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Dear Rachel & Tom:
I stumbled on your website and really think it’s fantastic! I’m a Landscape Architect/ Designer in Pennsylvania and am an avid Potage Gardner. Our season dose not offer the length of yours and suffer from high water table or drought(depending on the year), deer browse and other varmits. I have enjoyed what I’ve seen on your beautiful site here and find your recipies much like that of my own!
I’ve had a hard time with the scent of goat’s milk and wonder how you get around that?
‘will be looking forward to see how your growing!
Laura, thanks for visiting! In regards to goat milk, commercial goat milk is NASTY so I can understand your concern. As goat milk ages it starts to smell and taste “goaty.” Fresh goat milk on the other hand is rich and sweet and tastes like slightly sweeter cow milk. We generally don’t allow it to go over 3 days in the fridge. If we have too much we freeze it and it stops the aging to nastiness.
On your sourdough starter do you feed it every day? Thanks love your site, found this recipe on motherearthnews.com thanks for posting it!
Portia
If you don’t refrigerate it feed it every day. You can be much more lax if you keep it in the fridge – about once a week.
I have read your sourdough recipe for the making your own starter. You say to mix the water and flour and set it outside. Do you cover it or leave it open? If open what about flies and such??
Don’t cover it or the cultures in the air can’t get to it. You can put some cheesecloth over it to keep bugs out but I haven’t had a problem with that.
OIE says the animal was sub-clinical ;
http://web.oie.int/wahis/public.php?page=single_report&pop=1&reportid=11893
also, officials have confirmed it was a atypical L-type BASE BSE.
I am deeply disturbed about the false and terribly misleading information that is being handed out by the USDA FDA et al about this recent case of the atypical L-type BASE BSE case in California. these officials are terribly misinformed (I was told they are not lying), about the risk factor and transmissibility of the atypical L-type BASE BSE. these are very disturbing transmission studies that the CDC PUT OUT IN 2012. I urge officials to come forward with the rest of this story.
It is important to reiterate here, even though this animal did not enter the food chain, the fact that the USA now finds mad cow disease in samplings of 1 in 40,000 is very disturbing, and to add the fact that it was an atypical L-type BASE BSE, well that is very disturbing in itself. 1 out of 40,000, would mean that there were around 25 mad cows in the USA annually going by a National herd of 100 million (which now I don’t think the USA herd is that big), but then you add all these disturbing factors together, the documented link of sporadic CJD cases to atypical L-type BASE BSE, the rise in sporadic CJD cases in the USA of a new strain of CJD called ‘classification pending Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease’ cpCJD, in young and old, with long duration of clinical symptoms until death. the USA has a mad cow problem and have consistently covered it up. it’s called the SSS policy. …
see full text with updated transmission studies and science on the atypical L-type BASE BSE Jan. 2012 CDC. …
***Oral Transmission of L-type Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Primate Model
***Infectivity in skeletal muscle of BASE-infected cattle
***feedstuffs- It also suggests a similar cause or source for atypical BSE in these countries.
***Also, a link is suspected between atypical BSE and some apparently sporadic cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
now, for the rest of the story, the most updated science on the atypical BSE strains, and transmission studies…
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Update from USDA Regarding a Detection of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States WASHINGTON bulletin at 04/26/2012 10:11 PM EDT
http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/04/update-from-usda-regarding-detection-of.html
Monday, March 26, 2012
CANINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY: A NEW FORM OF ANIMAL PRION DISEASE
http://caninespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/03/canine-spongiform-encephalopathy-new.html
PET FOODS MAD CATS AND MAD DOGS BSE/TSEs
worse still, there is serious risk the media could get to hear of such a meeting…
snip…
Crushed heads (which inevitably involve brain and spinal cord material) are used to a limited extent but will also form one of the constituent raw materials of meat and bone meal, which is used extensively in pet food manufacturer…
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221050912/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/03/17004001.pdf
2. The Parliamentary Secretary said that he was concerned about the possibility that countries in which BSE had not yet been detected could be exporting raw meat materials (in particular crushed heads) contaminated with the disease to the UK for use in petfood manufacture…
snip…
YOU explained that imported crushed heads were extensively used in the petfood industry…
http://web.archive.org/web/20060303042720/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/04/14001001.pdf
In particular I do not believe one can say that the levels of the scrapie agent in pet food are so low that domestic animals are not exposed…
http://web.archive.org/web/20040301231838/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/04/24003001.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20060303042732/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/04/25001001.pdf
some 100+ _documented_ TSE cats of all types later…tss
on occassions, materials obtained from slaughterhouses will be derived from sheep affected with scrapie or cattle that may be incubating BSE for use in petfood manufacture…
http://web.archive.org/web/20060303042739/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/05/03007001.pdf
*** Meldrum’s notes on pet foods and materials used
http://web.archive.org/web/20060303042745/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/05/16001001.pdf
*** BSE & Pedigree Petfoods ***
http://web.archive.org/web/20060303042725/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/05/16002001.pdf
FELINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY FSE
http://felinespongiformencephalopathyfse.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
http://felinespongiformencephalopathyfse.blogspot.com/
http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/2008/05/fecal-transmission-of-aa-amyloidosis-in.html
it’s all about money $$$
I lost my mom to the hvCJD, ‘confirmed’ DOD 12/14/97, and just made a promise. …
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Bacliff, Texas USA 77518 flounder9@verizon.net