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HOW TO BECOME A VEGETARIAN
Vegetarianism is the only natural way of eating for humans
There are clear anatomical, physiological and psychological evidences of that.
Structure of digestive organs and composition of digestive secrets of human body is the best to acquire plant food, namely fruits including fruits themselves, vegetables, nuts, and grains.
Saying figuratively, human being is designed to consume fruits. However, the main evidence pro vegetarianism is its pleasantness and simplicity when it is right. Please let me explain what is right vegetarianism.
Being vegetarian presents currently a big difficulty
Since vegetarian diet is the most suitable human being, it ought to be pleasant, easy and joyful for us. However, people who try to transit to vegetarianism experience big difficulties instead. Several days of strict vegetarian diet would surely wake up a hungry beast of prey within you.
Many famous people failed in adherence to vegetarianism and appeared later to be not vegetarian - despite reports.
However, even people who currently reckon themselves as vegetarians are not such in the original sense of that word. In point of fact, there is no true vegetarianism among varied present lifestyles called vegetarian.
This means that something is wrong with vegetarianism at present.
What is amiss in the present vegetarianism?
Thus, we see that lifestyles pretending to be vegetarian are not natural contrary to the expectations. Their followers have to take pills or some kinds of animal food mainly because of principal absence of vitamin B12 in usual plant foods.
However, the problem can be easily solved in full accordance with the basic vegetarian principles.
The matter is that vitamin B12 missing in plant food appears within fruits as a result of fermentation after they come off their mother plant mature, or cutting off and following long-term lying in a warm place.
The fermentation occurs owing to activity of good microflora (community of microorganisms) that naturally lives within fruits. Remember how nice are slightly overripe fruits (bananas, kiwis, pears, for example). The nice taste of such fruits accords to their benefits! Our feelings do not mislead us!
But usually such fruits are treated as refuse. Really, they are perishable, and quickly turn bad.
However, just such fruits should be eaten. And just consumption of such fruits (or their substitutes - see further) makes vegetarianism in true sense of the word possible and allows us to reject any animal food and artificial supplements. You just experience no wish for animal food if you consume overripe fruits.
Besides production of vitamin B12, good microflora destroys some specific substances within fruits (phytates). Those substances prevent absorption of essential minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc etc. - another common problem of the present vegetarianism that is currently solved by means of supplements. Maybe this microflora improves fruits in some other ways too.
In a wonderful way, this way of eating corresponds to the basic principle of vegetarianism that tells us not to injure any living creature.
Saying living creature we usually imply 'animal', but plants are alive too and one injures them when one picks fruits, leaves, stems, shoots from them, or entire plant from the ground. Thus, we shouldn't eat food obtained in that way. Of course, we mustn't injure plants for any other purpose.
In the case we eat ripe and overripe fruits fallen off their mother plants we do not injure plants.
Available substitutes of ripe fruits
Of course, at present it's practically impossible to obtain enough supplies of ripe and overripe fruits. Currently fruits are produced industrially and taken unripe for the purpose of shipping and storage. However, this is no reason for giving up.
There are several easy ways to overcome the problem.
1. Leaving purchase fruits in a warm place for several days to let them ripen. 2. Leaving a mass of crushed/rubbed/cut/pulped fruits sit in a warm place for several hours (a night, for example). 3. Leaving extracted juice of fresh fruits sit several hours (a night, for example). 4. Leaving cut fruits, plus cold water with sugar dissolved in it, for a couple of days in a warm place (a night, for example).
Don't put together different kinds of fruits! The matter is that different fruits contain different types of the microorganisms that can prevent activity of each other.
Consume the foods and beverages obtained in these ways any time you want and as much as you want. Rely on you feeling, and relish them, they are not pills!
Those fermented foods and drinks are to be merely additives to your vegetarian board. You need not live on them only. But it is important that you refuse eating green parts of plants (lettuce, fennel, parsley etc) because they contain bitter substances that suppress that good microflora.
My own experience
More that two years ago I became a vegetarian without the intention. I conducted one of my usual kitchen experiments, namely I added to my meals a homemade fermented beverage. As a result I started to note that my piece of chicken always stayed untouched on my plate whereas my rice was eaten. I just did not want to eat any animal food and do not up to this time.
I boiled it again and again several days until it became like a rag. It was the last piece of animal flesh I ever bought.
I also eat neither eggs nor dairy and take neither vitamin nor mineral pills. At this I don't "vegetate"!
Before that I had decided that vegetarianism is not natural human diet because of absence of vitamin B12 in plant food, but I surprised myself.
I should add a couple of noteworthy features of the diet I adhere to, which I consider essential.
I'm not a row food diet follower, and am convinced that mild cooking; especially baking is quite necessary for human health. I believe so because fallen ripe fruits that are apparently the only human natural food ought to be slightly baked under the hot tropical sunlight of biological homeland of humanity.
Also since I accept ripe fruits to be the only natural food, I refuse greens that, incidentally, taste unpleasantly bitter. The bitter flavor just signals and warns us that the food is bad. Of course, the greens are a traditional food, but likewise meat is.
Many "healthy" and vegetarian foods contain MSG in the form of yeast extract
There's a great deal of deception in the labeling of food products found at your local grocery store and even at many health food stores. A disturbing trend I've noticed is that many vegetarian products and grocery items billed as "healthy" or "natural" are using chemical additive taste enhancers found in an ingredient listed right on the label.
The taste enhancer is MSG -- monosodium glutamate -- a chemical that has been associated with reproductive disorders, migraine headaches, permanent damage to the endocrine system leading to obesity and other serious disorders. MSG is a chemical compound that simply does not belong in the body in the concentrations provided by these foods. It is used by food manufacturers as a taste enhancer -- something to cover up the bland tastes of these foods and make them more appealing to consumers. But food manufacturers don't want to list MSG on the labels, especially when they know that consumers will avoid purchasing products that list MSG.
So what do they do instead? They hide the ingredient in another ingredient called "yeast extract", then they put yeast extract in the product and list "yeast extract" right on the label. So this is the scam: all sorts of natural health products and vegetarian products are using chemical taste enhancers in the form of yeast extract but failing to disclose to consumers that they actually contain MSG. And if you look around at the natural health products in health food stores and grocery stores, you'll find that yeast extract is a rather prominent ingredient. It's used in soups, in vegetarian mixes, in some tofu mixes, and even so-called natural frozen foods.
I can personally verify that yeast extract has the same effect as MSG, because I am an individual who is extremely sensitive to MSG. Upon consuming even a small amount of MSG, I experience a severe headache that lasts for 6 to 8 hours. Consuming yeast extract causes precisely the same effect as consuming MSG.
In fact, food manufacturers don't deny that yeast extract contains MSG -- it's something that's well-known in the food manufacturing industry. What's going on here is a blatant deception -- an attempt to mislead consumers by essentially renaming dangerous ingredients with harmless sounding names such as "yeast extract". I believe this practice to be irresponsible and unethical, and I strongly urge you to not only avoid purchasing products made with yeast extract, but avoid products from companies that use yeast extract in any of their products. It is simply a dishonest practice, and we should not reward companies that engage in such practices by purchasing any products they manufacture.
Unfortunately, many of these food manufacturers are creating products for the so-called health foods industry. In a way that is sadly all too real, traditional grocery products and processed foods will list MSG right on the label. At the same time, so-called healthy products will use yeast extract, so they can avoid mentioning MSG on the label. Yet, both products contain MSG, and both products carry the risk of toxic side effects associated with MSG.
So, are you any safer by purchasing health foods rather than traditional grocery store foods? The answer is that you should avoid purchasing processed foods at all, regardless of what health claims are made on the label. Processed foods are unhealthy foods, period. If you want optimum nutrition, and foods for which the human body was designed, you need to purchase and consume raw ingredients, such as vegetables, fruit, nuts, whole grains, and healthy oils. It's also a good idea, as you've often heard me recommend here, to supplement your diet with whole food supplements, organic vitamins, and superfoods, such as chlorella, spirulina, broccoli sprouts and sea vegetables. This is the way to achieve optimum nutrition, not by purchasing processed foods that are disguised as healthy foods, even though they contain ingredients known to induce toxic side-effects in the human body.
But don't take my word for it -- check it out yourself. Next time you go to a health food store, look at the product boxes and cans on the shelves, and see just how many you can find that contain yeast extract. It's especially easy to find with vegetarian foods, which just goes to show you that just because a product says "vegetarian" on the label doesn't mean it's good for you (or that the company making it gives a hoot about your health).
Body odor can be eliminated through a change in diet
This article touches on a subject that's quite sensitive to many people: body odor. Here, we explore the link between the foods you choose to consume and the odor produced by your body (there is a direct correlation). With all the hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on personal care products and deodorants, I'm amazed there's almost no discussion about reducing body odor by changing your diet. In fact, when I've mentioned this subject to some people, they look at me in bewilderment. They ask questions like "What do you mean, your foods control your body odor? Body odor is genetic!" -- or some other nonsense. What they need is a crash course in the underlying causes of body odor. We'll call it The Fundamentals of Offensive Personal Odors, or just Body Odor 101, for short.
Lesson number one in Body Odor 101 is that what comes out of your body reflects what you put in. Body odor is something that's strongly affected by what's being emitted by your sweat glands. And remember, armpits are designed to sweat. I know that may sound insanely simple, because everybody knows that armpits sweat, but I'm saying that armpits are supposed to perspire. Yet people go to great lengths to prevent their armpits from sweating using deodorant products containing toxic chemicals and derivatives of heavy metals like aluminum.
But there's more to it than just cooling your body temperature through perspiration -- another function of the sweat glands in your armpits is to excrete toxins from your body. That's why sweating is an important part of maintaining optimum physical health. You have to give your body a chance to get rid of various toxins through a variety of metabolic processes. Those include urination, passing fecal matter, exhaling carbon dioxide and other toxins through the lungs, and, of course, eliminating toxins through the skin. The skin, remember, is your body's largest organ.
Your armpits, then, actually have an important health function in getting rid of toxins. That's why you need to keep them open and unclogged by deodorant products. Sweating is good for you.
But what about the odor? Where does that really come from? Conventional doctors like to say it's due to bacteria living in your armpits. But that's ridiculous: our entire bodies are covered with bacteria, not just our armpits. And if the bacteria alone were the cause of the odor, you could eliminate body odor by sterilizing your armpits with rubbing alcohol or iodine tincture. (Try it, if you like: it still won't eliminate the odor.) The real cause of armpit odor is the intentional excretion of horrible toxins that your body is trying to get rid of. And by using deodorant products, you block the exit door and force those toxins to stay in your system!
The way to eliminate body odor, then, is not to mask it with unhealthful deodorant products, but rather to clean up your body from the inside out. In other words, if your armpits have a horrible raunchy smell, that's an indication your diet needs some adjusting. I'm embarrassed to say that I know this from personal experience. My own body odor used to be rather disgusting when I followed the standard American diet like most people do. I had to use massive doses of brand name deodorant products just to try to cover up the odor. Only later did I learn that those products are made with cancer-causing chemical fragrances that are absorbed directly into your bloodstream, through your armpits, where they enter your liver and promote liver disease, cancer, and a variety of other disorders.
Many deodorants and antiperspirants are made with aluminum in order to halt the perspiration of your sweat glands, and this aluminum is suspected of accumulating in the nervous system and ultimately contributing to nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. That's why I no longer use any brand name deodorants or antiperspirants. After giving up red meat, junk foods, fast foods and other dietary atrocities, I no longer needed deodorants anyway.
Foods that make you stink Let's take a closer look at the causes of body odor. What foods really cause body odor in the first place?
Red meat is the number one cause of body odor. Red meat causes stagnation in the body; it putrefies in the digestive tract and releases all sorts of toxins into the bloodstream through the large intestine. I've noticed that people who consume a large quantity of red meat on a regular basis tend to have much stronger body odor than those who avoid it. Some people tell me just the opposite -- they say it's vegetarians who stink because they run around wearing no deodorant whatsoever. But my experience is that if a vegetarian stinks, they aren't following a healthy diet even though they are avoiding meat. (You can be vegetarian and extremely unhealthy if you consume a lot of processed foods.) Overall, though, if you find a healthful vegetarian and put them side by side with a heavy meat eater in a sniff test, I'm confident your nose will lead you to the conclusion that the meat eater is the most offensive of the two. It's weird science, yes, but we are talking about a strange subject to begin with.
As far as other foods that cause body odor, manufactured foods -- those lacking fiber and made with refined white flour, added sugars, hydrogenated oils and other processed ingredients -- are the big culprits. When you eliminate these from your diet and shift to a 100% healthful diet made of whole grains, massive quantities of leafy vegetables, fresh fruits, soy products, supergreens, lots of sprouts, raw nuts and seeds, healthy oils and other similar healthful ingredients, your body odor will all but disappear in a matter of weeks.
That's because a plant-based diet is an internal deodorizer. It's true: the chlorophyll and other phytonutrients will cleanse you from the inside out. Some of the best foods for that include parsley, cilantro, celery and all mint species. The aromatic herbs are also excellent: sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, and so on.
As a sidebar to the body odor discussion, all the things that come out of your body are strong indicators of your current level of health, as well as what adjustments you need to make in order to be healthier. It's interesting to note that for hundreds of years, physicians actually tasted the urine of their patients and were able to make medical diagnoses by taste analysis alone. As bizarre as this sounds, it actually makes good sense. The human tongue is perhaps the finest natural chemical composition sensor known to modern medicine. (Dogs' noses are also good at this. Dogs have actually been trained to sniff out bladder cancer by smelling the urine of humans. Just search Google for articles on "bladder cancer dogs sniff" and you'll find lots of references to this fact.)
After tasting the urine, skilled physicians were able to offer astoundingly precise medical diagnoses. The problem, of course, is that doctors also tended to become ill from tasting their patients' urine, and so this practice fell into disfavor long ago.
By the way, just to be clear here, I'm not at all suggesting that you should be tasting your own urine. But it's very easy to smell your own armpits and get a sense of what's going on. Try going 24 hours with no deodorant. If you can't stand the smell from the outside, just imagine what your body smells like on the inside! Maybe it's time for some plants in your diet, ya think?
How to make the transition away from red meat
These are all reasons to avoid an animal-based diet and pursue a plant-based diet. Many people reading this are already following a plant-based diet, but some of you who might be considering making the change probably aren't sure exactly how to do it. Perhaps you want to merely reduce your consumption of red meat but not give it up completely yet, which is fine, since that's the way all of us ex-meat-eaters got into plant-based diets to begin with. Few people ate more meat than I did because I grew up in an environment where we had all the red meat we wanted at no charge (my grandfather was a cattle rancher). We had a freezer full of red meat at all times, and we could have as much hamburger, steak or other cuts of meat as we wanted. I consumed large quantities of red meat for nearly 30 years. I found the transition away from red meat to be difficult at first. I started consuming less of it and eating other meat alternatives, and pretty soon I began to view red meat in a different way, because if you eat less of it, you eventually start to lose your appetite for it. And within less than a year, any time I would see red meat at the grocery store, it would gross me out. I look at it and I realize what it is: a chunk of flesh sliced off the carcass of a living creature that has been ground up and stuffed into a box. Usually there's some blood running around in the container as well. Every time I would look at that I would get grossed out and think to myself, "Gee, is this really what I want to eat for the rest of my life? This sliced up chunk of a dead cow?" And the answer was, "No." So it didn't take very long before I didn't want any red meat, and now I can't imagine eating it. That's one way to get rid of red meat in your diet, but there are many other ways and I encourage you to experiment and see how you'd like to approach it. But the bottom line on red meat is that there is an increasing body of evidence supporting the notion that you can prevent cancer by pursuing a plant-based diet. If you want to be healthy, it's time to join the vegetarians. Maybe even join the vegans, if you have the courage. Think about limiting or eliminating your consumption of red meat and instead nourish your body with the phytonutrients, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals and even the living energy of plants. That's how you'll be the healthiest you can be.
Red meat consumption doubles risk of colon cancer, says study; is it time to go vegetarian yet?
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a doubling of the risk of colon cancer for people who are heavy consumers of red meat. More specifically, it shows that the risk doubles compared to those who consume smaller quantities of red meat. But how does this compare to people who consume no red meat at all?
This is conjecture, but I'm willing to bet that heavy consumers of red meat probably have quadruple the risk (or more) of colon cancer compared to vegetarians or people who consume no red meat. By the way, you don't have to be a vegetarian to boycott red meat. You can still be a consumer of other sources of animal protein (fish, seafood, etc.) while avoiding red meat.
There are plenty of health reasons to avoid eating red meat, and a higher risk of colon cancer is just one of them. The saturated animal fat found in red meat products contributes to heart disease and atherosclerosis. In addition, red meat can contain contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides and undesirable environmental pollutants that tend to collect in the fat tissues of cows, which are absorbed into your body when you eat cow fat. And you can't eat red meat without getting some animal fat.
Then, of course, there's what I call the vibration of red meat, which concerns the homeopathy of the meat, or the environment in which the cow was raised. Was it a natural environment? Did the cow have access to open fields, sunlight and clean water? Or was this a cow raised as part of a slaughterhouse operation, produced for the sole purpose of generating profits? If you eat cows' meat that has undergone that kind of experience, you are consuming a product that is tainted with the negative experience of the animal from which it came.
There are a lot of negative effects associated with the consumption of red meat, and this is why more and more people are now giving up red meat and moving to healthier foods like fish, free-range chicken, or better yet, plant-based proteins like spirulina or soy products like soy milk and tofu. This is where you'll get your best protective effect and disease prevention, and you will be helping protect the environment at the same time. After all, it's far less stressful on the environment to produce food as plants than as animals.
It takes 10 acres to produce the same amount of red meat protein as it does to produce one acre of soy beans. And producing spirulina yields a tenfold increase over the production of soybeans. So think about it: one acre of farmland used to produce spirulina can produce 100 times as much protein as beef and red meat. That will be very important to realize as our world population grows and it becomes increasingly difficult to produce the protein required by the population.
Asthma explained by common allergy to milk and dairy products
The link between asthma and cows' milk is familiar to many young asthma sufferers and their parents. I first became aware of the connection through my cousin's experiences with his four-year-old son. Since infancy, my cousin's son has experienced severe asthma attacks and has been hospitalized twice for asthma-related pneumonia. When his asthma attacks become more frequent or more severe, my cousin and his wife respond by temporarily eliminating milk and milk products from his diet, and it usually works. I always assumed that milk worsened his asthma by stimulating mucus production in his lungs. However, studies suggest that, either along with or instead of creating excess mucus, milk may worsen asthma due to an undiagnosed milk allergy. "In all respiratory conditions, mucous-forming dairy foods, such as milk and cheese, can exacerbate clogging of the lungs and should be avoided," writes Professor Gary Null in his Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing. Very simply, when more mucus accumulates in the lungs than can be expelled, asthma attacks develop. This belief has long been held in practiced medicine, and many medical doctors still stand behind this theory. At the same time, many other doctors and researchers are now beginning to feel that undiagnosed milk allergies may be the underlying problem behind the link between milk and asthma. As Dr. Robert M. Giller writes in Natural Prescriptions, eliminating dairy products from the diets of many adult and child asthma patients helps "not because dairy products stimulate mucus production but because they're very common causes of allergy, upper-respiratory allergies and asthma (which may be an allergy in itself)." "Milk is one of the two or three most common food allergens in the American diet," says allergy specialist Dr. James Braly in Bill Gottlieb's book Alternative Cures. In fact, Dr. Frank Oski, the chief of pediatrics at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, believes that 50 percent of all schoolchildren may be allergic to milk, though many of them remain undiagnosed. Some researchers believe that the figure may be even higher, up to 60 percent of children, according to Dr. Charles R. Attwoods's book, A Vegetarian Doctor Speaks Out. When most people think of milk allergies, they think of anaphylactic shock -- a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction that can only be relieved with a shot of epinephrine. However, allergies sometimes manifest in very different ways, and these may change throughout a person's life. In Get Healthy Now, Professor Null explains a milk allergy's changing symptoms: "Even if the symptoms are not the same, the underlying allergy may be. A child who has suffered milk-associated asthma, for instance, may have severe acne as a teenager. The milk allergy is still there, but its symptoms have moved to a different organ system, often misleading the patient and physician into thinking that the original allergy has been outgrown." According to Alternative Medicine, up to half of all infants may be sensitive to cows' milk. As a result, symptoms of an underlying milk allergy may start as early as infancy, only manifested as eczema, a symptom that may remain later on in childhood and adulthood. Furthermore, in addition to asthma and eczema, an underlying milk allergy may manifest as bronchitis, sinusitis, autoimmune disorders, frequent colds and ear infections and even behavioral problems.
Smart kids more likely to go vegetarian later in life
(NewsTarget) In a recent study from Britain, children with a higher intelligence quotient at age 10 were found to be more likely to become vegetarians later in life. In fact, people with an IQ of 110 were two-and-a-half times more likely to avoid eating meat, according to the lead author of the study.
Catherine Gale from the University of Southampton led the research team that studied more than 8,000 men and women. The team discovered that vegetarians were more likely to be women, belong to a higher social class, and have higher educational degrees. Gale added "If you are bright, you are more likely to understand health information, and more likely to act on it."
Earlier findings that indicated intelligence being associated with lower rates of heart disease were solidified with this new research study. In addition to the conclusions about more vegetarians being highly educated women, the study also concluded that some vegetarians act on purely ethical reasons when they give up meat.
The study, which started in 1970 and measured its participants at age 10, followed up on all its participants in the year 2000. When asked, about 4.5 percent of the study's participants said they were vegetarian.
The 366 participants who said they were vegetarian included vegans -- who eat no animal products, such as meat, dairy products, and eggs -- and people who called themselves vegetarians despite eating fish and chicken. The research team headed by Gale also stated that it was not clear how long participants had been vegetarians, or what relationship vegetarianism has to IQ scores.
The complete study was just published recently in the British Medical Journal trade publication, and notes that of the four researchers who worked on the study, two say they're "lapsed" vegetarians, one is a "committed" vegetarian, and one calls himself an "omnivore." Three of the researchers say they've never taken an IQ test. The omnivore researcher opted to not disclose his IQ, according to the published study.
Many benefits from a plant-based diet
I have probably eaten more than my share of meat for my entire life already. When I was growing up, my grandfather was a cattle rancher, so we got all the free meat we ever wanted and I ate meat constantly. I have now mostly given up meat (and red meat entirely), but I don't believe in aggressively pushing vegetarianism onto others. I simply have arrived at the obvious conclusion that there's nothing better for the human body, mind and spirit than food based on plants. If you eat nothing but a plant-based diet, you will be far healthier than if you were to introduce any amount of meat into your diet. All the information out there about people having nutritional deficiencies on a vegetarian diet is misguided and flat-out wrong. Unless, of course, for people are living on what I call a "junk food vegetarian diet," which is soda, chips and vegetarian processed food. Of course that diet causes nutritional deficiencies. But not a health-minded vegetarian diet. Even vitamin B12 is simple to get in sufficient quantities if you put your mind to it. As a society, we can exist quite comfortably on a plant-based diet. We can get everything we need in terms of nutrition -- including essential oils, vitamins, minerals and the like -- on a plant-based diet. We do not need meat to survive as a civilization. In fact, I believe that the mass consumption of meat devolves our society, because it makes us more angry and aggressive. It makes us less humane and is an uncivilized way to use the resources of the planet to support the human population, whereas consuming and surviving on plants is an evolved and intelligent way to feed the planet. If you consume mostly raw foods, then you also get outstanding nutrition. Cooking food destroys much of its nutritional content -- not only the proteins, but also the vitamins and the phytonutrients that make plants such a potent nutrition source in the first place. If you can avoid cooking some of these foods, and subsist at least partially on a live foods diet -- as I have been doing now for some time -- you find that you need a lot less food, get much better nutrition, and don't really need any meat. That includes even very active lifestyles like my own, which involve strength training, Pilates, lots of running, martial arts and cycling. The bottom line is that I am a cautious supporter of this idea of artificial meat production because of the practicalities involved. People will continue to consume meat on the planet for the time being. If that is the case, then I believe that we are much better off having people consume artificial meat than tearing the flesh from living, breathing beings and calling that dinner. Artificial meat has my vote even though, personally, I would never touch it with a fork. I support it only because it is a practical alternative to meat taken from live animals.
Meat consumption harms the planet
There are enormous implications resulting from the mass intake of meat products by the American population, such as the fact that it takes 10 times as more soil to produce meat protein as it does related quantities of protein from vegetables. We're too seeing the clear-cutting of rainfall forests, in the Amazon particularly, in decree to produce grazing soil for oxen. The resolution to consume meat is not an exclusively private resolution. It doesn't just impact you. It really affects the planet. The much meat you eat, the much soil is used for meat breeding and harvesting. In the lawsuit of the Amazon rainforest, it means there's little soil accessible to back normal rainfall woodland habitat, which is, of class, significant for the oxygen output of the whole planet. So, in a really comprehensible manner, the mass intake of crimson meat around this planet really affects the mood of the planet. Global mood difference is one position effects of big meat intake. If we were to switch over to a system of generating artificial meat, then the climate effect of this meat production would be drastically reduced. There still may be some industrial runoff or some kind of post-production chemicals that need to be dealt with after creating artificial meat, but undoubtedly these would be far less harmful to the planet than the clear-cutting of rain forest, injecting cows with hormones and antibiotics and raising crops with pesticides so that cows can be fed in a very inefficient food production system. So artificial meat, even though it may sound strange, could actually be better for the planet if people continue to consume meat. Now what would be best for the planet -- and actually best for the health of individuals, families and entire nations -- would be of course to move away from a meat-centered diet. If we could get people to eat half the meat they currently consume, we would see far lower rates of heart disease, all varieties of cancers, and less obesity as well. Even though the long-term solution is to move to a plant-based diet, as a civilization, a short-term solution could include artificial meat.
Health implications of artificial meat
The new cause I am powerfully in backing of artificial meat is because I think that this artificial meat will really be healthier for folk than commercially grown and produced meat, because commercially produced meat comes from cows that are subjected to an attack of respective chemicals. They are injected with antibiotics and hormones; they are fed cereal that's been sprayed with pesticides and sometimes grown in soils laced with thick metals. There are Polychlorinated Biphenyls, projectile fuel, and all kinds of new contaminants establish in the plump cells of animals that have been raised for nutrient. So, if you go a cow, hog or chicken and you seem at the manner it's treated in a technical ranching or farming surroundings, you'll discover that it's a really unsound nutrient origin, because it has consumed and concentrated all of these poisonous chemicals. When a human being consumes that meat, those poisonous chemicals are ingested into that human's system, where they operate as cancer-causing chemicals, liver-damaging or hormone-disrupting chemicals. By utilizing artificial meat you can eat meat that, still though it's man-made and based on chemicals, at least won't have the density of thick metals, pesticides, antibiotics and all these new horrendous chemicals that cows are forced to eat. Artificial meat could finish upward being healthier for folk than genuine meat. Before you believe I've gone strange, let me explain a less farther. No meat, in my view, is really robust if consumed in big quantities. There are an amount of reasons for that, including the fact that meat has no fibre. It putrefies in the digestive parcel and is powerfully correlated with the onslaught of pancreatic cancer, bosom cancer, colon cancer and bladder cancer. We know meat isn't better for you in the quantities consumed by Americans today. I'm not saying that artificial meat will be better for you, either, but it won't be as terrible for you as commercially raised meat. The new level here is that there is such a matter as robust, lively meat from free-range animals. If you go a creature from a normal surroundings, fed uncooked plants, uncooked grasses, survive foods, without it being subjected to antibiotics and hormones or inhuman methods of massacre, that meat will be often healthier for you than traditionally raised beef. Still, there's no denying that this is a horrendous experience for the creature. The creature is yet being killed and eaten. This is not the sort of experience that any of us would want to suffer, and still we expect this of new animals then that we may eat ourselves in a senseless manner the foods that we favor to eat. To summarize, the least robust meat of all is commercially raised meat -- non-organic, non-free scope, mill meat products. Healthier than that would be of class free-range meat, kosher-certified meat, and along the lines of related health would be artificial meat. None of these meats, as I have stated, are in fact better for you if consumed in big quantities. I think that meat is not needed for the human diet, except possibly in the lawsuit of pregnant women who need additional iron and protein. In that lawsuit, the meat serves as a really higher concentration protein and iron origin that cannot be replicated from the plant reality (iron from plants is molecularly distinct than iron from meats. But with prenatal nourishment, it's doubly significant to get healthful, free-range meat that's not contaminated with pesticides and heavy metals.
Why become vegetarian?
Technology is quickly emerging that will permit scientists to rise artificial meat for human consuption. Yes, this will be just like meat at a molecular degree, except it won't go from a creature. It will go from a mill where it was grown cubicle by cubicle on a lattice system using some sophisticated engineering. This clause is about the implications about such engineering in terms of company, national health, moral handling of animals, and new such topics. But let me start it by saying upward frontal that I carefully back the artificial growing of meat for an amount of (perhaps unexpected) reasons that I will detail here. First of all, let me say that my diet presently consists of really less meat. I wasn't think in eating animals for their pulp. I wasn't think in raising animals and slaughtering them just because their muscle tissue is something I seek to eat nonchalantly at a Friday barbecue. I believe it's extremely immoral to handle animals as life-support systems for meat, which is truly the manner most folk seem at a cow -- it's just there to back the increase of the meat. There's no circumstance whatsoever for the experience of the cow which is, of class, a living, respiration being with an awareness. Cows have memory, emotions and still their own household members. I wasn't think it is proper in any sophisticated culture to be raising and slaughtering animals to eat their meat. It's a quite savage use. That's one cause why I back the artificial meat thought, because if we can produce meat and have it accessible to consumers without having to destroy animals in the procedure, so we are in fact doing far little damage to the reality. We're causing little suffering. We are not putting these animals through the experience of being enslaved in a structure with the lone aim of turning their system into a nutrient origin and, finally, an earnings origin. Let's confront it -- that's what oxen ranching and hog agriculture and chicken agriculture is today. It's a structure of exploiting the lives of these animals in decree to have an earnings. So if artificial meat can supplant that, that's a significant welfare. Let consumers consume meat without having to destroy animals.
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