Dr. Spock
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cares more about cows than kids,”
the Journal said.
Scare Tactics Decried
Many saw the PCRM’s food
scare tactics as part of a disturbing
pattern. Writing in the Washing
ton Post, columnist Jonathan
Yardley said, “the specific details
of (PCRM’s) dog-and-pony show
are less important than the pattern
of which they are a part... scaring
Americans about the various sub
stances they funnel into their
bodies has become a growth
industry both for the high priests
of medicine and the low priests of
journalism.”
The Post’s Sugarman expressed
similar conems. “I think all the
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hoopla scared parents unnecessar
ily,” she said, adding, “It was
much to do about nothing.” “As
for me,” she concluded, “I’m
sticking with milk.”
Nutritional Arguments
Debunked
Journalists also joined nutri
tionists in debunking the idea that
Americans could get all the cal
cium they needed by switching
from milk to kale. The New York
Times editorialized that “the real
weakness in the anti-milk crusade
is the alternatives offered. You
don’t need milk to get calcium.
You can get it from broccoli (Pres
ident Bush’s least favorite food),
tofu or kale, a green known more
for hardiness than taste. Pass the
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Vermont’s Republican Senator
Jim Jeffords pointed out that it
would be very difficult to get the
800 milligrams of calcium a child
needs each day by switching to
green vegetables. One cup of milk
contains 300 milligrams of cal
cium compared to 56 milligrams
in a cup of kale, Jeffords pointed
out. ‘Think of it this way he said,
“You could offer Johnny three
cups of milk, and slightly exceed
the RDA for calcium, or you could
offer him 16 cups of kale.
Mmmmm good.”
Wisconsin Democrat, Senator
Herb Kohl, also debunked the
PCRM effort stating, “...I view
efforts to discourage non-infant
children from drinking milk to be
irresponsible, and unsupported by
the medical community at large.”
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Dairy State Rep. Steve Gunderson
(R-WI) voiced similar sentiments.
“This committee’s (PCRM’s)
claim that milk can cause health
problems has received more atten
tion than it deserves,” he said.
“They would have Americans eli
minate from their diet 76% of the
recommended calcium intake,”
Gunderson said.
Good News And Bad
Lawmakers, mainstream physi
cians, dieticians and yes even
the mass media ultimately
came to the rescue of the dairy
industry after milk was attacked
by the PCRM. And there is no
doubt as well that the National
Dairy Board, the National Dairy
Council, the National Milk Pro
ducers Federation and the milk
promotion groups in the industry
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worked hard to overcome the
threat created by Dr. Spook and
his colleagues.
Certainly two weeks after the
event it is accurate to say that the
story was turned around, that
those that sought to discredit milk
were discredited. Last week’s
after-the-fact press coverage was
down right good.
The bad news is many of these
stories came after the fact, after
the damage was done to dairy in
the public’s mind. It was more
than much to do about nothing.
The lesson we learned from all
this is that we must continue to
work together each day to inform
the public of the good job dairy
producers do of providing con
sumers a pure, wholesale, afford
able product designed to meet a
variety of dietary needs. And
that’s the good news.
North View
Farms
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der becomes haylage.
He says 60 percent of the crops
were lost last year because of the
Somerset County drought
conditions.
“We had enough carryover to
make it just by the skin of our
teeth,” said Jim, who is also the
repairman at North View Farms.
The recent RHA report for
Northview’s 97 cows is a milk
production of 25,828 pounds; 90S
pounds of butterfat, 3.5 percent;
852 pounds of protein, 3.3
percent.
North View Farms’ original
homestead first belonged to Jim,
Dan and John’s maternal grand
dad, Mary Elizabeth’s father Cal
vin. She later took it over. This
year it was recognized as a Penn
sylvania Dairy of Distinction.
A history buff ready and willing
to sit on the front porch swing to
chat, Calvin can snap out more
information than can be easily
assimilated, but all is substan
tiated by the historical preserva
tion books he keeps handy.
He said he believes that folks
should know about their family
heritage and those who once own
ed the land.
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