Got guilt?

In this world,
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers.
-Issa

In a time where mediocrity is championed and ignorance is, quite literally, bliss, it is comforting to discover the existence of an underground movement to take back our minds and our taste buds. For those of you who purchase food without thinking, whether for lack of time, lack of cash flow, or simple lack of interest, Beaver heartily recommends that you chomp your way through Michael Pollen's "The Omnivore's Dilema". If you can't make it through the first, admittedly protracted chapter on corn, take thirty minutes to execute a simple Internet search on the current polemic over raw milk.

You might be interested to learn that grass fed milk, a.k.a unpasteurized, contains natural antibiotic properties that can help prevent tooth decay, encourage calcium absorption, prevent joint stiffness, flu, pneumonia, and other common illnesses, as well as protect its proponents from asthma and from skin allergies commonly seen in drinkers of pasteurized milk. Alas, the place of healing food in the United States is a portentous place indeed. Healing, nutritious raw milk is the Jason Bourne of American food. Why should we heal ourselves with the food we eat when we can shell out millions for sub-average health insurance, and keep getting sick?

Before knocking raw milk into the cedar-scented sauna of trustafarian fads and "green" trends, do a little research. You might start to wonder just what, exactly, is lurking in your latte.