Dairy and Meat and their Relationship to Cancer

Listen to the facts from a dairy farmer and scientist. Explains the effects of casein, which can be found in milk and dairy products on cancer, particular prostate cancer.

Skinny Bitch Author Gives You Five Good Reasons to Go Vegan

Dr. McDougall on Health

John McDougall MD reflects on who cares enough to retain their health and appearance. This is an excerpt from the Extended Interviews of the documentary PROCESSED PEOPLE.

Shaolin Kung Fu (Exploding the Meat Myth)

Think you need meat to be fit and strong? You can explode that myth with two words: Shaolin Monk!

For those not familiar with the Shaolin, point them to this video.

From the documentary "Myths and Logic of Shaolin Kung Fu". For centuries, Shaolin have followed the principals and spiritual way of the Buddha and Taoist way, which means adhering to a non-violent vegetarian diet.

Life of a Dairy Calf

Little dairy calf looking for it's mother. It's extremely torturing to the little babies and mother cows. When you're having a glass of milk,a piece of cheese.....

Please think again how it comes from!

Facts about Livestock Production and Global Warming

Does Eating Meat Make YOU Manly?

Be a Virile Vegan!

Does eating the actin and myosin protein filaments which comprise muscle make men more manly?

Said another way-Does eating meat make your more of a man?

I have been a vegan for about 15 years and I can't tell you how many times I have heard the argument that you can't be a "real man" unless you eat meat. Somehow, consuming flesh increases ones masculinity. Tough guys are "meat and potatoes" men. They eat steak and barbecue things.

Since the mythology of manhood includes the consumption of cooked critters many men are reluctant to forego feasting on flesh in favor of a vegan diet.

After all, giving up meat will make you less of a man.

But what makes a man, a man?

Testosterone.A Prostate GlandA Penis. (But not just a penis, the ability to get an erection.)

Testosterone:

Testosterone is a steroid hormone and it:

• Is important for normal skeletal development
• Regulates libido-your sex drive
• Influences muscle mass
• Is required for normal sperm development

If meat makes you manly why do vegans have more testosterone?

That's right, virile vegans!

Meat munching males have 13 percent less testosterone than vegans. (Allen NE. Hormones and diet: low insulin-like growth factor-I but normal bioavailable androgens in vegan men. Br J Cancer. 2000 Jul;83(1):95-7.)

This is because meat eaters constantly expose themselves to female hormones in the meat and milk they eat. By forgoing flesh you can be a virile vegan.

The Prostate Gland:

The function of the prostate is to store and secrete an alkaline, milky white fluid that makes up 25-30% of ejaculate volume. The prostatic fluid gives sperm better motility, longer survival and protects the genetic material (DNA) in the sperm.

Men who live in the United States have the highest rates of prostate cancer, while men who live in South America, Central America, Africa, and Asia all have much lower rates prostate cancer.

What accounts for the difference? Diet of course. The most common dietary culprit implicated in raising prostate cancer risk is a high fat diet, particularly a diet high in saturated animal fats.

Cut out the animal fat and be a virile vegan!

The Penis:

The fully erect penis is the ultimate symbol of masculinity.

Erection is achieved when the penis becomes engorged with blood.

According to the National Institutes of Health in 2002, an estimated 15 million to 30 million men in the United States experience chronic erectile dysfunction. They can't get it up. They have been emasculated.

In the majority of these cases impotence is caused by narrowing of the blood vessels in the penis. When the arteries and veins to the penis clog up, you can't get it up. Blood vessels clog up from all the saturated fat and cholesterol in cooked carcasses you consume. This narrowing of blood vessels is called cardiovascular disease. If you can't get it up you are a prime candidate for a deadly heart attack.

If the measure of a man is his enormous erection, meat eaters are miniscule.

Vegans rarely, if ever, develop cardiovascular disease. Vegans rarely, if ever become impotent. Virile Vegans!

A Question For You

Are you so emotionally attached to the current cultural concept of what makes a man, a man that you will ignore the facts, or are you man enough to take meat off your menu?

Do you have the "huevos" to go against what society says, to be a cultural revolutionary, to be a virile vegan?

Be Vegan, Be Virile!

Source : Vibrant Vegan

You are the Change

A short video which highlights several issues that I personally find utterly important and worth researching such as: animal cruelty, water fluoridation, food control through codex alimentarius that's going to be valid from December 2009, GM food, media manipulation through mass media, engineered viruses, human caused global warming, the myth of terrorist and many others.

It's time for a change now so let's be the change!

“Be the change you want to see in the world!”
~ Mathama Gandhi

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
~Albert Einstein

 

The Difference Between Human and Animal Rights

A video describing how exactly rights relate to animals, pointing out that humans only have rights because they ARE animals - and that the label and vocal language the humanity is the only thing standing in the way of animals claiming the rights they should already possess.

The Dairy Cow: The Most Overworked Mother On The Planet

The dairy cow normally has her first calf at the age of two when she will be producing around 35 liters of milk a day. In subsequent lactations this figure rises even higher. She will continue to be milked for 10 months - but will be made pregnant again in the third month.

Professor John Webster, Department of Animal Husbandry, Bristol University says: "The dairy cow is a supreme example of an overworked mother. She is the hardest working of all our farm animals and it can be scientifically calculated. It is equivalent to a jogger who goes out for six to eight hours a day which is a lunatic pursuit. He states that almost 100 per cent of cows suffer from laminitis - a disease which causes 'great pain to the cow' (MAFF). Tissue lining of the foot becomes inflamed and may lead to ulcers. Professor Webster continues: "To understand the pain of laminitis it helps to imagine crushing your finger nails in the door then standing on your fingertips."

Doreen The Downer

UNITED NATIONS SAYS: BE VEGAN!

European Union and United Nations calls for a global shift to a vegan diet to survive hunger, poverty and climate change.

Dairy = Veal Calf Prisons–Go Vegan

A look at "modern" calf housing... Gone are the primative wood stalls to be replaced with the primative plastic ones. It's all cruel - all unnecessary. Go Vegan

Milk Comes From Grieving Mothers - Truth About Organic Dairy

Lena, a mother cow's perspective of her experience as a dairy cow.

The truth about organic dairy.

From Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative:

"Economically, it is not possible for farmers to keep retired cows on the farm.... Organically raised cows will stay a part of the herd for an average of 6-8 years verses conventionally raised cows who only average 4 years...." (PPS: this means that organically raised cows have two more years of emotional and physical suffering and two more of their newborn babies stolen from them and murdered for Veal).

"We require that the packing plants (another word for slaughterhouse) get certified before we will do business. This means that our animals must be processed (brutally slaughtered) separately with clean equipment. This also means that they cannot use chemicals or pesticides in the plant."

Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative

Consumer Relations
http://www.peacefulprairie.org/outreach/grievingMother.html

VEGAN. For the People. For the Planet. For the Animals.

People everywhere are making choices more connected with their values.

We are simplifying our lives, buying less and living more because we know that the Earth provides enough to satisfy everyone's need, but not everyone's greed.

But there is one connected choice that sometimes gets overlooked. It's one of the most far-reaching personal, practical and ethical choices you can make. With this choice we can help...

• Feed ourselves and every hungry person on the planet.
• End deforestation -- replenish the deep woods of the North and save our disappearing rainforests.
• Revitalize our rural landscapes and save family farms.
• Stop the number one polluter of water and the number one waster of water.
• Return our oceans to thriving underwater worlds teeming with life and wonder.
• Make cancer and heart disease a rarity instead of a common occurrence.
• Stop the unnecessary suffering of billions and billions of animals.
• And return wild lands to their rightful owners.

This powerful choice can be done by everyone every day... by you... right now.

Vegan.

Every day you are invited to make choices. Live your values. Change the world. It's that simple.

Food INC

Everyone should watch the movie FOOD INC. It’s very informative and will change the way you think of food! People really need to be educated about where their food comes from!

Buy the DVD of Food INC here!

Farm to Fridge - The Truth Behind Meat Production

WARNING! DISTURBING CONTENT! Viewer discretion is advised!

Mercy For Animals presents Farm to Fridge. Narrated by Oscar-nominee James Cromwell, this powerful film takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration behind the closed doors of the nation's largest industrial farms, hatcheries, and slaughter plants -- revealing the often-unseen journey that animals make from Farm to Fridge.

Ohio Dairy Farm Brutality

On September 24, 2010, Billy Joe Gregg, Jr., a worker at Conklin Dairy Farms caught on hidden camera during a Mercy For Animals investigation maliciously abusing cows and calves, pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals.

Gregg was sentenced to eight months in jail, ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, and is barred from contact with animals for three years. Gregg must also receive counseling through a program that specializes in treating individuals involved in animal abuse cases.

Gregg's arrest and conviction stem from chilling undercover footage recorded during a Mercy For Animals investigation earlier this year at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio.

During a four-week investigation in April and May, MFA's investigator documented farm workers:

• Violently punching young calves in the face, body slamming them to the ground, and pulling and throwing them by their ears

• Routinely using pitchforks to stab cows in the face, legs and stomach

• Kicking "downed" cows (those too injured to stand) in the face and neck – abuse carried out and encouraged by the farm's owner

• Maliciously beating restrained cows in the face with crowbars – some attacks involving over 40 blows to the head

• Twisting cows' tails until the bones snapped

• Punching cows' udders

• Bragging about stabbing, dragging, shooting, breaking bones, and beating cows and calves to death

After viewing the footage, Dr. Bernard Rollin, Distinguished Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, stated: ""This is probably the most gratuitous, sustained, sadistic animal abuse I have ever seen. The video depicts calculated, deliberate cruelty, based not on momentary rage but on taking pleasure through causing pain to cows and calves who are defenseless.""

Sadly, cruelty to farmed animals in Ohio – no matter how egregious – is classified as a mere misdemeanor. Ohio has some of the weakest animal protection laws in the nation – ranking 43rd out of all 50 states. Further, no federal laws provide protection for farmed animals during their lives on the farm. Such inadequate state laws and the absence of federal laws lead to rampant abuse.

The deplorable conditions uncovered at Conklin Dairy Farms further highlight the reality that animal agriculture cannot be trusted to self-regulate and that meaningful federal and state law must be implemented and strengthened to prevent egregious cruelty to farmed animals.

"Gregg's punishment is a slap on the wrist compared to the unimaginable suffering endured by the animals who were victims of his malicious abuse," says MFA's Executive Director, Nathan Runkle. ""It's an outrage that in Ohio it's a mere misdemeanor to sadistically punch, beat and stab farmed animals, break their bones and otherwise torture them. This case should serve as a wake-up call to all compassionate citizens that Ohio must do more to strengthen its animal cruelty laws.""

Although many of the abuses documented at Conklin Dairy Farms are expressions of Gregg's sadistic pathology, numerous MFA undercover investigations at dairy farms, pig farms, egg farms, hatcheries and slaughterhouses have revealed that violence and abuse to farmed animals – whether malicious or institutionalized – run rampant nationwide.

Compassionate consumers can end their direct financial support of farmed animal abuse by rejecting dairy, and other animal products, and adopting a vegan diet.

Source: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/ohdairy/

Vegan Video

Dan Piraro from www.bizarro.com masterfully made this really awesome video. It's a talking pig that explains why eating meat is bad for you.

I always love this cute video. It’s funny, but it has all the facts of why human were not designed to eat meat.

Do You Drink Milk? 28 Things You Should Know.

A very important information about milk. If you can live without killing animals, why take their lives away?

This video is right on, when you drink milk you are contributing to the veal industry and the suffering of animals. Female cows have to be made pregnant in order to produce milk, since there is no need for male calves in the dairy industry, the male calves are kept in tiny, cramped crates where they can't even move and are butchered at a few weeks old. The female calves are turned into dairy cows or raised for the meat on your plate. Make conscious decisions, people!! Going vegetarian was the best decision I've ever made. Buying cheese also contributes to animal cruelty. The enzymes in cheese contain rennet which is a cows stomach.

"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." -Abraham Lincoln