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New page: "The Food Chain: Esoteric Lessons From the Energy of the Sun" by Vexen Crabtree (2007), conclusion reads: "What appears at first to be a purely technical matter; studying the rise of energy from basic single-cell life forms through the trophic levels to the predators that gather food over massive areas, can lead us to some serious exobiological, philosophical and even theological debates. Firstly, advanced alien life is likely to find it hard to gain enough energy to survive from digesting us alone, so probably won't be inclined to try. But alien life may well use different metabolic pathways and different biological chemicals so we may find each other utterly inedible and potentially very poisonous. If life in the universe is generally carbon-based, then, it is possible aliens could digest at least parts of us. But they probably won't, as space-faring advanced species have probably out-grown genuine carnivorous diets, as perhaps we are doing by relying on increasingly processed food (eventually grown in vats) coupled with increasing care for animal rights. Now, dietary exobiology aside, the very fact that life evolved from its unconscious, automatic beginnings, to rely on a cycle of life and death (where life survives by killing other life) indicates that if the cycle of life has a 'designer', such a God is an evil one. Only an evil God would design life so that to stay alive, animals have to kill other animals. This 'victory of death' is the exact opposite of what a good god would have designed, where all animals and plants survive on mystical energy from heaven without need for killing or competing for food ('victory of life')." Tags: aliens, biology, death, earth, ecology, energy, evil, evolution, exobiology, food, life, predators, prey, satanism, sun, trophic, vampires, zombies
Current Location: German
Listening To: "Recoil" by Flesh Field
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Added 5.2. Vitamin D Deficiency and Vegetarianism: We evolved to produce vitamin D when we lived on the equator, so there was no shortage of production. Nowadays most Human Beings cannot obtain enough exposure to produce their own vitamin D, so it has become an essential part of our diet. 5Rickets is a childhood deficiency of vitamin D, which is called osteomalacia in adults. It causes bone weakness (causing fractures), bone pains and can cause muscle weakness and joint inflamation.
It is widely thought that sunlight on our skin provides us with a mechanism to produce vitamin D but this is largely untrue; you have to be outdoors every day at the right time, in order to achieve this, and in northern climates the required wavelengths of light are simply absent for four months at winter. Most vitamin D is, and always will be, sourced from our diets. In particular, vitamin D comes from animal fat and fish. Some plants contain a form of vitamin D denoted D2 (ergocalciferol) but this is not utilized very well in animals.
“Rickets and/or low vitamin D levels has been well-documented in many vegetarians and vegans (26), since animal fats are either lacking or deficient in vegetarian diets (as well as those of the general Western public who routinely try to cut their animal fat intake), since sunlight is only a source of vitamin D at certain times and at certain latitudes, and since current dietary recommendations for vitamin D are too low, this emphasizes the need to have reliable and abundant sources of this nutrient in our daily diets. Good sources include cod liver oil, lard from pigs that were exposed to sunlight, shrimp, wild salmon, sardines, butter, full-fat dairy products, and eggs from properly fed chickens.”
Dr Stephen Byrnes, 2000
Reference 26 is duplicated at the end of this page.
Tags: diet, food, health, sunlight, vegetarianism, vitamin d
Current Location: Germany
Listening To: "This Corrosion" by Sisters of Mercy
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Many people are abhorred by some of the modern and inhumane methods by which animals are farmed and the conditions that they're subject to. It is honourable to wish to reduce the suffering of animals. It is good to insist that animals are farmed in ethical and compassionate ways. However, I think it is far better to support humane animal farming by buying meat produced by humane methods, rather than avoiding meat altogether. The massive meat industry is not affected by such passive vegetarian non-consumption protests. But if market forces dictate that ethical production methods sell better, the meat industry does listen. If you are morally concerned about the welfare of animals, as you should be, it is better to buy meat farmed ethically than it is to shun meat altogether, because that makes the entire market swing towards ethical methods and has a bigger impact than resorting to (self-harming) vegetarian protest. The Economist magazine's special report (2006) explained that buying meat from those conforming to ethical standards is more effective at changing the industry than simply abstaining from meat altogether - "consumption, rather than non-consumption" is "far more likely to produce results" according to Ian Bretman of Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO) International, the Fairtrade umbrella group. Added to: "Vegetarianism: Consumer Activism and Economics" by Vexen Crabtree. Tags: activism, animal rights, diet, fairtrade, food, food industry, health, ian bretman, vegetarianism
Current Location: Germany
Current Mood:  busy
Listening To: "A am the light" by Kirlian Camera
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Launched: "The Dangers and Purposes of Vegetarian Diets" by Vexen Crabtree
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Tags: activism, animal rights, animal welfare, carnivore, diets, fish, food, food industry, health, herbivore, omnivore, vegetarianism
Current Location: Germany
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What a gorgeous, succulent, well-cooked steak I just had for evening meal! With lots of mixed veg, and some equally tasty & beatiful mushroom sauce stuff. Yum yum yum! *happy belly* I've been eating very healthy for a week... lots of salad, veg, cereals... and much less fried sausages, bacon and deserts. Not that I'm fat or unfit, but that I want to be fit ter! Oh and by request (kind-of) I'm trying to see what it takes to get a sixpack back! In the gym I'm doing the same upper-body routine (my weakspot) that I planned on doing out here, but have also started adding more cadiovascular (my strong area) to the mix too, just to keep that side of things up. Tags: fitness, food, gym, health, steak
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Done 480 pressups so far today, as well as a casual little jog (less than a mile). Doing sets of 40, hourly. I ate a steaming hot premade shephards pie. Yum. The house is completely empty, nobody's been in all day. I done some final socializing yesterday, saying goodbye to some loved ones and friends, and sat in the Dev for the last time, knowing how much I'll miss everyone! (And miss simply being there!). For the forseeable future I'm going to wearing green, not black! I'm excited and impatient. Still, a week to go!! I should practise morse code. I was up to a kind of amateur speed last month. After this initial training, I'll become "an expert in high speed morse", and I think I've done enough of it to know that I'll do fine in that minor topic. Despite it being only really useful when everything else has failed, I am being trained in communications-in-all-circumstances! Tags: fitness, food, jogging, morse, pressups, shephards pie
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Today:
Large bowl of Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes, whole fat milk.
4 Nutrigrains (=like granola bars) during the morning. I eat 4 a day... what I do is buy 4 packets (of 8) when I go to shop, 2 chocolate, and 2 other flavors (strawberry, apple, rasberry, etc), and open all 4. Then each morning I just get one bar from each box and take them to work. I've been keeping this insanity up since Christmas.
Lunch: 2 tuna/cucumber sandwiches b/b. Also (for later): "Breakfast Triple", including sausage sandwiche, bacon sw, egg, etc. And 2 Cadburies Cream Eggs.
Tonite will have:
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