The Vegan Diet and Karma

Of all the trends at the moment that are sweeping the globe, probably the most positive and fastest growing one would have to be the vegan/vegetarian diet. The original hippies preached this way of eating as it involved compassion and non-cruelty to animals and there seems to be a resurgence of the hippy ways these days, although the iconic peace symbol has not resurfaced.

This re-surging trend is coming at the right time as the developed countries struggle which chronic obesity, heart disease, cholesterol, cancer and a whole list of problems, which are mostly due to the meat based diet.

Never before in the history have their been so many livestock animal on the planet (some 70 billion), all bred with the purpose of being eaten for 'food' if you can call it that. This large number of animals being reared for 'food' seems to be putting enormous strain on the planets ecosystems. Huge amounts of land are used to grow grains to feed to these animals, yet they hardly provide back what was put in. To such a degree actually that it has been calculated that if the grains were fed to humans instead of animals, we could feed an additional 14 billions humans, which is twice the worlds current population.

The lousy numbers are due to the fact that it takes around 7kg of vegetable protein to produce 1 kg of animal protein. That is where most of the amazon is going, it's being cleared to grow soy so people all over the world can keep eating excessive amounts of meat. It all seems a little unfair considering close to 1 billion of our earthly brother and sisters are starving in third world countries.

But the buck doesn't stop there, it also seems that livestock is the largest contributor to global warming, with methane being 70 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, and livestock being the worlds largest methane emitter. The UN released a report called 'Livestocks Long Shadow' which shows the numbers.

And the list goes on and on, ground pollution, human health problems, air pollution, financial problems (just look at the global expenditure on heart disease and diabetes) all related to meat consumption. The news just the other day reported that 60% of US bankruptcies were due to health care bills! Wouldn't a $300 full body cleanse and a vegan diet be easier than having your rib cage sawn open and your arteries scraped out and sewn back together, and then being hit with a massive bill and years of suffering and a lifetime of cholesterol lowering drugs! The choice is easy really.

But that is not all, now we also have the swine flu, which has been thoughtfully renamed by the WHO to H1N1 to avoid people associating it with pigs, even though all evidence points to intensive factory farming of pigs as being the place where the virus originated. So in a way calling it swine flu is not really fair to the pigs as they couldn't help the fact that they were so weak and sick and created a breeding ground for this monster, but it was really the fault of the factory farms trying to make ever more profits by exploiting the lives of these precious creatures.

Lets hope we all live to see the day when humans treat all animals as their companions on the planet and not their slaves.

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