The best way you can contribute to the betterment of planet upon which we live is to eat a lot less meat. Vegetarianism could be your key to saving the world.
Humans create great havoc by virtue of our aggression. You are what you eat and when you eat animals subsequent to their execution you absorb their fear. Fear makes us fight. Vegetarians are more inclined to be peaceful.
Vegetables are also healthier for humans. The industrialised way we make our meat creates direct health consequences by forming loads of disease creating pathogens such as salmonella and E coli. It also makes said pathogens more resistant to antibiotics so diminishing these medicines healing effects.
Eating animals also contributes to global warming. Humans eat about 230 million tonnes of animals each year which is twice as much as we did 30 years ago. The UN has calculated the combined climate change emissions of animals bred for their meat at about 18% of the global total. That’s more than all the cars, planes and other forms of transport combined!
Eating flesh is expensive in many ways. Meaty meals cost more money. It’s part and parcel of a consumptive community that ensures you continue on that endlessly alienating treadmill you so abhor.
At a larger level eating animals consumes much more than merely your money and the time it takes to earn it.
Eating animals adds extremely to deforestation. It’s estimated an area the size of Tasmania is cleared to make farmland every year. The majority of this clearing is done to create space and feed crops for meat production.
The animals we mostly eat require a lot of land to live and die on. Meat manufacture is murderously inefficient requiring 20 times more land to feed a person than it would were we only to eat plants.
Carnivorous conduct also uses precious and essential water resources poorly. A pound of potatoes uses about 60 liters of water to grow. A pound of pork uses over 100 times more. Already numerous wealthy but water poor countries use poorer countries to make their meat in order to conserve their own water resources.
Of all the things that you could do to save your world the most powerful action is to eschew the meat you erstwhile chew.
Martin Hunter Jones is an honorary member of the Australian Counselling Association.
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good couple of posts gailene
I'm so glad I converted to eating vegetarian food this year <3 a big improvement for the betterment of myself and the planet :). Right now I feel it's normal and the thought of eating meat today is making me feel wrong and almost disgusted. When there is not but a choice away to stop eating meat and relying on everything else to sustain your nutritional needs, the choice becomes really obvious. The hardest part have been to defending myself when others that still eat meat directly confront me, I do not seek to convert anyone or even tell them vegetarianism is better, they simply feel I'm doing something strange and feel uneasy that they still eat meat as I used to do before. They cannot understand me and I have to defend myself from a hailstorm of judgements, but I know that those are coming from a point where they don't understand and not only to critize me, maybe they too will convert after I planted a seed in them? That is my hope, to be a wayshower by standing strong in my choice to not eat meat. Just last year I ate meat like never before, thinking it would be hard finding protein sources in other ways, now that I've found out many ways to get protein other then meat the choice to become vegatarian is more easy. I go to the gym still and I often hear "You cannot build any muscle if you don't eat any meat", even if this was true, I wouldn't still go over to eating meat again. But I do not think you need to eat 2+grams of protein / kg of your own body wheight to sustain/build muscle like so many proclaim. Just look at our past where daily protein intakes in these large masses where almost impossible, still they managed to have healthy and muscles that fit their needs. Look at all the grass-eating animals with really large muscles, they don't need anyone telling them they cannot build muscle if they don't eat meat :D
I think I made my point :) glad you started this topic Hunter, last year I think I wouldn't have seen the importance of it. I see so many great changes I've made this year, wether it be physical or spiritual. Another thing I've done is to eliminate the flouride intake - which never is a bad thing right? ;) Oh- my teeth will start to decay! :O right..
Ogdoo: Look at a bull. They're got a lot of muscle. They don't eat meat.
people say this person is strong as an ox, yet forgetting that this animal is mono diet vegetarian eating mostly grass.
if I may congratulate you Ogdoo on your transformation to vegetarian diet. I dont worry when people say anything about what I eat nor their immature judgments. I aproach those situations with a smile and sometimes with sarcastic grin. I've doing this for 20 yrs and got enough laughs ; so what ?
To a strong person, words dont hurt...................................
That's true :) You know it works out for you, you have no need to let anyone drag you down. But it's always the fear of not getting accepted in groups. Vegetarians tend to be repelled very often in normal communities, but I hope that more and more will convert in the future and this will be easier when they have someone to take inspiration from - us :)
Why do you want to be " peaceful"? You want to just sit on your ass and let the new world order run over you? If thats your thing,then so be it.Id rather fight back then be at a neutral state and do nothing. Doing nothing serves nothing.
THRACIAN: I tried that approach, and will continue to do so (but in my own twisted sarcastic way). But be forewarned. You will get all the channelers on this website accusing you of "not being in the light" and "being negative" and "not being on the right site for those topics." Educating, discussing, and debating issues of this reality that we live in is just as essential and is just as qualifying as "bringing the light" to others. I have also done my share of astral projection, seen human-like entities with long hair, glowing in electric blue color, and flow up to me and wonder what the f^@k I was doing in their reality, as well as seen visions of a higher kind with incredible colors (and not being on any drugs!)
But I agree with you. We need to get off of the meditation cushions at times, go down to City Hall, and tell our government what a bunch of chumps they are, and make scenes that the presstitutes will be required to write about.. "Living in the light" is great, but so is sitting on your butt, focusing on crystals or symbols, getting stoned (via meditation or other), and listening to Ravi Shankar or Psychic TV, all at the same time. The problem is that you are creating nothing realistic or beneficial for the real world, except claiming that you are "living in the light."
I don't believe most channelers or channels. Most of the channeling is from the dark,telling us what we want to hear,telling us that everything is ok,telling us Obama is good and on the side with the :light""(LOL THE BEST ONE)the cabal leaders are getting arrested,the light is winning,disclosure is soon yada yada yada nothing but PURE BULLSHIT.So many people here are duped and they are not even aware of it,but its okay because I lived that lifestyle for a few months in the beginning of my awakening.
What is living in such a way going to do?.Just meditating and not eating meat,letting the elite run all over you,your family,your children and the future generation?We are being killed and poisoned slowly. Im not going to sit on my ass that's for sure. If anyone was trying to harm my girlfriend I sure wouldn't just stand there,take a deep breath and go "omm" it will all be okay,this is according to the divine plan,the attacker is in no wrong.
I still meditate,do yoga,eat healthy organic non processed food, say prayers and affirmations daily.I just dont read any channeling anymore. Im living with a purpose to fulfill and that is to reach out to others with my talents and gifts. The elite is winning,murdering innocent people and getting away with it.We are are all slaves and it will not change unless people try to commit to change and make a difference. Doing nothing,not eating meat and just meditating is doing nothing but good for the elite.People need to get rid of this mentality.
I like that
meditate into wisdom and peace then act to support change
blessed be the "ëvil doers" for leading us to action
beloved
Oh I can think of alot of other ways lol
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