at 1-888-723-3366 (FDA recall)

offered no help at all, just frustration at being bothered

on a Friday afternoon.

It's now in the hands of FDA. Will they recall the

illegal Borden's product, as their mandate requires?

Don't hold your breath.

Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com

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