Animal Proteins – do we need them?
The diet of a most Americans consists of meat and dairy products - steak, beef, mince pies, chicken and super-sized juicy hamburgers. Sure it’s tasty, a taste the meat and poultry industry taught us to acquire. Did you know that Western societies consume at least 50 percent more protein than they actually need?
By filling up the connective tissues in our bodies with unused protein, we turn our bodies into overflowing pools of harmful acids and waste, thereby laying a fertile ground for disease. It also congests the digestive tract and overburdens the lymphatic system.
The fact is that animal proteins, unlike plant proteins, are difficult to digest. The human body is not able to adequately break down meat protein into amino acids. A healthy digestive system is in fact able to metabolize only 25 percent of the animal protein it ingests.
Chunks of undigested meat may therefore remain in the small intestine for as long as 20–48 hours, where they literally begin to rot. This generates the meat poisons, cadaverine, putrescine, amines and other highly toxic substances, which apart from causing disease also contributes to lymph congestion, fluid and fat build-up, first in the mid-section of the body, and eventually throughout the body.
The remnants of undigested meat can accumulate in the large intestinal for as long as - hold your breath – 20 to30 years or longer. Rotting meat also burdens the kidneys in the form of nitrogenous wastes. Even moderate meat-eaters demand three times more work from their kidneys than vegetarians do.
Here is something else to think about. Putrefaction and bacterial growth start immediately after an animal is slaughtered and are very advanced by the time the meat reaches most grocery stores or meat markets.
Destructive enzymes immediately begin to break down the cells in the cadaver’s flesh, which leads to the formation of a degenerative substance called ptomaine that causes diseases.
Meat is also acid-forming and creates even more acidity when undigested. This, in turn, leads to a loss of minerals and other nutrients. Contrast this with plant proteins that the human body was designed to ingest in the course of evolution.
It is but a misconception that unlike meat, vegetables do not provide you with complete proteins - all the nine essential amino acids - that the body is unable to produce.
If you eat a variety of vegetables, you can get exactly the same amino acids as you get from meat - with added health benefits such as minerals and fiber that meat does not contain.
Categories: human consciousness
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While I myself don't eat meat, nevertheless I have seen vegetarians who become healthier when they start eating meat again. My thinking is that there's something a little deeper going on here: they may have stopped meat for the wrong reasons, i.e., the scientific reasons you touched on which produce fear of health consequences.
Maybe if vegetarians became vegetarians out of more deeply-felt motivations (cruelty to animals/identification with their suffering) their metabolism is changed to be able to increase uptake of necessary nutrients. The mind-body connection thing. I was introduced to this idea in a health book I read 15 years ago and think there's something to it. Motivation is what allows for long-lasting dietary change.
It's a case of "God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform." Not much point in trying to get people to stop their involvement in the cruel meat-producing industry by filling them with scientific facts about overflowing pools of waste; it does not last. Not that you shouldn't say these things about the possible illnesses produced by eating meat, only that a lot of people don't CARE.
I know that you, Andreas, do identify with animals (as do I) and I no longer talk about how "meat is no good for you" or how it is harder on your pancreas than a giant gob of sugar. People have urges & cravings they will just about kill for, and only having their hearts and souls touched can they overcome them.
Further, I'd like to know your opinions as to why some people appear incapable of thriving on vegetable-type food, if I am incorrect about the mind-body connection. Is it a plugged-up liver & intestines and the probable infestation with parasites? If so, it might be a good idea to always stress that pure vegetarianism requires the precondition of a "clean" digestive system.
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I agree with you, especially on the last point. An unhealthy digestive system (congested liver and intestines) is hardly able to digest such complex foods as vegetables, grains, fruits, legumes, nuts, seeds, etc. Meat, by comparison, is a very simple food, with no fiber.
Warmly, Andreas
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