Food for Thought vs Pound of Flesh

Tectonic shifts in prices for food especially due to the demand for more meat are putting tremendous pressure on budgets around the globe. We in the the developed countries are moaning as it hits us in tandem with surging prices for oil, gas etc..

But we are the ones who may still make do somehow and economise in other areas of our rather cushioned lives.

Millions and millions of people in the developing world cannot economise any further but simply starve.

Not only the stupid idea to use food for fuel is the reason but especially that want for meat.

As an example – in China millions want plenty of meat now on a daily basis.

Chinese cuisine has always been delicious even without tons of flesh.

But now bad Western habits seem to kick in and the drive for burgers and entrecote is endangering a great culture of slender figures that seemed quite resistant to many a civilisation disease.

Did you know that Eastern ladies have much less trouble with Menopause thanks to their traditionally soy rich diet.

And now even there the demand to eating heaps of meat is sucking prices higher.

The price due for that is horrifying and the consequences bear many a different ugly face.

Man presides as main carnivore on top of the food chain keeping his prey in huge herds thereby causing damage to the environment.

Why do we humans have to eat soo much meat? We were not cut out for it originally anyway.

How can we accept so easily having to breed, torture and kill on a grand scale so we may enjoy fat steaks, burgers and chicken en masse?

We are causing immeasurable suffering only to gorge on animal protein.

Think of all the fear in those helpless beings, the pain when they are abused and maltreated.

Do you think that makes good material for a happy history of the future world?

Like waging micro wars non stop and committing crime all the time.

Not good.

Our ancestors had meat once perhaps twice a week.

They were healthier, there was not so much cancer or Alzheimer’s and they did not waddle up and down the buffet in XXXL sizes.

Too many people want too much of the same pathetic stuff – parts of dead bodies.

What kind of a culture is it to predominantly lean on killing in order to enjoy too many meals containing prime and not so prime pieces of corpses?

500 years ago Martin Luther succeded and lifted the not at all so wrong Catholic ritual bans to eat meat at certain times and a slow switch to more protein laden meals began to set in.

Butchers were all of a sudden in business all week whereas before they needed second jobs as of the Roman rules.

500 years down the path of time major parts of the world are tolerating that we enslave our fellow beings and as a form of slow intension to ruin their health translating to a long term attempt to suicide ?

And not enough: at the same time people are stuffing themselves with carbohydrates, white bread and loads of empty calories on top of the protein rich stuff.

If the realms of Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease & Co. had ambassadors here on earth they would be throwing one big party after the other.

Back to the industrialized infliction of horror on our fellow beings.

Do not get me wrong – I wear leather shoes just as you do.

But since I was a little child I refused to eat lots of meat or produce made from dead bodies of animals with cute faces and friendly eyes. That good and right impulse exists in many children sadly mostly overruled.

If there is not much else to eat of course man has to eat what is there in order to survive.

But those I am talking about have the great gift of free choice.

Heavens, there is plenty of healthy protein in delicious cheese, fresh milk products, eggs, the unbeatable soy products and of late Quorn.

Legumes contain proper protein and so do lots of beans.

Modern wholesome food is not just green and ecofriendly but in my book truly good food has to come terror free.

Less meat – less suffering – less speculation – many benefits for you.

Makes you feel better.

Makes you less irritated and aggressive.

Increases your brain function and leaving you with a clean feeling inside out.

Good food without bad feelings.

If a tiger kills a human being in order to live he is hunted down mercilessly. How dare he to be hungry and not discriminate between man and deer.

Yet the tiger has not got that alternative of choice.

We do.

Yet many of us are the same as the tiger.

Not as beautiful but just as hungry for the flesh of weaker beings.

And our digestive systems were designed to rather process plant and cereal based food NOT chunks of meat all the time.

Our daily bread it says for a good reason not our daily big whopper.

I cannot ask you to live an animal protein free life but to decide wisely whether you would allow yourself to be instrumentalised to inflict suffering.

This world has been created as a garden and not as a steak house. Period.

This article published by MIZPAH Magazine -  ©2010 www.mizpah.tv

© Helena Lind

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