My friend Myra turned me on to the Campaign for Real Milk. Then yesterday, I traveled out to the North Fork of Long Island to Connie’s house (of the late, lamented Connie’s Bake Shop in Mattatuck) and low and behold, Connie had a quart of the stuff on hand.

According to both Connie and Myra, modern ultra-pasteurized milk is the source of lots of ills, including allergies, asthma, intestinal problems and the like. What’s said to be good for you by real milk proponents? Well, old fashioned whole milk, unpasteurized and with a nice fat slab of cream on top.

Where do you find such an arcane product? One place is www.realmilk.com, a web site sponsored by the Weston A. Price Foundation, that lists sources of traditional milk and milk products.

I’m allergic to the protein in milk but during a trip to Ireland a few years back, I ate lots of milk, cream and butter, and didn’t have a single allergic reaction–which in my case consists of feeling so drowsy and drugged, I’m in a stupor until the milk product exits my system.

That’s the first time it occurred to me that industrialized, hyper-hormoned and pasteurized U.S. produced milk products might be the culprit, not milk in its natural, grass-fed state as it’s produced in Ireland, and now by select producers in this country.

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