Foods That Are Hostile To Our Bodies Part 2

Our original diary post about Foods that are Hostile to Our Bodies (October 29, 2015) has generated a few questions. See our discussion with Almine below.

Question: I was expecting to see meat as a hostile food. Is this true?

Almine’s Answer: Firstly, I have deliberately avoided telling my lightfamily what to do (what to eat for instance). I’ve followed the wise maxim of the Mormon prophet Brigham Young: Teach them correct principles, and let them govern themselves. (He was referring to children, I believe).

My personal view on meat is: How hostile it is to the body, depends on multiple factors, such as activity level, purity of the meat and the conscious way in which it was treated, for example. Indigenous people had meat as a staple when they still lived in uninterrupted tribal life, without having heart disease and clogged arteries.

However, I view our meat industry as violating the most overriding morality known to man: What benefits one, has to benefit all. By eating meat that has been cruelly treated and unconsciously slaughtered, we have become part of an obscene and grotesque stain on the race of man.

Annual minimum slaughter per year:

Chickens: 52.9 billion

Ducks: 2.6 billion

Pigs: 1.3 billion

Rabbits: 1.1 billion

United Nations Food & Agricultural Report 2009

Our Oceans are in danger of being over fished, see the statistics below:

Tuna: 5.6 million tons

Anchovies: 9.5 million tons

Herring: 2.2 million tons

Fishcount.org 2010

• So is meat a hostile food? Possibly.
• Is meat an immoral food? The assault on the environment and upon the species considered, the answer is yes.

Question: My family want meat in their meals. What can I do as my part?

Almine’s Answer: Educate your family by watching some related videos on YouTube, or other documentaries. Instead of giving teenager chores as punishment for unwanted behavior, have them watch such a video. You can’t force your views on other adults, but you can educate them.

If you currently have a package of meat or fish assigned for dinner per day, for a family of four, come up with creative ways to stretch one package over two meals and substitute one day of Quiche and one of soup every week for the main meal (a good way to use leftovers). That should cut your meat usage in half.

Question : Which part of the industry would you say has the most unconscious way of treating animals? And would it help if we buy pasture fed beef from a farmer, even though it may be expensive?

Almine’s Answer: Animals treated kindly and not fed antibiotics are certainly a step in the right direction. But according to our local beef farmers, it works out to one third per pound less in cost (and they guarantee that they sell only healthy animals).

The choice between black, and pitch black is a matter of degree. But I would say the milk industry is the most insensitive: They artificially keep the milk cows pregnant so that they produce milk. But they have no use for the calves once they’re born. With great anguish to the cows, they remove and simply slaughter millions of them a year.