Animal protein – toxic and hazardous to human health

Over the past couple of days I have seen articles in the papers about the health dangers of eating too much sugar and animal protein. Hurrah I say! Finally, people are waking up to the dangers that lurk in eating a dead carcass.  

 

The Guardian ran an article to highlight the scientific proof that animal protein is toxic and if you eat a lot of it, it can have a potentially harmful effect on your health.  People under 65 who eat a lot of meat, eggs and dairy are four times as likely to die from cancer or diabetes, the study suggests. The findings emerged from a study of 6,381 people aged 50 and over who took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which tracks a representative group of adults and children in the US.

I am not surprised at these findings as they pretty much confirm what I believe, that consuming dead animals is hazardous to human health. I will outline below the reasons why I believe this.

We have been a meat obsessed nation for far too long. We tend to think that if we don’t eat meat then we can’t get full and we won’t get enough protein or iron in our diets. Is that the truth or is that something we have been programmed to believe over generations?  The belief in eating meat for ‘health reasons’ such as getting enough protein and iron only serves to keep us eating it. People need to question these claims and not simply accept what they are told. Is this really true or just a long-standing belief?  

 

I am a vegan now and I can assure you that you can get enough protein and iron from only eating plant based food. Quinoa, tofu, spinach, potatoes, brown rice, pulses like lentils and beans (legumes) are all full to bursting with  protein and iron. You feel full up after eating them but you also don’t feel bloated or sluggish, you have more energy and look a lot healthier. Not to mention losing weight. I have lost half a stone and I didn’t even need to but the unhealthy, fatty, wobbly parts just drop off when we eat pure, living, healthy whole foods. I certainly eat a varied diet and get more protein and vitamins through my healthy legumes based diet than I ever did when I was a meat-eater – and I certainly feel better for it.

 Which plate of food would you rather eat?

As a former meat-eater I know how tasty meat can be and how easy it is to eat meat as it is so readily available. But as my awareness has grown over the past year or so around how farm animals are often treated terribly and kept in squalid conditions. The meat and dairy industries are not ethical, they think nothing about pumping cows full of hormones to get them to grow bigger and produce more milk. Cattle and dairy farms are like Frankenstein factories. 

 I have to agree with Morrissey when he so poetically sang ‘Meat is murder’. When a living animal which has emotions, ok not the same range as we do, but still has emotions is being killed, it will feel the same terror and fear that you would if that was happening to you. The trauma it goes through will be contained within the animal’s body when it is dead. It is stored within the cellular memory of the animal or the protein (the cells). If the last memory the animal had before it was killed was fear then that is what is stored with the cells of its body and that is what you will be ingesting when you eat it. It will also have hormones and other nasty toxic chemicals in its body that it has been fed on. Still fancy that McDonalds for lunch?

This is why scientists are finding that animal protein is toxic, because the protein contains the last cellular memory of the animal and it is the toxic emotion of fear and terror as it was killed as well as the plethora of chemicals it was fed on. When you eat meat you are taking in dense, toxic energy into your body. This poisonous energy will block your own energy from flowing freely around the body and can cause dis-ease. It may take years to have an effect, first it is likely to affect your emotions,  causing you to have lows such as sadness and anxiety, then it may lead to mental health problems like depression but eventually it will impact your physical health. 

Remember those harrowing BSE cases we had a few years ago? This was because people were eating meat from cows which had a brain disease caused by feeding them on dead animals. If you didn’t know this already then you should do. The cows were not fed on grass, hay and natural grains like they should naturally but on the remains of dead animals. This is absolutely grotesque for those poor animals and then they are killed and given to people to eat. It is beyond disgusting and shows you the real danger of eating meat as you very rarely know how the animal has been reared, fed and killed. Most recently there was the horsemeat scandal of a year or so ago. The reason these terrible things happen is a warning to people of the dangers of eating meat. You wouldn’t get the same warnings about eating broccoli – even if it is GM. 

If you still want to eat meat then it is your choice but I urge you to read the recent article in The Guardian and think carefully about what I have said. Would you not rather put live, healthy, organic nutritious fruit, salads and vegetables into your body? Or would you rather eat a dead animal that has been killed in fear and fed toxins from a squalid pen. The choice of choosing life over death is yours.