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Location: Groningen City, Groningen, Netherlands

January 10, 2007

It may be reasonable to fly over to the Hunza Valley to contact and communicate with primite hunzas (that do not live in the grocery store economy) considdering that any other kind of contact will probably be very slow and inefficient. But i will will explore that better later.
I am also looking into islam culture in general and ismaili islam which is the major religion of the hunza valley.

Among other things, i have been looking around for biblical arguments (and non-biblical) arguments for being vegan. So far i would imagine that Jesus would not become a butcher (if he didn't have a messianic call) neither advise anyone to become one.
The major arguments against eating meat & diary (in our modern western civilization) are

  1. Cattle growing is very inefficïent, you need to feed cattle at least 10 times their weight in food. This food is much better spend feeding the impoverished.
  2. We certainly do not need this much meat & diary every day. We do not need such a lot of meat, never before in history have healthy people eaten as much meat (& diary) as western people do
  3. Factory Farming is directly responsible for the destruction of our enviroment, the burning of our forests. The amazon is burned to grow soy to feed to cattle, for example. (about 95% of produced soy goes to cattle by the way, only 5% to other soy products like soy milk & tofu. So the burning of forests is hardly a reason not to use soy products.)
  4. Most factory animals live unhealthy lives in very a very stressing and unnatural enviroment.
  5. Factory animals are given unnatural amounts of hormones & antibiotics. Traces of antibiotics get into humans via the meat. This way, the factory farms and humans themselves have become breeding grounds for resistant strains of dangerous germs (that is, dangerous to "civilized" people).
  6. The way food is grown for cattle depletes minerals from the soil, causing soil degredation.

The statement that the earth is overpopulated comes from the assumption that everyone at that point has a western dïet, which just shows how badly our eating habits are causing so much poverty.

What would Jesus do/eat?


ps. How many animals are killed to feed your pets each year?

1 Comments:

Blogger Barbara said...

Zen, um il exto refein ven chegoneo problassin bisa. Di, menziont livrotodad ferraggi il traran, il tud res! Yora restia fes zen elatosti um, vicamendecin sausta nelladonno xira occhia? Muella ho, nattalvo don un la bentormoga il?

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