America under permanent white Christian conservative domination will be way worse than Russia.
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I don’t know your source, but cow’s milk, when it is used as part of infant formulas (goat milk is becoming increasingly popular), has been broken down and treated in ways that differentiate it from the cow’s milk we buy in stores. I don’t know of anyone who would not recommend human mothers breastfeed, but many mothers cannot. They hold two jobs, neither of which gives them an opportunity to use a breast pump. They have adopted a baby. They have lost their breasts to cancer or for some other reason are physically unable to breastfeed, though they would like to. Many reasons. Fortunately, many human babies do flourish on infant formulas derived from cow’s milk.
Genes play an important role in different humans’ tolerance for many foods, including cow’s milk. Barring intolerances, our digestive tracts adjust to the foods they regularly digest. Me, I was breastfed by my mother and then started drinking cow’s milk, which I happen to love. I love all dairy products and ingest a lot of them. My digestive health has always been just fine.
A poem I have long loved. By Kathleen Fraser, published in The New Yorker on Jan. 7, 1967:
Like a shiny bus in the snow,
I feel good this morning—
new upholstry, green and tough.
I’ll never wear out!
The snowplow came at 2 a .m .
last night on its lonely task
and I looked from the window,
waving my toothbrush.
(At night, the snow
changes color.)
Here I am, two legs,
a new morning,
and joy, like the whiteness of cold milk,
filling me up.
An interesting run-down of infant formulas:
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I have no idea what you’re referring to. Does human spit contain rennin? If it does, here’s my question.
Will vegans, who must eschew rennet (which is an ingredient in surprising places, posing problems for them), allow themselves to eat the rennin in other humans’ spit? Is that okay?
Flexitarian cooks face challenges when having a few friends over for dinner. One time I prepared some kohlrabi from my garden and added a few table spoons of chicken broth to the braise. I remembered just in time that I I’d done that, saving my friend (vegetarian but she eats fish, but no shellfish) from her private feelings of perdition. I remember feeling really bad that I hadn’t remembered to keep out the chicken broth, just for her, as she sat staring at the kohlrabi she now couldn’t eat. (This the same friend who confessed some years later that she loves veggie burgers grilled over a fire where beef burgers had been grilled because hers become so much more flavorful, from the beef fat that finds its way to her veggie burger.)
Another friend (well, the wife of a friend) had stringent requirements. She could eat no sugar, including fructose. Well, so she can skip desert. But really, no tomatoes, even at the height of summer? I learned years later (from her husband) that she had thin enamel on her teeth (well, so dentists have told me I do) and was avoiding dental problems her mother had faced (false teeth, my guess). Her food restrictions got in the way of we as couples could become better friends. (Mostly, her husband and I were friends, off in our own little world.)
People are weird.
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Aren’t our military still being taught never to underestimate your opponent? Don’t assume that your opponent is an extremely weak person with bad vision, non-muscular, and can’t shoot a rifle straight?
This would all be a joke if it were not so serious.
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Among my many questions, who is the first violinist, the concert master (the original conductor of any orchestra, who still holds pride of place today)? Why is Lutnick, the only violinist I recognize (I think), the second player in the second row of the first violinists? Why are so many of the real-life power players placed among the cellists and bass players? This orchestra is very heavy on cellists and bassists! Maybe there’s one percussionist (aside from that drum and sticks sitting by themselves in the right foreground)? I think I see maybe one bassoon, but really, the winds and brass are just sort of suggested in an en masse background. Also, any symphony orchestra today has many more women, esp. among the violinists - and violists. No room for second violins and violas here. What, they are again being discounted? I guess violists must be used to it.
What symphonic work could this assemblage possibly play?
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Further reflection. Three women players figure in here.
The harpist Leavitt, the nubile virgin, Wiles the cellist, the old crone. And Bondi, in the chair between JD Vance and good old Kash. Too tired for a lesson in the three stages of the female life in the fascist imagination.
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I do hope you realize that anything to do with almonds makes enormous demands on water supplies.
I knew someone would chime in on that. Yeah, I know. I switched to oat milk for a while but that’s like drinking pure starch. Don’t want to even go into why I don’t like soy. I rarely drink it by the glass and mostly use it for cereal and cooking. The Califia brand almond milk is one I turn to often. I also like the Forager brand cashew milk and yogurts.
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Precisely. To be fit for human babies cow’s milk has to be altered.
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republican MIKEJOHNSON , speaker of the house, is an old south sissy-boy…
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uh, why not just ‘eat’ almonds? and drink water?
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Each generation has one or two. Remember the Vietnamese girl who was running naked and on fire?
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All sorts of self-serving rules he is proposing regarding elections. News week reported that he shared the post depicting Obamas as apes.
Given the dictatorial rampage that he has been on recently, the president may as well tell law enforcement that they will never take him to justice.
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They can always quit!
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Ah, but there’s the rub. If they quit, they have to pay back all their expenses. Now, since they haven’t actually been paid all they have earned, that causes a big problem. They are essentially indentured servants and owe their souls to the company store.
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My niece does not look like Tom Cruise. She qualified Expert on rifle and pistol.
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“…a person that’s extremely weak, non-muscular, can’t shoot a rifle, has no idea where the hell he is.”
Oh! Oh! I know! Ask me!
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Typical Rightwing kind of deal. Wanna bet these morons never get that 50K that got them signed up in the first place? These morons will never learn that Trump ALWAYS cheats. They are going to get stiffed, just like all the contractors that he put into bankruptcy.
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They have to work for ICE for five years. None of them will qualify.
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