Hi Kirt!

Received your weighty tome yesterday afternoon and have read nearly a hundred
pages already!  Absolutely fascinating stuff!  Obviously the 30's were the
last chance to do this kind of research as I would imagine most, if not all,
of the orginal peoples have been infected since then with denatured,
artificial food.  I have heard about this book for over five years and am
grateful for your loan.  I understand that every society he researched used
some kind of animal product, he evidently found no vegan society.  I have
read several instincto books, including Zephyr's and know that instinctos do
not regard dairy  products as fit for humans.  But how do you think they
would respond to the evidence in Price's book that several original peoples
apparently thrived on dairy products (presumably raw)? They would probably
recommend that a vegetarian instincto eat raw eggs (almost as yucky sounding
to me as raw meat).  Also, it would seem that it would be more healthful to
eat, say raw cheese (which does not sound yucky), than cooked foods of any
kind.   What's your opinion?  I have some raw food friends in Australia who
weren't not doing so well on a raw vegan diet but are thriving and glowing
(they send photos!) with the addition of some raw goat cheese.  After seven
years of veganism, it's scary, but very healthy, to have my assumptions
shaken up - thanks, I think.  Ethically, if the cows are not in some horrible
factory farm situation and are well treated, I can't see how it hurts them,
if their babies are fed, to milk them for our own use.  I do wonder what
happens to the male calves both in India and here in the smaller, more humane
dairies like Altadena and the others.  If cows are anything like nursing
human mothers way more milk is produced than is needed by the infant.  I
spent nearly a year in India and Nepal in the early 70's and know several
Jains here, the HIndus and the Jains have no problem with dairy products and
no one is stricter karma-wise than the Jains!   Well, enough, I've "talked"
your ears off!

I mailed Harris' book on Friday a.m., should reach you by the end of the
week.

Smiles,

Sandy