CANCER
, European studies say American meat causes cancer at rates
higher than smoking, and some U.S. studies have confirmed this.
EU banned American meat for this reason.
---"A third of cancer deaths each year are related to food,"
says CNN article "Sausages v. cigarettes"
January 28, 2001.
HEART DISEASE
The American male has 50% chance of getting heart
disease.. many celebrities are on their 2nd or 3rd heart attack
already. A vegetarian man has practically ZERO risk of heart disease,
and a MUCH lower risk of stroke.
MAD COW DISEASE
, this is caused by the grotesque practices of profit
driven factory farms, which ground up diseased dead animals and feed
it back to the living animals, for efficiency. Why is this terrifying
the Europeans now? There is no cure, once infected, you lose your sight,
then your brain, then die. American meat is not exempt.
ANTIBIOTICS
These animals are pumped with antibiotics, without
remorse. Human meateaters consume these antibiotics, and bacterias in
their body form
super resistant strains with no cure.
The death toll from these super bacterias is making an appearance in
America.
HORMONES
are pumped in these animals to make them more profitable. Hormones
which are in
turn consumed by the meat eater, causing both bodily changes, and
partly responsible for the high cancer rate of meateaters.
PESTICIDES
used on the crops of animal feed (as well as ALL your non-organic food) are
mass consumed by these animals before slaughter. The pesticides build up in
their animal fat, and then build up in the meateaters human fat, causing
more cancer in your body
E. COLI
outbreaks are
common the U.S., and grocery store meat recalls are often seen
in the news.
This isn't the most pleasant disease to get, along with the pain might
come kidney failure.
Each year in the U.S., there are 10,000 to 20,000 new cases of infection.
National Public Radio did a special on the dangers of meat in the U.S.
and the abuses of the meat industry. You can listen on the web:
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/aug/foodsafety/010815.antibiotics.html
The U.S. Meat Industry requires 155,000,000 barrels of oil a year, just
to raise cattle for beef.
according to Harper's June 2002 Index http://www.harpers.org
READING MATERIAL:
Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs :
An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry
Milk : The Deadly Poison
Mad Cowboy : Plain Truth from the
Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
Vegan, the New Ethics of Eating
Slaughterhouse : The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane
Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Dead Meat
more on meat health
Is this shocking enough, or do you want to know about the massive
environmental destruction factory farms are doing, continuously??
Did you know meat farms can feed one hundred times as many people with the
natural resources they are consuming in daily operation?
How would you like to see the
barbaric way these animals
are raised and slaughtered in a factory-style efficiency?
and more...
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