Speaking of Dairy

Hmm, did you know there's a war on milk and milk products? Two years ago I was at a chiropractor's. It was maybe the third adjustment she had done for me. She began telling me that milk was not good for people.

I probably expressed my disbelief, but she insisted that 'milk was like puss'. I am not a young person, and I am a farm woman. I grew up primarily on an old fashioned farm, as I was raised mostly by my grandparents who were both born in the year 1898.

We had a small herd of milk cows of undetermined ancestry. There was Henrietta, Arky, Junie, Sally, and I think one other that I've forgotten her name.

This chiropractor must have thought I was as foolish as I looked, or whatnot. I said in disbelief, 'you mean to tell me that the Almighty maker of this universe couldn't make anything to feed our young except puss?'

She did admit that human milk was a tad bit better than cow's milk, but of course we're the only country that drinks milk after we're weaned...I assume that would be about five years old. And I don't know what that does for European countries and the UK.

Okay. Here's the scoop. There are a number of 'elites' out there that want to change our diets. They may be vegetarians, maybe not. For whatever reasons they have an agenda. I've heard all sorts of oddball ideas from this side of the moon. Such as the puss story, and one about how it's painful for the cow to be milked. None of those things are true.

About six months after the chiropractor episode some one put up a picture of something that was supposed to be cow milk and the story that this was what cow milk looked like before they 'whitened' it. It did look like puss, but it didn't look like milk. I'll tell you straight up they don't whiten milk. If anything they water it down. Not with actual water, but by taking the fat content out of it. At 2% and less it looks like the liquid shoe polish we used to use to whiten our tennis shoes in between washings when were kids.

As far as the U.S. being to only nation to drink milk after childhood that's poppycock too. I don't know of any country that doesn't use a milk product such as yogurt or cheese. It may not have been cow's milk, but it was milk from some animal—goat, sheep, cow, horse, yak, camel...all sorts of animals.

Sadly I have gone off on a tangent and not posted about my subject which was supposed to be 'how to make butter'. However, tomorrow I will have, Lord willing, a post on that subject—with pictures. So, until next time keep looking up.

Psalms 55:21 "His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords."