The Energetic Contamination of Beef Products (Transcript)

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The Energetic Contamination of Beef Products (Transcript)

by Mike Adams (_see all articles by this author_

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

 

(NaturalNews) Greetings everyone, this is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger,

here reporting for _www.Naturalnews.com_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/) . I am

currently in the rainforest of Southern Ecuador, high in the Andes Mountains. I

am not joking. I am actually in a bamboo rainforest here. It is raining so I

am under some shelter right now. Unfortunately, I am discussing a topic that

is not so pleasant. I am here to talk to you today about the beef

slaughterhouse scandal that was discovered in California.

 

This is about the Westland Meat Packing Company, one of many

_slaughterhouses_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/slaughterhouses.html) that

operate in the

United States. These companies are in the business of torturing and murdering

_cows_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/cows.html) and anything they can do to get

the meat off those cows. You see there is a rule _the USDA_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/the_USDA.html) has that says you cannot take what

is called a

non-ambulatory cow and put it into the _food supply_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/food_supply.html) .

 

That rule is designed to protect American consumers because non-ambulatory

cows -- meaning cows that cannot walk -- are often diseased. Why else would

they not be able to walk? What the _USDA_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/USDA.html) is not telling you, and what the _beef_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/beef.html) industry does not want you to know, is

that most of the time these

diseased cows have " Mad Cow Disease. "

 

Mad Cow Disease is a neurological disorder. It is not a parasite, _bacteria_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/bacteria.html) , or even a virus. It is actually

a " prion. " It is called a " folded protein " and it turns nervous systems into

mush. It actually turns a working, functioning brain into a pile of nervous-

system gel that does not function anymore.

 

If a little bit of this leaks out of the cow's carcass and gets into the

meat, it can be mixed into literally thousands of different hamburgers,

hotdogs,

or other processed meats. I mean, one cow can be in thousands of different

products. They say that one hamburger can have parts from hundreds or even

thousands of different cows.

 

All of this is mixed together including possibly the spinal fluid or some

brain matter from the carcasses of these cows. That is made into the

hamburgers, taco meat, soup meat, _processed meat_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/processed_meat.html) , beef jerky and, of course,

_school lunch_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/school_lunch.html) program meat not to mention dog

food, which is

even one grade below all of that.

 

This particular slaughterhouse in California was caught on camera; secret

videos put out by the Humane Society show the incredible _torture_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/torture.html) that was being done to these cows. I

am not

going to describe it all because it is too sad. It is too disturbing, but let

us

just say they did everything in their power to try to get these cows into

the processing lines.

 

They used forklifts. They used _cattle_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/cattle.html) prods. They used all kinds of other

extremely cruel and inhumane

methods to get those cows into the processing lines, which would put them into

the

human food supply. And they did. TI think an estimated 37 million pounds of

that beef from that same plant went to school lunch programs around the

country including school lunches in the state of New York.

 

What happens there? Of course, _schoolchildren_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/schoolchildren.html) eat the beef. They are

potentially exposed to Mad Cow

Disease. It is important to know that Mad Cow Disease is not destroyed by

_cooking_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/cooking.html) . You can cook that

contaminated meat all you want and it does not destroy Mad Cow Disease.

 

If you eat a cooked hamburger that was contaminated with that spinal fluid,

you can get Mad Cow Disease the same as if it were raw meat. Do not think

that cooking the meat makes it safe from this particular disease. When these

schoolchildren eat this beef, they can begin to show signs of _nervous system_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/nervous_system.html) malfunction.

 

We have many behavioral disorders in this country: Alzheimer's disease

skyrocketing among the elderly. Violence among young people happening more and

more. I will talk about the link between beef and _violence_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/violence.html) here in a few minutes, but for now,

it is just

important to know that people can be exposed to Mad Cow Disease. Does Mad Cow

Disease infect humans? Sure it does. You can get the human form of Mad Cow

Disease, which is called _CJD_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/CJD.html) .

 

Now, mainstream medicine does not know much about CJD. They are rather

mystified by it just as they are mystified by diabetes and cancer. They are not

too bright when it comes to disease and they do not know what CJD is actually

just a human form of Mad Cow Disease.

 

You can get it from eating wild deer, for example, which are infected with

Mad Cow Disease. You can also get it from eating infected cows that were

pushed into the slaughterhousejust as we saw on these secret videos. If you

have

courage and the stomach for it -- I do not recommend that you do this but if

you do and want to see pictures or the videos -- go to the Humane Society's

website.

 

I do not personally wish to view these videos because I have a lot of

_compassion_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/compassion.html) for these animals. I

wish that other _human beings_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/human_beings.html)

would share that same level of compassion. Cows are mammals. They have

memories. They have _consciousness_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/consciousness.html) .

They have awareness. They have families -- children, parents. I have been

around cows.

 

 

Cows are living beings, not meat

My grandfather was a cattle rancher and even though he, too, was

slaughtering the cows for food consumption, he at least raised them in a field

where

they ate fresh grass. They had fresh air, clean _water_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/water.html) , and free movement. They were truly,

truly healthy cows. I

spent quite a bit of time around cows in my youth. That was way before I even

knew anything about _nutrition_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/nutrition.html) ,

red meat, health impacts, environmental impacts or any of these other things.

I was oblivious to all that back then.

 

I ate a lot of meat in those days. I used to eat beef all the time! It

always rather disturbed me to think that these cows look nice to me. Why are we

eating them? Why do we need to do that? When you are a kid, you do not really

question things as much as you hopefully do when you are an adult. I just went

along with it and ate beef for many, many years even while coming to

understand cows as living, breathing creatures.

 

I mean we actually had names for the cows. We had names for the young when

theywere born. If you have never seen a cow give birth, you should. It gives

you a completely new appreciation for life and the creation of life. Watching

a cow give birth is a beautiful experience you will never forget.

 

At some level you may think, " Gee, it is gross, " but it is just like a human

birth. Behind all of that, it is the miracle of life happening right in

front of you. It really gives you an appreciation for the complexity of the

experiences and the consciousness of other mammals.

 

Cows are mammals just as we are. I mean, we give live birth to our children.

They nurse from mother's milk and cows work the same way. They give live

birth, their children nurse from them. They have very strong relationships with

their young and they have very strong relationships with their family members.

 

I believe it is extremely cruel and unethical, not only to treat cows with

the kind of _cruelty_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/cruelty.html) that was

observed in these videos but even to just use cows as a food source. I think

that

is cruel! I think that mammals should never be used as a food source. I do

not eat meat from mammals.

 

 

How our point of view dictates our eating habits

I do eat some fish. I think in time I will probably be able to let that go

as well. I choose fish because I know they are much lower in _intelligence_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/intelligence.html) with a far less complex mental

function. Although, I do understand that fish feel pain. That has been proven

in certain studies. We know that fish are, in fact, aware at some level of

consciousness but I do know that they are, of course, a lower level

consciousness then a cow.

 

If I have to eat meat in order to sustain my own tissues in my own body to

accomplish some things that are important in my life, I am definitely going to

choose to eat it from an animal of far lower awareness and lower

consciousness -- not higher consciousness. That is one reason why I avoid

eating

mammals, which includes cows, pigs, sheep, and _dogs_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/dogs.html) , -- all of those animals.

 

It is funny, many people think, " Well, gee, it would be crazy to eat a horse

or a dog. We would never eat a dog. That would be cruel " or " We would never

eat a horse. How cruel is that? " Well, there is no difference between eating

a horse and eating a cow. Horses and cows have almost the exact same

intelligence. I know that some horse owners out there might disagree and say,

" Well,

my horse is smarter than the cow. " That is because you trained your horse!

 

If you train the cow, the cow is very similar to the horse. Cows seem stupid

to people because no one teaches them anything. It is just like if you take

a dog and teach them nothing. He does not know much. Well, _horses_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/horses.html) get a lot of good treatment, good

training, a

lot of time and effort put into them, so they seem a lot more intelligent.

 

In reality, they have very similar intelligence. In fact, the size of the

brain of a cow and a horse is very similar; the entire anatomy is very similar.

When people say, " Well, gee, I want to eat cows, " I say, " Well, why do you

not eat horses? " I like to get people and to ask these important questions

about their reality.

 

Look at things from a different point of view. Why not eat a horse? They

say, " Well, that would be cruel, " but eating a cow is not cruel. They say,

" Yes,

that is fine. " The only reason that they can say that and, by the way, if

you eat cows this is undoubtedly true for you -- the only reason you can say

that is that you have never been to a slaughterhouse. You have never actually

met your meat, so to speak. You have never seen what really happens back

there. If you did, you would give it up immediately.

 

 

Using terminology to disassociate from the animals

There is no way that a conscious, compassionate, and intelligent human being

can observe what happens in a slaughterhouse and continue to eat that meat.

The only way that humans can consume beef and pork products today is because

they are able to disassociate from the animal. They do not even call cow meat

– " cow meat. " They just call it beef.

 

This is a completely different word. Pig products, of course, are not called

pig. They are called pork. They are reshaped into different, isolated food

names that further distances the food item from the animal from which it came.

For example, they call it sausage or _bacon_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/bacon.html) . If you say the word bacon, it does

not bring to mind or does not

invoke an animal. Bacon, in the minds of most consumers, is something all by

itself. It is completely isolated from its source.

 

When people talk about bacon, they say: " Let us cook up some bacon for

_breakfast_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/breakfast.html) . " They do not say " Let

us

eat pig flesh, " even though that would be the more accurate statement.

Language reflects thought and ideas. Through their language, they distance

themselves from the reality of where that meat comes from. Even if they started

to

use the language of " Let us have pig rib meat for breakfast " or " Let us have

cow flesh for lunch between two slices of bread, " they would still be distanced

from the reality of how those animals are treated. If you look at how those

animals are treated in the slaughterhouses, that is another aspect of reality

that consumers definitely do not want to acknowledge.

 

 

The connection between meat and emotion

Let us talk about the correlation between _meat consumption_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/meat_consumption.html) and human emotions. What

you see in meat

eaters - -especially beef eaters -- is a lot of internal anger, fear and

violence. Just look around. Pick ten people that you know who eat a lot of meat

and rate their level of emotional stability, anger, fear, and violence.

 

Then take ten people who are _vegetarians_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/vegetarians.html) or vegans and do that same

exercise. Then compare those two

groups of ten. You will find an amazing correlation. All the people who eat

plant-based diets -- vegetarians or _vegans_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/vegans.html) -- are non-violent. They are not

angry. They do not live in fear. They

do not support war and violence. They do not treat others inhumanely. They

probably love animals and I do not mean love to eat them. I mean love to have

them around.

 

They probably have pets. Maybe horses, or dogs and they treat other living

beings with compassion and with _ethics_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/ethics.html) . These are the vegans, the

vegetarians or the plant-based-diet people

like me. Of course, I am not on a 100% _plant-based diet_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/plant-based_diet.html) , but I eat a mostly

plant-based diet.

 

Now, compare that to meat eaters, which is what I used to be. Meat eaters

are violent, and fearful. They support war. They might own many guns and like

to use them. They might go hunting just so they can kill an animal and put its

trophy on their wall. That is a classic behavior of meat-eating people. They

support all kinds of violent acts by society.

 

For example, they typically support the death sentence. They also think that

animals can be treated cruelly without any real consequences. They do not

believe in animal rights. They do not believe that animals really have to be

taken care of. They just rather believe that humans can destroy, kill, torture

and maim whatever they want -- even other humans.

 

You see, their lack of compassion does not stop with animals. It also

extends to other people. That is why people who eat a lot of beef and _red meat_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/red_meat.html) also support war. They have no

problem with the U.S. invading other countries, bombing civilians and killing

tens

of thousands of people. They have no problem with it at all as long as they

can eat their steak and say, " Oh, we are fighting for freedom. " That is very

characteristic of meat eaters.

 

Well, once you realize this correlation you might say: " What is behind it? "

How can meat consumption be correlated with such violence? The answer is that

tissues store emotions. You may not believe this statement but hear me out).

Now, how do you know this is true?

 

Well if you go to Google and search around for _organ transplant_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/organ_transplant.html) recipients, you will find

many

recipients who actually experience the emotions of their organ donors. They are

recipients of heart transplants and liver transplants, for example. They

actually experience the memories of the donor who has long since passed away,

obviously.

 

They experience the memories and the moods. They sometimes have flashbacks

from the other person. Modern medical science tends to dismiss these reports

because they do not understand them. It does not fit the model of what they

understand to be true. They just say, " You are just imagining things. " In

reality, many people experience this.

 

It is because the tissues themselves -- the organs -- actually store energy.

They store vibration. They store emotions. When you take a heart out of one

person and put it into another person, you begin to unleash the emotional

energy that was in the original heart organ. That is why the recipient then

begins to experience those emotions all over again.

 

This is also, by the way, why there are so many emotions tied to the heart.

What is Valentine's Day? The symbol is the heart. The heart stands for love.

It is because love can actually be stored energetically inside the physical

organ. It is an energetic vibration but it is imprinted in the tissues. That

is why we say things like " I am saying this from my heart. "

 

Many English idioms and sayings use the heart to express emotion. Well, this

is no coincidence. It is because throughout _human civilization_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/human_civilization.html) , observers have

consistently noted

that the heart is one source of emotional energy. The truth is all the

tissues and organs in your body also store emotional energy -- your liver, your

skin, your muscles and flesh.

 

Even your blood stores emotional energy. You can see this if you look back

at certain ancient civilizations like here in South _America_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/America.html) -- Mayan and Incan cultures and the

Aztec north of

here. There are also American Indian cultures that also believe this. Many of

these cultures believed in consuming the organs of animals they killed for

certain reasons -- to give themselves the spirit of that animal, for example.

 

This, again, was not superstition. This has a very valid basis in reality.

When you eat the flesh of another animal or another being, you begin to

assimilate that same emotional energy. Does that make sense?

 

You see it in organ transplants. You have seen it throughout human history.

You see it in modern use of language. We know that energy is stored in organs

and when you eat those organs or the flesh of other animals, you will

assimilate whatever energies and emotions that were imprinted in those tissues.

 

 

Emotional contamination of meat

Now, let us get back to the slaughterhouse. What emotions do you think are

imprinted in the cows and the pigs as they are being processed in the

slaughterhouse? Imprinted is extreme fear -- terror even of the violence being

committed against them -- in many cases while they are still alive. All of this

emotional energy is imprinted in their tissues. That meat becomes contaminated

with bad energy.

 

I mean it may pass USDA inspection. It is not contaminated with bacteria and

they do not test for emotional energy. They do not even know it exists. That

meat is contaminated with violence. It is contaminated with terror, fear,

anger or hopelessness. Now, do you think it is a coincidence that the people in

America today who are consuming these _meat products_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/meat_products.html) also share those same

emotions?

 

They are violent. They are full of hopelessness. They are angry. They are

fearful and they keep eating more meat. Do you think that is a coincidence? Why

does America support so much war? Why are schools filled with so much

violence? Why is there so much violence on the streets of America? Why is there

so

much fear? Why can the president so easily invoke fear whenever he wants the

population to support some other ridiculous war effort? Why are all these

emotions so prevalent in American society?

 

It is very clear to me and to others who are holistically aware, that much

of this comes from the food. The meat is primarily responsible for that. It is

the angry meat. It is the fearful meat. It is the violence in the meat and

the contamination of meat with bad energy. I hate to even utter some of these

words.

 

I would rather be uttering words like _abundance_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/abundance.html) , hope, creation, creativity and

healing. These are the kind

of words I would rather be saying right now but sometimes these issues

demand our attention. I feel it is important to help spread the word to make

people aware of these links between the energetically contaminated meats that

you

are consuming and your own state of mind – and your own emotional state as

well. They go hand in hand.

 

 

Protecting yourself from contaminated meat

With that said, you might wonder, " Well, gee, what can I do? What can I do

to not expose myself to that kind of violent behavior or that kind of violent

energy? How can I protect myself and my family from energetically contaminated

meat? " The answer is really in two parts. The first part is do not eat

mammals. That is simple actually. Do not eat cows. Do not support that

industry.

Do not support that violence, torture, and cruelty against animals. Do not eat

meat and especially do not buy meat produced from mammals. Red meat -- come

on now, are we not past that yet in our society?

 

The second thing you could do is, if for some reason, you still want to eat

meat, then at least go with cruelty-free meat. Now, is there actually such a

thing? I do not think so because I think you still have to kill the animal to

eat it, right? There is still some level of violence involved somewhere

along the line. There is no such thing as a cow that was happily killed for its

meat.

 

All the _free-range_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/free-range.html) meat

products have pictures of happy, happy cows on the labels. Well, in reality,

those

should be pictures of dead cows should they not? I mean cows with their

throats slit. Let us be honest, the meat is not taken from living cows. It is

not

like the cow comes in from the field frolicking along and then someone takes

a knife and takes a big chunk of steak out of the cow's hind quarter and

then sends him back out into the field, happily frolicking away. This is not

how

meat is created.

 

The cow is killed and even if it had a free-range existence, it is still not

cruelty-free. There is a level of violence in all meat products. With that

said, what do you really do is turn to a plant-based diet. It is not cruel to

take a leaf off a plant or to harvest the roots of a carrot plant. It is not

cruel to farm plants. You can put them in the ground with the _seeds_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/seeds.html) . You can let them grow and you can

harvest

them and save the seeds for the next generation.

 

You pursue a plant-based diet in harmony with Mother Nature. Many of these

plants are created as sources of nutrition whereas cows, mammals, and living

creatures certainly are not simply created for us to consume their flesh. That

is ridiculous. Plants are a completely different story. You can eat plants

and you can replant them or you can eat part of a plant and it will re-grow. A

new leaf appears where the one was that you took. A plant-based diet is the

answer to avoiding bad energy.

 

Plants, by the way, do not have to be subjected to violence in order to

harvest and prepare them. When you are chopping lettuce for a salad, you are

not

committing violence against that lettuce. You are just chopping it, putting

it into little smaller pieces. There is no pain experienced by the lettuce.

The lettuce is not bleeding. It is not gasping for air as a mammal would if you

were chopping it up.

 

 

The beauty of a plant-based diet

A plant is clearly created for non-violent purposes, and one of those

purposes is for consumption. In fact, many people who are fruitarians believe

you

should only eat _fruits_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/fruits.html) and nuts

because these are the things that are clearly provided by the plants for human

consumption. You do not have to destroy the plant. You do not have to tear

off a leaf or dig up a root. You can just eat the fruits or _nuts_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/nuts.html) . These are the things abundantly

provided by

Mother Nature.

 

Although I am not personally a fruitarian, I think that is a very

high-integrity belief system to even avoid any potential cruelty to plants.

Just eat

those things that the plant has clearly provided in abundance such as fruits,

nuts, and seeds. That is one way you can go about it and when you do that, you

will begin to notice that your own moods and energy begin to shift.

 

If you used to be angry, fearful and violent, once you begin to follow a

plant-based diet, you will become peaceful, confident, and non-violent. Your

moods will stabilize and your conceptualization of the world of reality will

expand. You will no longer be limited to the fearful thinking of " us versus

them " in war. You will no longer be limited to the mainstream ideas that we see

in America today -- vengeance, fear, and control. Instead, you will be able to

expand your awareness. You will be able to see the big picture.

 

You will begin to take in more wisdom from _nature_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/nature.html) . The plants actually give you wisdom.

There are certain

mushrooms -- Reishi a kind of Japanese medicinal mushroom being one of them --

that give you whole lot of wisdom, . People who eat many Reishi actually become

wiser. You might ask why that is. Well, we already talked about the same

thing. Just as the energy that is imprinted in the meat can affect your moods,

your mind, and your behavior, there is also information imprinted in plants.

 

What kind of information you might ask? Wisdom -- wisdom of nature. There is

information in light and if you do not believe me just go back and study

physics. There is lots of information in light. How do you think we have fiber

optic communications? It is all information by light. A plant is exposed to

that information during its entire life cycle. Light is on during the day, off

at night, and there are varying colors of light and of information in

sunlight.

 

There are all kinds of information in it that plants absorb. A plant is said

to be concentrated sunlight. A plant also absorbs water. There is vibration

in water. There is imprinting of energy in all of water and then the plant

creates its own technologies, you might say. It synthesizes its own nutrients

to protect itself from _the environment_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/the_environment.html) allowing it to adapt. It has

ways to be able to resist too much

_ultraviolet radiation_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/ultraviolet_radiation.html) or to go out and find

more ultraviolet radiation if it needs more

energy.

 

A plant has ways to work with its neighbors. It even communicates with other

plant family members. It has been proven in laboratories that plants can

actually identify their own relatives. They may emit chemicals to fight against

the successful growth of non-relatives thereby helping their own family

members grow more successfully. Plants actually have very complex communication

systems internally as well.

 

Even though they do not have the consciousness of mammals, plants do have a

complexity in their information processing, in the way they process sunlight

into energy and the way they build their own medicines. They actually grab

carbon right out of the air and use it to build structures. Did you know you

can grow a plant without even using dirt? It is called hydroponics. I have done

it myself. You can grow plants out of nothing but air, water and a few

nutrients. I have grown okra and _tomatoes_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/tomatoes.html) out of nothing but air, water and a

few vitamins.

 

You say, " Well, where does the tomato come from if there is no dirt. Where

did the plant come? Where is the structure? Where did cellulose come from? How

did the plant create itself? " The answer is it took it out of the air. It

took mass and information and it reorganized it. It reorganized it into a

harmonious structure and built its own solar system.

 

Its leaves gather energy and then the plant transformed the sunlight and

carbon from the air into its own structure and built its own skeletal system,

so

to speak. From that, it constructed its own support towers, which would be

the stalks. From there it created its own flowers, which also contained

information to attract the _pollinators_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/pollinators.html) .

 

When the pollinators arrived the exchanged information with them and from

that it began to create its own fruits or in this case -- tomatoes. Tomatoes

are a whole universe of information. Inside it has its own seeds full of new

information -- all it needs to recreate itself, and a lot more.

 

When you eat that tomato -- a fresh, organically grown, non-chemically

treated tomato right off the vine -- you are assimilating a massive amount of

wisdom from Mother Nature. You are absorbing millions of years of wisdom and

knowledge that is in the plant. You are bringing all that into your body and

circulating it through all your tissues. You are sending a little bit of that

positive, creative vibe to each and every one of the cells in your body. Is it

any wonder then that people who eat a plant-based diet are more peaceful, more

compassionate, and able to see the bigger picture?

 

They are far wiser than those who subsist on a meat-eating diet. If

awareness or _spirituality_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/spirituality.html) were

represented by money, meat eaters would be extremely impoverished people. Plant

eaters would be the ultra wealthy. There is that much difference in the

consciousness and the awareness of those who eat meat versus those who focus on

a

plant-based diet.

 

That is why if you look at the history of every major _religion_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/religion.html) in this world and throughout

humanity,

throughout the history of humanity, you will find that virtually every

spiritually

advanced individual -- the leader of any religion you can name -- promoted a

plant-based diet. From Jesus Christ to Buddha, you name the person or you

name the god, it is a plant-based diet. Besides, is killing animals consistent

with any religion? I mean every major religion teaches non-violence,

compassion, understanding for other living systems and other beings.

 

No religion teaches us to go out and kill other animals to take their flesh,

treat them with cruelty, or process them in a factory. In fact, it is

anti-spiritual to eat meat. It is devolving your spirituality. It is lowering

you

to the level of a murderer. You get that vibration when you eat meat. That is,

of course, why the meat eaters so easily support war because when something

happens in our country like the 9/11 events, they immediately get angry and

immediately want revenge. They immediately support violence. Those are exactly

the wrong responses.

 

 

The future of human civilization

I believe the fact that we are able to treat animals with such cruelty today

-- we being modern human beings -- is indicative of the way we are capable

of treating each other and ourselves. This not just about cows, beef or Mad Cow

Disease, this is about ethics. This is about compassion. This is about

living in a way that acknowledges the interconnectedness among all living

systems.

 

We could be talking about cows today but tomorrow we might be talking about

aquatic _ecosystems_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/ecosystems.html) -- oceans

and the rivers. We might be talking about the microbiology of our soils and

the importance of saving our soils. We might even be talking about genetic

diversity in our plants. You see, as long as we have human beings in society

and

_corporations_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/corporations.html) that are

willing to destroy all of these things in order to make money, as long as we

tolerate that, then we are only accelerating our own destruction.

 

I believe that no civilization can survive long term if it is acting out

these predatory impulses, these desires to kill and harm others in order to

create personal gain. If you look at what we are destroying in society today,

it

is not just the cows, the pigs, and other animals. We are destroying our

plant biodiversity through monoculture practices. We are destroying genetic

diversity. We are actually destroying the sanctity of the _genes_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/genes.html) , the sanctity of the seeds that have

fed our

ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years, because we are allowing

genetically

modified _crops_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/crops.html) to be grown throughout

North America.

 

Those crops have already polluted the entire nation with _DNA_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/DNA.html) pollution. There is hardly a piece of

soil that you

could pick up anywhere in the country that does not have at least one

fragment of genetically modified DNA in it right now. That is right. It is all

polluted and those DNA fragments could some day recombine. They could someday

become a genetic catastrophe so large that it destroys a huge portion of our

food supply or destroys our ability live in a sustainable way.

 

You see, all of these things have the same expressions in common --

expressions of violence, expressions of taking life or killing or dominating or

arrogance towards other living systems. What we do to the cows, what we do to

the

crops, what we do to the water and the air -- those are the same things that

we are indeed doing to ourselves. I say that we cannot survive as a

civilization if we stay on this path. There is no future for a civilization

that is

bent on such destruction.

 

If we hope to have a chance at any kind of sustainable future on this

planet, we have to mature as a civilization. We have to grow up! We have to

move

past this predatory phase and we have to move into a holistic worldview -- a

mindfulness that what we do to others is what we do to ourselves. This probably

reminds you of a famous biblical quote, right?

 

" Do unto others... " There is a lot of truth to that but we have to get to

that point if we are to survive. It is no longer a question of just being right

or wrong. I think it is a question of survival. You see, this planet, this

environment in which we live as guests, this Mother Nature -- she is not

judgmental, but she is the ultimate dispenser of karma.

 

What we do to her, to her creatures, to her plants and to her lands will all

come back to us. If you add up what we have done – all the accumulated

cruelty, arrogance, and experiments meddling with seeds, genes, medicines,

animals

and ecosystems -- we are in for a world of hurt. The backlash is going to be

incalculable. We should all just hope for mercy.

If Mother Nature is unleashed against us through a pandemic, through a

blight affecting crops, through widespread global infertility, through the

devastation of ocean food supply, the wiping out of fish, shrimp, or the loss of

top

soils -- we are not going to make it. You will see a massive collapse of the

world population and I did not even mention global water supply.

 

The dwindling water tables did not even mention many of the things that are

at stake here. Global population will collapse. We will not be wiped out, no,

no. It will simply collapse to the point where it will revert to being

sustainable. The destruction that we cause today will determine the scope of

the

collapse of human population.

 

What we unleash today will determine how many will be left. What you can do

and what I can do right now to help save lives and to help save our future is

to begin thinking and living in a sustainable way right from this moment.

Begin living that sustainable life as best you can even if you still live in a

city and even if you still drive a gasoline-powered car. You can begin to

make changes right now.

 

You can choose a plant-based diet right now and that is one huge step in the

right direction. You will be greatly reducing your footprint on the planet.

You will be reducing CO2 emissions. You will be helping to reduce cruelty

towards animals and you will be enhancing your health and your awareness. You

will be supporting the small organic farmers that grow these foods that you

will be able to consume.

 

You will be helping to shift things in the right direction so that more

human beings can actually survive the backlash that is inevitably going to

appear. It is not just about your own health even though that is a valid view

– but

it is a very limited view. It is about planetary health and the

sustainability of this entire civilization.

 

If we as human beings are going to make it, we all have to start shifting

into a sustainable, green-living lifestyle. I can tell you right now that the

eating of flesh from mammals such as cows and pigs is not compatible with

sustainable life on this planet. Yes, if we want to feed steak and hamburgers

to

everyone in the world, we can do that for a little while. We can cut down all

the _rainforest_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/rainforest.html) and turn it

into grazing land. We can feed those burgers to people all over the world and

we can get away with that for a couple of generations.

 

Then it is over! Then the global environment is so disrupted that rainfall

patterns shift, weather patterns shift, _oceans_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/oceans.html) might begin to rise. Super viruses

will emerge out of the

destabilized jungle ecosystems and will spread. One way or another, population

will

be brought back into balance and then meat consumption will go down. It is

going to happen one way or another.

 

Either we can do it consciously by shifting to a plant-based diet on a

global scale or we can wait around and let Mother Nature make that decision for

us

and experience a massive population collapse, which will bring us back into

better balance with nature. Personally, I do not know about you, but I would

prefer option number one. Let us shift now. Let us become compatible with

this planet, now! We are the guests here. Let us not destroy our home!

 

Sounds almost so simple that you think why even bother saying it. It is so

simple but so many people miss the point. They go out and buy a Prius -- a

hybrid car. They think they are helping the planet but they go order hamburgers

and steak for lunch. False _environmentalists_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/environmentalists.html) are what I call them.

 

You also, of course, have the false Christians out there who say they

support non-violence and say they are spiritual but what they are doing is

eating

meat, junk food, processed foods, taking pharmaceuticals. They are destroying

their own bodies and destroying the environment. You have false

environmentalists, false Christians, you have all kinds of false groups who

claim to be

doing something for the planet but in their own actions and individual

day-to-day decisions, they are actually destroying the future, not conserving

it.

 

I encourage you to be someone who is congruent with the vision of the future

of this planet. If you want our future to be sustainable, if you want to see

life on this planet for more then just a couple generations then I encourage

you to act in congruence with that vision. That means avoiding the

consumption of meat as much as possible or entirely if you can. That means

consuming a

plant-based diet.

 

That means conserving energy. That means being healthy and avoiding the

support of corporations that are destroying our planet and destroying our

future.

It means changing from within if you wish to change those things that are

outside of you. " Be the change " as Gandhi said. Be the change that you want to

see in the world. Do not complain about violence against animals if you are

still eating them. Eat plants -- be the change. I hope you have enjoyed this

discussion.

 

This article is a transcript of _Health Ranger_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/Health_Ranger.html) Report #10, entitled Energetic

Contamination of Beef

Products, which is available free of charge as an MP3 download at:

_http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html)

 

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