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How to stop making frog soup of our world

Part one:

Why The World Is A Mess:

Yes, we are in dire straits BUT, (and what saddens me) is that the USA at least, we are in the middle of all the resources for change and growth and happiness any species could possibly ask for but we are soooooooooooooo slow to process ideas that it will be over before we “get it”. I fear that by the time we see what is right to do the inertia of our habits and erroneous beliefs will be too ingrained to overcome.

The majority of us can’t even remember to bring our own cloth bags to the store much less stop watching TV long enough to meet our neighbors and clean up our local environments. It is overwhelming new behavior that is beyond our comfort zone. So instead of getting started, many of us do nothing. We watch the news and get even sadder and our immune systems get even more compromised.

We are like the frog being boiled alive, you know the analogy, you put the frog in boiling water and it jumps out. But if you put the frog in a nice pot of warm water it will stay and not notice the gradually heat increase until it is way too late to jump out, and so that is how you make frog soup.

Dietary Madness

A“Frog soup” example of human behavior is how fat we are getting. We are creating diabetes or heart disease in our bodies. We cannot see the connection between the package of cookies eaten today and every day for the next 20 years in front of the TV with the inevitable hundred pound weight gain and the numbness in our feet due to compromised circulation. The doctor tells us “Well, diabetes, heart disease, fill-in-the-blank-disease, is a hereditary disease. Yes, I agree with the doc. all primates as well as all other creatures get sick if they over eat on chronically on high fat, denatured meat and dairy based diets. That is indeed “hereditary”.

I speak from experience having only just now gone vegan last year at the age of 49 after years of not getting the connection between dairy and damage to the environment by factory farming. I was a semi-veggie-raw-foodist-want-to-to-be who rarely ate chicken or fish. My diet was extreme enough as it was, right?

Wrong!! Somehow, liberal and educated and informed as I am I did not get that it takes thousands of gallons of water to produce one measly gallon of milk when you connect all the grain that has be planted, watered and fed to the cow that produces the milk. I did not know that factory farming is subsidized by the government by giant agri-corporations.

I did not choose to realize that the meat or dairy we buy for 3 dollars a pound actually costs twice that much to create. I was lulled by all the beliefs around me just like everyone else is. They were all eating without questioning it so I was eating it too. As a matter of fact  we all began eating this way before we could talk or question anything. We are told that we need tons of protein.  We are told that vegans are weird and crazy and unhealthy while the standard American diet is normal wholesome and “good for you”. These ideas are is implied at every meal.

Even though 20 years of research by Ivy league universities has proved otherwise I was confused by the “Got Milk”  and “beef, its what’s for dinner” ads  I kept seeing all around me. Take a look at The China Study by T Collin Campell for starts or check out my book list for proof that a low meat diet is actually healthier than our SAD diet.