Eating red meats puts us a step away from
environmental harmony. Human digestive systems are not easily
carnivorous. The body has to struggle to transmute red meat energy.
Eating red meat is a lot like extracting oil out of the ground. It often
costs more to get the oil out than it is worth on the market. Thus meat
protein, which the body can use, is often cancelled out by the length of
digestion time, and after-dinner lethargy, because a disproportionate
amount of energy goes to the task of assimilation. Frequent intake of
red meat�s highly concentrated protein can also create toxicity from
unused nitrogens, that are hard for the elimination system to cope with
or excrete. A common example of this is the frequent instance of kidney
stone formations in heavy red meat eaters.
Animals are also closer to us on the bio-scale of
life. They experience fear when killed. They don�t want to be eaten.
Unlike eating plants, there is no uplifting transmutation of energy.
Instead our bodies become denser, with more internal fermentation and
body odor. In addition to avoiding red meats for humanitarian reasons,
and an awareness of what meats do to the body, the red meats available
today are shot through with hormones and slow-release antibiotics, and
preserved with nitrates or nitrites. All these are passed into your body
at the dinner table. The stockyard animals we eat now are often sick and
over medicated, and their meat is tainted, chemicalized and adulterated.
Red meat is the biggest diet contributor to excess protein levels and
saturated fat. No one argues that less fat in the diet is healthier, or
that saturated fats are the most harmful. Avoidance of red meat
considerably reduces dietary saturated fat and concentrated calories.
Cooked red meats are acid-forming in the body, and when red meat is
cooked to well-done can create chemical compounds capable of causing
many diseases.
Finally, meat eating promotes more aggressive
behavior - a lack of gentleness in personality, and arrogance. From a
spiritual point of view, red meat eating encourages ties to the material
things in life, expansion of territory, and the self-righteous
intolerance that makes adversaries.
People who do not eat red meats have a well
documented history of lower risk for heart disease, obesity, diabetes,
osteoporosis, and several types of cancer. These people also play an
active role in conserving precious water, topsoil, and energy resources
that are wasted by an animal-based diet. Avoiding red meats has become
one of the most important things you can do for your own health and that
of the planet.
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