THINK LIFE,
THINK VEGETARIAN!
“Most of the terrible diseases that afflict mankind are very intricately connected to a society’s eating habits and almost unheard of in vegetarians. Let the fish, birds and animals live. In doing so will only be increasing our own chances of survival too”
Fill a scooter’s fuel tank with rocket propellant and a rocket’s fuel tank with diesel. What happens? The scooter turns into a fireball and rocket stalls without lifting an inch off the ground.
Garbage in, garbage out. Dig into an egg. What will you end up with? Food poisoning due to salmonella – a type of bacteria. This type of food poisoning often proves fatal in young children and the elderly, says The Journal Of The American Medical Association, 1988. Dine on fish and mussels. What might you ingest? Cancer-causing carcinogens from industries whose pollutants have pervaded many of the rivers and oceans of the world.
Consume a chicken. What might you acquire? A deadly form influenza called ‘Bird’s Flu’ which annihilated approximately 20 million people in Spain in 1918, 33,387 people in New York City in 1919 and thereafter almost whole towns and villages in other parts of the world. A fresh outbreak in 1998 that was quickly contained claimed 6 lives in Hong Kong.
Devour cattle, sheep or goat. What do you invite? Cancer of the digestive tract at best or at worst a variant of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease that ravages your brain. (Not to be confused with the recent outbreak of Food and Mouth Disease in cattle abroad which is relatively harmless to humans). In humans, the variant of BSE is called dCreutzfeldt-Jacob Disease or vCJD and is always fatal. It has claimed at least 94 lives in Britain and Europe already, and will possibly claim millions more in Britain , which has been and feeding the processed remains of infected animals to its herbs. It has also exported millions of tons of the stuff to 80 countries including Europe, Russia and much of South-East Asia between 1988 and 1996. The world is standing on the brink of a potential pandemic, a ticking time bomb, says French physician Dr.Frederic Saldmann, “We’ve been checkmated”.
One of the first victims of vCJD was Alison Williams, a bright, friendly and outgoing 20-year-old woman from Wales. Once she was infected, Alison’s personality altered and she withdrew from people, including her family. Then, recalls her father, “A month before she died, she went blind and became speechless. She spent her last five days in a coma.”
There years ago in France, 17-year-old Arnaud Eboli, a martial arts enthusiast, also contracted vCJD. His mother recalls how he became increasingly agitated and would cry and scream at her saying, “I am going crazy”. Later, he lost consciousness. Today his emaciated body, still breathing, lies motionless in his home.
However, unaware that the infected feed given to their cattle was causing BSE, people in Britain continued their traditional meat-eating lifestyle. Lamented The Guardian in its British editorial: “Beef is one of the great unifying symbols of our culture. The roast beef of Old England is a fetish, a household god, which has suddenly been revealed as a Trojan horse sent for our destruction.”
But we should realize that these terrible diseases are intricately connected to a society’s eating habits and are almost unheard of in vegetarians. Even the AIDS virus, which has already annihilated millions of lives, and will certainly eliminate millions more, was transmitted from apes to humans only because people used their blood extracts aphrodisiacs. The sensible solution to these diseases, therefore, is to overcome the persistent thirst for the taste of flesh and to return to our natural vegetarian diet.
Ignore the blatantly false statements in meat commercials, which say that meat and poultry products are god for you. And don’t worry about claims that meat and contain essential proteins and Vitamin D. So do nuts and milk.
Think wise. Think vegetarian. Think life
