The Meat On Your Table...
It's a fine Sunday morning.
As I was sipping my favorite black sugar-less coffee, I flipped through the morning newspapger.
One headline caught my eyes instantly...
"So much cruelty just for meat on the table" written by Prof. Peter Singer. Prof Singer is a professor in bioethics at Princeton University.
If you're like me, your eyes will probably be glued to that article. Mine did. And I read word for word from start till end.
That article was discussing how meat product was cruelly produced, as the title has stated.
If you may, please allow me to quote some of the extracts which I would like to share with you today...
"...People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered taht beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings) and slaughterhouse waste..."
Now, isn't this new?
Here's another one...
"...Tens of billions of chicken produced today never go outdoors. They are bred to have voracious appetites and gain weight as fast as possible, then reared in sheds that can hold more than 20,000 birds. The level of ammonia in the air from their accumulated droppings stings the eye and hurts the lungs..."
Now, this is really stinking! Yuck! There goes my planned chicken lunch today!
How about the eggs?
Here, read this extract...
"...Conditions are worse for laying hens crammed into wire cages so small that even if there were just one per cage, she would be unable to stretch her wings. But there are usually at least four, often more.
Under such crowded conditions, the more dominant, aggressive birds are likely to peck to death the weaker hens in the cage. To prevent this, producers sear off all birds' beaks with a hot blade. (Ouch!) A hen's beak is full of nerve tissue but no anaesthetic or analgesic is used to relieve the pain..."
Now, the eggs that we're eating, come from them!
But wait, what about the food value that we're getting from them?
The last extract I'd like to share with you...
"...When we confine animals in factory farms, we have to grow food for them. The animals burn up most of that food's energy just to breathe and keep warm. So we end up with no more than one-third, of the food value that we feed them.
By contrast, cows grazing on pasture eat food that we cannot digest, which means that they add to the amount of food available to us."
This reminds me of the report which my girlfriend, Janice, has compiled recently. If you have not gotten it earlier, you can get it FREE at Vegetarian Recipe Guide now.
One of the point in the report stated that the number of human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock is shockingly at 1,300,000,000!
So, the food that we could otherwise eat has gone into these animals, and how much do they provide us?
See these, and you'll get the idea:
~ 16lbs of grain and soybeans are needed to produce 1lb of feedlot beef
~ 5lbs of protein fed to chickens is needed to produce 1lb of protein as chicken flesh
~ 7.5lbs of protein fed to hogs is needed to produce 1lb of protein as hog flesh.
Now isn't this a great loss, considering that more than 60,000,000 people are in risks of starving to death?
Now, what a morning to start with... especially on a fine Sunday like today!
But, thanks to Janice, she cheered me wonderfully today!
And I really have to thank her for her effort to share her discovery about our food with her FREE report "The Shocking Truth And Statistics About Your Food!" which she's currently giving away to anyone who takes time to visit her site at: www.VegetarianRecipeGuide.com now.
As for you, thanks for dropping in and read this blog. Have a wonderful Sunday, and may the Energy of Tai Chi be with you!
Cheers,
Guan
www.TaichiBreathing.com
www.TaichiForYourHealth.com
www.TaichiExerciseForHealth.com
www.ConfuciusAnalects.com
P.S. - So, if you want to get Janice's report for FREE, go quickly now, because I don't know when she'll take it down from her site: Vegetarian Recipe Guide
As I was sipping my favorite black sugar-less coffee, I flipped through the morning newspapger.
One headline caught my eyes instantly...
"So much cruelty just for meat on the table" written by Prof. Peter Singer. Prof Singer is a professor in bioethics at Princeton University.
If you're like me, your eyes will probably be glued to that article. Mine did. And I read word for word from start till end.
That article was discussing how meat product was cruelly produced, as the title has stated.
If you may, please allow me to quote some of the extracts which I would like to share with you today...
"...People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered taht beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings) and slaughterhouse waste..."
Now, isn't this new?
Here's another one...
"...Tens of billions of chicken produced today never go outdoors. They are bred to have voracious appetites and gain weight as fast as possible, then reared in sheds that can hold more than 20,000 birds. The level of ammonia in the air from their accumulated droppings stings the eye and hurts the lungs..."
Now, this is really stinking! Yuck! There goes my planned chicken lunch today!
How about the eggs?
Here, read this extract...
"...Conditions are worse for laying hens crammed into wire cages so small that even if there were just one per cage, she would be unable to stretch her wings. But there are usually at least four, often more.
Under such crowded conditions, the more dominant, aggressive birds are likely to peck to death the weaker hens in the cage. To prevent this, producers sear off all birds' beaks with a hot blade. (Ouch!) A hen's beak is full of nerve tissue but no anaesthetic or analgesic is used to relieve the pain..."
Now, the eggs that we're eating, come from them!
But wait, what about the food value that we're getting from them?
The last extract I'd like to share with you...
"...When we confine animals in factory farms, we have to grow food for them. The animals burn up most of that food's energy just to breathe and keep warm. So we end up with no more than one-third, of the food value that we feed them.
By contrast, cows grazing on pasture eat food that we cannot digest, which means that they add to the amount of food available to us."
This reminds me of the report which my girlfriend, Janice, has compiled recently. If you have not gotten it earlier, you can get it FREE at Vegetarian Recipe Guide now.
One of the point in the report stated that the number of human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock is shockingly at 1,300,000,000!
So, the food that we could otherwise eat has gone into these animals, and how much do they provide us?
See these, and you'll get the idea:
~ 16lbs of grain and soybeans are needed to produce 1lb of feedlot beef
~ 5lbs of protein fed to chickens is needed to produce 1lb of protein as chicken flesh
~ 7.5lbs of protein fed to hogs is needed to produce 1lb of protein as hog flesh.
Now isn't this a great loss, considering that more than 60,000,000 people are in risks of starving to death?
Now, what a morning to start with... especially on a fine Sunday like today!
But, thanks to Janice, she cheered me wonderfully today!
And I really have to thank her for her effort to share her discovery about our food with her FREE report "The Shocking Truth And Statistics About Your Food!" which she's currently giving away to anyone who takes time to visit her site at: www.VegetarianRecipeGuide.com now.
As for you, thanks for dropping in and read this blog. Have a wonderful Sunday, and may the Energy of Tai Chi be with you!
Cheers,
Guan
www.TaichiBreathing.com
www.TaichiForYourHealth.com
www.TaichiExerciseForHealth.com
www.ConfuciusAnalects.com
P.S. - So, if you want to get Janice's report for FREE, go quickly now, because I don't know when she'll take it down from her site: Vegetarian Recipe Guide
1 Comments:
Ah, I am signed up for your wife Janice's newsletter on this topic too. Thank you for reminding me to make coffee (but I am less hardcore than you and Captain Katherine Janeway so I succumb to the white deaths).
Why are we concerned with cruelty exactly? Animals will die regardless what what we do. Assuming they aren't killed in our harvesting of vegetables in mass farming, or in our valuable scientific experiments, they have short lifespans.
Most of the animals we eat are not any I care about. I certainly wouldn't eat dogs, cats, horses, dolphins, elephants or monkeys, but what's wrong with cows and chickens?
Suffering does bother me, but it is essentially of no importance if death is imminent. Avoiding suffering only matters if someone will continue to exist. I would much rather suffer than die, but if I am going to die anyway, who cares if it is a painful death? Death is death...
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