Rebuild from Depression Blog

I head to Seattle late next week to participate in a symposium on raw milk, "The Raw Milk Conundrum," sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Association. I am neither a veterinarian or a member of the medical community, but I do like Seattle. I am also the only raw milk consumer on the panel and am speaking on free choice. The paper, "Free choice in a complex information environment: The case of raw milk" hopefully will take a whole lot less time to make it to print than did my book currently at the printer. (She says with great hope but with not having finished the paper yet.)

The paper makes an argument for "free access" to food as well as "free choice," where "access" is the legal barriers to purchase and "choice" is the actual decision to buy a particular product. It is not an advocacy paper, rather it discusses a philosophy of food choice. Stay tuned.

The paper makes some use of a survey I conducted of raw milk advocates. You can find some of the demographic information at the FoodGraphs.net site. (Raw milk advocate graphs.) Bloggers should feel free to use any of the graphs on that site with attribution.

While I am on the subject let me just say that speaking at a veterinary meeting is the best way to get promotional materials about taking care of your cat and lizard clients. I will never lack for sources of veterinary supply and should I need them soon, I can find them at Booth #1384 next week.

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The winner

The colander is here but our usual Vanna White (aka seven-year-old Frederick) is galavanting in Berkeley while I bake in 100+ temperatures without A/C. I will draw the name myself but I may need some nutritional supplements right now if there are any that prevent melting. Perhaps I'll win some in this contest, though I would increase my chances of winning by actually entering. Let's see how not entering the contest is working for me...

The winner is Terri Mac.

Terri Mac won by simply leaving a comment on this blog. She is our third winner and the winners all have a key thing in common: they entered the contest! Terri wins a desiccated liver product but recognizing that Terri might not have use for a liver-based product depending on her diet, she can pass and I will add her name five more times to the colander. Terri and all other winners need to contact me within a week of the announcement with a U.S. street address.

If liver sounds like a strange thing to be giving away, I'll put up another post that is going to make everyone envy Terri's victory. Liver, even desiccated, can be great for energy and mood.

Enter to win by leaving a comment here or on any other post (I'm pretty flexible as I melt in the heat of Central California). Enter early and often. See the many ways you can enter. The next drawing is Friday for the jumbo trio pack: Omega 3, magnesium, and B complex. Read the description of the prize package in the original contest announcement.

If you have not read my postpartum depression story, take a look at that too.

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