Walk a mile in my shoes!
I heard it said years ago, “You are what you eat.” After many years of trying to put that thought out of my head and denying the truth of it, I ate and drank whatever I desired without thought of consequence.
I am finally able to agree that diet is a major factor in how I feel, behave and think.
Knowing and changing with information can be a bit more complicated, especially when certain foods have been made so available. Why is that? Why would many foods that cause so much trouble be so irresistible?
There is a huge wave of information about the benefits or threats from what we eat. Still, the temptation can be overwhelming to eat blindly. Justifying what and why we eat what we eat is as easy as eating what we eat.
We are bombarded with commercials that invite us to eat this way. I’m finding now that very few people really care about health until they get really sick or lose a loved one to cancer, heart disease, etc. We think very little of the animals we eat, focusing instead on the satisfying of our appetites and pleasuring of our taste buds. Once our appetites have been pacified for the moment, we are thinking about our next meal and are strongly influenced by advertising – what we see on TV is what we want for supper.
Convenience can be both a blessing and a curse to us later on. Our gratitude for that convenience is extended to the foods industry but never to the animals involved in that industry.
I used to think I was entitled, as a free individual, to eat whatever and as much of whatever I felt like; after all, animals don’t really need, much less have, rights – unless they are our pets.
When we consume the flesh of an animal with eyes or produced by animals with eyes, we also consume what the animal felt about its life and death. The dis-eases we are manifesting now are probably more than the result of the thoughts and feelings of the flesh we are consuming. The fear, terror,despair,frustration, etc. of the creatures becomes a part of us. The more violent their life and death, the more dis-ease we experience. Anyone care for a Tums, or Rolaids?
Sure, disease is prevalent; but how about emotional turmoil, domestic abuse, child abuse, over-active imaginations, unnatural fears, nightmares, thinking thoughts we wouldn’t entertain if we were healthy?
I believe all disease stems back to what we eat, how we eat it, why we eat what we eat, who gets paid for it, and how we pay for it.
When was the last time you had a big ol’ plate full of flesh? Eat, drink and be merry is no joke!
I completely agree with you about the amount of meat we eat – far too much. Still, I believe meat is a valuable dietary element for humans. Red meat contains proteins AND important protein enzymes that assist the human body in digesting it and quickly making use of it.
There is no doubt in my mind that food (chemistry) makes a difference in our thinking, feeling, and behaviors. Whether the thoughts of the food we ingest makes a difference in our thoughts… makes sense to me.
I think the concept of thanking the plants and animals you consume for adding to your “being” is a great way to energize your food intake – and may make a difference in how your body chemistry works. Raw (or cooked) food – particularly vegetation – is already different enough from your current body signature that your body must change it substantially help it join the body’s MME.
Yes, so we are told, and yet much of the world of mankind live from day to day without it. If we are among the most educated people on earth, why are we so easily convinced about what we need in our diet? Why with so much abundance, are we making such poor choices for our diet? We have more disease in the United States than any other country or culture and in greater variety of illnesses per capita.
I have a thought about why cravings and dietary problems associated with eating meat from animals that have been traumatized. I think a traumatized animal, one that has been raised for our food, releases chemicals into its flesh for survival that chemically altered its flesh. The chemical production in a calm animal is different than that of a terrified one. We then unwittingly process the trauma (the way a human would interpret the chemical markers of the traumatized animal at the physical/emotional levels). Our bodies create specific kinds of chemicals when we are calm and specific chemicals when we are stressed, so do animals. Our minds and bodies recognize the meanings behind these chemical markers. I think that when we eat traumatized animal flesh, we will react to it in some negative way; perhaps heartburn, perhaps becoming stressed over things that we normally wouldn’t, or perhaps contracting an illness or disease that we normally would not have contracted.