If most people realized how their health and finances are hurt by
the sloppy mistreatment of other animals, they would push for animal
rights. They would realize how woefully inadequate and ridiculous the
animal welfare laws really are, and the direct negative impact this
has on people.
How will animal rights improve our health? It’s no secret that fats,
proteins, and cholesterol from nonhuman animals’ flesh, milk, and eggs
are leading causes of heart disease, stroke, and some cancers. Eating
these products are a leading factor in the “epidemic” of obesity, and
leads to other serious health problems, including type-2 diabetes.
What about the millions of children and adults, in our country alone,
who suffer from food-borne illnesses caused by salmonella, e coli,
campylobacter, and other contamination? Much so-called “stomach flu”
(another euphemistic attempt to hide from the truth) is really the
result of eating food contaminated by animal filth, such as feces
(“poop”)!
What are the financial consequences of this imposed ignorance? I say
“imposed ignorance” because the public is misled about healthful
nutrition by the powerful meat and dairy industries and our government
with huge budgets for advertising and public relations. Chronic
diseases, and pharmaceuticals used to treat them, result in soaring
costs of medical treatment and insurance.
To quote from RPA: “Pandemics like influenza originate with
violations of natural boundaries between humans and other animals. It is
no accident that “bird flu” has public health officials scrambling: If
not for needless human exploitation of chickens and other birds, we
would not face this looming, fearsome problem. Anthrax, smallpox, and
other infectious diseases also jumped to humans from other animals –
before we knew better than to act like omnivores when we are not.”
“When nonhuman animals have legal rights, people will not be able to
consume their flesh, milk & eggs. Cutting out advertising and other
social pressure to consume them will help us all live healthfully on
fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and whole grains – as recommended by
leading nutritionists and more natural to our species. Medical &
insurance costs should drop, absent price gouging.”
Continued tomorrow.
See also:
http://all-creatures.org/health.html
