By Andreas Moritz
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By Andreas Moritz
According to Harvard nutritionist Jean Mayer, we would have enough food for the entire developing world if we ate half as much meat. Reducing meat production by merely 10 percent could release enough grain and other natural foods to feed 60 million people! Albert Einstein had this to say about vegetarianism: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chance for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” He predicted that producing and eating so much meat would literally kill us and our environment. Leo Tolstoy stated, “Vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.”
The world’s output of meat increased fivefold in the second half of the 20th century. Given the current trend, by 2050, the increases in meat production will have reached a point where we could feed 4 billion extra people with the plant food that is now being used to raise cattle. Only 10 percent of the protein and calories we feed to our livestock are recovered in the meat we eat. In the case of the United States, for the 20 million tons of humanly edible and nutritious protein that is fed to livestock yearly (apart from the waste products and drugs), only about 2 million tons of meat protein are obtained; and out of that amount, less than 27 percent can be utilized by the human body. If you are concerned about the world’s survival, consider the following statistics:
One acre of grain produces 5 times more protein than an acre of pasture set aside for meat production. An acre of beans or peas produces 10 times more protein and an acre of spinach 28 times more protein. Almost all land can be used for growing some crop or another.
One portion of meat contains only 20 grams of protein, whereas a typical 100-gram portion of beans yields 35 grams of protein. The meat, however, costs about 20 times more than the beans do. Being a vegetarian saves not only lives, but also money.
The food energy supplied by meat production uses 10 times more fossil fuel than the food energy supplied by plant production. Given the current shortage of fossil fuels on the planet, meat production may soon become unaffordable.
The world’s livestock now produces at least 10 percent of all the greenhouse gases. In other words, emissions from livestock have become a significant source of atmospheric methane. As of 1990, domestic animals currently account for about 15 percent of the annual anthropogenic methane emissions, and the number has been steadily increasing ever since.
85 percent of the topsoil lost in the USA each year is directly associated with the raising of livestock. In this way, 4 million acres of cropland is destroyed every year. In the same way, precious rain forests have had to give way to satisfy the demand for more meat in the world.
To grow one pound of wheat requires only 60 pounds of water, whereas the production of one pound of meat requires a staggering 50,000 pounds of water. To produce one pound of chicken, 1,800 pounds of water are needed. Large chicken slaughtering plants, in fact, expend up to 100 million gallons of water daily, enough to supply a city of 25,000 people!
According to research published in Chemical & Engineering News, Vol. 85, No. 15, April 9, 2007: 34-35, roxarsone, an arsenic-based additive used in most chicken feed, could pose health risks to humans. Roxasone is used to promote growth, kill parasites and improve the color of chicken meat. Under certain conditions, which can occur within live chickens or on farm land, this compound converts into more toxic forms of inorganic arsenic. This form of arsenic has been linked to bladder, lung, skin, kidney and colon cancers, and low-level exposure can lead to partial paralysis and diabetes. Of course, arsenic is also a deadly poison. Over 70 percent of the 9 billion broiler chickens produced annually in the United States are fed roxarsone.
The meat production process is so wasteful and costly that, in order to survive, the meat industry needs hundreds of millions of dollars in tax subsidies every year. You never pay only for the meat you eat; the subsidies come out of your pocket. In 1977, the governments of Western Europe spent almost half a billion dollars purchasing farmers’ overproduction of meat and additional millions to store it. This trend has not been different in the United States and is worsening each year. All this is precious money lost, thereby heavily burdening every national economy. In this sense, meat consumption is directly impoverishing the wealthy nations.
Any wars fought in the future will revolve about energy, food and water, all three of which are heavily wasted through meat production. The worldwide increase of meat consumption is driving the world closer and closer to the brink of international conflict.
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By Andreas Moritz
It is unfortunate that mainstream medical and nutritional science base their theories not so much on the basic processes that occurs in the body, but rather on the contents of food. This can be very misleading, to say the least. We are being told, for example, that when we lack calcium we should drink milk because it contains a lot of calcium. We are not being told, however, that in order to digest and metabolize milk calcium, we must first dispose of the phosphorus contained in milk. To process and remove the phosphorus, though, we require calcium. Since there is more phosphorus in milk than there is calcium, the bones, teeth and muscles have to supply the extra calcium. This fact alone makes milk a major calcium-depleting food. Loss of calcium can cause osteoporosis and such diseases as Crohn’s and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, diabetes, heart disease, respiratory ailments and cancer.
The above principle can be applied to almost everything else we believe is so good for us. Giving vitamins to people with vitamin deficiencies can make their bodies even more deficient. Those lacking in Omega-3 fats don’t necessarily gain them by eating these fats in the form of fish oils, fish or linseeds. People whose digestive functions have been impaired do not suddenly make better use of certain foods or nutrients simply because they begin to eat more of them.
Just because fish has good things in it does not mean that the body can actually absorb and make use of them. (One must, of course, ignore the mercury or other metals they absorb from the sea, lakes and rivers, or the antibiotics, coloring agents and other food additives that farmed fish are fed.) Fish has to be rich in nutrients otherwise we wouldn’t have whales, dolphins and bears, or any life at all on this planet. This doesn’t mean, though, that everything nutritious that exists in nature should also appear on our dinner plate.
Once a fish or an animal has been killed, the oxygen supply to the cells is cut off. This immediately starts the process of cell-destruction through intracellular enzymes. Unless you eat the fish or chicken right away after it dies, and yes, raw, most of what you will get is degenerated and putrefied protein. Unless treated with carcinogenic coloring agents, a piece of meat will start to look greenish/gray in a matter of hours. To make matters worse, the baking, roasting or frying of meat, fish, eggs and poultry applies enough heat to cause any proteins that may still be intact to coagulate. Think of a raw egg that has been boiled or fried. The liquid egg quickly becomes hard and stiff. The protein molecules lose their three-dimensional structure and are destroyed as they are exposed to the heat.
The body cannot utilize coagulated protein for cell-building. Rather, it is treated as a pathogen or disease-causing agent by the body. As a result, these now toxic foods may, at best, stimulate the immune system in the small intestine and initially induce a strong eliminative response in the large intestine. The immune response makes you feel energized, and you may think it is because of eating the animal foods, but this is far from the truth. Deceiving as it may be, with each immune response, the body actually becomes weaker; more liver bile ducts get clogged with stones and the cardiovascular system becomes increasingly congested as more and more proteins are deposited in the blood vessel walls. These are the most common causes of chronic illness.
Eating meat also stimulates the body’s growth hormones and male hormones, which can lead to the overgrowth of tissues. Many young men today are extra large, very tall, and have bulging muscles, something you rarely see in most regions of Asia, South America and Africa, where meat is scarce and plant foods plentiful. Having an oversized, bulky body is a great disadvantage, for it can predispose one to diabetes, heart disease and other physical as well as mental problems later in life. Besides, a lot of energy is lost in maintaining large muscles, which can reduce one’s lifespan considerably.
As is the case with the strongest animals in the world, e.g. the elephant, water buffalo, giraffe, horse, cow, gorilla and orangutan, humans don’t need to eat protein in order to produce and make it available to the cells in the body. A healthy newborn baby triples its size and the number of protein-packed cells within its first 16 months, without ever eating any protein foods at all. You might object here by saying: “But isn’t mother’s milk filled with protein?” Not by a long shot! Human breast milk contains only a trace of protein, namely 1.1 – 1.6 grams per 100 grams of milk. Most of the healthy children in the world don’t receive any food other than mother’s milk during their first year. With breast milk containing, let’s say, 1.4 percent protein, this is by far not enough to account for a baby’s 15 pound weight increase within the first year.
By design, humans and most other non-carnivorous animals don’t depend on eating protein foods to make or maintain their muscles, cells and organs. Actually, all of us derive the most essential nutrients we need from the air we breathe, right from the first breath we take. Everyone knows that in order to live we need oxygen molecules from the air, but very few of us know that we also need and make use of the nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen molecules with which the air is saturated. These four molecules are the ingredients that make up every amino acid in the body and anywhere else on the planet. Our DNA and the liver are perfectly able to synthesize these molecules into amino acids and complete proteins. The brain produces billions of neuropeptides (peptides consist of amino acids) each day. The trillions of enzymes the body makes are also made of proteins. Similarly, most hormones in the body are made of pure protein.
A protein deficiency occurs only in people whose liver, respiratory and immune functions are seriously impaired, or who eat too much protein. This is because excess proteins that accumulate in the basal membranes of the blood capillaries actually inhibit protein supplies from reaching the cells. Personally, I have not eaten any concentrated protein foods, e.g. fish, meat, chicken, cheese, milk or eggs, during my 35 years of adulthood, and my body has hardly aged during all those years (being 54 years old at the time of writing this). On the other hand, I have seen thousands of people who have aged prematurely or suffered debilitating illnesses because of eating too much protein. At no other time in human history has humankind consumed so much meat and other concentrated protein foods as today.
The Pitta body type is especially susceptible to becoming poisoned by protein foods, such as meat, fish and cheese. Their ability to digest these foods is very limited. Naturally, the body doesn’t want to digest something it doesn’t need and cannot make use of. Using this example, I recommend you to be extremely cautious about taking the advice of any person or institution that persists in handing out general food guidelines without regard to a person’s individual body type and physical condition, if applicable.
It is also worth noting that carnivorous animals have an unlimited capacity to handle saturated fats and cholesterol. Dogs, for example, who received one half pound of butterfat with their daily ration of meat for two years, showed no signs of damage to their arteries or change of their serum cholesterol. By contrast, the purely vegetation-eating rabbits quickly developed arteriosclerosis when fed meat or as little as 2 grams of cholesterol daily. Humans, too, have a very limited capacity to digest and process meat proteins and meat fats. If you placed a hungry child into a cage with a chunk of meat on one side and an apple on the other, which of the two do you believe the infant would choose to eat? That’s correct, it would choose the apple! Place a lion cub in the same cage, and you will see the cub heading straight toward the meat. If we only listened to our basic instincts, and not to the food industry’s advertising slogans, we would discover that meat was never meant for humans.
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How much protein do we really need?
Hi this is a question from Tim, and he is asking if I could explain in little more detail how much protein the body can utilize a day. I have read many different numbers from thirty to forty perimia, (he did not specify what he meant), one gram per pound of body weight. I am very curious on your thoughts and how much protein an average person should eat per day?
I personally do not eat protein meals per se, I do not look for proteins, I have not eaten protein meals like animal proteins, eggs, fish, chicken, so on for forty years now. Before then, I used to be severely protein deficient even though I was eating every single day, twice a day, or three times a day, dairy products, fish, meat, chicken and so on. So, it depends on how well you digest your food that determines how well, how much protein you might need. So it is really the question should not be how much protein can I get into my body, but how much protein do I digest and absorb?
Some proteins are eaten, more easily digested, than others, so for example, there is just as much protein in broccoli then there is in red meat, yet, if you eat a steak you can only digest up to twenty percent of it, if you eat it when the digestion is the strongest, which is midday, so you have a leftover of eighty percent undigested meat which tends to decompose and produce very powerful poisons and toxins, for this reason, eating meat on a regular basis, according to the National Institute Of Cancer, a study that was done on five hundred fifty thousand Americans, would increase your risk of dying by twenty percent from any kind of illness including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and many others. So the question again is, if your digestive system is equipped with an ability to digest protein then, yes, you can eat more proteins but if you are not, then not being able to digest can be devastating for the body.
I find through my own experiences once I cleaned out my liver I was able to eat and digest proteins again but I found that I did not need to eat any proteins that are derived from animal sources, highly concentrated sources. So I do eat, because I like nuts and seeds, so I have a small amount maybe eight or ten almonds a day, that would account for my protein intake. Then I like Chia seeds which also have some proteins in them, besides that I eat lots of vegetables, salads, lettuce, cucumber, avocado, I eat some grain foods and some legumes at times, and fruit, so, these are the natural foods that are perfectly sufficient to keep my body the way it has always been. I’ve never changed my weight. I do not have any health problems at fifty-seven. My body behaves as if it is like thirty-five, so you do not need to eat protein in order to make protein, I have discovered that a long time ago, that there is a myth that you totally depend on eating protein in order to make protein.
I would suggest, look at animals, the strongest animals on the planet – elephants, gorillas, wild horses – that do not go out and eat a lot of heavy protein meals, they just eat vegetation, so there is something to be said about us, we are obviously not animals, but there is, I am the living proof, I only have to convince myself, I do not have to really convince you or anyone else, I discovered over the years having worked with hundreds and thousands of people around the world that you do not depend on eating animal proteins in order to fulfill your needs for proteins, that you can live perfectly well without those as long as you have an adequate balanced diet and you have a good secretion of bile from your liver, which then allows you to digest the foods that you eat, so that you don’t develop deficiencies like it happened to me where I suffered severe protein deficiency, even though I was eating a lot of protein, and when I cleaned out my liver, I didn’t have a protein deficiency any more, even though I had stopped eating protein meals or protein foods altogether.
So I hope this answers your question on this topic.
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