“The animal protein culture, conventionally viewed as improved consumption in a ‘nutrition transition’, has serious environmental and health consequences. The Lancet
Food choice has been linked to the Non-Communicable Diseases: Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity, Anti-Microbial Resistance, Allergies. Autoimmune Disease, some Cancers, and Suicide which are currently responsible for the most human deaths. These avoidable morbidities are expensive to treat and now outnumber infectious diseases as the top killers globally causing nearly three-quarters of deaths in the world, killing approximately 41 million people every year.
As a result of development, the former healthful vegetable, rice and beans diet in developing nations, is being replaced by the meat and dairy based diet, causing skyrocketing incidence of the non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women worldwide. Fat and cholesterol from eating sentient beings fills human blood vessels with plaques which start forming in young adulthood or childhood. Coronary arteries which bring blood and oxygen to the heart start to narrow, reducing blood flow, and threatening the viability of the heart. The heart tries harder to pump blood, resulting in high blood pressure. Expensive surgical procedures are used to try to overcome this problem. Without diet change, it continues to occurs repeatedly causing multiple, expensive invasive surgical procedures.
Cancer is currently the second leading cause of death in the developed world. Cancer starts deep within the cells of the body where thousands of biological and chemical interactions occur every second. Each cell controls the use of oxygen and various nutrients, communicates messages, creates new substances, and builds new cells. The trillions of cells in the body communicate, remove potentially toxic substances, repair injured cells, and prevent cells with damaged genetic material from reproducing. Cancer begins when something goes wrong in a cell and the damaged cell rapidly reproduces damaged cells. Some cancers have been linked to the meat and dairy based diet.
Diabetes occurs in patients experiencing an unusually high level of glucose in the blood, fatigue, water loss, and excessive thirst. Their bodies will not allow glucose, the end product of digestion circulating in their blood, to nourish their cells. Fat and cholesterol from eating other sentient beings fills the human cells making it impossible for those cells to accept nutritional glucose. Glucose has no other option but to remain in the blood stream, causing a symptom of diabetes. Worldwide about 200 million people have diabetes, and it is currently skyrocketing in the developing world.
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is quickly becoming a major health concern. The World Health Organization has declared it to be one of the greatest threats to global health, “We are headed for a post-antibiotic era – an end to modern medicine as we know it – in which common infections and minor injuries, as common as strep throat, or a child’s scratched knee, could once again kill.”
The United States Center for Disease Control announced that there are an estimated 2 million drug-resistant infections occurring every year in the US alone, causing a staggering 23,000 deaths. Worldwide, an estimated 4.5 million deaths were associated with AMR in 2019, making AMR a leading cause of death worldwide.
Antimicrobial Resistance is often fatal for humans. It results from the excessive amounts of antibiotics force fed to unjustly incarcerated individuals, animals raised for human food, to prevent their untimely and unprofitable demise due to the horrendous conditions they are forced to live in, before a human profit can be made on their suffering. These antibiotics are then consumed by humans who eat their flesh and menstrual cycles (eggs), and drink their milk meant by nature for their own babies.
Suicide is quickly becoming a leading cause of death worldwide. Depression and suicide are linked to cortisol, a stress hormone present in both humans and animals, in stressful situations. Exploited animals are innocent individuals who suffer incarceration, violation of their bodies, a life of rape, loss of their children, torturous ‘milking’, experience fear and pain, are tortured, murdered with impunity, and have absolutely no recourse. When these severely stressed individuals are eaten by humans, their excessive amounts of cortisol cause human depression, often severe enough for suicide.
In addition, meat and dairy based diet has been linked to Alzheimer’s, dementia, autoimmune disease, and other illnesses.