Foods that KILL or foods that HEAL our planet
The time to reconsider our food sources, no matter how “humanely” they’ve been raised, is here. If for no other reason, then, for saving our very HOME PLANET is reason enough to make us want to awaken further and inform deeper.
OLD food industries go extinct while NEW ones are born
WHY this has become by far, our most important priority of all other?
Simply because peace, financial and technological freedom, free education, housing and transportation become meaningless if we have no planet left to enjoy all other freedoms.
As we speak, NEW BREAKTHROUGH food production methods are being developed with billionaires investing big$ in it.
VEGANism is sweeping our world at an unimaginable rate
We KNOW our world is massively EVOLving when
Is in the MEDIA, in PROFESSIONAL SPORTS, more and more schools, world hunger movements, environmental saving organizations, with more and more doctors on board, medical science and nutritional communities, politicians and even Hollywood on board.
Is it just a coincidence?
Or a movement whose time has come?
GREEN is our next RED PILL
Why the urgency?
It is simple: because eating the way we do destroys our planet at an astounding rate
Day in day out
With every breakfast, lunch and dinner, party and event
It’s not the WARS and oil industries that do it before our MEAT, EGGS, FISH AND DAIRY addictions are doing it.
Learn for yourself why ALL OTHER forms of activism could definitely wait and take a secondary seat to our MOST URGENT, priority form of activism and why each and every single living soul on this planet should be concerned with it and make it his/her priority before all else.
It is not a passing phase, a cool trend or a moment…it is the very cosmic alarm clock for all humanity to awaken and start get involved, starting with our plates, education and sharing with all others.
“Humanely raised”, organic, “natural”, “compassionate farming”, “free-range”, “ and “wild” aka hunted meat and food products are not the solution either and below, you will find out why.
Sustainable animal farming myth debunked
“HUMANE” MEAT, dairy, eggs and fish FOOD myth debunked
We have learned about and share BOTH the PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS.
Foods that KILL or foods that HEAL our planet. It is all in our choosing.
It is a planetary saving and healing revolution.
You are invited to become part of the solution.
Without it, we won’t have a planet to call HOME anymore.
The amount of water, energy, land, etc. it takes to produce 1 pound of meat is Abhorrent (those resources alone could eradicate world hunger). Meat eating is the single most destructive activity an individual can engage in with regards to its impact on our planet for future generations. Rain forests are slashed and burned to make room for the grazing of cattle along with the resources it takes up (i.e. energy). Agribusiness is a crime: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbz89k_davos-annual-meeting-2010-adm-ceo-p_newsDailymotion
The astounding, devastating effects of our daily food choices
MEAT and the ENVIRONMENT
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/11/meat-and-environment.html
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.ca/2012/07/dairy-calcium-health-myth-debunked.html
The DARK TRUTH about DAIRY INDUSTRY
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.ca/2012/07/dark-truth-about-dairy-industry.html
The truth about fish
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.ca/2012/12/the-truth-about-fish.html The truth about EGGS
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.ca/2012/12/the-truth-about-eggs.html
The TRUTH about SOY
"The way that we breed animals for food is a threat to the planet. It pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of water, grain, petroleum, pesticides and drugs. The results are disastrous." - Dr. David Brubaker, PhD, at Johns Hopkins University's Center for a Livable Future –
Smithfield Foods, the largest and most profitable pork processor in the world, killed 27 million hogs last year.
A slaughter-weight hog is fifty percent heavier than a person.
The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs each yea...r is roughly equivalent to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson.
The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan. The best estimates put Smithfield's total waste discharge at 26 million tons a year. That would fill four Yankee Stadiums. Even when divided among the many small pig production units that surround the company's slaughterhouses, that is not a containable amount.
So prodigious is its fecal waste, however, that if the company treated its effluvia as big-city governments do -- even if it came marginally close to that standard -- it would lose money. So many of its contractors allow great volumes of waste to run out of their slope-floored barns and sit blithely in the open, untreated, where the elements break it down and gravity pulls it into groundwater and river systems. Although the company proclaims a culture of environmental responsibility, ostentatious pollution is a linchpin of Smithfield's business model.
Smithfield's pigs live by the hundreds or thousands in warehouse-like barns, in rows of wall-to-wall pens. Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around. Forty fully grown 250-pound male hogs often occupy a pen the size of a tiny apartment. They trample each other to death. There is no sunlight, straw, fresh air or earth. The floors are slatted to allow excrement to fall into a catchment pit under the pens, but many things besides excrement can wind up in the pits: afterbirths, piglets accidentally crushed by their mothers, old batteries, broken bottles of insecticide, antibiotic syringes, stillborn pigs -- anything small enough to fit through the foot-wide pipes that drain the pits. The pipes remain closed until enough sewage accumulates in the pits to create good expulsion pressure; then the pipes are opened and everything bursts out into a large holding pond.
The temperature inside hog houses is often hotter than ninety degrees. The air, saturated almost to the point of precipitation with gases from shit and chemicals, can be lethal to the pigs. Enormous exhaust fans run twenty-four hours a day. The ventilation systems function like the ventilators of terminal patients: If they break down for any length of time, pigs start dying. From Smithfield's point of view, the problem with this lifestyle is immunological. Taken together, the immobility, poisonous air and terror of confinement badly damage the pigs' immune systems. They become susceptible to infection, and in such dense quarters microbes or parasites or fungi, once established in one pig, will rush spritelike through the whole population.
Please see the link for the rest of the article.... http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/hogs-high-cost-of-greed.html Photo - Smithfield's holding ponds -- the company calls them lagoons -- cover as much as 120,000 square feet. The area around a single slaughterhouse can contain hundreds of lagoons, some of
which run thirty feet deep. The liquid in them is not brown. The interactions between the bacteria and blood and afterbirths and stillborn piglets and urine and excrement and chemicals and drugs turn the lagoons pink.
http://www.facebook.com/manuelaarhire?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=478002132256398&set=a.114071768649438.16041.113902138666401&type=1&theaterA slaughter-weight hog is fifty percent heavier than a person.
The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs each yea...r is roughly equivalent to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson.
The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan. The best estimates put Smithfield's total waste discharge at 26 million tons a year. That would fill four Yankee Stadiums. Even when divided among the many small pig production units that surround the company's slaughterhouses, that is not a containable amount.
So prodigious is its fecal waste, however, that if the company treated its effluvia as big-city governments do -- even if it came marginally close to that standard -- it would lose money. So many of its contractors allow great volumes of waste to run out of their slope-floored barns and sit blithely in the open, untreated, where the elements break it down and gravity pulls it into groundwater and river systems. Although the company proclaims a culture of environmental responsibility, ostentatious pollution is a linchpin of Smithfield's business model.
Smithfield's pigs live by the hundreds or thousands in warehouse-like barns, in rows of wall-to-wall pens. Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around. Forty fully grown 250-pound male hogs often occupy a pen the size of a tiny apartment. They trample each other to death. There is no sunlight, straw, fresh air or earth. The floors are slatted to allow excrement to fall into a catchment pit under the pens, but many things besides excrement can wind up in the pits: afterbirths, piglets accidentally crushed by their mothers, old batteries, broken bottles of insecticide, antibiotic syringes, stillborn pigs -- anything small enough to fit through the foot-wide pipes that drain the pits. The pipes remain closed until enough sewage accumulates in the pits to create good expulsion pressure; then the pipes are opened and everything bursts out into a large holding pond.
The temperature inside hog houses is often hotter than ninety degrees. The air, saturated almost to the point of precipitation with gases from shit and chemicals, can be lethal to the pigs. Enormous exhaust fans run twenty-four hours a day. The ventilation systems function like the ventilators of terminal patients: If they break down for any length of time, pigs start dying. From Smithfield's point of view, the problem with this lifestyle is immunological. Taken together, the immobility, poisonous air and terror of confinement badly damage the pigs' immune systems. They become susceptible to infection, and in such dense quarters microbes or parasites or fungi, once established in one pig, will rush spritelike through the whole population.
Please see the link for the rest of the article.... http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/hogs-high-cost-of-greed.html Photo - Smithfield's holding ponds -- the company calls them lagoons -- cover as much as 120,000 square feet. The area around a single slaughterhouse can contain hundreds of lagoons, some of
which run thirty feet deep. The liquid in them is not brown. The interactions between the bacteria and blood and afterbirths and stillborn piglets and urine and excrement and chemicals and drugs turn the lagoons pink.
it is EVERYone's business to prevent our HOME PLANET's unimaginable fast destruction through every steak and pizza we unknowingly participate with at planetary holocaust...planetary because through our old, outdated and destructive traditions, cultures, addictions and conditionings we are wiping off the very life of our planet and ALL of her inhabitants, OURSELVES included...if COMPASSION doesn't resonate with you, if YOUR OWN HEALTH doesn't resonate with you, HOPEFULLY preserving our very HOME, for us and our children, will trigger an awakening call, or else, WHATEVER ELSE you are into, you won't be able to experience it here...see for yourself and make the change
Astonishing facts
Did you know that:
According to the Nature Conservancy, every second of every day one football field of rainforest is being destroyed. Much of this forestland is being cut down to farm and raise livestock, which is then exported to the U.S. and ends up in fast-food hamburgers. According to the Rainforest Action Network, 55 square feet of tropical rainforest are destroyed to make every fast-food hamburger made from rainforest cattle. This is an area about the size of a small kitchen and it is gone forever each time one of these hamburgers is eaten. It is even worse because with each square foot of rainforest gone, up to 30 different plant species, 100 different insect species and dozens of bird, mammal and reptile species are destroyed. The rainforests are so important because half of the species on earth live in them and the forests are vital to the world’s oxygen supply.
Did you know that:
According to the Nature Conservancy, every second of every day one football field of rainforest is being destroyed. Much of this forestland is being cut down to farm and raise livestock, which is then exported to the U.S. and ends up in fast-food hamburgers. According to the Rainforest Action Network, 55 square feet of tropical rainforest are destroyed to make every fast-food hamburger made from rainforest cattle. This is an area about the size of a small kitchen and it is gone forever each time one of these hamburgers is eaten. It is even worse because with each square foot of rainforest gone, up to 30 different plant species, 100 different insect species and dozens of bird, mammal and reptile species are destroyed. The rainforests are so important because half of the species on earth live in them and the forests are vital to the world’s oxygen supply.
and this is valid for ALL OTHER types of ANIMAL DERIVED FOODS: DAIRY, EGGS, FISH...we now have ENDLESS ALTERNATIVES such as meat, dairy, eggs replacements...it is all OUT THERE, ready to be shared:
Did you know that the chicken industry on the Delmarva Peninsula produces a million tons of manure every year... It's a primary source of dangerous bacteria and nutrients that steal oxygen from waterways, and is the main reason why so little progress has been made in restoring the Chesapeake Bay. We get to decide whether or not to support the health and recovery of our wonderful bay, primarily by what we choose to put on our dinner plates.
- Thanks to Mark Rifkin –
- Thanks to Mark Rifkin –
Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.
DEBUNKING the MEAT diets
DEBUNKING our FOOD MYTHS
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2012/01/human-omnivorism-debunked.html
“HUMANE” MEAT myth debunked
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/12/humane-meat-myth-debunked.html
FOOD, the most dangerous weapon of mass control
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.ca/2012/08/food-most-dangerous-weapon-of-mass.htmlhttp://agnvegglobal.blogspot.ca/2012/08/world-saving-most-powerful-truths.html
WORLD HUNGER
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/12/world-hunger.html
WORLD PEACE
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/12/world-peace.html
Religion, Animals and VEGetarianism
SOULutions and FOODS that can HEAL our planet:
MEAT, DAIRY and EGGS of the FUTURE are HERE
NEW food industries are born while OLD ones go extinct
Planetary healing from the ground up
Animal farmers awakening and healing
Growing Winter Organic Produce
ORGANIC SOIL nutrients and products
Veganic agriculture/permaculture
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/12/veganic-agriculturepermaculture.html
How to make a smooth, natural transition to a vegan lifestyle
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-make-smooth-natural-transition.html
MEAT of the FUTURE is HERE
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.ca/2012/06/vegan-dairy.html
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2011/12/cruelty-free-holidays-traditional.html
HUMAN SPIRITUAL evolution through FOOD
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2012/01/human-spiritual-evolution-through-food.html
PLANT or ANIMAL based foods?
http://agnvegglobal.blogspot.com/2012/01/plant-or-animal-based-foods.html
Healing MOTHER EARTH
