réponse à un commentaire sur un article sur le site de radio-canada

J'ai écris ce commentaire mais il fut rejeté par le modérateur car jugé "injurieux".

http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/sante/2011/01/24/001-cancer-sein-poumon.shtml

Je le publie donc ici!

@Maxxx7,

"En outre, il faut arrêter de mettre de la morale ou il n'y en a pas. A lire votre pseudo, je pense comprendre que vous êtes du genre à considérer la mort d'un animal comme un sacrilège. C'est bien. Alors vous êtes choqué quand un lion tue une gazelle?
Oui?
Non?
L'homme mange de la viande, pas parce que c'est bien ou mal, mais parce que c'est comme ça, c'est la nature. On tue donc des animaux pour ça. Je ne vois pas en quoi utiliser un animal en recherche est différent."

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Dans votre tête, le monde est sans loi ni morale. Un animal peut en tuer un autre, donc un homme peut tuer un animal, ou est le mal, puisque vous dites que le mal n'existe pas...
Je vais vous expliquer quelque chose: en effet les animaux carnivores n'ont aucune notion de ce qui est bien et mal, ils ne font pas la différence, et ils tuent en n'éprouvant aucun remord ni culpabilité. Aucune sympathie ni compassion pour autrui. Ils ne sont pas humain. Et vous voulez vous comporter comme ces charognards, comme un psychopathe, et revenir à l'état sauvage, ou le meurtre serait impuni. Un chat qui prend plaisir à faire souffrir une souris, ce chat est incapable de se mettre à la place de l'autre. Cette faculté est réservée aux humains. Mais je vous dirais que, même si le Bien et Mal n'existe pas concrètement en dehors du sens que l'esprit humain lui donne, le Bien et Mal existe tout de même dans la Nature, tout comme le Jour et la Nuit, il faut un équilibre de prédateurs et proies, etc (en passant l'humain dépasse largement une fonction de prédateur, et cause un déséquilibre). La preuve que la notion de Mal existe: lorsque ce même chat qui torture une souris, pour reprendre l'exemple de tout à l'heure, si on prend ce chat à la gorge, qu'on le brasse, qu'on le lance au mur, qu'on lui crie dessus, il aura peur, il aura Mal, il sera terrorisé. Il ressent alors ce que c'est que d'être la victime, mais il ne fait pas le lien lorsqu'il cause cette même souffrance aux autres. Si on caresse ce chat il ronronne, il se sent Bien, en harmonie, paisible, ce sera un état différent, il est bien certain que le bien et mal existe d'une facon ou d'une autre, ou sinon rien n'existe ou tout est la même chose.
J'éprouve de la compassion pour la gazelle parce que je m'identifie à elle, je suis capable de me mettre à sa place, mais vous vous identifiez au lion, et vous justifiez ainsi qu'on a le droit nous aussi de causer de la souffrance.
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(seulement cette dernière partie fut publiée)
Bref, est-ce que le meurtre du lion par la gazelle est bien ou mal? Pour le lion il n'y a rien de mal, pour la gazelle peut-etre que oui - ou du moins il y a peur et souffrance , qui fait plus partie du mal que du bien, on s'entend -, pour l'humain, il y a mal. Un humain digne de ce nom ressent de la compassion en regardant un animal souffrir, et il sait aussi que tuer est mal.
Concernant la recherche sur les animaux, la recherche sur les animaux est cruelle, inutile et inefficace. Il y a souffrance, malgré ce que vous dites concernant les règles à respecter, qui ne sont bien sûr pas toujours respectée. Il faut toujours tester ensuite sur les humains, car ce qui est vrai sur une souris n'est pas transposable à un humain, qui est une autre espèce, avec une physiologie bien différente. Il existe des moyens plus efficace, comme l'expérimentation sur humains, in vitro , cellules souches et simulation informatique.
Et toute la recherche est vaine, car malgré toutes les avancées en matière de nouvelles technologies en science moderne, il y a aujourd'hui encore plus de maladies, malades et de morts qu'avant. Les taux des cancers ne cessent de grimper, de même que l'obésité et toutes les maladies qui y sont reliées, comme le diabète.

I was walking outside, haven't seen the nature for a while I was in the city for months and months but now being in the nature for few days it revealed and showed something to me. I was walking in the cold, the snow, it is very humid and with a cold wind and it was even raining, the road is icy, but I wasn't even feeling the cold, I was warm. Or the cold that I wss feeling on my skin was soft. I was feeling really fine and while I was walking I was almost meditating, Life is about creation and destruction, its energy. To live and die. But cruelty and to kill by madness has no place in this world, that is why I decided to pray while I was walking, sometimes by closing my eyes, to pray for peace to all animals and humans and all living beings. And I was thinking about many things, everything but at the same time nothing. In plenitude, and in harmony with the trees around me and the snow falling down and the snow on the ground, in osmosis with everything. Thinking about my life and the paths that awaits me... All the things that surrounds me and my life... I could see energy from my mind in the form of a fire coming alive in my creativity, with flames of very intense colors. And visualizations of lightnings of artistic energy that I want to express, but positive and negative emotions that I don't want to keep in myself but want to create and transform with it. And was thinking about Marta. She's a wonderful woman, I don't want her to think she's like the others. She's so much than that to me, I want her to know that I think about her and that she is very important to me.

WHAT SHOULD WE EAT ? may be biaised).
But my conclusion is that fruits are the only ideal food for humans.
Fruits ? Vegetables ? Animal products?
This post is mostly about wether or not we should eat vegetables. I'll let you judge by the links provided (but search for other sources too, for those here

http://www.13.waisays.com/plants.htm
http://www.fibermenace.com/
http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vegetables.shtml

So these are 3 links provided by someone who eats only raw meat and raw animal products (raw eggs, milk, butter...) telling me that plants are toxic because 1) fibers are not edible 2) most of vegetables contain built-in pesticides/insecticides to naturally fight against predators/to prevent from being eaten.

From the 1st link :

We are not pigeons.

We are not cows.

Therefore we don't have a crop to digest cereals, nor 4 stomachs to gradually digest grasses or leaves.

Right... and are we tigers ? Are we lions or hyennas? No, therefore we don't have the special enzymes and short digestive tract to degrade animal proteins.
We are primates, and like the anthropoid apes we are designed to eat fruits. Most apes eat a diet composed of 99% plant-based food, (most calories come from fruits, the rest from greens) and 1% animal food (the insects on the greens they eat).

My opinion about fibers: I don't think they are harmful to health in adequate amounts. Just because they are not edible doesn't mean they are harmful. They are not useful to digestion itself (unlike many ignorants and dieteticians tend to say or think) - in fact, they slow down digestion and make it harder - but they are good for afterwards : to help get rid of the other wastes (cuz fibers are wastes).

My opinion about the self-defense elements found in plants to protect themselves against species who wish to eat them... Ok, so cows and other herbivores have the digestive system to deal easily with those subtances but we don't ? Why not? 4 stomachs ain't necessary. We have 2 stomachs (1 stomach in two parts) unlike carnivores, who have only one simple stomach. I think we can digest grains and vegetables quite efficiently, but not necessarily optimally (worse with meat and animal products. But we digest fruits optimally).

We have the pro-meat/anti-vegans people who say those molecules are harmful to humans. On the other hand, I've heard from vegetarian dieteticians that those defenses of the plants against insects, microbes and viruses and beneficial to us when we eat them; when we eat those plants those same molecules are then protecting us from viruses, etc, rather than harming us.

Some people say also that plants contain too much insecticides/pesticides sprayed by humans. Not if you buy organic products. If you eat animal products, what you eat is even more toxic because it stored much more insecticides in the animal flesh, after years of intensive feeding.

Those phytochemicals are used both as ingredients for insecticides as well as making supplements supposedly scientifically proven to be effective for their potential health-promoting properties on humans.

Whatever if vegetables are good or bad for us, I don't think some greens everyday can harm us, especially if you choose the ones with no 'harmful' molecules, but I think the optimal diet for humans is fruitarianism.
For those wondering if only fruits can provide enough proteins, you can visit this website for infos. http://www.thefruitpages.com/sugar.shtml We can also add a few nuts and seeds to add some proteins.

I think that the ideal, and natural diet for humans is a low-fat raw vegan diet, has presented in the book 'The 80/10/10 Diet' by Dr.Douglas Graham. It consists of mostly fruits, and raw vegetables, with small amounts of seeds, nuts and avocados.

What's funny is that the diet suggested on the 1st link provided by the anti-vegan guy, is a mostly fruit diet. All meals are fruits, and some raw nuts. The only thing which is not fruits is 1 or 2 raw eggs per day.
http://www.waisays.com/suggestions.htm

Disparate brings dissonance, osmosis brings harmony

Recently a cardiologist killed his 2 kids and then attempted suicide. His wife was out skiing for the week-end. When she came back she had no more kids. The cardiolog was an expert about heart but knew nothing about the mind, he didn't know he was depressed and he killed his kids... The cardiologist failed to kill himself with drug overdose and ended up at the same hospital he was working to, but his own hospital didn't want him so he was sent to another one.
This kind of things happens a lot here in Quebec: someone (usually a man - but often a mother too) kills all the kids before killing himself. Why ? Why can't you just kill yourself and leave the kids alone ? Marc Lepine shot 20 female students in 1989 at Montreal polytechnique... People lost touch with themselves. People don't live in a holistic way anymore, They don't gather all the facets of their own human being, body and mind, and they are disconnected from reality as well as the society and the other living beings around them, so when just one part fails to work properly, all their mind breaks, instead of repairing it with all the tools around them. But they are too weak to act on themselves only, because they all still connected to their own pathetic, material, insignificant life, so they need to remove another part, the most important one, of their own life : their kids; only after this they stop to exist and don't have any reason to continue on living so they commit suicide.

So nowadays people lost touch with the holistic aspect of life and everything is specialized. One studies the science of heart and knows nothing about the rest of human body. Another one knows feet. Another one about the health of teeth but not about the health of the whole body. Another specializes in reproductive organs... Doctors know about diseases, treatments, drugs, medicine and why we die but know nothing about health and how to stay healthy, they don't know anything about good nutrition.
Scientists say hot peppers are healthy because there is good molecules in it. But what about the other molecules ? And even dieteticans are playing the card of separating everything instead of looking at things as a whole. Take iron, Vitamin C, E, D, A, eat calcium, eat omega-3, zinc, magnesium...
NO : eat almonds, eat oranges, eat figs, dates, etc... We have dieteticians promoting alcohol consumption claiming it reduce cardio-vascular diseases, telling us to drink 1-2 cups of red wine everyday like alcoholics, and then after many years studies show that this doesn't have much benefits, not more than eating better, or regular physical activity. And then a recent study by the American National Cancer Institute (NCI) on 180,000 women says that women drinking those 1-2 drink of alcohol per day have 32% higher risks to developp breast cancer, and 50% increase for 3 drinks or more. Good for the heart and bad for the breasts ?? BAD FOR HEALTH !!!
Stop dissect everything, stop removing everything to keep just one thing, because it doesn't work like this. Synergy is essential to life. The universe is a whole, life is part of universe, we're part of the universe, and if you remove just one thing everything else will colapse.
Barack Obama's phrase "Yes We Can". Sure, but to be done, someone must do it. And only one person is not enough. Obama didn't say "Yes I can". The WE is of primary importance, it is everybody who must act in order to make things change.

LEO TOLSTOY:
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

crazy world

100 million tons of plastic in the sea and in fish
The scientist Charles Moore discovered a while ago that there is tons of tiny pieces of plastic  floating in the Atlantic. This is due to all the plastic used in society, all the plastic bags, drink bottles  and all kind of containers we throw away in rivers, it's then ripped in tiny pieces  in streams against stones or with errosion due to sunlight. It all end up in the ocean, tiny pieces (1-3 mm) or some larger (few cm) found in the stomach of fish. The explorer Marcus Eriksen fished a tuna he wanted to eat, he opened it and he found 14 different pieces of plastic in it. He didn't eat the fish. There is 100 million tons of plastic in the Atlantic between Japan and Hawaï. Those fragments of plastic float right under the surface of water, so it is visible from a boat, but not from satelitte photographies. 


OBESITY: a man was too large to fit in the prison cell so he got released.



MafiaBoy, a 15 years old kid living in Montreal, became the biggest hacker of the history of Internet when in year 2000 he invented a system to overload a target, Yahoo.com. Then he did the samething on other big websites: CNN, eBay, etc... 1,7 billion $ in damage... He was proud and said to lot of people he was the author, so after a while he got caught. 8 months in a correction center for kids.
Fraud on the web, like stealing personal informations and credit card numbers is huge, as much as drug traffic.
Credit card numbers are sell online and you can buy one for only 1$, or a cc number with complete infos of the owner for only 5$.
Russian mafia decided to specialize on internet and they became cyber criminals.
Cyber wars between countries: to attack all the systems and infrastructure of the ennemy. Wars of the future ? It already happened. Russia attacked Estonia. Someone attacked Estonia's government and its economy, paralysed the banks, tv, newspapers, phones, etc.
United States once feared that Russia could make a cyber attack, but now they suspect China to make cyber spying. Not only companies, but also countries - the governement and secret agencies recruit experimented hackers.
The worm Storm is invisible until it attacks. The identity of its creator is still unknown, and we still ignore what is the purpose of this worm. But when it will attack, it could be huge, since it is in millions of computers now, forming an immense network, waiting... and we don't know when it will decide to strike.
8 years later, MafiaBoy says he could do it easily again, he says Internet is not safer than before, it's worse.



Brian Sinclair died in a hospital after waiting 34 hours in the emergency room without recieving any service. The administrator of the hospital said that Sinclair never went to the triage desk to register his arrival and to ask for help, but then a security video footage proved he was wrong and he admitted he was wrong.  Sinclair was a homeless person, which may explain why he has been left aside and victim of prejudice.
http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2009/02/brian-sinclair-cover-up-timeline-tells.html



There is 35 millions  debris in orbit around planet Earth, due to all rockets sent into space over the years.



Arvin, San Francisco, CA. The most polluted town of United States. The air is so polluted that there is over 100 days of smog per year and a high % of population is asthmatic. 



Water in the region of Bruxelle is highly polluted. The freshwater of  our planet is endangered, polluted by nitrates from intensive agriculture, especially due to the meat industry. 
Fish from Rhone is prohibited to consumption. 



United States spent 750 billion $ in 8 years to finance the war in Irak and Afghanistan.
For every dollar invested in development assistance in the world, there is 17 dollars for military expenditures, half of it from the U.S.
With only 1 million dollar we can nourrish 5,800 children for 1 year in Malawi, or pay the salary of 1160 teachers during 1 year in Ouganda.



The Lyme disease is now in Quebec, Canada. Larva have been found in a deer fly just recently, but many people have suffered from it already some years ago. Very hard to find doctors and medications for this in Quebec because it's new. Climate changes and all that made possible for insects and diseases from South to be able to move and survive in Northern areas.




A 12 yeard old girl sue her dad in court. The father surprised his daughter on the net browsing some porn websites. For punishment he cancelled the trip she was supposed to make with school. The young girl talked about it to her mother (custody) and they both initiated prosecutions


Americans often see Chinese as a nation who is too severe on punishement. But truth is that only 1,2% of Chinese population, which is 1,3 billion people, is in jail, while there is 7,7% prisoners for 300 million Americans. So the pourcentage of prisoners is much higher in United States.




Ethanol production is dangerous for quality of fresh water in the world, due to the huge quantities of water, pesticides, insecticides and toxic fertilizers to produce astronomical quantities of grains for fueling cars. W. Bush wanted to increase ethanol to 130 billion litres in ten years (6 times more than in 2006). Corn is #1 grain used to make ethanol, but it is also the type of cereal which require the most fertilizers and pesticides.
Study from EPA.



Milk could be the cause to hyperactivity in kids, shows a recent Norwegian study. Professors and doctors named Knivsberf, Noedland and Fosse, from Stavanger University in Norway, tried the lactose free diet on several kids suffering AD/HD (attention deficit and hyperactive disorder) and positive results appeared on the first day, they become more calm and can concentrate and study better; the kids who kept with the diet were able to have much better results at school than before.
Scientist Karl Ludvig Reichelt studied this subject for a long time and arrived to the conclusion that undigested peptids of casein (milk proteins) can have the same effects on the brain than opium does. Many studies show a connection between autism, schizophrenia and the non-disintegration of milk proteins. Many kids are lactose intolerant and this problem may cause certain behavioral disorders. But we must not belive that milk is the cause to all cases of Attention Deficit among all kids.



But, to end on a happier note (kind of)... Canadian artist Leonard Cohen donated 200,000$ to help the victims of the fires that hit Australia. Cohen is in tour in Australia this week.This is very nice of him, knowing that not so long ago he was bankrupt after his record manager has been stealing millions $ of him, so Leonard HAD TO DO this world tour, it wasn't a choice. He's now over 70 years old but still very active, after a dozen of successful records.

Endocrine disrupters

MSG, GMO, more and more insecticides and pesticides for intensive agriculture to supply the meat industry, plastics, medications, et cetera, all this end up in our food and water, and then in our body. Endocrine disrupters. We notice some alarmous changes: hundreds of toxic substances (like PCB, DDT, mercury...) in everybody's blood, polluted flora, more and more mutations and malformations in the fauna (hermaphrodite animals, infertility...). Endangered species... including us, humans. Males' sperm is getting poor quality and penis gets smaller over generations. Hormones are inversed or amplified: 8 years young girls with huge breasts, pubic hair and menstruations, young boys with female breast... 


http://forums.nightly.net/index.php?showtopic=59562

"It's official: Men really are the weaker sex

Evolution is being distorted by pollution, which damages genitals and the ability to father offspring, says new study. Geoffrey Lean reports

Sunday, 7 December 2008

The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.

The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people.

Backed by some of the world's leading scientists, who say that it "waves a red flag" for humanity and shows that evolution itself is being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to have "gender-bending" effects.

It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminised genitals.

"This research shows that the basic male tool kit is under threat," says Gwynne Lyons, a former government adviser on the health effects of chemicals, who wrote the report.

Wildlife and people have been exposed to more than 100,000 new chemicals in recent years, and the European Commission has admitted that 99 per cent of them are not adequately regulated. There is not even proper safety information on 85 per cent of them.

Many have been identified as "endocrine disrupters" – or gender-benders – because they interfere with hormones. These include phthalates, used in food wrapping, cosmetics and baby powders among other applications; flame retardants in furniture and electrical goods; PCBs, a now banned group of substances still widespread in food and the environment; and many pesticides.

The report – published by the charity CHEMTrust and drawing on more than 250 scientific studies from around the world – concentrates mainly on wildlife, identifying effects in species ranging from the polar bears of the Arctic to the eland of the South African plains, and from whales in the depths of the oceans to high-flying falcons and eagles.

It concludes: "Males of species from each of the main classes of vertebrate animals (including bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have been affected by chemicals in the environment.

"Feminisation of the males of numerous vertebrate species is now a widespread occurrence. All vertebrates have similar sex hormone receptors, which have been conserved in evolution. Therefore, observations in one species may serve to highlight pollution issues of concern for other vertebrates, including humans."

Fish, it says, are particularly affected by pollutants as they are immersed in them when they swim in contaminated water, taking them in not just in their food but through their gills and skin. They were among the first to show widespread gender-bending effects.

Half the male fish in British lowland rivers have been found to be developing eggs in their testes; in some stretches all male roaches have been found to be changing sex in this way. Female hormones – largely from the contraceptive pills which pass unaltered through sewage treatment – are partly responsible, while more than three-quarters of sewage works have been found also to be discharging demasculinising man-made chemicals. Feminising effects have now been discovered in a host of freshwater fish species as far away as Japan and Benin, in Africa, and in sea fish in the North Sea, the Mediterranean, Osaka Bay in Japan and Puget Sound on the US west coast.

Research at the University of Florida earlier this year found that 40 per cent of the male cane toads – a species so indestructible that it has become a plague in Australia – had become hermaphrodites in a heavily farmed part of the state, with another 20 per cent undergoing lesser feminisation. A similar link between farming and sex changes in northern leopard frogs has been revealed by Canadian research, adding to suspicions that pesticides may be to blame.

Male alligators exposed to pesticides in Florida have suffered from lower testosterone and higher oestrogen levels, abnormal testes, smaller penises and reproductive failures. Male snapping turtles have been found with female characteristics in the same state and around the Great Lakes, where wildlife has been found to be contaminated with more than 400 different chemicals. Male herring gulls and peregrine falcons have produced the female protein used to make egg yolks, while bald eagles have had difficulty reproducing in areas highly contaminated with chemicals.

Scientists at Cardiff University have found that the brains of male starlings who ate worms contaminated by female hormones at a sewage works in south-west England were subtly changed so that they sang at greater length and with increased virtuosity.

Even more ominously for humanity, mammals have also been found to be widely affected.

Two-thirds of male Sitka black-tailed deer in Alaska have been found to have undescended testes and deformed antler growth, and roughly the same proportion of white-tailed deer in Montana were discovered to have genital abnormalities.

In South Africa, eland have been revealed to have damaged testicles while being contaminated by high levels of gender-bender chemicals, and striped mice from one polluted nature reserved were discovered to be producing no sperm at all.

At the other end of the world, hermaphrodite polar bears – with penises and vaginas – have been discovered and gender-benders have been found to reduce sperm counts and penis lengths in those that remained male. Many of the small, endangered populations of Florida panthers have been found to have abnormal sperm.

Other research has revealed otters from polluted areas with smaller testicles and mink exposed to PCBs with shorter penises. Beluga whales in Canada's St Lawrence estuary and killer whales off its north-west coast – two of the wildlife populations most contaminated by PCBs – are reproducing poorly, as are exposed porpoises, seals and dolphins.

Scientists warned yesterday that the mass of evidence added up to a grave warning for both wildlife and humans. Professor Charles Tyler, an expert on endocrine disrupters at the University of Exeter, says that the evidence in the report "set off alarm bells". Whole wildlife populations could be at risk, he said, because their gene pool would be reduced, making them less able to withstand disease and putting them at risk from hazards such as global warming.

Dr Pete Myers, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, one of the world's foremost authorities on gender-bender chemicals, added: "We have thrown 100, 000 chemicals against a finely balanced hormone system, so it's not surprising that we are seeing some serious results. It is leading to the most rapid pace of evolution in the history of the world.

Professor Lou Gillette of Florida University, one of the most respected academics in the field, warned that the report waved "a large red flag" at humanity. He said: "If we are seeing problems in wildlife, we can be concerned that something similar is happening to a proportion of human males"

Indeed, new research at the University of Rochester in New York state shows that boys born to mothers with raised levels of phthalates were more likely to have smaller penises and undescended testicles. They also had a shorter distance between their anus and genitalia, a classic sign of feminisation. And a study at Rotterdam's Erasmus University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with traditionally male toys.

Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls than boys, which may offer a clue to the reason for a mysterious shift in sex ratios worldwide. Normally 106 boys are born for every 100 girls, but the ratio is slipping. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone.

And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per millilitre of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years. (Hamsters produce nearly three times as much, at 160 million.) Professor Nil Basu of Michigan University says that this adds up to "pretty compelling evidence for effects in humans".

But Britain has long sought to water down EU attempts to control gender-bender chemicals and has been leading opposition to a new regulation that would ban pesticides shown to have endocrine-disrupting effects. Almost all the other European countries back it, but ministers – backed by their counterparts from Ireland and Romania – are intent on continuing their resistance at a crucial meeting on Wednesday. They say the regulation would cause a collapse of agriculture in the UK, but environmentalists retort that this is nonsense because the regulation has get-out clauses that could be used by British farmers."

Human and Animal

Our anatomy differs from carnivores and herbivores, moreover we're almost identical to anthropoid apes, such as bonobos, our closest cousin.

So let's compare humans with frugivores (anthropoid apes):

both have same shape of placenta.
Both have 2 hands and 2 feets.
Nails.
No tail.
Eyes look in the front.
Skin have millions of pores.
No long or sharp teeth.
Same dental formula:
5.1.4.1.5
5.1.4.1.5
Well developped saliva glands.
Saliva & urine are alkaline (when eating the right diet).
Soft tongue.
Tits are on the chest.
Stomach with second part, with low acid gastric juices.
«Notched» colon.
Intestine 12x the lenght of the body.
Live of fruits and nuts.


I'm not even talking about DNA similarities, which doesn't give any information on the similarities of the ideal diet of different species, since DNA is very similar between completely different species. For instance: even plants and trees have a very similar DNA to humans, as well as prehistoric animals. That's because recent species carry the DNA of all the species behind, but those chromosones are disactivated. But if we compare monkeys with tails, their DNA is less identical to us; if we compare chimps, a bit more identical. But apes like bonobos have a DNA 97% identical to us.

What veganism is to me

It's about doing good to me and around me.
It's about not harming myself, and not doing any bad to others.

When I'm hungry I'm naturally atracted by fresh fruits, like an apple or some strawberries, that will satisfy my hunger, my physiological needs, my desire for flavors and good tastes. Fruits are sweet and delicious.

I eat this because I want to.
I could eat meat if I wanted to. But I don't want to.
Why would I want to eat animals. Why would I need to put corpses and carcasses into my body? Who needs this? Nobody.

People force babies to eat meat. All babies are reluctant to meat.That's all natural. Offer an apple and a piece of meat, the baby will always choose the apple. That's a proven experiment that every parent can try at home.

Man has no claws, sharp teeths; nothing particularly agressive about the human body, we don't have a predator body. We don't have a killer instinct neither; unlike wolves and tigers, we're not natural born killers. Therefore we need weapons to hunt and kill, fire to cook. Man came before the axe or other tools, he couldn't have been omnivore or carnivore.
Fruits were on the planet way before tools. We couln't eat meat at the beginning. Because of climatic reasons and the impossibility to find anything that grows in trees or on the ground, at some times and some places, men needed to eat animal flesh in order to survive. Man is an opportunist animal, who will eat what it finds, anything which is edible, that's the survival instinct.
When man had a more developped brain, he invented agriculture, with more and more complex systems, there was always food available, and he ate less and less meat. There was no need to go hunt or kill. Larger societies formed, with poors and rich people. Meat reappeared in the diet, on the menu of the rich. 10kg of the food of the poor is needed to produce only 1 kg of food for the rich.

Today it's a big mistake to eat meat. People say that we always have been eating meat. Man made many mistakes during the history of mankind. One of them was to eat animals when there was other choices. Now it's getting worse and worse. Let's not perpetrate ad nauseam the mistakes of our past, but learn from the mistakes. Evolve.

Meet your Meat before you Eat your Meat

Think about the life of the animal, who lived a miserable life in a dark and dirty slaughterhouse before it became the corpse that lie on your plate. Think about your dog or your cat, would you eat them? Why not ? other nations do eat these animals. This cooked slice of steak, with seasonings and condiments, had eyes, a heart, a body and a life. 

Everybody knows now that animals are not treated well in the slaughterhouses. But most people prefer to act as if they didn't know, or try to convince themselves it's normal, that we don't have the choice, etc... We always have the choice. You have the choice to participate in this industry or not. If you don't already know how bad the animals are treated, I invite you to watch movies like Earthlings, Meet your Meat, Hidden Tears Behind the Iron Wall, Our Daily Bread, and many others, on the website of Peta, on Youtube, Google Video or here on my blog.  
It's pretty easy to find images on the web showing the truth about the cruelty to animals, and those who stay impassive to this suffering should try to imagine being at their place, living in a constant fear of dying. Or this should visit a slaughterhouse - if only it was permitted - and hear the screaming of pain and distress, and be splashed with blood.
But if those strong methods don't work, you're hopeless, and doomed to burn in hell for eternity. Because the methods of teaching compassion and peace will never work neither. But it doesn't cost anything to try; so here are some interesting videos:







Here are some other videos.

55 billion animals are killed every year by sadistic humans, 90% of them live in factory farms and never feel the warm of the sun on their back. Every sentient being is a precious individual. To those who impose stress, pain and death to non-human animals, may we see that their suffering is directly linked to our own, or you shall recieve the same sentence.

“May those who turn a blind eye to the suffering of non-human sentient beings finally see” – Buddhist Prayer

But let's not forget that "An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching"
Compassion is action. Be the change you wish to see in the world... ~Ghandi


"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

Immanuel Kant
German Philosopher


"Lobsters are fascinating. The have a long childhood and an awkward adolescence. The use complicated signals to explore and establish social relationships with others. Their communications are direct and sophisticated. They flirt. Their pregnancies last for nine months. Some are right handed, some left handed. They've even been seen walking hand-in-hand. Some can live to be more than 150 years old, though few (1%) survive the world's most devastating predator-the species with whom lobsters share so many traits-the human being."

Ingrid Newkirk
National Director: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

Toxicity

Industries drop mercury in water and this mercury becomes hightly toxic once absorbed by the simple organisms in water: methyl mercury. It is consumend and accumulated during the food chain, so that we found out that the fish who are predators (salmons, tuna, etc) have in their tissues a concentration 10 millions more powerful than what is found in the water where they live.

Concerning all the toxic products we encounter in our food, water, air, cosmetics, household products, even our clothes, and that enter our bodies by nose, mouth and even by our skin, the researchers made some shocking discoveries: sometimes tiny doses (like 1 ppm or even 1 ppb) can be more dangerous than higher dose. The reason is that when the quantity of a toxic product is so tiny, our body don't even notice it, and all this accumulates everyday, until you developp a tumor at the age of 40.But when our body encounters bigger quantities of toxic products, the immune system is activated and tries to block or reject it.
Another important new discovery: the combinations of different chemicals together can produce even more dangerous products. PCB is just a molecular variation of the chlorine atom, yet it's the most toxic product made by man. When companies test their substancies, they do this on the substance alone, not associated with other chemicals. So governement authorize chemicals since more than 50 years that way. But a product is inoffensive alone may not be when combined with one or two other products, or more; there's now hundreds of different chemicals in our food, water, sprayed on plants, etc...

Researchers were wondering why the population of belugas in the St-Laurent river in Quebec, Canada, was decreasing and why many of them are so sick. We find corpses of them on the shore. Anylisis show that their flesh contains an astonishing cocktail of chemicals, and that may be the cause of many of their cancers. 

A researcher discovered that too much residues of products of chlorine in tap water was responsable for anormally high level of misscarriage in a certain area. Her studies forced the governement to lower the maximum acceptable amount of chlorine in tap water. 

The same researcher analyzed the sperm of 4 great cities like New York, Los Angeles, etc... and a rural area of Missouri. She tought the sperm would be better in the rural zone, away from the pollution of cities... No. She found out that the sperm quality of inhabitants of Missouri was incredibly poor. She went there and tried to find out what is different there and which is not present in urban areas... Agriculture: huge fields of wheat, corn, etc... and huge amounts of chemicals sprayed on these, going in the rivers, then ending up in tap water. 

Half a century ago, before the crazy megalomaniac agriculture we have now, called agrobusiness, the fields were smaller, with no chemicals employed, and there were trees and ponds that were blocking, absorbing the chemicals if there was any, before they reach the rivers and ocean. Now it's different. Farmers cut down all trees until they meet the shore so they have more space to grow their stuff, and therefore more cash in their pockets. So their chemicals, sprayed before seeding, are not supposed to go in foods (eventhough there's some) and it goes straight in our water. 

Now guess what, a mad scientist is creating plants that will be specifically designed to absorb huge quantities of nitrogen, or mercury, etc... to put them along the shores so they will pump all the chemicals before it reach the water. He's working on about 20 genes, for 20 genetically modified plants. Talking about trying to cure instead of removing the problem. It's like legalizing and encouraging pollution.

Devour the Earth

Even if this documentary is pretty old, it is still very accurate. The facts are just worse now, more than 10 years later, things are not getting better, on the contrary.



FACTS from the 1995 documentary "Devour the Earth" narred by Paul McCartney

In Holland , the ratio cattle/humans is 7 for 1. The forests are dying due to acid rains, caused mainly by cattles.
-we need 2 times more superficy to feed a meateater than for a vegetarian and 4 times more than a vegan.
-In certain area, wastes from cattle ranching are responsible for 70% of the acid rains.
-England could feed 250 millions of vegans
-If everyone on Earth would eat like Americans, half of the world population could not eat at all
-Meat production requires 12x more water than vegetables
10 kg of grains needed to produce only one kg of meat
-Fish industry is not better at all : to produce 1 kg of salmon you need 5 kg of fish.
-PCB, one of the most toxic product of all, is in the whole food chain but especially in water and the animals living in it.
-40% of captured fish for consumption are sigh and have cancerous tumors.
-About 240 000 tons of PCB polluted the oceans before it got banned from countries. Now it will stay in the environment, and food chain, for centuries.

ENVIRONMENT

-Before 1950, 14% of the world’s land was tropical rainforests. Now more than half are gone.
-Half of animals live in rainforests and 90% of all the different species on the planet can be found in the forests
-Each year, we cut trees of a superficy of Britain. Around 200 000 km2 per year
-Most of this to make space for cattles or to grow soy to feed cattle
-71% of cut trees in Costa Rica is for cattles. Nepal lost half of it’s forests in 20 years due to this too.
-1 hectar or 2,5 acres are needed to raise only one animal
-in 1991, latin america exports 8 millions tons of soy just to feed cattles
-In 1989, astronauts saw from their spacecraft the smoke of thousands of fires : a surface of 2,6 millions square kilometers of trees burned in Amazonia. It was rainforests being cleared for cattle ranching.
-Since 1970, the destruction of rainforest in south america caused a waste of 1,5 billion tons of carbon dioxyde in the atmosphere

-An acre of orchard produces about 35 times as much food as an acre of livestock agriculture and twice as much food as an acre of grain




(If the link of the video doesn't work, go on GlobeTransformer.org)

Human: The Herbivore Animal

People who eat shark thins think it will preserve them from cancers, because sharks have less cancers than humans... 

People who eat brains from monkeys or cows think it will make them more intelligent...
If they could eat Einstein's brain they would do it...
I bet they don't know that Einstein was so intelligent without eating any brain, nor any other form of meat, in fact he was vegetarian. 

It is common to hear : "eat meat if you want to be muscular". Because people think : "eat muscles to have muscles. Eat proteins to have proteins." Of course. But their logic don't go any further than that. They don't seem to know that these animals gained muscles by eating grass. This is first order food. All proteins, in all food, including our own proteins, all come from plants. 
Vegetarian animals eat grass, grains, etc. Carnivorous animals eat vegetarian animals, to have some of the nutrients found in the vegetarian diet. Meat is a second order food. 

Most carnivore animals are weak parasites that have less stamina and strenght than herbivores. They are out of breathe after running for ten seconds and will not catch most of the preys. They need a factor of chance : to attack in the middle of a large group of preys so that they might catch a baby or one that is weak or sick. 
Hervivores, vegan and fruitarian animals are the strongest animals on Earth, with increddible strenght and endurance. Horses, donkeys, camels are used as slaves to do the work that humans are not able to do by eating meat, like pulling heavy loads over long distances. 

Some big herbivores and vegans : 
Gorillas, horses, rhinos, elephants, some of the largest dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus (about 40 feet tall) and the Stegosaurus.  

Some dinosaurs were carnivores (meat-eaters)(35%) but most were herbivores (plant-eaters) (65%). In any food chain, there have to be more organisms at the lower levels of the chain because the transfer of food energy is inefficient and much of the energy is lost at each stage of the process.

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the beginning of the end of everything

Facts from the movie "11th Hour"
Don't wait until it's too late

We increased Co2 by 30-35%, methane by 150%.
Methane has an effect 300% more powerful than Co2... 
(strange, I heard somewhere else it's 21 times more... anyway, it's still shit... don't eat meat)

Now, 20% of ice in the artic has melt
Speed and lenght of cyclones has increased by 150%

Asthma has increased of 30%.
A few decades ago, there was 0 asthma

90% of US forests are gone
70 countries have no more intact forests

Man see Nature as property
As if Nature as no rights

It would cost 35 trillions $/year to do with machines what Nature does for us, (pollenisation by the bees, breathing the Co2 with the trees)
Nature do all this for free
And it would cost us 35 trillions. But the sum of all economies of all countries equals 18 trillions $...

In the world, for each truck  of final products, there's 32 trucks of waste. 

99,9999% of all species that ever existed on Earth are extinct. 
If the planet had 1 year, humans started in the last 60 seconds. 

Do you really think that all those chemicals are not harming our health ?
The farmers are sich and die because of what they spray on their plants. 
Do you really think this is healthy?
The plants and the soil feed themselves with the chemicals and it goes into our bodies. 

Nature's way

I'm reading a fascinating book these days. By Dr. Herbert Shelton. Second book I read from him in French and I advice everybody to read his work. He's someone with immense common sense. So much that most people prefer to ignore him because they refuse to accept the truth. Modern scientists prefer to trust their experiences on rats to talk about human health. Well, let them continue to try curing with poisons a society that is becoming more and more sick...   I'll write some of my  thoughts after reading this book, but here's my impressions of the pages I've read last night :

  Carnivorous animals are out of breath after running 10 seconds, no stamina and no strenght. Take a close look at the endurance, speed and strenght and size of several vegetarian animals : horses, rhinos, gorillas, elephants. The gazelle escapes from the claws of the lions most of the times, due to superior speed, agility and stamina. These are the animals that survive to everything, while the carnivorous are weak, live upon others like parasites, eating corpses and are doomed to extinction.

Animal proteins are second class proteins, plants are the only thing on the planet able to synthetize their own proteins (except simple organisms), from the minerals in air, soil and water, and therefore everything else on Earth live on plants. Vegetarian animals eat plants. Carnivorous animals eat vegetarian animals. Humans can choose the clean source (fruits, greens, nuts) or the toxic wastes from nature (corpses) that are degenerative. Meateaters are poor and sad necrophagous, human graveyards.