(June 3, 2014 at 10:17 am)Riketto Wrote: We are physical-mental-spiritual and even our body is made up with
so many different parts and organs.
if you keep on talking about your liver all the time and forget all other
parts and organs you would not make justice to all the rest but
most of all you wouldn't solve any problem as the solution lie only
by taking in consideration the whole.
There's nothing wrong with taking a spiritual path but that's no reason to become divorced from reality.
1: Your intuitional science is conflicting with archaeological evidence about our ancestors eating meat 2.8 million years ago. Humans in some parts of the world have lived very successfully on a very heavy meat diet due to the scarcity of edible vegetation. My husband's Vitamin B12 is lower than it should be and it's happened since he became a vegetarian. Our doctor told him to eat chicken or fish two or three times a week but he's chosen to use supplements instead. This suggests something about the diet which humans evolved to eat. And no, we didn't evolve to eat factory farmed animals or even meat free junk food.
2: By all means fast every so often if it makes you feel good but don't expect this to be a magic wand for all the illnesses which put people in hospital. It isn't going to do anything for people who live on junk food. The only thing that works is eating a healthy, balanced diet so the body can get on with doing the job that it evolved to do.
(June 3, 2014 at 10:17 am)Riketto Wrote: What have a dramatic impact is the meat policy which most of the
people believe in but if you believe in the contrary then is about
time to consider seriously about you priorities in life.
So you want everyone to become vegetarians but don't give a damn about dirty palm oil which is destroying rain forests and driving some species of animals to extinction? Many vegans and vegetarians are concerned about this because palm oil is used in a lot of different products besides food.
Palm Oil, Orangutan Extinction, and Vegan Butter Supporting Neither
Quote:Ask any vegan or vegetarian, and they’ll tell you: momentary pleasure makes a poor moral compass. Killing in the absence of need, for no better reason than transitory taste sensations, seems to many of us like an incredibly bad idea. People choose to follow a plant-based diet for numerous reasons, but one of the most commonly cited is compassion towards fellow creatures.
If we are going to commit to conscious eating, and embrace a diet that rejects killing for no better reason than random human whim, we need to pedal that bike all the way into the garage and reconsider our willingness to support the palm oil industry. Palm oil production causes tremendous death and destruction, and deserves no place at a compassionate table.
Facts About palm oil and rainforests
Quote:Worldwide demand for palm oil has increased sharply over the last few years. With 54 million tons in 2011, it is the most widely produced vegetable oil worldwide. It has the highest yield of any oil crop and is the cheapest vegetable oil to produce and refine.
Its properties make it highly versatile in the food and chemical industries. It has a high melting point, making it smooth and easy to spread. Palm oil is contained in thousands of supermarket products.
More than 90 percent of the palm oil produced is used to manufacture food products, cosmetics, detergents and candles.
How does palm oil destroy the rainforests?
Since oil palms need a rainforest climate – consistently high humidity and temperatures – and a lot of land, plantations are often established at the expense of rainforests. About 90 percent (2011) of the world’s palm oil is currently being produced in Malaysia and Indonesia. Indonesia’s oil palm plantations alone already cover nine million hectares, an area the size of the state of Maine. 26 million hectares are projected for 2025.
According to a report published in 2007 by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), palm oil plantations are currently the leading cause of rainforest destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia. Today, rainforest area the equivalent of 300 soccer fields is being destroyed every hour.
This gives rise to numerous problems for the climate, environment, and people living in the forest:
- CO2 emissions – In preparing rainforest land for a palm oil plantation, the most valuable trees are cut down and removed first. What remains is cleared by burning. If the forest was on peatland – as is the case in much of Indonesia – the land is drained. Peatlands store vast quantities of carbon, and the conversion of a single hectare of Indonesian peatland rainforest releases up to 6,000 tons of CO2. Tropical deforestation is currently responsible for about 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, making it a significant contributor to climate change (see 4. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC).
- Loss of biodiversity – Indonesia's rainforests and peatlands are among the world's most species-rich environments and home to numerous endangered plants and animals, such as orangutans, Sumatran tigers and Bornean rhinos. The destruction of natural habitats deprives the animals of the basis for their existence, causing an irreversible loss of biological diversity. Orangutans are particularly vulnerable because they are dependent on large contiguous forest areas. In search of food, they often get lost in the plantations, where they are regarded as pests. According to the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP), at least 1,500 orangutans were clubbed to death by palm oil plantation workers in 2006 alone. According to the UN, there is a risk that no wild orangutans will remain outside of protected areas by 2020.
There's been a lot of deforestation involved in coconut and banana plantations, too. So, what are you doing towards sustainable plant food production in readiness for the day when people are forced to eat less meat according to various predictions? After all, does the world need another food policy which is just as destructive as the current meat policy?



