{"id":598,"date":"2012-01-02T22:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T22:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/?p=598"},"modified":"2012-02-18T22:48:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:48:55","slug":"mme-effect-on-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/mme-effect-on-food","title":{"rendered":"MME Effect on Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Walk<\/a>

Walk a mile in my shoes!<\/p><\/div>\n

I heard it said years ago, “You are what you eat.”\u00a0 After many years of trying to put that thought out of my head and denying the truth of it,\u00a0 I ate and drank whatever I desired without thought of consequence.<\/p>\n

I am finally able to agree that diet is a major factor in how I feel, behave and think.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0probably\u00a0<\/span>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?<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

I believe all disease stems back to what we eat,\u00a0 how we eat it, why we eat what we eat, who gets paid for it, and how we pay for it.<\/p>\n

When was the last time you had a big ol’ plate full of flesh? Eat, drink and be merry is no joke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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