Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Practice What You Eat!

From Scorpio to Saggitarian, man should be vegetarian, no dominance but egalitarian, you say you're humanitarian, dead flesh inside you're carrying, won't make utilitarian.

Who decided which animals we would eat and which would be slaves or pets? How can a man go to prison for fighting dogs, but get rich from running them to death, or protect animals near extinction, but mass produce cows & chickens just to kill? WTF IS WRONG WITH US????? Who decided this is the way we would live?

You are what you eat, it's no fun becoming meat, when the body is under the axe, internal chemicals react, and attack, in the flesh is where it sats, when you eat meat you're getting that. Energy born of abuse becomes your boost juice, and shows in what you do too.

I'm not trying to advocate, changing beliefs, too late, Just trying to state, the truth about what you ate, and how it's not innate, to be beastlies and eat flesh of our own species, not men, yet still animal, at some level makes us cannibals, especially when we don't have to, vegetables will do.

You must admit . the weather, it's, been a bit out of wits. Extremely hot when hot is not the expected lot, and while in the sun you swelt, glaciers melt, islands gone where life once dwelt, and hurricane's, so often now, getting low on names. Earthquakes that shake, a nation still waits, not quite the same. Not separate incidents, each cause is so evident, it's climate change.

Okay I know what you're saying, how does eating meat affect climate change? strange, but it's not car's ship's or planes, that make the most methane, gases from livestock mange and grunge from the range, which coincidentally changed, trees into pasture became, no protection from heavy rain , black carbon covered the plain, for the sake of 250 burgers per acre, earth shaker, hear what I'm saying?

Now just supposing, an explosion caused soil erosion, where's the wild life to go then, as their whole world is stolen. To the man they're beholden, there they go run into extinction, don't need no gun, take the land and they will starve son. Just for your sake, is your 2 inch steak done?

When you heard about oil spills you knew it was wrong, but didn't you know about the dead zones, where pollution is wide spread, the fish are all dead, because of waste from the cows, and the grass they're fed. Not to minimize the use of pesticides and chemicals to fertilize, stop trying to justify, it's just as wrong!

Put yourself in my place, I'm a cow about to become a steak, I contemplate as I stand in the gate and wait for my fate, why me does God hate? Why was I born to be ate? It's okay, I'll get my revenge another way, every muscle throbs with hate, by the time I'm dead it's too late, think of that when I'm on your plate!

Funny how we interpret things, how herbs will be your meat, turned to eating muscle strings. How hunting nuts and berry's became a load to carry, now saved for ice cream toppings and juice, while meat is mass produced, how obtuse, line up, there's the hoop, convinced grains are substitutes, lost from the truth.

One more thought if you please, animals cause human disease, filth in the factories are all, the reasons for mass recalls. Mad cows, cloned sheep, and pigs that have flu, examples of want can happen to you, through your food. Now you need immunizations, stick out your arm, now you're a patient, live viruses taking, autism making, see what you're facing.

Published by @FloetfreStyl

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Education Before Medication: Foods That Kills

The winter holiday season is a good time for family to get together and share in the stories and foods of their history.  This was ever so evident to me during the past Thanksgiving meal when I, one of the elders in my family had the task of explaining why I chose to be a vegetarian.  This was an important opportunity for me because I realize that they only way to break any behavior pattern is to get the younger generations on board and I had all of their attention.

Of course I could have given many reasons for my decision ranging from spiritual to ecological, but in the end there is just one simple answer. I want to live and I believe that meat kills.  So no , I am not a vegetarian because the bible says eat herbs or because the 10 commandments say don’t kill, although I do think these are good reasons to refrain from eating meat.  I am not an animal rights advocate or a nature freak out to save the planet, although I do think these are good reasons also.  My decision is much more basic and derived from basic survival instincts.

Ironically this was not new information to my extended family, I  haven’t eaten pork for many years and have been a full vegetarian for  over 5 years now.  So I  didn’t eat meat last year either and nobody asked about it...so what changed?  This Thanksgiving was different for my family because just two days before, my older sister, if you can call a 15 month difference older,  was diagnosed with  tumors on several organs in her body. She had moved in with the daughter who was hosting, for the first time, the family Thanksgiving dinner and it was under these conditions the question was posed to me.  “Why don’t you eat meat?”.

My personal journey to vegetarianism started about 20 years ago when I saw an experiment where they put a piece of pork in a  closed jar and left it to sit in the sun for a few days.  When they opened the jar there were worms in the pork! Yep little nasty worms and that was enough for me.  I was already limited in my intake of it cause I thought it main the house smell like urine, but I did enjoy an occasional pork chop and barbecue ribs was the ish. Still after the worms, I was cool on pork and kept it out of my home and kids.  No I’m not a black muslim or jew,  I just think swine is a nasty scavenger and want none of it.

Beef lasted much longer and I was once known to put away a nice piece of steak cooked medium well, no pink of course.  I was cool with cows until they started going mad! I was like,  if everybody else all over the world is refusing to eat meat from the USA,  something must be up.  My suspicions were confirmed when, on an extended vacation in California, yeah the home of the “happy” cows, I actually went through the inland empire and saw the cows.  Field after field of them lined up in rows and their heads were stuck out of slots in a wire fence  while they ate some kind of grain.  Now mind you this was in the middle of the desert and it was over 100 degrees and no shade. Trust those cows were not happy!

Just before I was leaving their was yet another beef related illness and meat was recalled from stores all over the country.  Another wake up call for me, no more beef! Okay, so I can live on chicken , turkey and fish, although no one in my household liked fish except me so I didn’t have it often.  I mainly thrived on chicken and learned to cook it a hundred ways.  Chicken wings was my passion!  SO what happened to the poultry? Truth is I kind of grew out of it like a kid grows out of a hating vegetables phase.  By the time I stopped eating meat altogether I had already starting exploring a healthier lifestyle and had learned a lot about foods that heal and foods that kill.  When  I made the decision to live giving up my chicken wings was a no brainer.   Later when I found out there were steroids in chicken wings  I knew I had made the right decision.  In addition to meats there are a whole array of foods that I have cut from my diet to maintain good health. They include;



Now I had to explain to my family why these foods kill and how I know this is so in a way that they could personalize it and take it to heart, so I made it personal.  What better way to do this than to call on the ancestors.  I feel lucky that I was able to grow up knowing my great grandmother who lived until she was over 90 years old.  She lived with my grandmother, her brother and his wife, and my mother’s older brother. I remember when we were kids we  thought it was strange that they all lived together like that, but that was how it was when families had migrated from the south to northern states, they stuck together.  


They also ate a lot differently than we did at our house, not because they didn’t have money cause all of these adults worked and there were no kids in the family but us, but they only ate meat on special occasions.  There was always a big pot of vegetables though and sometimes it would have a piece of pork in it for flavoring, but no portions for everyone to eat.  Buttermilk was also a staple and they cooked everything with it...we kids hated it too. Even at our home with out parents, although we always had a starch, vegetables and meat at every meal,  everything was always freshly home made.  No canned foods or boxed mixes, they cost too much, everything was hand made right in our kitchen.  

The point of telling my family how we ate when we were kids was to point out that three generations of our family who lived in that house all lived to over 90 years old while my parents and even my fathers mother who stayed with us after she got older, died in their 60’s.  Even more , my sister, now sat in the very house we gathered in, the matriarch of our family with her body riddled with tumors  at barely 50.  Now I have always been one to pay attention and it seems obvious to me that those who ate less meat lived longer so that’s the way I choose to go as well.   



When we know better we should do better. That means not watching our family die one after another with out understanding why. The old I eat the way I do because my family ate like this becomes lame when all of those family members are dead.  It is up to parents to teach their children how to eat to be healthy so that they can enjoy a long lifespan. Science says man should live to about 72 on average and with today’s science this is more and more the norm for people in good health, unfortunately that is not a large portion of food guzzling Americans.



This blog is intended to help people understand how food choices are what determines much of the experience we call life.  Ironically there is an easy explanation for every illness in the human body and often simple cures for those ailments can be found in natural food products.  The entire medical industry is basing their profit on us getting sick from something we have eaten.   Stay with me on this journey and together we can explore the truth about food and learn how to eat to live.   Join me for the next segment of Education before medication when I tell you how the foods listed in this blog today are killers and what foods will heal the damage they do.  Until then.....



Hotep,
FloetfreStyl

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Kids Are Hungry!!

“Food! Food! Food! It stables your body and alternates your mood.  The craving is strong and it’s a delicious tool, to forget about worries, pains, work, strains! But for a child unable to restrain, it’s up to the parent to tame that hunger!”

There was a very interesting story in the news, a 200 pound 3rd grader was removed from the parents’ home and placed in foster care because the parents allowed the child to become morbidly obese.  Yes, I did say allowed!  Unless there is an underlying medical condition a child should never be obese if a parent is living up to their expectation.  What’s the expectation?  Protect your child at all cost.  

Children want a lot of things and food is one of them.  Regular meals, snacks and candy is a joy to them.  However, it can become excessive if you allow it to.  Meal planning, portion sizes, nutrition and the ability to say NO is what some parents are lacking.  The outcome at times is obese children.  If you are an adult and you became obese later in life, that’s your decision.  You are old enough to recognize the consequences both health wise and socially.  A child on the other hand cannot and parental instinct should kick in at that point.  

There was some discussion on this topic in the group and as always I’m going to let you get a taste of these thoughts.  One group member replied as follows:

“I think that's stupid because some kids can't help their weight...so what if they taking fat kids away they taking away the skinny ones who look malnutrition to?? #ijs” (T.T.)

True statement! Kids can’t help their weight.  They eat what parents deem acceptable.  If the parent is putting huge plates of spaghetti in front of their face and saying “eat up” that’s what they are going to do.  There was also a topic reversal in this statement.  If a child is malnurished (not just skinny) then that is also an issue that needs to be addressed.  A counter response came shortly after...

“I think it should be investigated on how the kid is being treated...Kids can't help their weight because it's not up to them to do so, it's up to the parents. if I had a child & I noticed they were gaining weight uncontrollably I would look into it & seek professional help. BUT there ARE parents who pacify their kids w/ all this fast food & junk candy which is NOT healthy and in my opinion a show of child neglect twds the child's health & well being. So if that be the case, YES, take the child away & investigate the parent...if not...just get the child some help.” (M.R.)

Yet again, a kid cannot help their weight!  This member touched on an issue.  Using food to pacify your children is a form of neglect.  It encourages gluttony and the use of food as a means to settle emotions.  A child throws a fit, put some pizza in their hands.  The child may be throwing a fit because they are angry or hurt.  Using food as a pacifier objectifies food as a healing method, instead of proper communication which takes time and patience.  

I believe the article shed light on childhood obesity but the negative aspect was the actual removal of the child from the home.  This is not a case of violent abuse.  It is not immediately life threatening.  Some parents need training.  The last member’s response sums that up...

“yall tripping they gon take this child away from PARENTS cause she feed him to damn much now he in the system probably hopping from house to house getting sexually abused or physically abused or emotionally abused because they fat??!!? This is some prejudice bullshit if they really want to help they would educate the parent and the child on the dangers of eating how they eat send them to scared straight : food edition and keep it pushing” (T.K)

We have enough children in the system.  Children that were sexually and physically abused.  This issue is one of concern but it doesn’t take extreme measures to deal with it.  That just adds emotional and mental problems into the mix.  Removing the child from the home may place feelings of self-loathing (being obese) and guilt (parents in legal trouble) onto the child unneccessarily.  It also places them in the hands of a system that is notably jacked up!!  This is an opportunity to teach proper parenting skills thus readjusting a bad situation.  

All in all, childhood obesity should be addressed not with removal from the home but with awareness and knowledge.  As parents, setting your children up for a fair shot in life without worries of health issues.  Feed your children what they need, not always what they want and certainly not to pacify them!!!  

By, Debbie Allen-Smith aka D. Flo’essence