FROM THE NOTMILK MAN
Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com
When examining the virtues and vices of men, one looks to moral qualities of human actions as the barometer distinguishing and defining truth. As many of you are aware, I have been the recipient of a slanderous personal campaign that concluded with the hacking and temporary destruction of my www.notmilk.com website. During these attacks, I have continued to ignore a tidal wave of comments made by a group of individuals at vegsource.com.
Rather than defend myself, and become no better than my attackers who accused me of the vilest and most unethical acts, I made the decision to turn the other cheek. The greatest movements in human history have been disrupted by infiltrators. Leaders of those movements have been betrayed by saboteurs. Men have been deceived by trusted allies.
Brutus plunged the final knife thrust into a dying Caesar and Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold out a young nation during a time of war, while J. Edgar Hoover FBI infiltrated and did harm to Dr. Martin Luther King's peace movement. The vegetarian movement exists as an enormous threat to many industries and multi-national corporations. Those leaders of the vegetarian movement are carefully monitored by industry insiders.
Hundreds of billions of dollars of meat, milk, and biotechnology sales are influenced by public perception. It is no surprise that those who hold the greatest financial stake might be motivated in placing a wedge within the heart of a movement that remains the greatest threat towards preventing greater profitability for those who market dairy products, meat, and genetically engineered foods.
The owner of vegsource.com should be held responsible for waging this campaign, but I would ask that the court of public opinion hold him harmless. You see, Jeff Nelson has been deceived. Review vegsource and you will see dozens of articles and second opinions written by Dr. Steve Walsh. The articles are medical opinions citing peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. In many areas, Jeff Nelson cites Dr. Walsh and promotes his comments.
It has been confirmed that Steve Walsh has a degree in computers, not medicine. Jeff Nelson could not have been aware of that deception. I have previously been told that Steve Walsh is an infiltrator. I had also been told that Mr. Walsh works for one of Europe's largest chemical companies. During a family trip to England in April of 2001, Walsh attempted to sabotage my talks by screaming, "Robert Cohen is a liar." He was booed off the stage in London (Regents College) by the people who know him best.
Although I was his victim, I admonished the crowd, defending Mr. Walsh's right to speak. A few nights later, 150 miles away, he did the same thing when I lectured before an animal rights group. Both times, this raving man insulted me in the vilest manner in front of my three daughters and wife. He played to the audience with the same exact "routine," after I had set him straight the night before. This morning (February 8, 2002), I received concrete evidence that Mr. Walsh is indeed employed by a chemical company, but there is much more to what I have learned than just that. Mr. Walsh admits to being employed by ICI.
I am not claiming that Mr. Walsh makes every decision for ICI. After all, this is a company that employs 60,000 people. It's just that it the past month, Mr. Walsh seems to be working full-time, on company time, to promote his dangerous and deceitful agenda on vegsource.
To compromise one's job in such a visible matter marks the man as either very unwise or extremely secure in his job assignment. http://www.ici.com ICI owns an enormous stake in the dairy industry. ICI owns Sherman William Paints, which relies upon milk protein (casein) as a major product component. ICI owns National Starch Company, which manufactures stabilizers for dairy products.
From their website: "Ingredients to improve the quality and stability of a range of dairy foods, including yogurts, puddings, ice cream, cheese and cream preparations." http://www.nationalstarch.com/markets/food.asp ICI works closely with the biotechnology industry by supporting Monsanto's genetically engineered seeds. ICI owns Uniqema, a self-descibed world leader in "oleochemicals and surfactants."
From their website: "Improving the performance of Roundup®-ready plantings" http://www.uniqema.com Monsanto's Roundup-Ready pesticide is designed to kill everything that grows with the exception of the gene-altered seeds and crop that it is designed to protect. This is the company that Steve Walsh works for.
These are the conflicts of interest that Mr. Walsh brings to his debate. Jeff Nelson could not have known these things. Despite the trouble he has created for me, I forgive Jeff Nelson, for he could not have known the poison that he was nurturing through Mr. Walsh's fertilizer. Walsh's agenda remains clear. He seeks neither truth nor fair debate.
He is a destroyer, who has conned his way into Jeff Nelson's graces, and has poisoned Mr. Nelson's judgement. I have invested the most productive eight years of a man's life (age 42-50) to give all of myself to strangers, rather than my own family. I now have multi- pronged goals. The first is to level the informational playing field for all consumers so that they may be empowered to make informed decisions that bear on the health and welfare of themselves and their children.
The sooner the public has all of the facts about the adverse effects of milk and dairy products, the better it will be for all consumers. My second goal is to give people a healthy alternative to milk and dairy products. The next eight years of my life will be dedicated to changing the way people eat by offering healthy options to the standard and traditional milk- based diet.
The NOTMILK site stands on its own. The 1000+ columns that I have written contain real science, and my analyses of scientific fraud have continuously withstood the rigorous scrutiny of peer review. Those who know me recognize that I have stood toe to toe with the most powerful and influential industry in America, the dairy industry, and fear no man or group of men.
I have done damage to Monsanto by helping to defeat approval of their genetically engineered bovine growth hormone in Canada. I have testified before Congress, USDA, FDA, and have pulled no punches in delivering passionate and directed messages. I have received death threats and had dead animals thrown on my lawn.
I receive hate mail and threatening phone calls in the middle of the night. There are ten million people employed by the dairy industry who know and hate my name. I know when to fight, and can defend myself both physically and with the pen, which I've learned to wield mightier than any soldier wields a sword. Understand all of the above and know that I will not enter into the namecalling libelous fray occurring at vegsource.
I will not even consider legal action, as many of my friends and associates have advised, for to do so would hurt our movement and take away from my creative spirit. Jeff Nelson is a dedicated man, and he is trying to change the world for the better. I ask you to forgive him and understand the enormous pain that he carries.
Perhaps one day he will chase away those tormenting demons that compromise a man's virtuous passions by transforming them into vices lacking moral quality.
Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com
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