The Dangers of not being vegetarian!

The Danger of not being Vegetarian

(Re Published)

For many years vegetarianism was regarded as an eccentric fad. It was a choice between eating exclusively good wholesome fruit and vegetables or a diet which also included meat, dairy and eggs. Whilst there have always been powerful arguments for the benefits of the vegetarian diet in the past the carniverous alternative had its supporting arguments. However the world is changing and the case against meat, fish, dairy, and eggs has become so powerful that we are exposing ourselves to serious danger if we ignore it.

Now this might sound as if it is over dramatic, but as detailed in the last blog, John Morgan, the president of Riverside meat packers in California urged caution before accepting the evidence which had been produced, and 6 years later he was dead from the exact cause that he had dismissed!

As we all know, we now live in a poisoned world. From the Antartic to the highest mountains, from the deepest oceans to the most remote deserts, no place on earth is free from toxic chemicals! If scientists want an unpolluted sample they have to drill down in ice which is hundreds of feet thick until they reach ice which was deposited before chemicals started to be used! Studies by WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund), World Health Organisation and others have been done on toxins in the body. Those tested come from all walks of life, from all geographical regions, and all types of lifestyle. In each and every individual that has been tested there has been a cocktail of hazardous chemicals.

And this is the key which makes anything other than vegetarianism so dangerous.

If this is the type of world we live in then I am sure that we can understand that all animals will also be contaminated with these toxins. Tests has shown this to be true. Why the above is so dangerous to us is because of the food chain. If we are vegetarian we obviously eat just fruit and vegetables. The plants grow and we eat them. Its a 1 step process. If we eat meat or dairy or eggs then we are eating food which was created through that animal eating something else. In some cases the animal ate fruit and vegetables and we ate the animal, which makes it a 2 step process, but in some cases the animal ate another animal which would make it a 3, or more, step process.

Theo Colburn and others in the book "Our Stolen Future" which was published 10 years ago in 1996 shows how the food chain multiplies the toxic effect.

It has been show that chemicals like PCB's, once absorbed saty in the system gradually accumulating. Theo used Lake Ontario as her laboratory and showed how biomagnification exponentially increases the accumulation and the effects of chemicals such as PCB's. They explained that the simplest forms of life there are phytoplankton and zooplankton.

Without being specific we will use the term unit as an undefined measure, purely to demonstrate this multiplication effect. If these plants and creatures absorb 1 unit per day from the water and soil, then once they are say 250 days old - approximately 8 months - they will be contaminated by approximately 250 units.

Mysids which feed on the plankton absorb 250 units therefore in a single meal. If they live for 180 days and they have one meal a day then they will contain 45,000 units of PCB's when they in turn are eaten by a small fish.

If the small fish likewise lives just a little over 18 days then by the time it is eaten by a larger fish it will contain 810,000 units. If the small fish survives just long enough to have 3 meals before being eaten by a bigger fish such as a trout, it will contain 2,430,000 unites.

If the trout is able to have just 10 meals before being eaten by us it will contain 24,300,000 units , which we take into our bodies at one single meal! This certainly gives vegetarianism a certain attraction!

If you think that you can avoid this scenario by eating sheep, cattle or chicken becaue with them the food chain is shorter, you may be interested to know that farmers have discovered that a cheap and effective way to fatten up these animals is to feed them fish meal! As you will appreciate the fish that makes up the meal is almost always from unknown fish, and so the position that they were in the off chain will also be unknown.

The really scary part to all this is that the information given here comes from figures which are at least 10 years old, which in turn was generated by activities which will have taken at least a few years to filter through to the creatures being studied. In other words it is drastically out of date and the current figures will be so much worse. And what will the figures be like in the future when today's activities have filtered through to have their effect?

I only tell you all this because fortunately for us on a personal basis there is an answer. According to Dr. Sherry Rogers there is only one answer. She states in her wonderful book "Detoxify or Die" that the only way, which is proven with before and after data, to remove some of the worst of these toxins, is through the use of a far infrared sauna. To either buy or just see more details of her book and far infrared saunas, go to www.theultimatesauna.co.uk