I began my journey thinking primarily of health, the planet,
harming animals fewer times, with a burning question about what food really is. I began preaching organic living 20 years ago
because it’s safer. I have been passionate about the purity of what goes in and
on my body. What is applied soaks in. But what I have learned so far this year
is stunning me and taken my journey to another whole level.
Most of my family has been killed off by cancer. I lost my dad
before I was 18. Mother passed in 2015,
a brother in 2014 and currently I have 2 family members who are terminal (a
brother and cousin). All of my people were meat eaters, who did not embrace an
organic diet. Then I was laid off at my job of 26 years where I was a project
manager. It’s been a perfect storm. With
what I knew already, coupled with the deaths of loved ones, and time to study, this
solidified my goal of a preemptive strike.
I am asking you to walk with me and then help others take the blinders
off that Agribusiness and Corporate America wants to keep tightly in place. All of us deserve to live our best life, with
abundance on all levels.
The Planet – We have harmed her greatly. We have polluted the air, our water, and soil
with the way we do our business, all the chemicals, hormone disruptors, toxins.
There seems no end to it. Pesticides, like DDT, began as chemical warfare. After the war, corporations had surplus and
wanted to find a use and profit. We didn’t even know how DDT worked when we began using it as a pesticide spread far and
wide on our crops to kill off good and bad bugs and while this toxin was banned
decades ago, it is something that will always be here as it takes so very long
to break down. DDT is in all US soils
which means it is also in the bones of our beef who dine on grasses. (What cows
really eat, they do not actually eat corn and their bodies don’t process corn
well at all. This is a forced cruelty
perpetrated by the meat industry to fatten the cows cheaply.) We no longer rotate crops and rest our soil.
Because of this and CAFOS, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, otherwise
known as Factory Farms, with our addictions to meat, to beef and the dairy
industry, we have soil erosion. It takes 40 bowls of spinach to equal the iron
content of 1 bowl of spinach from 1950. We
have depleted our soil of nutrients. If you are buying your lettuce from the
grocery store, you should be aware. Because of Corporate choices in the way
business was conducted and continues to unfold there is not only less nutrition
in our vegetables (although Organic is higher and better) there is no absolute
safe haven from toxins. You and I share what is known as a body burden because
of this. For those not already vegan, try adopting a more plant based diet where
meat and dairy is consumed not more than 2 days a week. When you do shop, buy local and organic from
known farms so you understand the quality and how the animals are treated. But I encourage a visit. It can be quite eye opening. After a long search for the holy grail of
animal kindness in the meat and dairy culture, it turned me vegan.
Health – The oil and gas industry, Monsanto and GMO and
pesticides all contribute to our body burden, which is the level of toxins our
bodies cannot get rid of, that are tucked away someplace in our fat cells, in
an attempt by our bodies to continue existence.
Our body is an amazingly resilient self-healing machine, capable of
fighting off numerous diseases, even cancer.
Cancer is simply a mutated cell and a healthy body fights it every
day. When our immune system gets tired,
the system breaks down and we begin to fail.
It is paramount that we detox daily, exercise to flush out toxic waste
and minimize the chemicals we put in and on our bodies.
Food - Many animals are taught by their elders how to hunt
and what is food to them. Otherwise,
they would not know. This accounts for
why some Whale Pods will either prey on fishes or marine mammals, but not
both. Some even kill moose and sea
birds. These skills are taught by the parents and become the pods culture that
is passed on to the next generation. We are a product of our environment and how we
were raised. I recently met a vegan who
had been raised in the vegan lifestyle. He had never tasted meat. I was a bit envious that I had not been
raised similarly. I remember my family
giving me treats for eating my meat, which I did not want to consume as a small
child. It turns out, I was onto something. What is food to us is by our culture. But our bodies are set up, from our teeth,
our jaw design, down to our digestive tract, to eat plants, vegetables. I
advocate growing your own organic vegetables and herbs wherever possible. This
can be on a patio or a window sill. Buy
organic when you shop. Every day we
support companies and their decisions, with our dollars.
Harming Animals – Everyone can google search these days, so
go do that. It is shocking how we treat
our food. I always had felt our food
should be honored and kept safe from harm, both plant and animal. Films like Food Inc. were eye openers for me
and fueled my drive toward organic farms.
Factory farming methods are the most inhumane of the bunch and should
absolutely be shunned. To buy from them, perpetuates untold suffering for both
them and us, as we consume that unhealthy, unsanitary meat and dairy. There are many things I could say here and
all of them would turn your stomach. I
leave you to your google searches where folks have worked undercover at these
places and provided snapshots of what takes place.
Is there a kinder killing?
The flat answer is that we are taking animals with their own thoughts,
goals and awareness, who do not want to die, who see their buddies go before
them, are so scared, want out, badly, but cannot do anything but march forward. I watched a cow desperately try to walk
backwards, turn around, get away from death, before finally bowing his head in despair
to the reality that he was next. Even
organic meat is not in our best interest health wise. Meats and animal fat hold the highest levels
of toxins. When we eat animals we
consume those chemicals too. The truth
is that we don’t have to consume meat to live a robust and healthy life and
doing so is actually shortening our life and putting us in the clutches of
heart disease, high cholesterol and cancer.
I urge you toward a compassionate diet, one that will extend your
vitality and years of great health.
The Hippocrates Diet – The Hippocrates Health Institute
(HHI) is a vegan diet, with at least 80% of consumed foods being raw. If you
are healthy, 20% may be cooked. Enzymes and
oxygen are in all raw food. Yes you
actually eat oxygen, not just breath it! Vitamins require Oxygen and Enzymes
for utilization. Cooked food is depleted of Oxygen and enzymes. Digestion is the #1 thing. If you lack enzymes from your food, your body
will borrow it from other places (not good).
Due to soil erosion, and the toxins in our environment, there is a huge
focus on sprouts and wheatgrass juicing.
Alternative Lifestyle Consultant- What I do is help clients
shift to a vegan or more plant based diet.
I help them with best products, juicer, sprouters, blenders, food
processors, to set their kitchen up with to make it easy as possible. I realize that a lot of us travel or for
other reasons, may not be able to sprout their foods on a consistent
basis. This is why I became an
independent rep for Miessence.
Miessence – Body Tonics & Skincare/Body care – It is
vital that what we apply on our skin be pure, be free of pesticides and other
toxins. The way we guarantee this is by
buying organic. Fantastic skincare you
can feel good about is just the beginning.
The superfoods, what I call Body Tonics, are great for on the go, or for
those folks who cannot sprout their wheatgrass at home on a regular basis. Cancer doesn’t like an alkalized
environment. Deep Green alkalizes our
body with algae and grasses. Probiotics increase the body’s enzyme
production. And Antioxidants help us
repair and fight off daily onslaughts from the air we breath, the water we
drink (get a purifier) and the (organic) foods we eat.
No matter how cleanly you choose to live, you need to daily
detox because the body burden is there. It takes a full 7 years of this diet to
eradicate most of the body burden. Some
of it is always going to be with you, but I encourage you to take steps now
toward a brighter, enlivened future!
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