The old adage “pleased to meat you” was a popular if excruciating epithet for butchers in my ‘home country’! One thing is for certain — the video below should not please anyone who considers they have an ounce of humanity in their mind, body or soul! To be sure this is evidence that ‘one man’s meat is another man’s poison’ — for much of these activities displayed are truly poisonous on a deeply psychological level… And just another part of the current paradigm that has to shift soon…
As a lifelong meat-eater who has been ‘progressing’ (perhaps too slowly) towards vegetarianism over the last few years for philosophical, ethical and (dare I say) — spiritual — reasons (not to mention being cajoled by an increasing number of other parties)… this may be the video that helps tip the balance and achieve the objective in 2012…
Let me be clear I still tend towards the viewpoint that eating meat is ‘natural’ for ‘omnivores’ such as Homo sapiens — and indeed, such eating habits — along with cooking food — may well have contributed positively towards our evolution into the ‘thinking being’ that we are supposed to be… But that said — there perhaps comes a time when the occasional animal caught in the wild and made into a meal is a far cry from the horrific reality of the ‘meat industry’ of today. Taking a wild animal who has led a free and natural existence. and therefore had some quality of life, maybe still seem cruel yet the the beast has not be subjected to barbarism en route to the plate!
There can be NO moral or ethical justification for the barbarous, inhumane and ‘inhuman’ methods employed on a supposedly acceptable level by the industry as a whole, and on a wholly unacceptable level by the those who have become ‘desensitized’ and ‘psychologically impaired’ individuals who are unfortunate enough to have to work in this travesty that is called an ‘industry’.
One might observe that ‘living creatures’ have become no more than ‘machines’ that produce meat — BUT this would still be inaccurate as machines are generally treated far better than these poor animals…
The meat industry is an aspect of humanity that OUGHT to make us ashamed to be humans – and proves at this time beyond doubt — that we are (s long as we do not speak out against such practices) not only complicit in this torture — but also far less than the so-called ’sentient’ and ‘conscious’ advanced-beings that we like to think that we are…
Shocking and sickening scenes — you have been warned — but don’t fail to watch this — then pass it on to everyone you know… and THINK about any morsel of ‘manufactured meat’ that passes your lips in 2012!
God knows that we have to hope that human beings are not like rats, and not just for the reasons that may spring immediately to mind! But what is certain is that we have all been treated like guinea-pigs, in a global laboratory experiment that has already been running for most of the last decade… genetic modification and genetic engineering of currently widely consumed food crops!
This interview (videos below) with Dr. Arpad Pusztai makes it clear that we can only hope that we are not as susceptible as rats seem to be to what is termed ‘proliferative growth’ in the small intestine when we consume Genetically Modified foods. It is apparent that products such as the ‘Flavr Savr’ tomato (an early gentically modified — GM — product to be found on the supermarket shelves) which apparently caused pin-point bleeding in the rats’ bowel, and GM poatoes (experimental work on which became Dr. Pusztai’s widely media covered ‘downfall’, when he happened to utter a few words of true scientific concern about potential problems with GM food much to the discontent of powerful corporate concerns that wield international political power!) which may also cause abnormalities in the gut and/or liver (in rats!).
Additionally, more recent studies (as referred to by Pusztai) have also indicated similar concerns.
The problem being that unlike MOST prior scinetific work, that has to be done on innovative products with intense scrutiny BEFORE they get anywhere near the public-cosumption stage — this work has been done in ‘reverse order. WE have been eating GM for years — and well before exhaustive tests have been run, and in continued defiance of the negative evidence that work like Pusztai’s and others have provided!
Sources suggest that perhaps 70 to 80 percent of products on the typical US supermarket shelves now contains one or more GM ingredient.
It has been widely suggested that almost all soya and corn (maize) and related derivatves and ingredients are contaminated with GM strains (if not wholly and deliberately manufactured from such agricultural sources).
Genetically Modified Organisms are simply a spuriously justified, unnatural initiative, that has been pushed forward by corporate concerns looking to make huge profits. In effect companies such as Monsanto (amongst others) are manoeuvering themselves into a position to ‘own the food chain’ by exploiting GM related trademarked crops. They have callously destroyed small farmers who have not ‘trodden their path’, enabled to do this thanks to shocking legislation, enacted by former employes of the ‘concerned parties’ who have been awarded critical political positions in the legal system in the US. Such legislation protects the GM producers whilst demanding the impossible of the small farmer who is determined to farm in natural way — i.e. avoiding the use of GM seed crops, and employing seed saving methods that have been the tradition of real farming for thousands of years.
As humans seem to suffer ever more from strange and essentially ‘inexplicable’ ailments, according to ‘medical science’ — and in light of the observation of the Russian Nobel Laureate, Dr. Elie Metchnikoff, in the early 1900’s, that ‘death begins in the colon‘ — it seems likely that we will begin to reap a truly bitter GM harvest in years to come…
From beneficial insects (such as ladybirds/ladybugs — the digsetive deterioration of which creatures is identified by Dr Pusztai as the ‘canary in the coalmine’ that awakened his own suspicions about the problems of GM potatoes), through honey bees, dying off in their millions to God alone knows what ultimate disastrous natural effect (some sources suggesting that it is the self-same detrimental effect of GM on their digestive tract that is responsibile for this species declne), through to laboratory rats… and potentially humans, too… The travesty of GM, backed by the billions of the greed-driven corporates, is that it CANNOT coexist with the ‘natural option’… Due to Nature itself, GM crops WILL cross-pollinate, unnatural genetics WILL find their way into the natural crops… And as Pusztai implies… even watering down the ‘Frankenstien genetics’ may well NOT reduce their potential for health-impugning impact!
It may take a few generations for the human race to become evidently and widely affected by the impact of GM on the digestive tract… By which time it will be too late to stop the rot! As billions die early from genetically induced digestive, hepatic or as yet un-expected disease — from ‘proliferative growth’ in the intestines or perhaps in the liver, maybe elsewhere — then those that were responsible will all have passed on (hopefully to the place they deserve!)… Leaving our future generations to watch our species decline… and wonder if the issues (which by then will have probably have inflitrated all food crops and animals globally, as they almost have already!) can ever be resolved?
If one was of a ‘conspiratorial bent’ then one might suggest that this is all part of the widely-suspected ‘grand plot’ to reduce the human population by substantial numbers… The problem with such a suggestion, naturally being, that those who perpetrate this crime against Nature, and Humanity, will also have to ‘eat from the same pot’ — so they will be killing their own families too!… But then, perhaps they don’t really care about this, as long as they all make a ‘buck’ today!! When will we stand up to to this type of exploitation?
When will we stop listening to the media clap-trap about positive reasons for meddling with genetics and for pursuing the spurious and dangerous GM agenda? I am guessing — if ever — it will be when it is too late to stop the problem from becoming yet another of the ’sins of the Fathers’ that our children, grand-children and beyond will have to TRY and deal with!
Banning the pursuance of the development and use of ALL GM seed crops and livestock is an immediate requirement. It may already be too late to pull-back from the brink of what is potentially the foundation of an unimaginable natural calamity… But it is past time that more people woke-up and stopped allowing themselves and their families to be pushed around, exploited for gain, and ultimately probably physically harmed by being ‘unknowing’ guinea-pigs… not to mention the harm already visited upon the Earth and innumerable other species — even the laboratory rats!
If you haven’t seen this film, based on Helena Norberg Hodge’s book Ancient Futures, then here is an opportunty to do just that…
And why, you might ask, should you want to?
Well — albeit that this video was originally published in 1993 — the film effectvely encapsulates the issues that beset developing countries, and indigenous cultures, as they become increasingly enticed by, and embroiled in, the media-manufactured demand for so-called ‘progress’. In the name of aspiring to acquire the supposed ‘benefits’ of western civilization, all that is good and wholesome about their long-established traditional way of life can soon be sacrificed… with a whole raft of well-recognized social inequities, malaise and issues taking the place of once beautiful and synergsitic ways of life.
In the name of cheap consumer gods — and typically coca-cola and fast food, too — centuries of traditional, successful, cooperative, community based lifestyle that has weathered even the harshest of terrains and provided a harmonious and happy basis for many generations to enjoy truly ‘living’ and providing for themselves is being eroded and, potentially, forever lost…
And as Norberg Hodge observes — this provides a great insight into what has already gone, and what continues to go wrong with today’s most ‘advanced’ societies! It also highlights that human tendency to fail to appreciate just what you have, until it has gone! Reclaiming that which you have lost, is so much more difficult (if not impossible) once certain things have changed… But then this seems to have been the way of the human race since the days of the Garden of Eden — and as the man one said (or, rather, sang) ‘when will we ever learn?‘…
Insightful, and by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking — well worth an hour of your day:
2012 approaches and the alternative media is increasingly fizzing with effervescent activity proclaiming this that and the other about the future (or lack thereof) of the world and humanity itself.
Alternative theories speak of everything from: Hopi and Mayan prophecies (not to mention Nostradamus and Mother Shipton and that old blind Russian woman’s words of unspeakable woe soon to be upon us!)!!; Alien disclosure — including for some the looming possibility of visitations and attacks of either a ’real’ (?) or false flag nature; the supposed New World Order(NWO) and/or illuminati or the “33 ruling families’ blood-lines” plans and their current machinations that aim to further tighten their control of the globe — plans which some suggest may include mass extermination of billions of the population, to achieve a manageable 500 million (as apparently predicated by the Georgia Guide Stones!)…
And then of course there is the ongoing controversy about the impact and effects of human actvity in stimulating the ‘Greenhouse Effect’ (or not!) and the undoubted ’hockey stick’ graphical increase in CO2 emmissions and the implications for pushing us deeper into a period of mass extinction that there are alreday signs that we are entering into (with the big question remaining unanswered — will such a period of extinction include Homo sapiens?)…
And that is not to begin to suggest just what the 5% or so of ’supposedly genuine’ crop-circles are trying to tell us — if (as many seem to suggest) — they are indeed messages of import sent by conscious and concerned inter-planetary, or even perhaps pan-dimensional, beings who are trying to warn us of our folly, or our future, if we fail to change our ways!…
Who knows the real truth behind these and countless other ideas, theories and indeed blatant phantasies emerging daily from that corner of the web that would patently weave 2 and 2 into 5 (or more), and that constantly promulgates so-called ’proof’ and ‘data’ that fulfils neither definition of such words in the ‘real’ world?
But if one applies Occam’s razor, the concept that given two (or more, I presume) competing theories that seek to explain a particular phenomenon (or in this case ‘prediction’ of potential global collapse) then it is the option that requires the least number of hypotheses in order to sustain its proposition that is to be preferred as the most likely explanation… That is — the simplest explanation usually wins-out…
Then perhaps it is this lex parsimoniae, or Law of economy (which happens to be particularly apposite title) that should be applied when listening to Chris Martenson explaining in crystal clear terms just why we ARE truly likely to be facing some very real and serious challenges over the coming few years.
To be sure Martensen brandishes more than a few ‘hockey sticks’ of his own in presenting his cogent and persuasive argument (as you will see!). We could in fact even at this moment already be facing the trial of deciding what to do in those last 5 metaphorical-minutes that he refers to… Question is — will we actually all (as a global unified force) decide we have to act, agree on what to do and act big enough and fast enough, to do anything practical to avoid an increasingly likely-looking civilization-shattering meltdown?
The clock is ticking… but this is well worth an hour of your time:
Here’s a young man (Birke Baehr) who has got the message about what is wrong with our food system, and what we can do to improve it. He is also at an age (11 years) that is early enough to mean he could make a real difference… Let’s hope he is not alone in his generation in being a confident young person who may already be ‘enlightened’ enough to start to ameliorate the ‘sins of the fathers‘!
This clear-cut and confidently delivered presentation, at one of the acclaimed TED events, comes from a youngster at a time when the ’system’ is steadily re-inforcing and consolidating the vice-like grip on the food chain already exhibited by the big agricultural, GMO and agro-chemical suppliers (such as Monsanto)… through changes and modifications in US national and global food laws and impositions that pave the way for future exploitation, and reduction in choice for the consumer as small farmers and food producers get squeezed out of existence.
Whilst it is inspiring to hear a youngster speak with such determination and clarity of vision, the ‘dark forces’ undoubtedly have the upper-hand at this time… let’s hope that by the time he is old enough to fulfil his dream, there is still a genuine ‘organic’ movement that survives, and that has not already been dismantled and/or adulterated by genetically modified ’seeds of doom’!
Only time will tell if the new generation employ more sense than the old, and if the groundswell of opinion will lead to a return to our small farms surviving and producing more real food, and safer products on the supermarket shelves: