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08-03-2012:
This note is in response to a friend on FaceBook, stating that
humans are omnivorous and I should strike a balance in my diet. Now
I like my young friend so it is incumbent upon me to share what I
know and it's too long for a comment area on a thread about my blood
tests.
I want to explain my motivations for making the life style changes I
have beyond the need to turn around a pre-diabetic diagnosis. In my
studies I've learned a few frightening things and I'll share them
with you and those who commented in that thread.
Humans may be omnivorous but they did not evolve eating meat that
has been fed GMO corn and soy, growth hormones, and antibiotics,
which caused an upswing in cancer since the early 90s when it was
introduced into our food system. Most of the developed countries
around the world will not import our beef, chicken, corn, and soy
because it is considered dangerous. Our GMO corn is listed as an
insecticide by the EPA because it has been genetically modified to
exude insecticide as it grows!
The introduction of GMO corn and soy into processed foods, and milk
products from cows fed with GMO corn and soy and growth hormones,
coincides with the upswing in food allergies with children, causing
some children to have to be hospitalized for eating "Leggo my Eggo
waffles and blue yogurt". Kraft, Kellogg, Coca Cola, Wal-Mart in
other countries sell food products without GMO ingredients because
they are not allowed to sell to others what they sell to us, which
means that those other coutries protect their citizens and Americans
are just screwed by multinational corporations and agri-business.
Big agri-business is subsidized by the government and organic
farmers are taxed and have to jump through expensive hoops to get
certified as organic, which is why organic food is so expensive. The
FDA is filled with people involved in big agri-business, which gives
a shit about our health. The AMA is driven by Pharma-con, a pill for
every ill. It is more profitable for Pharma-con to treat a
preventable disease than to have doctors ask patients "What are you
eating?"
We have to understand that the "American Diet" has too much tainted
animal products, GMO engineered corn and soy (introduced into the
food stream with NO human trials) sugar, processed foods, and empty
calories and is causing 70% of the health care's budget to deal with
preventable diseases.
Until I can find animal products free from antibiotics, GMO feed, I
best go vegan and take my multi-vitamins. I'm as angry with
agri-business being more concerned with increased profits at the
expense of the American's health as some folks are angry with Wall
Street for causing the recession. Occupy Your Body, is what's on my
placard. My giving up animal products is developing into a political
protest and boycott of big agri-business because they listen to the
kaChing of the cash register.
All this doesn't even address the fact that raising cattle at the
rate that the world is now, as developing countries try to copy the
American diet, is contributing to the green house effect because of
the cattle's emission of methane. To sustain the growing population
of the world going vegan is not a choice but a necessity. One
outraged hippy granny isn't going to change the world but she can
inform her family and friends, then they in turn can inform others
and it ripples out into society. We're being screwed by the FDA,
AMA, by agri-business, and Pharma-con, and we have the power to foil
them by what is on our fork. "Fork You Big Business"
will be my rallying cry! |
