There is something humans eat so much of that is unnecessary and is responsible for 90% of the worlds land being negatively transformed from pristine forest, into wasteland. And if global warming doesn't wipe us out from this food item... its the new diseases that are a bi-product of it.
Do you know what it is?
Meat.
It may come as a surprise to know this, but 90% of earths agricultural efforts go towards putting food and water to keeping livestock alive. Did that surprise you? It surprised me.
Here's something that might come as shocking news for you too... or may be hard for you to accept... IF you eat meat, you're about as ecologically minded as a hum-vee truck. You could be riding around on a pushbike, using solar power, offsetting your carbon emissions by planting trees but guess what? If you eat meat, you're leading the parade of destruction on the planet.
Every meal you're chomping on bones, you're saying "I fuck the planet nice and hard, and I don't care, because it tastes good AND I love living in the ignorant bliss and blind stupidity that eating meat is essential and good for me."
Let me ask you something - how good will it be when there is no environment left to enjoy it in? If eating meat was so essential, don't you think it would be environmentally friendly?
Let me bring your attention to 5 major crisis here on planet earth and how eating meat is peaking out at the top of responsible contributing factors to them...
The water crisis
All across the world there is a water shortage. Fresh water supplies are running out. What used to be natural running water ways are now contaminated. Livestock is the primary pollutant of these systems.
We can't just create new water. There is a certain amount that is naturally created on earth. If it is used over on this continent and turned into toxic juice, earth doesn't just pump out new stuff. It goes into stagnation and takes a long time to recover. So the more say, America, eats its diet of meat and turns water into flesh for McMeaties, the less water Africa has.
Could the melting of the ice caps and the snow on Kilimanjaro be earths way of trying to provide some more fresh water for us? Probably. The earth is thirsty so she's tapping into her stored supplies, but hand in hand with the melting of those supplies comes a raising of the sea levels and a nice wiping out of destructive beings in the world.
But if the toxicity of the water systems isn't enough to get your head thinking, think about the inequality of your diet lifestyle choice versus those kids in Africa who are running around a desert trying to find a fresh water supply. While you're having your shower being eco efficient on a timer so you don't waste water, consider the reality that the water that is consumed to feed a cow in order to create just 1 Pound of flesh is equivalent to a whole years worth of showering.
The poverty crisis
90% of the world lives in poverty. Lacking the water and resources to do anything about it. The other 10% of the world are not in poverty, and they use about 1000% times the resources they need to in order to live. Is a shift of resources and priorities in order? Duh.
Instead of sending the grains to feed the humans who are starving, we send it to feed livestock. Isn't that intelligent. Personally, I think actions like this make humans the lesser evolved species while animals in the wild are actually more evolved. Does it not make sense that we cancel out our intelligence when the very actions we perform wipe us out? So based on this, shouldn't humans have less right than the apparently less evolved animals? Think about it...
The forest crisis
Do you know that the Amazon rainforest has been mostly pillaged to make way for agriculture to feed cows? Wasn't that a smart move. And thats what happens all around the world. The bulldozers come in, mass clear the land and then the stumps that are left are set on fire. What do you think created all the C02 in the atmosphere? The cars? Nope. Its fires, its the lack of forests keeping the planet cool and its all those trucks driving back and forth back and forth taking grains between the farms and the animal slave fields.
When it rains, an old tree root system can hold something like 50,000 litres of water like a sponge. When these trees are removed, the water doesn't hold in the earth and this is where the massive inland flooding is coming from. Instead of being sucked in, like trees do, it creates these massive landslides, rushes of torrents, and makes a beeline to the ocean destroying most things in the path. Trees do much more than just filter the air we breath, they are home to vital life systems humans rely on AND they are like our defensive barriers against weather. Pull more trees out, the weather will get worse and worse.
The health crisis
A massively growing problem in the health world is Colon Cancer. Why? Humans have a herbivore colon (
Check out a breakdown of a human, herbivore and carnivore for the facts) while attempting a carnivore diet. Its not hard to work out why. Speaking to a colonic specialist they will tell you that the average meat eater has rotting corpse in the colon 6 months old. Parasites... worms... there's an army in there. A carnivore doesn't experience this problem passes the meat within days.
But if that doesn't ring some alarm bells, lets introduce the new friend of ours on the top of food chain. Humans are no longer there. Say hi to the new Super Diseases we created. Alzheimer's... Mad Cow Disease.. just to name a couple who have only been on the planet in the last 50 years.
So, how did it happen? Why has humanities health gone down the shitter? Some say its microwaves... radiation from mobile phones... and while these play a part, they are quite friendly compared to eating food which just is plain and simple incompatible with the body we have.
Of course its just 'theoretical' as doctors and a medical industry push paper around wondering how they are going to get out of the way of societies gunfire for shoving the food pyramid down our innocent minds at childhood putting meat right up there once the critical mass is reached and the majority of humans go "what the fuck? why did you lie to us?".
The Food Pyramid of LIES
Well, thats not too hard to answer. Its about money, greed and disconnection from the land. Looking further into it, its about everything.... peoples lack of love and connection to the spirit in all things. But I digress...
A few generations ago, humans went industrial crazy and made a big leap away from natural living. They started to do some very unearthly like things... such as bringing minerals up from deep below the earth that probably should have never been touched... minerals that are like the earths bones that have been formed over billions of years. In doing this, they started to be able to create hardcore machines that could take our way of life to a whole new level of destruction and creation. For example, they decided they could plant the same crop on the same field over and over again which until recently was an impossible thing. Native people of the land know that you must rotate a crop and return things to the soil that have been depleted in an organic and holistic way otherwise the earth would say "no more fruit for you". But in this new era of advanced stupidity, if the crop stopped responding due the land being completely raped of resources, what did they do? They brought in these new beefed up fertilizers that we made from crushing up Cow bones combined with synthesised chemicals. That seems harmless, they thought.
Adding 10 years of this process and oh dear, the fertilizers aren't working so well anymore. What did we do!? Like the geniuses we believe we are we formulated even stronger new genetic chemical to add to the mix... SUPER FERTILIZER!! Forget rewinding the clock and considering we were heading in the wrong direction... there is money to be made. So they kept going... Meanwhile the belly got hungrier and the ease of manipulating and slicing up animals to arrive in neat little packages increased.
With the increase in appetite came the increase in need to get bigger and faster yields from crops. The food being grown by these super chemical fertilizers started to go straight to the cows. All heil supreme human intelligence. And here lies the beginning of an alien like mutation of disease...
The cows are eating chemically grown grains. But strangely, cows don't eat grains. Did you know that? I told a couple of guys that cows don't eat grains and they didn't know, so maybe you don't know that. Maybe you don't know that you're eating animals that live lives forced to eat food they are not supposed to eat. Cows eat grass. Just like humans are supposed to eat fruit and vegetable. So you can see how that illusory way of diet has transferred up the food chain. Many humans think they are supposed to eat meat just like they think cows are supposed to eat grains. Wrong. So the cows got sick. Just like the humans did. Who cares? We have just invented a new formula to add to the cow feed on top of the already chemicalised grains... Steroids... Drugs... x 100. Ahhhh... there we go. See, the cows are still alive and its aalllllll good. Meanwhile the humans pumped up on similar drugs.
Do this pattern over 50 years and what do you have? Simply, you have diseases that doctors don't even understand now. You have a strain of virus that has mutated and mutated so many times building better and better resistances to our antibiotics that they have virtually taken on an intelligence and life of their own. They are so powerful that they don't even die under fire. They are viruses that exist in the body which basically exist under the radar of the human immune system.... which means your body doesn't even know they are there and attempt to eradicate them.
Not only this, they are verily indestructible. Think about the plague... smallpox... how bad they were. Smalltime diseases to us now that wiped out half the planet. All of those diseases which humanity lived in fear of used to die simply under a blue flame. Boiling water. Zip. Gone. Well the little critters that have been brewing in the livestock sheds can withstand temperatures beyond what can be created in most labs. What is about to emerge from the farms is stuff that will make Aids look like the common cold people.
The karmic crisis
See, karma is real ladies in gentlemen. It doesn't just apply in the areas you decide it works in. Energy is energy. It works on every level of reality. Put an animal species in a cage for eons and eons and you can't get away with it. Life finds a way to return the favour. All of a sudden we have a massive biological crisis on our hands where potentially a huge portion of humans are going to feel just like the animals being tortured and used as products feel: controlled, helpless and innevitably going to enjoy a painful and horrific death.
Chomp chomp. Please sir, can I have some more?
Its time to do something to reverse this...
Firstly, stop eating meat. You're health will shoot through the roof despite the dogmatic religious like claims that you need meat to survive.
Secondly, start helping causes that are going to reverse the environmental impact. Sure, we might not survive the chaos around the corner thanks to the damage we've created... but at least we can try and not send earth into the same burning fate that Venus is in. Potentially, if we don't undo this damage, thats all folks.
Check out the initiative I am working on called
Save the Cows. Simply, when you start to save the cows, you save your health, you save animals from being tortured and you are saving the earth.
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