A world expert in infectious diseases tells a story of how mismanagement of a veterinary problem transformed itself into a global epidemic. Condensed down to its implied essentials, the author makes the case for Crohn's disease being created by the industrialization of milk production for maximum profit, protected by those who profit from the sales of milk and milk protein-based products, and exploited by those who profit from the adverse consequences created. Its residual collateral damage for economic stability is 1.2 million afflicted individuals.