Bruce Feiler - Where God Was Born, Abraham, Walking The Bible

Make Milk Not War
Wednesday, February 7, 2007

With the paperback publication of WHERE GOD WAS BORN this week we've had a wonderful surge in traffic here at Feiler Faster. And what post has gotten the most comment: The Next Aphrodisiac, about the U.N.'s new push to promote camel's milk.

From Kenya, an old friend from Savannah writes: "Hello from Kenya where we can get Camel milk in our supermarket. I haven't been brave enough to try it. I just might have to give it a go and report back!" Please do! (By the way, to read about the mission my friend and her family have joined, visit www.plantingfaith.com.)

And from Israel, this link to another piece, this weekend, about Israel selling camel-milking equipment to the Arabs:

A camel-milking system largely manufactured by Israel's S.A.E. Afikim that can simultaneously milk 48 camels, was sold by Afikim's British distributor, to a buyer in Dubai, the Jordan Valley-based company said Sunday. The statement didn't identify the buyer.
Israel and Dubai don't have diplomatic relations.
Cooperation between Israeli companies and the nation's foreign ministry "is the best way to enter new markets in which only intervention on the level of governments can open doors for Israeli manufacturers," Afikim Chief Executive Officer Yossi Shemer said in the statement.
The sale of camel milk could become a $10 billion industry, providing food to people in desert areas and income for nomadic herders, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Camel milk is three times richer in vitamin C than milk from cows and contains vitamin B, iron and unsaturated fatty acids. Camels produce as much as 20 liters of milk a day, compared with as much as 36 liters a day for cows.

Camel Milk: The mother milk of interfaith relations.

Labels: Camels, Interfaith Relations

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