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Date Posted: 14:55:07 08/29/00 Tue
Author: Alice
Author Host/IP: adsl-63-193-252-110.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net / 63.193.252.110
Subject: ODD -- that should say
In reply to: Alice 's message, "Taken from" on 14:53:50 08/29/00 Tue

> According to Dr. T. Colin Campbell, one of the key
> researchers involved with The China Study (the largest
> study of diet and health ever conducted), "In the next
> 10 to 15 years, one of the things you're bound to hear
> is that animal protein ... is one of the most toxic
> nutrients of all that can be considered." Risk for
> disease goes up dramatically when even a little animal
> protein is added to the diet.
>
> Trees are being cut down at an alarming rate in the
> US, as well as around the world, for meat production.
> If tomorrow people in the US made a radical change
> away from their meat-centered diets, an area of land
> the size of all of Texas and most of Oklahoma could be
> returned to forest.
>
> So-called "redskins" are those chickens which--on the
> conveyer belts to their deaths--missed not only the
> brine-filled electrified stunning trough, but the
> knife that was to cut their throats. Their deaths
> occurred in the scald tank where feathers are loosened
> before plucking. Industry throws aside piles of them
> every day.
>
> Calorie for calorie, spinach has 14 times the iron of
> sirloin steak. Iron requires vitamin C for absorption.
> Animal foods contain no vitamin C.
>
> The National Cancer Research Institute found that
> women who eat meat on a daily basis are almost 4 times
> more likely to get breast cancer than those women who
> eat little or no meat.
>
> Fish are living magnets for toxic chemicals. According
> to Consumer Reports (Feb., '92), a notable incidence
> of unacceptable levels of PCBs and mercury were found
> in certain species of fish that were tested.
> Ingesting PCBs is considered a chief cause of reduced
> sperm count among American men--70% of what it was 30
> years ago.
>
> Nearly half the fish tested in a 6-month investigation
> by Consumers Union were found to be contaminated by
> bacteria from human or animal feces, suspected to be
> the result of poor sanitation practices at one or more
> points along the fish handling process.
>
> In egg factories all over the country, male chicks are
> weeded out and disposed of by "chick-pullers." Over
> half a million chicks a day are stuffed en masse into
> plastic bags where they are crushed and suffocated. Or
> they may be ground up while still alive to be fed to
> livestock or used as fertilizer.
>
> Food originating from animal sources, including milk,
> unlike most foods derived from plants, makes the blood
> acidic. When this happens, the body withdraws calcium
> from the bones to make the blood more alkaline. This
> process balances the pH of the blood, but consequently
> becomes one of the factors which leads to osteoporosis.
>
> A method used to crank up pork production is to take
> piglets away from their mothers soon after birth. The
> forced weaning allows the sow to end her lactating
> period so she can become pregnant again. To prevent
> piglet death due to the emotional loss, a mechanical
> teat may serve as a substitute. Tending to the
> mother's emotional loss has no economic value and so
> is given no consideration.
>
> The Allied naval blockade during World War I of
> German-occupied territories in 1917 forced Denmark
> most dramatically into nationwide vegetarianism. The
> death rate there from disease during the period
> dropped by 34%.
>
> In a March, 1984 cover story, Time magazine reported
> findings regarding cholesterol and heart disease. It
> noted that "in regions where ... meat is scarce,
> cardiovascular disease is unknown."

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