I read the news about Dean Foods. This America’s largest milk producer is filling for bankruptcy because Americans are now drinking less cow milk than ever.
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I recall my younger days. I grew up in the age where people were strongly encouraged to drink cow milk. The teachers emphasized the students the importance of drinking cow milk. All the adults were well-educated by mass media to encourage everybody to keep drinking cow milk every day.
In Japanese elementary schools, all the students were forced to drink a bottle of cow milk for lunch. It was a mandatory. There was no substitutes for cow milk. I never liked cow milk. My intuition told me it was not good for my body. I told my teachers many times that I didn’t want to drink cow milk. All the teachers didn’t listen to me. Lunch time was supposed to be fun for all the students, but it was not for me. Because of the drinking cow milk mandatory, I could not fully enjoy the school lunch.
I never drank cow milk anywhere except for school lunch. My mom always kept cow milk in our home refrigerator. I never touched it at home. After I left my parents’ house and started living by myself, I never bought it by myself. Whenever I needed milk for my recipes’ ingredient, I used soy milk as a substitute.
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I remember my late friend whom I met when I was 29 years old. He was a psychic / spiritual healer living in Los Angeles. Since he was dealing with good health and healing people, he would repeatedly give two instructions to everybody whom he met. The first instruction was not to smoke a cigarette. The second instruction was not to drink cow milk. He would confirm these two were the main causes to make people sick.
I totally agreed with him. However, people could not accept his instructions easily. At that time, the majority of people had a habit of smoking and drinking cow milk. Especially as for cow milk, since the government officially encouraged the people to drink cow milk, it was hard for many people to believe him.
If he were alive in this age, he would have been happy for the current trend; people drink less cow milk. People have started drinking more alternative milk such as soy milk, almond milk, and cashew milk. My daughter is blessed with this good trend. She is not forced to drink cow milk at school. Her school offers alternative milk to her.
This trend is one of the evidences of “森羅万象” (Shinrabansho). All the creations in the universe have been evolving. All is good.
Maybe, my late friend have been working so hard for this evolving. If so, he has been successful. The number of smokers and cow-milk-drinkers have been dropped down than before. Thank you Yamamura-san for your continuous support and love to us.
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