Wise Traditions quarterly: An Inconvenient Cow.

[Guest guest]

The Spring 2008 issue of Wise Traditions is almost revolutionary. If

you haven't got it, find someone who does because it's not posted on

the Price Foundation site yet.

" An Inconvenient Cow " is a remarkable article by Rales who

interned with Saladin at Polyface Farm. In this article, he

proposes that the cow has been demonized by industrialists and

corporatists, and blamed for global warming (among other things). He

makes a persuasive argument against the policies being pushed by the

United Nations, which seem geared to benefit Monsanto and Cargill and

Archer-s-Midland, and completely counter-intuitive and against

common sense. For example, pushing vegetarianism as a means of

combatting global warming, meanwhile razing rainforests to create

plantations for soybeans and rice, and behaving as though cows farting

a bit of methane is THE source of greenhouse gases.

If nothing else, Rales' discussion of grass-fed butter has convinced

me to go for the Pastureland butter, despite its high cost.

Incidentally, I had to smile at the suggestion in this issue that

global warming is based on faulty evidence. I'm glad critical

thinking skills are not entirely dead and gone... there's plenty of

evidence that the world has actually *cooled* since 1998, but OMG

they're whipping us into a frenzy of fear over global warming

nowadays! This from the same people who tell us cholesterol is a

killer and medications will save us from the evil stuff.

~Joe