Playing is Learning
The Milk-Sick Disease
October 11th, 2016
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Welcome to the World of PROFESsee™by seeCOSM™ PROFESsee™ is my title. I am the perpetual learner, in pursuit of knowledge, wisdom and truth. I derived my name from professor |
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I have some news for you. No matter how much of a control freak you are, you cannot control everything. You cannot control where the cows that your dairy and meat are sourced from grazes. The cow simply becomes what it eats – if it eats poison, it becomes poison. And you the consumer then have eaten poison too; a chain of events that proves fatal at times. Let me share a life story with you. It was the early 19th century, the scene Midwestern areas of the United States – Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee and Indiana. European-American migrants unaware of their environments took their cows through the plains while they grazed. The usual forage that the livestock feeds on wasn’t available, so they had to settle for the next best thing. What the livestock settled for was snakeroot. The migrants would milk the cows, butcher some, and make money selling dairy and meat. Suddenly, people started developing mysterious symptoms – violent vomiting, tremors, abdominal pain, and others. It will eventually lead to coma, and then death. These were troubling times, and with no known cure, and very little known about the disease, the fatality rate was high. It has been reported that Nancy Lincoln – Abraham Lincoln’s mother – died from the disease. The cause was the snakeroots the cattle were grazing upon. Thankfully, a herbologist Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby was a social woman. Her friendship with a Shawnee (Native Indian) woman helped her uncover that snakeroots had a toxin (Snakeroot has a toxin called Tremetol), and caused the milk-sick disease. Although cases of the milk-sick disease are rare and almost non-existent, being vigilant is still vital. What is the moral of the story? Simple: You are what you eat! It helps to pay more attention to where we source what we consume. Are they keeping to regulations? Do they have a history of foul play? As a rule of thumb don’t buy diary or meat from a farm where you cannot verify how they feed their cattle or other livestock. That same rule applies to all you that you eat. Being strict with hygiene will also help you greatly. Be observant at the restaurants that you eat, if anything seems off – if you as much see a cockroach, flee, and never return. While you can never fully cut the chances of such events happening, you can, however, control the things you can – what you eat, where you eat, and who you buy from. Can you Identify the body system in today's challenge? Image courtesy of: http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/photos/13-plants-that-could-kill-you/white-snakeroot |
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