Who are we, anyway? (WAS: Vores; Eskimo Longevity and Meat Consumption [Bri

[Guest guest]

Elchanan,

 

Honestly, I had to hold myself back. Everyday I watch friends and

families consume meat and milk. I can't really blame them, for they

do not know, and their power of denial is strong.

 

I may be wrong about this, but because of " mad cow disease " I was

under the impression that the practice of feeding cows meat has

largely stopped. Do you know the status of this?

 

Janet

 

rawfood , " Elchanan " <Elchanan wrote:

 

Well put, Janet! Hence, my earlier comments about America as

planetary asylum. You omitted that we have transformed cows, which

are absolutely designed as herbivorous creatures (technically another

" vore " , but I won't go there for now), and turned them not only into

meat-eaters, but cannibals.

We feed them cow parts, all ground up. And we feed them grain, which

they have almost no capacity to digest, then we feed them massive

quantities of sodium bicarbonate to sooth the resulting and very

painful indigestion they experience.

 

What kind of creatures ARE we? !

 

All this brings to my mind the way in which we are typically taught

about our history. We learn about the great conquerors, the great

dominions.

 

Who are we ... who shall we CHOOSE to become, as we go forward?

 

Best, Elchanan _____ rawfood

[rawfood ] On Behalf Of Janet FitzGerald Sent:

Saturday, September 15, 2007 2:06 PM rawfood

[Raw Food] Re: Vores (WAS: Eskimo Longevity and Meat

Consumption [brief])

 

 

Given this is a raw food site, we find a lot of " meat is murder "

fanatics here.

 

Look at what our society does to one of the most docile creatures on

this earth. Industrial farms feed cows food not meant for their

consumption, including grain and blood, we pump them full of

antibiotics, cram them with other cows in lots, separate them from

their calves, give them growth hormones that make them produce 40,000

gallons of milk (instead of the natural duration of the calf's needs),

cut off dairy cow's tails so humans don't get swatted while stealing

the milk, spray their skin with pesticides to make up for the lost

tail, then cram the cows into a truck and transport them to a

slaughterhouse where they are funneled into a single line as a man

stands with a gun ready to shoot each cow in the head, one at a time,

after which the cow is raised onto meat hooks and moved through the

line of atrocious acts, sometimes AND often, still conscious.

 

Who is the fanatic here?

[Guest guest]

>

>

> Given this is a raw food site, we find a lot of " meat is murder "

> fanatics here.

>

> Look at what our society does to one of the most docile creatures

on

> this earth. Industrial farms feed cows food not meant for their

> consumption, including grain and blood, we pump them full of

> antibiotics, cram them with other cows in lots, separate them from

> their calves, give them growth hormones that make them produce

40,000

> gallons of milk (instead of the natural duration of the calf's

needs),

> cut off dairy cow's tails so humans don't get swatted while

stealing

> the milk, spray their skin with pesticides to make up for the lost

> tail, then cram the cows into a truck and transport them to a

> slaughterhouse where they are funneled into a single line as a man

> stands with a gun ready to shoot each cow in the head, one at a

time,

> after which the cow is raised onto meat hooks and moved through the

> line of atrocious acts, sometimes AND often, still conscious.

>

> Who is the fanatic here?

>

 

SO WELL PUT.

I love how nobody can prove meat is not murder. Because... well.. it

IS.