You mention that you wouldn’t feed skim milk to a pig, I agree if it was your pet pig. But to get a domesticated pig ready for slaughter… maybe I would. I probably wouldn’t give the poor thing (and indirectly me when I eat the animal) a meal of corn though if I could help it.

If I had a cow, I’d milk the cow. I’d then take the cream from the milk to make butter. I’d make some money on the whole milk I’d sell, some from the cream skimmed off the top, and some from the butter that I got from the fat that I took out of some of my whole milk. With the skim milk I have left over, I’d feed it to my pig. So, I make money by selling some extra butter, and I make a bit more by getting my pig a bit more fatter on the skimmed milk.

Or I could just develop a phony lipid hypothesis and sell the skim milk to dupes who think that by drinking skim milk they’d somehow get skinny. And I’d still get money by selling butter, and I’d charge the dupes the same amount for my skim milk as I would as I did previously for my whole milk.

So, I bet I could get more money selling my skim milk exploiting people with the help of the lowfat dogma by selling them this processed product at an inflated price than I could trying to get my pigs fat.

I wouldn’t feed that stuff to my pigs if I had pigs. Terrible.

Doctors = drugs. It is how they think. You can’t expect much more from most of them.

I’m a little late to the comments for this post, but better late than never…

Many years ago, I worked at a convenience store/gas station. Of course, we stocked all the junk foods, including pretty much all the Hostess products (cupcakes, etc.). You know, the stuff we couldn’t get enough of as kids, but now make us sick to our stomachs. One day, I’m talking to the delivery man, asking him what they do with the unsold items…they went from the convenience store to their “day old” store where they were sold at a discount. Items that didn’t sell there, were sold to a pig farmer who fed them to his pigs.

Just in the news today, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/health/research/31muscle.html?src=me&ref=general

It’s an article about doctors seeking new ways to treat muscle loss in seniors. Of course, they’re talking about using drugs, but what if there was some effective muscle building exercise program that was low impact, easy to learn, didn’t require lots of equipment, or require injury-inducing heavy lifting? (Doesn’t sound very profitable, so they’ll probably not look too hard to find it.)

I can’t read the French but it looks like Olympic lifting which I don’t recommend. I do like the sport and the kids will get benefit from it but it is also more dangerous than need be to derive benefit from resistance training. IOW, it is an unsafe way to strength train compared to Slow Burn with no additional benefit.