Vegetarianism And Consumerism
Buddhists are vegetarians. This story still goes around the world. It is not true. Buddhists, even the monks, are allowed to eat meat. Food has an important function in our life, it affects our body and mind all the time. When we look at the neurobiological side of the digestive system we find that science slowly gets convinced that it has a “mind of its own” In other words, science slowly starts to accept that the digestive system has some kind of brain function in the body.
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Vegetarism and consumerism.
Buddhists are vegetarians.
This story goes around the world and it's not true.
Most,
Even the monks,
Are allowed to eat meat.
But there are some rules to be aware of.
The meat is not allowed to come from animals who have been slaughtered for the purpose of feeding the human.
This rule merely accounts for the people who took the oats,
Not for the common people,
Not for the layman.
Food has an important function in our life.
It affects our body and mind all the time.
To understand vegetarism better,
We need to have a look at the natural vegetarians.
The cows,
The giraffe,
The sheep and even the giant elephants are vegetarians by nature.
They have no choice,
As heard before.
The digestive system is completely organized for plant materials and they cannot digest large amounts of meat,
Like the carnivore,
The meat eater.
Each of them will fall ill when they are forced to eat the food of the other.
But we have to make a note here.
The carnivore,
When feeling ill,
They will eat herbal products to ease their digestive system.
Sometimes to throw up the food,
Because they use it as medicine.
On the other hand,
Herbivore eats small amounts of meat all the time,
In the form of insects.
The digestive system of the herbivore is around four times longer than the carnivore.
The length of the system includes more stomach bags,
Because they are needed for the digestion of the herbal products.
The carnivore often eats faster,
Has a shorter digestive system and produces much more waste material.
When we look at the neurobiological side of the digestive system,
We find that science slowly gets convinced that it has a mind of its own.
With other words,
Science slowly starts to accept that the digestive system has some kind of brain function in the body.
When we look around us,
It's obvious that a dysfunction in the digestive system has a direct effect on a person's mood and attitude,
Characteristics and the functioning.
To understand this better,
We need to look again in the animal world.
Carnivore has a short digestive system and needs to take all the nutrition from the food as fast as possible.
To do this,
The enzymes,
Acids and body fluids need to be strong and very effective.
A carnivore eats often to get the needed nutrients.
There are some exceptions to this rule.
Snake,
The crocodile and the turtle are known for their slow,
Meat directed system.
To eat meat,
The carnivore must kill.
To kill needs a specific mental attitude.
A carnivore has just one goal,
To get prey,
Kill it and eat it fast.
There are no feelings involved.
Nature has given the carnivore an attacking and aggressive personality to survive.
The herbivore does not have to run behind their food.
It needs no aggression,
But knowledge where to find the food.
They need to know what is to be found where in which part of the year.
The herbivore prefers a small territory that provides with enough resources for all year.
When that is not possible,
They need to know where to find it.
That is why some species travel over distance to reach their food resources.
Because they are programmed to do so.
During these travels herbivore are often under attack of the carnivore and must defend themselves.
Herbivore are defenders and can only attack when under threat.
Their nature prevents them otherwise.
The thoughts of the food has a direct connection with the attitude of the animal.
Carnivore need to be fast,
Aggressive and explosive by nature to chase,
Kill and consume their prey.
To be like that,
Each carnivore has an unpredictable,
Aggressive and attacking nature.
And the herbivore is near the opposite.
Their thoughts of food never runs away,
So they do not need to attack.
Herbivore need not to fear their food staple as they will not defend itself.
This makes herbivore a passive and defensive animal.
Their nature is quiet and patient.
A human being is only for by nature.
Our digestive system is made to consume meat and vegetarian products.
Everything in our system is created to do so.
We produce enzymes and body liquids that are able to consume meat at any time.
Vegetarians cannot produce any evidence that they do not do that.
This implies that the human by nature possesses aggressive attitudes which are needed to kill for survive and defense.
These are impossible to deny.
Our world has become a consumer paradise.
We have put our fate into the hands of consumerism.
The choice of products has become huge,
In fact so much that we hardly are able to make the right choices.
But people think that when they make a choice for a certain lifestyle they influence their biochemistry.
You can influence your chemistry by choice of food,
But it is not possible to change the nature of us as beings.
If you choose not to eat meat,
We need to consider that as a moral choice,
Not as a natural choice.
We do not need to eat meat so often and we should be very careful about this.
Because of our original biochemistry our bodies will affect our mind in case of aggressive behavior,
Our emotional system,
Fight or flight and our decision making.
It is not good to suppress with drugs or religion,
But we have to control it as fear and anger are the worst advisors in life.
Fear ends always in defeat as a fighter in the ring will prove so.
The source of our human power is to overcome fear and control emotions.
You get control when you are able to make the right choices and dare to go for a confrontation.
Food is one of your most important choices in life.
To eat meat or not or to take another lifestyle will affect our way of life in the very angle of our existence.
From my study and experience with fighters and other sports people,
Trainers,
Coaches,
Food specialists,
Doctors and physicians,
I reached the following conclusion.
When you are young there is a certain need for meat for a healthy development of the body and mind.
It seems not important what the nature of the meat is,
But surely what is the source of it.
It is important to eat clean meat,
Meat that has grown as clean as possible according to the values of nature and not chemical induced.
The amount of meat we can eat depends on the individual fat persons.
A person with a high fat person must be advised to eat meat as less as possible,
Especially red meat.
Only one or two times a week is really the maximum.
It is advised to exchange this with white meat of everything that flies or lives in the water.
Red meat has a high presence of fat and this is not easy to digest by most people.
From age 30 for females and 35 for males it is important to lower the amount of intake of carbohydrates and red meat.
The lowering depends on the individual fat persons.
But due to the changing biochemistry of every person,
The fat persons will rise.
Metabolism lowers and the hormones go through a change.
Every person's physical abilities are affected by a decrease of mobility,
Flexibility,
Explosive power and change in mentality.
The use of fat meats is not advised.
Methods of preparations like frying and baking must be reduced and an increase of easy available protein resources must be promoted.
After 40 a dramatic lowering of carbohydrates such as sweets and sugar products must take place and an increase in green vegetables,
Fruits and high protein resources must be promoted.
In this period of life we should pay a lot of attention to our foods lifestyle as the influences all parts of our life that will follow.
Increasing your food style and the discipline in how we should eat and drink need to be addressed as it has a direct effect on your personal spiritual development.
In the western world we talk about carbohydrate addiction.
Most people brought up with sweets and with a strong dependence as a result.
This addiction shows clearly in the sharp increase of diabetes,
The rise of overweight people,
Lower motivation in children to move and a decreased in concentration.
The results of this epidemic of carbohydrates are increase of people with low concentration levels,
Lack of orientation skills,
Uncontrollable behaviour,
Increase of intolerance,
Violent behaviour as addictions make people less stable,
Increase of ADD and ADHD and other energy related problems.
With a strong decrease of carbohydrates in the daily meals and the consumption we see a change of behaviour within a week.
The longer we continue an addiction the harder it becomes to change the behaviour.
My plea is to have a conscious lifestyle and be aware of the effects of food in general on every part of the body and mind.
My personal phrase has always been you are what you eat.
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Eleanor
October 30, 2020
Very interesting. I will need to listen a few more times. I have become mostly plant based this year and what a difference it makes!
Beverly
June 27, 2020
Some good points to ponder. Regards.