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The Vegan Conspiracy Part I article by Jennifer Lake Veganism (vee'-gan-is'-m), while hardly catching on in the general population, is promoted more and more by officialized "health" advocates. Only 1 to 2% of the public is claimed by survey to endorse it. The distinct difference betweens vegans and vegetarians is a complete rejection of all products issuing from animal sources. This is a new and unprecedented development in human history, highly dependent on "scientism" and supplements, with a grossly inadequate body of evidence to support it. In fact, the evidence against veganism is gathering like storm clouds. But why should you care if so few people are interested, and not likely to be put off of their usual cuisine? The answer may lie in the interests of governments, policy creation, and the health fascism taking root within the establishment. It's clear that the agricultural heritage of humankind would be greatly impacted by a shift toward veganism, most notably the elimination of small farms producing eggs and dairy, perhaps the last truly independent farmers. Apart from the land-grabbing potential underlying the vegan politic is a question about the impact to health: is it good for you? Reformed fruitarian Arnold DeVries, author of "The Elixir of Life" recounts the experience of the great Mohandas Gandhi and his followers who attempted disciplined experiments in veganism in the 1920s. The group fell into weakness and sickness and despite decades of experimental effort with veganism, Gandhi declared in 1946, "The crores of India today get neither milk nor ghee nor butter, nor even buttermilk. No wonder that mortality figures are on the increase and there is a lack of energy in the people. It would appear as if man is really unable to sustain life without either meat or milk and milk products. Anyone who deceives people in this regard or countenances the fraud is an enemy of India". Gandhi was compelled to restore himself with fresh goat's milk. (1). The ruination of milk in our modern times is the result of criminal industrial practices and the many frauds of pasteurization. The health of any animal is indisputably entwined with the quality of its environment and the appropriateness of its food supply. Destroying the goodness of meat, milk, and eggs is a long travail through the horrors of industrialization but the plant kingdom of living creatures has also been deeply subject to forced industrial insult. Genetic modifications notwithstanding, adulterated WATER, contaminated rain, and run-off have poisoned everyone's food for more than a century. Read the online synopsis of "Death by Faucet" on the synergistic health effects of water pollution by researcher Glen Caulkins. (2). Vegan voices, however, selectively disregard the inconvenient scientific truths and push moral arguments and foolish ideas in their place. It is propaganda, after all. The main moral argument is self-evident animal abuse which is just no "argument", as in the example of the turn-of-the-last-century public crying out on behalf of the Union Stockyard cattle inmates described by Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". Chicago's Union Stockyards were financed by the Rothschild banking house of Kuhn, Loeb, and Co. with partnership in the operations and it doesn't go lower than their bottom line. The foolish ideas from vegans about "human design" are dependent on the clinch of moral arguments and the hope that you won't look up the basic facts about the differences in human and animal anatomy. An example is the pervasive promotion of the idea that humans have long intestinal tracts "like herbivores". Reality. Average cow --130 foot intestine with a special four-compartment stomach called a rumen. Average goat --100 foot intestine with a four-compartment rumen. Average human --25 foot intestine with a single stomach. This is like selling candied cereal to children, and perhaps that is exactly the intent. (3). So, who are these vegan voices, and what's the angle? Dr. Peter Singer is one of the more prominent spokesmen for veganism in the U.S., endorsed by PETA, also a vegan promoter. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) maintains a large organizational presence on the internet and has inserted the word "cautious" into their official endorsement of Peter Singer ever since he publicly enunciated his comfort with the practice of bestiality. Singer, author of the book "Animal Liberation" and much more, ranks in the highest strata of academia as a medical ethicist. His views have been deemed anti-human especially in the characterization of infants as "lacking essential personhood" and therefore "simply killing an infant is never equivalent to killing a person". Singer writes for the Greater Good Science Center at UCBerkeley and the journalistic Zionist think tank, Project Syndicate, among other professional outlets, and decries the posturing of "speciesists".(4). PETA, in their promotion of vegan nutrition, has posted a webpage of acceptable snackfoods at www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/ to encourage the faint of heart that potato chips, cookies, and soft drinks are good products for vegans too. Ironically, the fine print warns that ingredients derived from animal sources may be present in the listed foods. It's okay! , says PETA-- it's about the MESSAGE. McDonald's could have used the help of PETA publicists before it was sued in a class-action lawsuit by six religionists who were in part members of the North American Vegetarian Society in Oppenheim, New York. The "class" ate McD's French fries tainted by an animal substance and won six million dollars, having to battle over the loot with other vegetarian organizations who felt entitled to share. All of the organizations are designated as educational non-profits and need funds to expand their "awareness campaigns" --maybe they started by educating their members on the hazards of schmoozing around Big Macs after the cash cow goes dry. Less controversially, but more expensively, I heard Reggie McVeggie needs a new tour bus. Fortunately for Reggie's friends, they won't have to put up a legal defense fund for an infringement suit by McDonald's. The matter was already legally challenged, settled, and Reggie won the right to exist. While review of this case seems oddly hand-in-glove to this researcher, the "message" that PETA is encouraging happy snackers to send to food manufacturers appears to be "it's okay to sell animal-derived ingredients in products to vegans". It smells like another lawsuit and it looks like another Hegelian construct of controlled opposition. What's up Veggies? Beyond the legal hi-jinks are the sincerely practicing vegans who wouldn't be caught dead in McDonald's. Their history begins with the founding of the British Vegan Society in 1944 by Donald Watson. Watson, born in 1910, is typical of a vegan who is converted in adulthood, but atypical for being raised on a family farm eating fresh milk, eggs, and meat until the age of 32. Watson's longevity into his 90s is credited to veganism. Searching for other geriatric vegans grew into a daunting task, however. Dr. Stanley Bass illustrates the dilemma on his website in a particular interview with the Essene Brother John. Brother John is now a contented lacto-vegetarian after losing his health from 5 years of veganism with a cautionary tale to tell. Once a professional vegan proponent, Brother John relates the rampant cheating he witnessed among other professional vegan proponents, people who write and sell books on the benefits of veganism, sneaking around to eat pizza and other savory unmentionables. He wouldn't name names, as a sort of professional courtesy, but his story certainly troubles the waters. More testimonials on Dr. Bass' website from non-cheaters, like Greg Westbrook and his fellowship on the Hallelujah Diet attest to the health crises confronted by aspiring vegans. They echo in form and substance the experience of Gandhi and the authenticity of people striving to practice their beliefs. The environmentalism of the 1970s provided ethical twinship to the vegan cause as could no other time in history, hence its appearance in pocketed groups within the schema of Earth activists. It is largely an environmental platform that floats the vegan ideology today and the concern over animal "footprints" (flatulent bovines are contributing to Global Warming, dontcha know?!) Food informationists in the 70s, who issued the booklet "You Are What You Eat", capitalized on the world's hungry and informed a wakening public of the unbalanced exchange of food calories in grain and water into meat and milk which is still the current positioning. But, it was true then as it is now that modern agriculture has produced enough grain and plant-based foodstuffs to provide over 4 pounds of food per person per day to everyone on the planet and still feed the animals. Hunger in the modern world has never been about food production shortages in the same way that petroleum oil has never been in shortage. The problem is abundance and corruption. Or has been, but who can say now, with weather weapons, distribution breakdowns, and genocidal maniacs on top of the game? Veganism is one more weaponized food program in the battle of nutrition information, an extreme example of the ideals enshrined in the Food Guide Pyramid. The International Vegetarian Union was founded in 1908 and set out to become a template of high-minded global governance, its membership going on to establish offshoot organizations like the World Union of Vegetarian/Vegan Societies, founded by Alex Hershaft, whose claim is of "promoting vegetarianism worldwide since 1908". Interesting year, 1908. The U.S. federal government passed the draconian Quarantine Act, the first human virus, poliovirus, was "discovered", and Eugenics was legalizing its criminal practices. Feeding experiments on animals in private laboratories were proving that meat and fresh milk would help the animals recover from the traumatic treatments of surgery, irradiation, and chemical poisoning. Victorian hospitals had already noted the added susceptibility of patients to drug uptake when deprived of fat and protein-rich foods, which must have delighted the charity institutions who could feed people cheaply and get a bonus of better drug response. It surely plays a part in the institutional human experiments covertly carried out with vaccines and pharmaceuticals and explains much about the reasons why healing foods were not served in hospitals. By extension, it explains much about why drug-pushing doctors finish medical school ignorant of nutrition. Critics of veganism mince no words in identifying the practice as a religion. William Jarvis of the National Council Against Health Fraud calls veganism "an hygienic religion that meets deep emotional needs of its followers who revel in self-denial and wars against pleasure". Examples of spiritual cults provide the only historic background for the antiquity of vegetarianism, largely a proscription against eating anything that copulates. These monastics sanctioned the eating of fish because fish don't Do It, not for any perceived benefits of health. Jewish vegetarianism is a teaching intended to usher in the messianic age, also not for reasons of health or animal welfare. It's intriguing to read that "according to some Kabbalists, only a mystic, who is able to sense and elevate the reincarnated human souls and 'divine sparks' is permitted to consume meat..." (5). Notes and References (1) website of Stanley Bass at www.drbass.com, and read about the Hallelujah diet experience at www.naturalhygienesociety.org/diet3.html (2) Death By Faucet, readable info on water contamination and health effects, found at www.youarebeingpoisoned.com (3) share this with the kids on anatomy, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Anatomy_and_Physiology_of_Animals/The_Gut_and_Digestion (4) the wikipedia, on Peter Singer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer (5) www.reference.com/browse/vegetarians/ for a general overview and the quote above |