RENOUND CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER DICK GREGORY PLEA FOR VEGETARIANISM
Submitted by Alfredo Kuba on Thu, 2008-05-22 11:25.
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Meat Rules the World
I'm sorry, but I'm gonna be eating a beef burger, smothered in chicken gravy and stuffed with sirloin patty. I love meat, as do most humans, and I am not one of the people who can't stand to see it get made. (Even though I don't enjoy seeing it getting made.) Face it, there are just too many people to feed everyday to worry about how this cow feels, should we make sure this chicken is comfortable, do they have a good bed? Their going to die and become a steak! A piece of food is a piece of food, before and after it's killed. Thats just the way it is.
Why eating meat is a major cause of world hunger
-and going vegetarian is a solution.
"People go hungry because much of arable land is used to grow feed grain for animals rather than people. In the US, 157 million tons of cereals, legumes and vegetable protein – all suitable for human consumption – is fed to livestock to produce just 28 million tons of animal protein in the form of meat. In developing countries, using land to create an artificial food chain has resulted in misery for hundreds of millions of people. An acre of cereal produces five times more protein than an acre used for meat production; legumes such as beans, peas and lentils can produce 10 times more protein and, in the case of soya, 30 times more."
-Feed the World-
I see what you're saying
But people are omnivorous. We are made to eat meat. Nobody gets mad when the Animal Planet shows a lion hide out and wait for the best meal, and then slaughter it in front of the herd. And while one may last their pride a whole week or so, we got billions of people that need to be fed everyday. And most of them will not settle for Tofu.
HUMANS ARE HERBIVORES! PRIMATES, HOMOSAPIENS!
Our species is herbivore! Carnivores and omnivores have acidic stomachs made for eating raw and decomposed flesh and have enzimes that kill harmful and deadly bacteria found on flesh such as ecoli bacteria wich would kill a human. CARNIVORES AND OMNIVORES EAT RAW AND DECOMPOSSED MATTER! Carnivores and omnivores eat raw and decomposed flesh, humans can not do this without getting violently ill or even killed. Humans are primates, homosapiens, herbivores by nature, have alkaline stomachs made for consuming alkaline food, plants! Carnivors and omnivores entire dental structure is carnivore, they have no molar theet! Humans like all grate apes, our nearest relatives, Gorillas, Chimpanzees and Orangutans, like us have all molar theet designed for plant consumption. Carnivores and omnivores have short intestines that allows saturated fat, cholesterol, etc. to pass right through and eliminate the matter. Humans, have the opposite, very long intestinal tracks that require fiber and complex carbohydrates to metabolize, absorb nutrients and eliminate. When humans eat flesh, it roths and blocks the intestines. 80% of all diseases known to man come fromeating animals and animal derived products! The biggest killer heart disease kills over 725,000 Amricans each year and it is 98% preventable by eating plant based foods! Strokes kill an additional 525,000 Americans each year, also 99% preentable by eating plant based foods. 50% of all cancers are linked to eating animals and animal derived products!
All plants have protein and the protein requirments for proper human halth is between 4-6% per 2000/2500 caloric daily intake.
Humans are the only animal that drink other animal's milk! UNNATURAL, UNHEALTHY, ENVIRONMENTALLY DESTRUCTIVE AND CRUEL!
THE STRONGEST ANIMALS ON EARTH ARE HERBIVORES! GORILLAS, ELEPHANTS, RHINOS, HIPPOS, ETC.
ENOUGH WITH THIS NONSENSE OF CARNIVORE/OMNIVORE! THIS IS PROPAGANDA FABRICATED BY THE MEAT AND DAIRY INDUSTRIES!
Please go to: www.pcrm.org (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
Alfredo Kuba you seem to be
Alfredo Kuba you seem to be more up on this than I am, by far so I'll ask you and anyone else who might know a little something. Scientiffically are there any links between meat eating and violence? Meaning of course does the consumption of meat have any effect on human nature? Not so much (or at all) the slitting of a cows throat or anything, that's not what I'm talking about. Ok basically are we more violent simply because we eat meat? There that's the question I wanted to ask.
VIOLENCE AND EATING FLESH
Not surprisingly, studies suggest that humans who eat animal flesh have more violent tendencies. This is due to the hormones found on the flesh which spikes the leves of testasterone and other moode altering hormones and chemicals in the human body. More rescently, a population study on inmates in a Califonrnia prison were divided into 2 groups, one half was served a vegan diet for several days and the other half a meat centered diet to see if their behaviors will change. The study found that the group eating a vegan diet became much calmer, less prung to violent behavior and more rational than their flesh and blood eating counterparts.
When humans injest flesh and blood from animals, they are injesting hormones that alter the hormonal functions on the human body, another clear sample of these are women who suffer from PMS (pre menstrual syndrome). These symptmos are only known in cultures that consume animal flesh and animal derived products such as dairy and eggs, all of wich are loaded with hormones. Studies Show that when women switch to a vegan diet, 100% plant based diet, their menopausal symptoms drastically regress and in some even disapear completely. Furthermore, because animal flesh and animal derived foods like dairy and eggs are acidic, it causes severe loss of calcium and other minerals through the urine. The countries with th highest consumption of animal flesh and dairy have the highest incidents of osteoporosis! and the populations with the strongest bones are vegetarians and vegans!
Finally, humans are the only animals that drinks the milk of other animals. This is not natural, it is not healthy and it is cruel and destructive to the environment. But, these hormones from the flesh of animals and animal derived products are also linked to many forms of cancers! Breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancers, etc.
Not just the naturally occuring hormnes of the animal's flesh are harmful but, the syntethic, man made hormones that are also forced on the animals to further exploit the animals and humans also cause cancers.
It is estimated by the scientific comunity that at least 50% of all cancers known are directly linked to eating animals and animal drived products.
Well...?
Thats a trip but I'll have to look up all them facts myself.
According to your logic
it's OK that people starve and animals get treated so horrible way via mass-producing factory farm as long as you can get a piece of cheap burger which is full of anti-biotic/hormones and who knows what else? People might be omnivorous but don't have to eat meat to survive unlike lions. And FYI, tofu is not the only option for vegetarian diet. Is it so hard to have some compassion toward other living creatures such as animals and starving children in the world?
Overpopulation: a double pronged solution
yes, there are too many people to worry about where our meat comes from.
As you said, Floyd, "A piece of food is a piece of food, before and after it's killed. Thats just the way it is."
So why not start by eating humans? That way we'd be killing two birds with one stone. We'd be solving the problem of human overpopulation as well as feeding the human population that remains.
Wow!!!!!!!!!!
I ain't eating no kind of human meat. I couldn't imagine walking down the street with a fork looking for the juiciest and most tender kid I can take home to cook. What if somebody thought I looked just right for dinner. We would be fighting.
Very surprised
to see that you wouldn't eat human meat. it can really solve the entire starvation problem. hahaha
You go eat a person then
Beacuse I eat chicken
TRY VEG BURGERS, VEG CHICKEN PATIES ETC.
Floyd, it is basically and fundamentaly wrong to take life for the sake of a few seconds of taste on your palate. To kill for vanity, for selfish wants is wrong. All animals human and non-human alike suffer and feel pain.
Also you are sidding with the most horrific and cruel industries on the planet. Eatin animals is the single most destructive act an individual does. World hunger, deforestation, killing wildlife, species extinction, animal and human suffering, pollution, global warming, 80% of all diseases, etc. all atributed to one single act, devouring murdered beings.
You have choices Floyd.