Would you eat a white erase board?

Hate to tell you this, but you already have. Do you drink milk? Did you butter your bread today? Okay okay, all of those "I'll butter your bread, baby" comments are not necessary. Have you ever had a Ring Pop? (surprise surprise, ring pops have milk in them!) Here is a quote from Brittany, again. She is a wealth of knowledge, that girl! :) At little bit about Casein {I didn't know this before}... "casein, sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate -- that's the milk powder protein that you don't want in your body. When you take milk and you get rid of the fat and you get rid of the water and you're just left with protein, and basically they're blood proteins, serumalbumin, milk protein, 90% of it is casein. Now, casein, when it's extracted from milk, it's actually a glue used to put a label on a bottle of beer. It's the glue used to hold together the wood in your furniture. When you eat this casein - this glue from milk - your body is seeing this foreign protein and attacks it by producing histamines which end up as mucus. And that's why it is mucus-forming. Interesting information, eh? And then I found this from Plastiquarian.com:

CASEIN Casein, the protein in milk was used by the Ancient Egyptians as a fixative for pigments in wall paintings. It has also been used as a constituent in various glues but it appears not to have been used as the basis of a solid plastics material until the end of the 19th century. Krisch, head of a large firm of printers in Hanover experimented with casein to make a washable white board for replacing the slates used in school - paper was too expensive at that time for use by children to practise writing. He collaborated with Adolf Spitteler, a chemist in Bavaria and on July 15th 1899, a patent for "plastic compositions" was taken out in Germany.

We ALL need to be cutting out dairy. I'm just as addicted to it as all of you are (okay, just the 4 people who actually read this) :)