Rawproducts-Q for Bianca(michaellazarus)

February 21, 2002

I have been interested in your posts on your extensive use of raw

animal products and also support such a practice, not necessarily as

aggressive as you might however agree none the less. In considering

this from a clinical perspective not to mention a practical

perspective, you speak as if CLEAN, HEALTHY, raw animal products are

readily availible. I don't know about Seattle however a large amount

of North America cannot make that claim. I know here I'm happy to

land some organic raw butter for my own family and a few really

committed patients and even then its frozen. I anticipated you'd

answer this on the last raw meat question but you seemed to have

begged off. How are you going about making wise selections of safe

raw animal products both for yourself and the patients you have

worked with. I think as professionals here we have a certain

responsibility to have our recommendations be safe should they be

implemented and since you appear to have more experience with raw

animal product acqisition than myself I'd be interested to hear your

thoughts.

Thanks for your help,

Dr. Marasco,BS,DC

Cincinnati, Oh

February 21, 2002

Hi ,

Thanks for the question!

I haven't beg off the raw meat question just haven't finished the post

yet. That is why I broke it up and sent the egg part first.

No good clean animal products are not readily available in the sense that

you can walk into your local grocery store and buy them. Although here in

the Northwest we can buy many items at retail from large upscale grocers

like Larrys, Thriftway and QFC and traditional whole food grocery stores

like Puget Consumers COOP and Whole Foods. In addition there are a number

of Farmers Markets where local vendors often sell grass fed organic

items. In fact the only place around here to get good eggs is from the

local Farmers Markets. All the stores sell the " organic but vegetarian

feed only " eggs.

So here in Seattle, meat, milk (goat), eggs and seafood are available

locally. So is game meat. I've gotten everything else by mailorder

including unfrozen cream, butter, organ meats, etc. And sometimes these

items even show up locally or are available " under the table " but the

situation is always fluid.

It takes some work and dedication but at least out here in the Pacific

Northwest they can be found. Even if it means telling the farmer you are

using the milk etc., " for your animals " . Some people might have an

ethical problem with that but as far as I'm concerned unjust laws

instituted by bureaucrats that get in the way of me taking the best care

of myself and my family (not to mention healing people) should be

ignored. Similar to the Nazi's passing laws against safekeeping Jewish

folks or the Roman Empire passing laws forbidding the taking in of babies

that had been left exposed to the elements to die because they weren't

boys. The early Christian Church conveniently ignored that Roman edict

and took the babies in anyway. But alas I digress.

Hope this helps.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:14:42 -0000 " drmichaelmarasco "

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