Episode 14: Tesni Sojourner Williams

07/24/19 • 2 min

Last week I said I wouldn't make a new episode if my daughter was born. I had no idea it would be so fast! Well, she was born on July 18, 2019 at 10:42pm in Barnett, Missouri. She, in my ever so humble opinion, is absolutely perfect. Kelli labored for 23 hours, pushing for about 1.5 hours of that. My wife is nothing short of a superstar, and I'm so proud of her. The birth was pretty hairy. Kelli was losing a lot of blood and Tesni had secondary apnia--couldn't breathe right.

This week has been pretty crazy for us. Kelli has been getting used to only sleeping for 1.5 hour stretches and still finding time to take care of herself somewhere in-between nursing. Her mom and dad have been living out of our house to help with our transition into full time parenting. They've been taking the night shifts whenever Tesni is asleep.

But, like I ask in this episode, please email me at [email protected] to tell me what you're passionate about when it comes to real food, broken ecosystems, and a better way to live. Please!

But, like I ask in this episode, please email me at [email protected] to tell me what you're passionate about when it comes to real food, broken ecosystems, and a better way to live. Please!

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Episode 13: Raw Milk, So What?

Raw Milk is milk that hasn't been changed or adulterated in any way. It's been drunk by everyone from the Israelites of the Bible, to the Romans, to the Spanish Conquistadors, and finally, to us. But, somehow we've decided in the last 90 years or so that 4 millenia of milk drinkers had it wrong. Raw milk is actually super dangerous, or so the American medical and political establishment would have you believe.

Today's episode is the first of a 3 part series. Today I just wanted to cover the basics. I attempt to answer one main question:

Why is raw milk better for you?

Next week I'll be taking you through the history of the controversy... covering everything from time immemorial through about 1912. It's a tall order, but I think I can manage.

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Episode 15: A Gallon of Pasteurized Milk

Milk is our our first food.

It's sustained us since the beginning of time. The Lapplanders, Biblical Hebrews, Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Spanish, and early American colonists all drank it. It's probably been the least controversial thing on the planet for the past couple thousand years or so. When cows eat grass in a pastoral setting, they produce good milk.

But we've lost that logic somewhere along the way in modern America.

We lock our cows in 6x6 foot stalls and make them stand on concrete for the duration of their short lives. We feed them grain. And then we pretend to watch in horror as people get sickened by the milk.

Pasteurization was invented as a way to sterilize wine, but along the way it got applied to milk. Supposedly it makes milk safe. In fact, drinking a glass of pasteurized, homogenized milk is pretty dangerous. After researching for this episode, I refuse to drink another glass.

Update: I have updated this episode to reflect a more balanced take on conventional vs. raw milk