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freshwest

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9. I don't think the cost is the main factor. People are turning away from eating meat for many reasons
Fri Jan 13, 2012, 01:00 AM
Jan 2012

It's the lousy quality of the meat, the things they do to it make it look fresh, like pumping CO into it and the collapse of inspection by turning it over to the corporations.

It's the pollution in the groundwater by these operations, the danger of BHG, anti-biotics and mad cow disease, and the fact that the conumption of meat causes inflammation of the body no matter how the animals were treated.

Inflammation is a cause of human misery. Many say it's largely due to these proteins that rot in the gut. The rush or energy that people get addicted to eating meat is from their body running full tilt trying to eliminate the foul fermenting matter. They get tired and remember that so they go back and get some more. Like sugar, like coffee, like... whatever.



Of course there is the freak out factor of what the whole thing is, when you get right down to it. But people are harrassed for not eating meat, by many sources. Just like they are bugged about a lot of things. They're afraid if the leave the SAD they'll get some form of malnutrition. When they feel sick, it's really detoxing. It has to be done carefully, not radically.

Many people I know are regarding this in a different way. I'll make a separate post here about it.

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