Friday, December 18, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Smoking
Just because I am generally interested in health, I couldn't resist posting this article by Djehuty Ma'at-Ra from Dherbs.com:
Smokingby Djehuty Ma'at-Ra |
 My research on cigarettes began in 1998. One day I called Brown and Williamson and personally requested a list of ingredients. Two weeks later I received the list and was blown away at how many ingredients go into the production of these symbolic phalluses that people put in their mouths.  You know, it behooves me that people (smokers) could smoke a product that does not even list the ingredients on the package, but when you understand how many ingredients go into cigarettes, then it makes sense and becomes understandable why the ingredients are not on the box.There are over 700 ingredients in one single cigarette, including a new strain of genetically engineered tobacco with a nicotine level ten times higher in potency than regular nicotine; caffeine, sugar, salt, rum, alcohol, codeine, menthanol (rocket fuel), and uric acid (yes, they even use piss or pee). Most smokers don't know it, but the cigarette papers are dipped in opium (the true addictive agent of cigarettes). However, one ingredient among the other 700+ really stands out. This ingredient is "Civet Cat Absolute." Now what in the hell is civet cat absolute? Well, as a researcher, I did the research and was shocked and amazed to find out that civet cat absolute is an umbrella term for a liquid that is obtained from the rectum of the civet cat. What is this ingredient used for? One reason is that it is a pheromone. Pheromone affects behavior in certain mammalian species. Why does pheromone have to be in cigarettes? Your guess is as good as mine. Every time you put a cigarette into your mouth, symbolically you are placing a white male phallic symbol into your mouth. It's a power thing. Yes, cigarettes represent the white male phallus (cigars represent the black man's phallus). Cigarettes were created in part by Sigmund Freud's nephew in a campaign to make women feel liberated and powerful. Watch the awesome DVD entitled "Hijacking Humanity" available from MeanMore.com which has a segment on cigarettes and why they were created.  Women smoking cigarettes had to do with power or the illusion of power. Power as viewed on the mundane realm is a male attribute. And gosh darn, women fell for the trap created for them! But after all, that was the plan (make women feel liberated by doing an act that males were privileged of doing).In addition to the power thing, cigarettes also help women to lose weight by impairing the appetite. Why is 'Virginia Slims' brand cigarettes marketed exclusively to women under the slogan, "It's a woman thing?" Because subliminally, the the underlying and subliminal message is: "Virginia (a female name) is slim (skinny)." The subliminal message (to women) is that 'Virginia Slims' can help you stay slim by smoking this particular brand. You see, obesity, weight loss, being thin or slim is a female preoccupation in this country, hence the slogan, "It's a woman's thing." Cigarette smoking is insalubrious. Statistics show that most smokers in the U.S. are poor and make less than $14,000.00 per year, a few thousand dollars under the national poverty line or level. "He who smokes is a walking billboard advertising himself as fool to the world!" For the sake of our environment and human health, especially our youth - stop being a weakling and bumbling idiot who smokes. No one put a gun to your head and forced you to smoke. So why did you choose to smoke knowing full well that smoking is dangerous and causes cancer and other pathologies? The law of reciprocity is nowhere to be found in smoking cigarettes or anything else. It is a foolish act no matter how harsh and callous my words are. Smoking is a very stupid thing to do, but government allows you to do and will continue to do so due to all the money government makes on of cigarette sales via the taxes on the poisonous product. If the cigarette industry closed tomorrow, billions of dollars would be lost. Here's an assignment I have for you. From now on, I want you to consciously watch or look for smoking scenes in every movie you watch. I have been doing this for years and it is true that 99% of movies have or include smoking scenes. Why do I bring this up? Because it was reported that Hollywood was part of a deal that would allow cigarette companies to advertise cigarettes on the big screen and not on the small screen (television). Cigarette companies were once allowed to make and air television commercials (back in the 1940's-1960's) but the cigarette industry came under fire for getting young people hooked on their poisonous product. Menthol brands of cigarettes were made specifically for Black Americans who were smoking for nerves problems due to stress. Smoking was a social thing for most Whites, but for Black people it was a stress reliever for the stresses of life than came along with being Black. The chemical 'Menthol' works on the lungs by numbing the lungs. The lungs are the seat of emotions so by smoking menthol cigarettes a smoker was numbing his/her emotions at the expense of risking cancer and ultimately death. Statistics reveal that more than 400,000 people die yearly from smoking related illnesses. Watch the movie "Thank You For Smoking" which is a great movie about the cigarette industry and their ploy to get people to smoke their product by way of influence. It's really a great movie. Another good movie on the cigarette industry is the movie "The Insider" starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. Cigarette smokes impairs the human aura. Dherbs.com Psychic Attack Aura Spray can help repair damaged auras due to cigarette smoke. To break cigarette and nicotine addiction, I recommend folks first perform the Full Body Detox, followed by the Substance Abuse Cleanse, and lastly the Respiratory Cleanse and Regimen. Lobelia tea is a great tea to drink while detoxing from smoking due to a similar nicotine-like effect on the body without the actual harmful effects of nicotine as well as the addictive properties of nicotine. Licorice Root tea is another tea that is good to drink while overcoming cigarette addiction. Hops, Magnolia Bark, and Wild Lettuce are also good herbs to help with healing from unwise cigarette smoking. I also recommend performing the Sea Salt Soak (see article on our website in Article category) Thank you for reading! This article is compliments of Dherbs.Com and Djehuty Ma'at-Ra Additional articles by Djehuty available @ www.dherbs.com/articles. |
Monday, October 26, 2009
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How to be a swine flu vaccine zealot (satire) by Mike Adams the Health Ranger
How to be a swine flu vaccine zealot (satire) by Mike Adams the Health Ranger
(NaturalNews) Swine flu vaccine zealots are like zombies... they just keep coming at you, mindless... heartless... empty-headed and a tad funky on the smell, too. But I've noticed from observing the behavior of a few such zealots that not all of them fully comprehend precisely how to act like a mindless vaccine zealot. There's more to it than just parroting whatever the FDA says. You actually have to get with the zealot program if you want to be taken seriously as a swine flu vaccine zealot.
So I've put together this handy guide to help them along:
Step 1) Loudly proclaim your vaccines are backed by "science," but when critics ask you to produce that science, just tell them you don't have to because "everybody knows they work." (Then grunt and paw at the air from time to time for effect...)
Step 2) Practice scoffing. Scoffing is an important skill for swine flu vaccine zealots. When someone asks an intelligent question like, "Where are the placebo-controlled studies that show flu vaccines work at all?" simply scoff at them. This avoids having to answer the question because, as you know, there are no such studies.
Step 3) Practice making people feel guilty for not getting the flu shot. Blame them for pandemic. Just ignore the fact that the shot itself has zero ability to actually prevent the spread of influenza and focus on what works: Guilt!
Step 4) Spread more fear! Guilt and fear go together like peanut butter and jelly on processed white bread -- a favorite zombie food! In combination, they work like gangbusters if you're trying to scare up some vaccine sales to generate billions of dollars in profits for the drug companies. In the absence of any actual science, just invoke fear! (Hey, it worked for the Patriot Act, too...)
Step 5) Remind people that they are not doctors and therefore don't know anything. Then quote some doctor who's pro-vaccine (and probably taking kickbacks from some pharmaceutical company that's been caught committing a felony crime) and declare that no one can question them because they're a doctor. Doctors are God, didn't you know? Just ask all the victims of thalidomide... or Vioxx.
Step 6) Strip off the plastic coating on both ends of an extension cord, exposing the wires. Attach the two wires on one end to the temples of your skull, then attach the two exposed wires on the other end to the exposed slots of a live electrical outlet in your home. You are now "WIRED." (Want a free subscription?) This process will destroy any critical thinking regions of your cerebrum, disabling the annoying ability to think for yourself (which can interfere with what the vaccine industry wants you to think instead). Once achieved, you're half-way qualified to being a vaccine zealot, unhindered by critical thinking skills!
(Don't forget to grunt, moan and leave your mouth draping open from time to time, or the whole effect will be ruined...)
Step 7) Defend mercury as safe. It's not that bad, really. What's a little mercury in your shot anyway? Ignore these inconvenient facts: A typical flu vaccine shot solution is 50,000 parts per billion of mercury. The EPA classifies any substance with more than 200 parts per billion as hazardous waste. (The EPA limit in drinking water is 2 parts per billion.) Thus, the mercury density in a vaccine is 25,000% higher than the level required to be considered hazardous waste. This is injected directly into the bloodstream of infants, children, expectant mothers and senior citizens. What could possibly be dangerous about that?
Step 8) Find a bunch of other flu vaccine zealots and quote each other. This is the best part about being a vaccine zealot: It's social! Instead of quoting any actual science to back up your non-position (because there isn't any), all you have to do is quote each other! "The CDC says..." and at the CDC, they say, "The FDA says..." and at the FDA, they say, "The drug maker says..." and at the drug maker, they say, "The researchers said..." and the researchers were quoting the CDC! (I think I remember playing this game in kindergarten... but then I grew up.)
Step 9) Tell everyone you're going to receive the flu vaccine yourself, even if you aren't. This creates the impression that you actually believe the vaccine is both safe and effective, even when you secretly suspect it is neither. Of course, no one will really know whether you got the shot or not, so you can still just fake it by claiming you did when you really didn't.
Step 10) If all else fails, babble incoherently in a technical medical jargon. Use large Latin words that sound educated. Glare scornfully at all the "small words people." Whatever you say, tell people you read it in a "peer-reviewed medical journal" or picked it up in a "continuing medical education seminar" (almost all of which are sponsored by drug companies, by the way). Hang medical school diplomas on the wall in plain view, preferably over your head (if there's still room there). Tell people how important you are and why no one else is even qualified to ask questions about flu vaccines. Keep up the front!
And that, my zombie friends, is how to pull off being a swine flu vaccine zealot. Always carry a spare needle with you, too, because you never know when you're going to need to take a jab at somebody.
Coming up next... How to start your own swine flu vaccine cult! (Hint: It all starts at medical school...)
In the mean time, folks, keep drinkin' that Thimerosal Kool-Aid.
How to be a swine flu vaccine zealot (satire)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor(NaturalNews) Swine flu vaccine zealots are like zombies... they just keep coming at you, mindless... heartless... empty-headed and a tad funky on the smell, too. But I've noticed from observing the behavior of a few such zealots that not all of them fully comprehend precisely how to act like a mindless vaccine zealot. There's more to it than just parroting whatever the FDA says. You actually have to get with the zealot program if you want to be taken seriously as a swine flu vaccine zealot.
So I've put together this handy guide to help them along:
Step 1) Loudly proclaim your vaccines are backed by "science," but when critics ask you to produce that science, just tell them you don't have to because "everybody knows they work." (Then grunt and paw at the air from time to time for effect...)
Step 2) Practice scoffing. Scoffing is an important skill for swine flu vaccine zealots. When someone asks an intelligent question like, "Where are the placebo-controlled studies that show flu vaccines work at all?" simply scoff at them. This avoids having to answer the question because, as you know, there are no such studies.
Step 3) Practice making people feel guilty for not getting the flu shot. Blame them for pandemic. Just ignore the fact that the shot itself has zero ability to actually prevent the spread of influenza and focus on what works: Guilt!
Step 4) Spread more fear! Guilt and fear go together like peanut butter and jelly on processed white bread -- a favorite zombie food! In combination, they work like gangbusters if you're trying to scare up some vaccine sales to generate billions of dollars in profits for the drug companies. In the absence of any actual science, just invoke fear! (Hey, it worked for the Patriot Act, too...)
Step 5) Remind people that they are not doctors and therefore don't know anything. Then quote some doctor who's pro-vaccine (and probably taking kickbacks from some pharmaceutical company that's been caught committing a felony crime) and declare that no one can question them because they're a doctor. Doctors are God, didn't you know? Just ask all the victims of thalidomide... or Vioxx.
Step 6) Strip off the plastic coating on both ends of an extension cord, exposing the wires. Attach the two wires on one end to the temples of your skull, then attach the two exposed wires on the other end to the exposed slots of a live electrical outlet in your home. You are now "WIRED." (Want a free subscription?) This process will destroy any critical thinking regions of your cerebrum, disabling the annoying ability to think for yourself (which can interfere with what the vaccine industry wants you to think instead). Once achieved, you're half-way qualified to being a vaccine zealot, unhindered by critical thinking skills!
(Don't forget to grunt, moan and leave your mouth draping open from time to time, or the whole effect will be ruined...)
Step 7) Defend mercury as safe. It's not that bad, really. What's a little mercury in your shot anyway? Ignore these inconvenient facts: A typical flu vaccine shot solution is 50,000 parts per billion of mercury. The EPA classifies any substance with more than 200 parts per billion as hazardous waste. (The EPA limit in drinking water is 2 parts per billion.) Thus, the mercury density in a vaccine is 25,000% higher than the level required to be considered hazardous waste. This is injected directly into the bloodstream of infants, children, expectant mothers and senior citizens. What could possibly be dangerous about that?
Step 8) Find a bunch of other flu vaccine zealots and quote each other. This is the best part about being a vaccine zealot: It's social! Instead of quoting any actual science to back up your non-position (because there isn't any), all you have to do is quote each other! "The CDC says..." and at the CDC, they say, "The FDA says..." and at the FDA, they say, "The drug maker says..." and at the drug maker, they say, "The researchers said..." and the researchers were quoting the CDC! (I think I remember playing this game in kindergarten... but then I grew up.)
Step 9) Tell everyone you're going to receive the flu vaccine yourself, even if you aren't. This creates the impression that you actually believe the vaccine is both safe and effective, even when you secretly suspect it is neither. Of course, no one will really know whether you got the shot or not, so you can still just fake it by claiming you did when you really didn't.
Step 10) If all else fails, babble incoherently in a technical medical jargon. Use large Latin words that sound educated. Glare scornfully at all the "small words people." Whatever you say, tell people you read it in a "peer-reviewed medical journal" or picked it up in a "continuing medical education seminar" (almost all of which are sponsored by drug companies, by the way). Hang medical school diplomas on the wall in plain view, preferably over your head (if there's still room there). Tell people how important you are and why no one else is even qualified to ask questions about flu vaccines. Keep up the front!
And that, my zombie friends, is how to pull off being a swine flu vaccine zealot. Always carry a spare needle with you, too, because you never know when you're going to need to take a jab at somebody.
Coming up next... How to start your own swine flu vaccine cult! (Hint: It all starts at medical school...)
In the mean time, folks, keep drinkin' that Thimerosal Kool-Aid.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Vaccine History
You can find the following information at Natural News or Vaccination Debate. Click on the the title for a link:
Historical facts about the dangers (and failures) of vaccines
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases.
Many website have cropped up over the last few years to counter the pro-vaccine propaganda put out by drug companies (who profit from vaccines) and health regulators (who serve the drug companies). One of those sites is www.VaccinationDebate.com , which lists the following historical facts about vaccines:
• In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 17/3/1973 p555)
• In 1871-2, England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50 vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox. (http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/020...)
The Hadwen Documents
• In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in 1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don't Get Stuck, Hannah Allen)
• In 1967, Ghana was declared measles free by the World Health Organisation after 96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr H Albonico, MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990)
• In 1977, Dr Jonas Salk who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along with other scientists, that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 "Abstracts" )
• In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK)
• In the 1970's a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73)
• In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The People's Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn)
• The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine.
• In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981)
• In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to $11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7, January 1994, Nambour, Qld)
• In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst thousands of fully vaccinated children. The region with the highest attack rate had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest attack rate had the lowest vaccine coverage. (The Lancet, 21/9/91)
• In 1990, a UK survey involving 598 doctors revealed that over 50% of them refused to have the Hepatitis B vaccine despite belonging to the high risk group urged to be vaccinated. (British Med Jnl, 27/1/1990)
• In the USA, from July 1990 to November 1993, the US Food and Drug Administration counted a total of 54,072 adverse reactions following vaccination. The FDA admitted that this number represented only 10% of the real total, because most doctors were refusing to report vaccine injuries. In other words, adverse reactions for this period exceeded half a million! (National Vaccine Information Centre, March 2, 1994)
• In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on measles which stated " Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated children." (JAMA, 21/11/90)
• In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study found that over 80% of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough had been fully vaccinated.
• On November 2nd, 2000, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) announced that its members voted at their 57th annual meeting in St Louis to pass a resolution calling for an end to mandatory childhood vaccines. The resolution passed without a single "no" vote. http://www.wellnesschiro.com/physic...
(Report by Michael Devitt)
Source: http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/we...
Historical facts about the dangers (and failures) of vaccines
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases.
Many website have cropped up over the last few years to counter the pro-vaccine propaganda put out by drug companies (who profit from vaccines) and health regulators (who serve the drug companies). One of those sites is www.VaccinationDebate.com , which lists the following historical facts about vaccines:
• In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 17/3/1973 p555)
• In 1871-2, England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50 vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox. (http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/020...)
The Hadwen Documents
• In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in 1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don't Get Stuck, Hannah Allen)
• In 1967, Ghana was declared measles free by the World Health Organisation after 96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr H Albonico, MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990)
• In 1977, Dr Jonas Salk who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along with other scientists, that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 "Abstracts" )
• In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK)
• In the 1970's a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73)
• In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The People's Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn)
• The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine.
• In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981)
• In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to $11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7, January 1994, Nambour, Qld)
• In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst thousands of fully vaccinated children. The region with the highest attack rate had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest attack rate had the lowest vaccine coverage. (The Lancet, 21/9/91)
• In 1990, a UK survey involving 598 doctors revealed that over 50% of them refused to have the Hepatitis B vaccine despite belonging to the high risk group urged to be vaccinated. (British Med Jnl, 27/1/1990)
• In the USA, from July 1990 to November 1993, the US Food and Drug Administration counted a total of 54,072 adverse reactions following vaccination. The FDA admitted that this number represented only 10% of the real total, because most doctors were refusing to report vaccine injuries. In other words, adverse reactions for this period exceeded half a million! (National Vaccine Information Centre, March 2, 1994)
• In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on measles which stated " Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated children." (JAMA, 21/11/90)
• In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study found that over 80% of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough had been fully vaccinated.
• On November 2nd, 2000, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) announced that its members voted at their 57th annual meeting in St Louis to pass a resolution calling for an end to mandatory childhood vaccines. The resolution passed without a single "no" vote. http://www.wellnesschiro.com/physic...
(Report by Michael Devitt)
Source: http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/we...
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Sexy Vegan
Have you noticed how people seem to think the word "vegan" is sexy? Folks who know little about what the word means seem to use it a lot around me. For example, there is a new Indian restaurant in the area with a sign that has "VEGAN" on the front window, but the restaurant sells meat, and most of the vegetarian items contain dairy; however, they do have vegan options. They should have a sign that says, "We have vegan options", because putting a big "VEGAN" sign in the window is misleading.
I get somewhat annoyed when people at my job call Java Green a vegan place. It is not vegan. It's a vegetarian restaurant with a lot of vegan options. They sell dairy products and honey; that makes them not vegan.
Why do I care? I care because words matter. I care because people seem to think that vegetarians eat chicken and fish, and that vegans eat honey and use animals products. It's incorrect, and it can make buying food and products more difficult for true vegetarians and vegans. If someone told me that Java Green was a vegan restaurant, and I ordered one of their dairy-containing products thinking it was vegan, I would probably get sick (my body isn't used to animal products anymore). That is why accuracy matters.
I wouldn't call a place vegetarian if they sold meat. I would say they have vegetarian options - which most places do. I also would not call humans carnivores, since most eat some type of vegetation, unlike my cat who only eats animals.
I get somewhat annoyed when people at my job call Java Green a vegan place. It is not vegan. It's a vegetarian restaurant with a lot of vegan options. They sell dairy products and honey; that makes them not vegan.
Why do I care? I care because words matter. I care because people seem to think that vegetarians eat chicken and fish, and that vegans eat honey and use animals products. It's incorrect, and it can make buying food and products more difficult for true vegetarians and vegans. If someone told me that Java Green was a vegan restaurant, and I ordered one of their dairy-containing products thinking it was vegan, I would probably get sick (my body isn't used to animal products anymore). That is why accuracy matters.
I wouldn't call a place vegetarian if they sold meat. I would say they have vegetarian options - which most places do. I also would not call humans carnivores, since most eat some type of vegetation, unlike my cat who only eats animals.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Making the Connection
The consciousness of the world is changing. More people are becoming aware of our impact on the environment, and more people are starting to realize that we are all creators who attract what is in our thoughts and hearts. I have been personally drawn to learning more about the law of attraction and our concepts of God. I have been immersing myself in the teachings of Abraham/Hicks, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and Neale Donald Walsch. They are all teaching the same basic concepts but from their own perspective.
For many years, I have felt that God was the sum total of everyone and everything and that we are all pieces of God. No one is more special or higher than another. We are the branches of the tree and God is the root. We are sparks of the flame, but God is the fire. We all come from the same source. We are all connected.
Coming from this point of view, my veganism is strengthened, and I have to ask the question: why aren't people who care about love, compassion and oneness vegan? If we are moving from separation to oneness, then why aren't animals also seen as part of God? Why do we separate animals into the categories of food, pets, test subjects, and beasts of burden? The animals who are called pets are not different from the ones we call dinner. The animal who gives birth has the same desire as I to nurture its offspring and cares for its wellbeing. While there are some differences between species, we all know love and suffering. As we try to overcome sexism, racism, classism, etc, we should also try to overcome our speciesism.
For many years, I have felt that God was the sum total of everyone and everything and that we are all pieces of God. No one is more special or higher than another. We are the branches of the tree and God is the root. We are sparks of the flame, but God is the fire. We all come from the same source. We are all connected.
Coming from this point of view, my veganism is strengthened, and I have to ask the question: why aren't people who care about love, compassion and oneness vegan? If we are moving from separation to oneness, then why aren't animals also seen as part of God? Why do we separate animals into the categories of food, pets, test subjects, and beasts of burden? The animals who are called pets are not different from the ones we call dinner. The animal who gives birth has the same desire as I to nurture its offspring and cares for its wellbeing. While there are some differences between species, we all know love and suffering. As we try to overcome sexism, racism, classism, etc, we should also try to overcome our speciesism.
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