We are living in a sick world and it might be a good time to
go vegan and definitely read labels. It’s a given that big pHarma and the
medical deities (MDs) want us to stay sick so they can continue to make a
fortune out of our illnesses. But, it gets even worse.
What if you learned that insects are being put into the
foods that you eat?
There’s an alleged restaurant in Denver that adds black
ants, crickets, grasshoppers and diced crickets to some of their dishes. And
this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The edible insect industry produces protein bars, pastas and
chips made from insects, and mostly crickets.
Let’s ask a question. What are the health benefits? There
are people out there that say raising insects produces fewer greenhouse gases
and uses less water and space than beef, chicken and pork and that bugs are
also good sources of protein, fiber and fatty acids.
Based on this crappola, insects somehow found themselves on
food trend lists and part of a broader movement toward healthy (are you s**ting
me?) foods.
There’s a company out there called Innova Market Insights. They
engage in studying food trends and placed insect protein among the various
alternatives to meat.
So now, insect protein is making a run at meat, lentils and pea and rice protein (how come they never found that the vegetable source of protein is the same but cleaner than flesh protein, which is documented in my book, “A Sane Diet for an Insane World”?)
But the question is, will anyone with a functioning brain actually
eat them?
Ok, so the millennial-driven start-ups, family farms and
investors have jumped on the idea to make foods that many idiots will say has a
world-saving potential.
You better sit down for this one – The North American
Coalition for Insect Agriculture cites Research and Markets, a company that
provides industry forecasts, which estimates the industry will reach $1.2
billion in market worth by 2023.
The insect hype can be traced to just a few years ago. After
all, why kill them when profits can be made convincing brain dead people to eat
them.
For insects, you could point to a report published in 2013.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s “Edible Insects” report is often
cited within the industry of evidence of insects’ potential for the planet and
human health.
With the world’s population growing, increased food demand
is expected to require more production, which could lead to increases in
greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and environmental degradation.
Livestock accounts for 70 percent of all agricultural land
use as global demand for livestock products are expected to double up to 2050.
Raising insects, however, requires less water, food and
space while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.
Mealworms, crickets and locusts produce just a tiny fraction
of greenhouse gases compared to producing beef and pork. To create the same
amount of protein, mealworms, for instance, require a tenth of the land of beef
and about half the space to produce pork and chicken. Insects are also good
sourced of protein, fat, fiber and fatty acids, a report said. I wonder how
much that guy was paid to say that?
But, icky food is food that makes you obese, diabetic, have
heart disease and all kinds of major health impacts. But, allegedly crickets
are cleaner than chickens and cows, carrying fewer diseases and infections.
At Enromo, crickets are raised from eggs and are grown to
maturity in six weeks in large bins. The crickets are killed, either using gas
or ice, just days before the end of their lifespan. Then the crickets are
rinsed in boiling water, baked and ground into a powder, and others are
seasoned as snacks *(Yummy! Can’t wait).
Roughly 60 percent of the business is cricket powder, a
gray, dry substance that can be added to breads, soups and other baked goods.
It’s the basis of many cricket products on the market, including Chapul’s
cricket bars and a line of chips under the brand Chirps.
They say that cricket powder is the best way to introduce
this because you can’t taste it. Yet, the health benefits you are getting for
putting that cricket powder in there is remarkable. Two tablespoons have seven
grams of protein”.
And there it is. I’m sure in the future, human doo doo will
be used as a source of protein, but only in dark chocolate bars because of the
color similarity.
Question: Why is the fact that the human form is
specifically and anatomically designed to eat plant-based foods never revealed?
Plant-based foods are alkaline as is the human saliva. When the two come
together the plants break down easily, are ingested and digested easily and
leave the body in no more then three days. Flesh foods, liquid fat (dairy) and
the chicken’s menstrual cycle (eggs) are acidic. When acidity mixes with
alkalinity it’s like banging your head against the wall and all that garbage
sits in the body for seven days. Oh Yeah, one egg a day creates so much protein
that the body needs to neutralize it with calcium. Take a guess when the
calcium comes from: “dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones”! And people wonder
why they have arthritis and osteoporosis!
Look, we all know that the large food companies, the
bio-tech industry and Big Pharma want everyone to stay sick so they can
continue to make a fortune off of our illnesses. But, what would happen if
everyone adhered to what God said in Genesis, “Thou shall not kill”?
Yes, to eat, we have to kill, be it plants, fruits, grains, or creatures. But, in the Vedic scriptures, that were there way before the Old Testament, God says that if we offer Him plant-based foods with love and devotion, because we need food to live, He will take away the karmic reactions involved in the killing of the plant-based foods. That would mean that if that were our diets, the land and resources would be used to only grow plant-based foods and would never face depletion and extinction and that everyone would have connection to Him.
But, unfortunately, we live in a godless world and that’s
our major problem. Change can only happen one at a time. Can you be a part of
that?
Why can’t our world be one of love, peace, friendship and a
connection to God, instead of chaos, quarrel, confusion and hypocrisy? Despite
having to be IN the world, we have the option to not be OF the world!
Aloha!
Sources:
www.insider.com
www.r.d.com
www.livescience.com
www.asanediet.com
The Old Testament
Bhagavad Gita As-It-Is
When I was a kid, if I were told that I'd be writing a book about diet and nutrition when I was older, let alone having been doing a health related radio show for over 36 years, I would've thought that whoever told me that was out of their mind. Living in Newark, New Jersey, my parents and I consumed anything and everything that had a face or a mother except for dead, rotting, pig bodies, although we did eat bacon (as if all the other decomposing flesh bodies were somehow miraculously clean). Going through high school and college it was no different. In fact, my dietary change did not come until I was in my 30's.
Just to put things in perspective, after I graduated from Weequahic High School and before going to Seton Hall University, I had a part-time job working for a butcher. I was the delivery guy and occasionally had to go to the slaughterhouse to pick up products for the store. Needless to say, I had no consciousness nor awareness, as change never came then despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost daily basis.
After graduating with a degree in accounting from Seton Hall, I eventually got married and moved to a town called Livingston. Livingston was basically a yuppie community where everyone was judged by the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a "plastic" community would be an understatement.
Livingston and the shallowness finally got to me. I told my wife I was fed up and wanted to move. She made it clear she had to be near her friends and New York City. I finally got my act together and split for Colorado.
I was living with a lady in Aspen at the end of 1974, when one day she said, " let's become vegetarians". I have no idea what possessed me to say it, but I said, "okay"! At that point I went to the freezer and took out about $100 worth of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to a welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, everything was great for about a week or so, and then the chick split with another guy.
So here I was, a vegetarian for a couple weeks, not really knowing what to do, how to cook, or basically how to prepare anything. For about a month, I was getting by on carrot sticks, celery sticks, and yogurt. Fortunately, when I went vegan in 1990, it was a simple and natural progression. Anyway, as I walked around Aspen town, I noticed a little vegetarian restaurant called, "The Little Kitchen".
Let me back up just a little bit. It was April of 1975, the snow was melting and the runoff of Ajax Mountain filled the streets full of knee-deep mud. Now, Aspen was great to ski in, but was a bummer to walk in when the snow was melting.
I was ready to call it quits and I needed a warmer place. I'll elaborate on that in a minute.
But right now, back to "The Little Kitchen". Knowing that I was going to leave Aspen and basically a new vegetarian, I needed help. So, I cruised into the restaurant and told them my plight and asked them if they would teach me how to cook. I told them in return I would wash dishes and empty their trash. They then asked me what I did for a living and I told them I was an accountant.
The owner said to me, "Let's make a deal. You do our tax return and we'll feed you as well". So for the next couple of weeks I was doing their tax return, washing their dishes, emptying the trash, and learning as much as I could.
But, like I said, the mud was getting to me. So I picked up a travel book written by a guy named Foder. The name of the book was, "Hawaii". Looking through the book I noticed that in Lahaina, on Maui, there was a little vegetarian restaurant called," Mr. Natural's". I decided right then and there that I would go to Lahaina and work at "Mr. Natural's." To make a long story short, that's exactly what happened.
So, I'm working at "Mr. Natural's" and learning everything I can about my new dietary lifestyle - it was great. Every afternoon we would close for lunch at about 1 PM and go to the Sheraton Hotel in Ka'anapali and play volleyball, while somebody stayed behind to prepare dinner.
Since I was the new guy, and didn't really know how to cook, I never thought that I would be asked to stay behind to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon, that's exactly what happened; it was my turn. That posed a problem for me because I was at the point where I finally knew how to boil water.
I was desperate, clueless and basically up the creek without a paddle. Fortunately, there was a friend of mine sitting in the gazebo at the restaurant and I asked him if he knew how to cook. He said the only thing he knew how to cook was enchiladas. He said that his enchiladas were bean-less and dairy-less. I told him that I had no idea what an enchilada was or what he was talking about, but I needed him to show me because it was my turn to do the evening meal.
Well, the guys came back from playing volleyball and I'm asked what was for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner wasn't thrilled. I told him that mine were bean-less and dairy-less. When he tried the enchilada he said it was incredible. Being the humble guy that I was, I smiled and said, "You expected anything less"? It apparently was so good that it was the only item on the menu that we served twice a week. In fact, after about a week, we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu and people would walk around Lahaina broadcasting, 'enchilada's at "Natural's" tonight'. I never had to cook anything else.
A year later the restaurant closed, and somehow I gravitated to a little health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I was an accountant and basically relegated myself to being the truck driver. The guys who were running the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many of the islands. I told them that if they could organize and form one company they could probably lock in the State. That's when they found out I was an accountant and "Down to Earth" was born. "Down to Earth" became the largest natural food store chain in the islands, and I was their Chief Financial Officer and co-manager of their biggest store for 13 years.
In 1981, I started to do a weekly radio show to try and expose people to a vegetarian diet and get them away from killing innocent creatures. I still do that show today. I pay for my own airtime and have no sponsors to not compromise my honesty. One bit of a hassle was the fact that I was forced to get a Masters Degree in Nutrition to shut up all the MD's that would call in asking for my credentials.
My doing this radio show enabled me, through endless research, to see the corruption that existed within the big food industries, the big pharmaceutical companies, the biotech industries and the government agencies. This information, unconscionable as it is, enabled me to realize how broken our health system is. This will be covered more in depth in the Introduction and throughout the book and when you finish the book you will see this clearly and it will hopefully inspire you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, got nationally certified as a sports injury massage therapist and started traveling the world with a bunch of guys that were making a martial arts movie. After doing that for about four years I finally made it back to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist at the Honolulu Club, one of Hawaii's premier fitness clubs. It was there I met the love of my life who I have been with since 1998. She made me an offer I couldn't refuse. She said," If you want to be with me you've got to stop working on naked women". So, I went back into accounting and was the Chief Financial Officer of a large construction company for many years.
Going back to my Newark days when I was an infant, I had no idea what a "chicken" or "egg" or "fish" or "pig" or "cow" was. My dietary blueprint was thrust upon me by my parents as theirs was thrust upon them by their parents. It was by the grace of God that I was able to put things in their proper perspective and improve my health and elevate my consciousness.
The road that I started walking down in 1975 has finally led me to the point of writing my book, “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”. Hopefully, the information contained herein will be enlightening, motivating, and inspiring to encourage you to make different choices. Doing what we do out of conditioning is not always the best course to follow. I am hoping that by the grace of the many friends and personalities I have encountered along my path, you will have a better perspective of what road is the best road for you to travel on, not only for your health but your consciousness as well.
Last but not least: after being vaccinated as a kid I developed asthma, which plagued me all of my life. In 2007 I got exposed to the organic sulfur crystals, which got rid of my asthma in 3 days and has not come back in over 10 years. That, being the tip of the iceberg, has helped people reverse stage 4 cancers, autism, joint pain, blood pressure problems, migraine headaches, erectile dysfunction, gingivitis, and more. Also, because of the detoxification effects by the release of oxygen that permeates and heals all the cells in the body, it removes parasites, radiation, fluoride, free radicals, and all the other crap that is thrust upon us in the environment by Big Business.
For more, please view www.healthtalkhawaii.com and www.asanediet.com.
Namaste!