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Important Truths about Nutrition [Part 5]
Part 1 ... http://josministries.prophpbb.com/topic17323.html
Part 2 ... http://josministries.prophpbb.com/topic17348.html
Part 3 ... http://josministries.prophpbb.com/topic17365.html
Part 4 ... http://josministries.prophpbb.com/topic17404.html
The Ethical Dilemma of Animal Protein
Is killing creatures for food ever okay?
For those of us who choose to eat meat—the flesh of other living, breathing, reproducing, moving, feeling beings—as our primary source of protein, this question hangs in the air over our dinner tables. As well it should. Something has to die for us to have dinner. That is not a meaningless concept. At one time, we understood the profound importance of animals to our ability to live well. Now, we’re simply confused about where they fit in the eating equation.
Where animals were once an indispensable source of not just nutrient-dense nourishment but also replenishment and stability for the entire homestead, they are now regarded by millions as unwitting victims in a cruel food system that pushes unhealthy, colon-clogging, cancer-causing food on the masses. The more extreme meatless eaters eschew all creature foods—by which I mean meat, eggs, and seafood. Slogans like MEAT IS MURDER decorate T-shirts and protest signs, and trendy books refer to the evils of a “decaying flesh diet.”
Our souls, our bodies, and our body fat percentages can only benefit from making the switch to a plants-only diet. Right? From this convincing pitch have grown countless other just-plants justifications. Veganism is the kind way to eat. Humans can’t digest animals. Cow farts cause pollution. We can get sufficient protein from plants.
Here’s the truth: Everything we thought we knew about eating creatures, from the way we raise animals to the reasons we avoid meat, is wrong, from top to tail. And it’s not just the meatless who are off base. Many meat-eaters are also fouling out. In our constant fiddling with dietary buttons and switches, we’ve lost the factory default setting, and it’s time we all got back to it.
Where we are now?
There are several common arguments for eating meat-free these days. These arguments are based on health or compassion, sometimes both. Meat-eaters are often portrayed as ignorant, defiant, skeptical, or simply unapologetic, factory-farming flesh-lovers. But the path that brought us here isn’t as clear-cut as good versus bad, kind versus uncaring, or bleeding-heart versus bacon.
Before the interrelated advents of crop oils and animal feedlots, and long before we started worrying—justifiably—about the horrific conditions on factory farms, properly raised, healthy animals played an integral part in the health of the individual, the family, and the land. This includes animals that we domesticated for meat, work, and manure. (Yes, manure. What did we think natural, nonindustrial fertilizers were made of? Poop is important. In a sustainable farming model, animals provide more than just meat.)
Despite the long-accepted and long-respected roles that wild-hunted or properly raised animals played in human life for thousands of years, both before and after the advent of agriculture, in the early 1900s a few folks began to oppose the eating of animals for reasons vastly different than those we might cite today (i'll post an article about this in the future). These folks were far more concerned about reducing—through vegetarianism, religious devotion, and colon cleansing—the very thing that keeps us, and every other living thing on the planet, from going extinct: our instinct to reproduce.
Kellogg’s bullshit flakes
John Harvey Kellogg, who with his brother invented what we now know as cornflakes in 1894, was actually less concerned with cereal than he was with "salvation". As a teen, he worked and lived for several years under the tutelage of an extremely religious woman named Ellen White [xian as fuck]. White believed such vices as “tea, coffee, meat, spices, fashionable dress, and sex” were driving young people to masturbate and thereby become diseased and insane. To live appropriately meant a vegetarian diet and total devotion to fighting the “animal passions.”
Holy shit, right?
We Spiritual Satanists all know that human sexuality is a natural part of who we are, the brainwashed but influential people in the early part of the twentieth century vehemently disagreed. Their beliefs represented a great departure from the spiritual significance that many native cultures ascribed to the process of hunting, preparing food, and eating.
In 1876, at the age of twenty-four, eighteen years before the accidental discovery of cornflakes, Kellogg took on the role of physician-in-chief at what he would rename the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Although he advocated healthy practices like stress relief, sun exposure, and exercise, he continued to follow the brainwash of Ellen White’s mantle of sexual suppression and strongly advocated limited meat consumption, all while extolling the benefits of fiber-rich plant foods for his patients, because he felt five bowel movements per day was the best way to rid the body of disease-causing bacteria. Kellogg’s meat-phobia is also largely responsible for the myth that meat rots in the colon, which I’ll analyze later.
Kellogg, known as an “incorrigible publicity hound,” was driven by ego: Between 1875 and 1940, he recorded and sold his thoughts on topics of health through his own popular magazine, Good Health, through pamphlets, and through books marketed door to door. His “zealous efforts to proselytize the world at large,” as the description of the John Harvey Kellogg Papers at the University of Michigan puts it, were conducted aggressively and continuously. And by continuously, I mean continuously: Kellogg wouldn’t even go to the bathroom without a stenographer!
Through this aggressive self-promotion, Kellogg managed to become world famous (the University of Michigan describes this as his “vigorous efforts as a promoter and publicist”). Kellogg was a successful propagandist who managed to spread his beliefs across the world, and while we remember his name thanks to his co-discovery of cornflakes (a product his brother was left to develop and market), and although this discovery grew from his vegetarian values, cereal is a very small part of his legacy.
What Kellogg truly left behind was the framework for modern-day vegetarianism. Though his last name isn’t synonymous with that movement, he certainly played a powerful role in its development. He believed that humans should emulate the higher primates—gorillas and orangutans—by emphasizing a diet of grains, fruit, and nuts. He was among the early advocates of the development of “meat analogs” (or faking bacon), and he developed meat substitutes beginning with the peanut-based Protose in 1899, followed by the nut-based Nuttose and Nuttelene.
Today, the most widely known vegetarian protein source, which appears in everything from plant-based bacon bits to vegan sausage, is soy—which Kellogg predicted would become hugely important in America. Although Kellogg developed probiotic soy milk (I would argue that any supposed benefits attributed to the milk should have been attributed to the probiotics that came with it) and encouraged the incorporation of soybeans into the diet as a source of protein, the technology for mass-producing edible soy protein was not widely used until the late 1950s, when solvent extraction of soy oil was introduced. This industrial process allowed the protein-rich by-product of soy oil production to remain intact, enabling the isolated soy protein fibers to be texturized into a meat-like consistency.
Note that: The margarine industry, born of animal-product scarcity and saddled with trans fats, morphed into a crop oil industry with an anti–animal fat agenda; and the by-products from these industries provide the raw materials for the “fake meat” market and the factory-farming industry. Remember, the by-products of margarine production helped establish the feedlot industry, and most modern soy is used to produce animal feed for that same enterprise.
But let's get back to the topic...
Follow the money
Unlike Kellogg’s, our moral/religious attitudes have little to do with our choice in foods. Even so, our cultural enthusiasm for meatlessness has increased. Why? Part of the reason is that history is written by the winners—or at least by those who find a way, through ego or sheer enthusiasm, to foist their personal agendas and theories on the public.
I’m talking about Kellogg and antifat crusader Ancel Keys [we mentioned him in the previous parts] and the industries that were built up around them. You may have noticed that nearly everything with a label has a corn or soy by-product in it, and cornflakes are a mainstay of supermarket shelves, as are their by-product brethren, vegetable oils. These products are even considered by some to be healthy, although I evidence shows the exact opposite.
Let’s quickly revisit the truth about cholesterol and foods rich in saturated fats from properly raised creatures: Not only are they not dangerous, they’re actually extremely dense in nutrition. And while we probably don’t need to further ridicule Kellogg’s propaganda, we certainly can credit his work, along with that of Keys and researchers from the vegetable oil industry, in building the infrastructure for a modern meatless agenda that, at its core, has roots more deeply embedded in cardiovascular confusion and commerce than in true health. Massive industries arose around the shaky theories and questionable agendas of Keys and Kellogg, and their beliefs were inscribed in our cultural narrative. Other common arguments for a meatless diet are just fuel to a flame that should have died out long ago.
All this propaganda was for the profit of jew owned companies, not health!
Though the evangelists of meatless nutrition have been loud throughout history, and their concerns about animal welfare are shared, albeit addressed differently, by compassionate omnivores dedicated to properly raised animal products, their proclamations can’t mute the truth: We can’t replace all animal products with plants and expect to get equal nutrition. Animals and plants are different outside our bodies, and they work differently within our bodies. One reason: protein. More specifically, amino acids.
Protein and Amino acids
Proteins are made of varying combinations of amino acids, and amino acids make up every tissue and substance in our bodies, from hair to heart to hormones. We need the right combinations of amino acids interacting with fundamentally healthy cells in order to build tissues as nature intended. To misunderstand this is to misunderstand the roles that individual amino acids play in the growth, repair, and maintenance of healthy tissue. Amino acids matter.
See this theoretical/abstract 3d representation of protein creation from DNA. Note that proteins are made of amino acids.
https://youtu.be/gG7uCskUOrA
Here is another more accurate 3d representation to understand the complexity of our nature. To those not familiar with biology/chemistry, note that every little ball like structure you see in this video is a chemical structure.
https://youtu.be/D3fOXt4MrOM
Amazing right? Anyway back to the topic...
There are eight essential amino acids for adults and nine for children. The body can make all other amino acids from these essential ones, but we must get the essential ones from the foods we consume.
Creature protein contains all the essential amino acids in proper proportion to one another—a characteristic of all flesh foods—and thus is known as complete protein. While all essential amino acids can also be found in the plant kingdom, they are not found in the same complete-protein proportions: Most plants provide inadequate amounts of certain amino acids in relation to others. For this reason, plant protein is known as incomplete. Although the meatless and the meat-full communities do not agree on the significance of this information, and many plant-based-diet devotees insist that the question of amino acid proportions doesn’t matter, I aim to make clear that it does.
During the digestive process, our bodies free the amino acids within our food and create other substances from them. If something we eat doesn’t contain the full suite of essential amino acids needed by the body, we have a very small window—one day by the estimation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—to ingest the complementary ones to complete the amino acid equation. This is because the body doesn’t house amino acids while they wait for their perfect counterparts to pass through.
Let's repeat that. If you don't ingest the complementary amino acids, it's useless!
The body doesn’t store complete proteins for a rainy day, either. According to the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes [from here on SCotSEoDRI] “There is no evidence for a protein reserve that serves only as a store to meet future needs.” Complete protein must be eaten daily to serve the body’s ongoing needs, and those needs are many: tissue repair, the normal growth and development of a child, and the biochemical transactions that enable those tasks, from zinc and iron utilization to cholesterol-carrying to the building of proteins for oxygen transport. All depend on the amino acids found in protein. So, say the SCotSEoDRI, “The most important aspect of a protein from a nutritional point of view is its amino acid composition.”
All this mumbo jumbo pertains most to those who rely primarily on plants for their amino acids with the false belief that protein is protein is protein, or the mistaken claim that the amino acid composition of protein doesn’t matter. According to the SCotSEoDRI analysis, “unless amino acids are present in the diet in the right balance . . . protein utilization will be affected.” There are, in fact, consequences to relying exclusively on plants for protein, even if they aren’t immediately recognizable. We may not be wasting away sans protein from animals or fish, but many of us are wasting perfectly good opportunities to feel better.
We’re also wasting a great opportunity to transform our food system by advocating for the humane treatment of animals by spending our food dollars on properly raised animal products!
In the next episode...
I want to keep these parts a few thousand words in order to make them easily readable (and easy to write), so I'll end this part here. In the next part I'll post about some of the most famous myths about animal protein.
Never forget. Do your own research. What I post here is just my own research, hoping to give some initial information for those that don't know where to start.
Keep fighting comrades!
Hail Father Satan Forever
Hail All the Gods of Hell
Part 1 ... http://josministries.prophpbb.com/topic17323.html
Part 2 ... http://josministries.prophpbb.com/topic17348.html
Part 3 ... http://josministries.prophpbb.com/topic17365.html
Part 4 ... http://josministries.prophpbb.com/topic17404.html
The Ethical Dilemma of Animal Protein
Is killing creatures for food ever okay?
For those of us who choose to eat meat—the flesh of other living, breathing, reproducing, moving, feeling beings—as our primary source of protein, this question hangs in the air over our dinner tables. As well it should. Something has to die for us to have dinner. That is not a meaningless concept. At one time, we understood the profound importance of animals to our ability to live well. Now, we’re simply confused about where they fit in the eating equation.
Where animals were once an indispensable source of not just nutrient-dense nourishment but also replenishment and stability for the entire homestead, they are now regarded by millions as unwitting victims in a cruel food system that pushes unhealthy, colon-clogging, cancer-causing food on the masses. The more extreme meatless eaters eschew all creature foods—by which I mean meat, eggs, and seafood. Slogans like MEAT IS MURDER decorate T-shirts and protest signs, and trendy books refer to the evils of a “decaying flesh diet.”
Our souls, our bodies, and our body fat percentages can only benefit from making the switch to a plants-only diet. Right? From this convincing pitch have grown countless other just-plants justifications. Veganism is the kind way to eat. Humans can’t digest animals. Cow farts cause pollution. We can get sufficient protein from plants.
Here’s the truth: Everything we thought we knew about eating creatures, from the way we raise animals to the reasons we avoid meat, is wrong, from top to tail. And it’s not just the meatless who are off base. Many meat-eaters are also fouling out. In our constant fiddling with dietary buttons and switches, we’ve lost the factory default setting, and it’s time we all got back to it.
Where we are now?
There are several common arguments for eating meat-free these days. These arguments are based on health or compassion, sometimes both. Meat-eaters are often portrayed as ignorant, defiant, skeptical, or simply unapologetic, factory-farming flesh-lovers. But the path that brought us here isn’t as clear-cut as good versus bad, kind versus uncaring, or bleeding-heart versus bacon.
Before the interrelated advents of crop oils and animal feedlots, and long before we started worrying—justifiably—about the horrific conditions on factory farms, properly raised, healthy animals played an integral part in the health of the individual, the family, and the land. This includes animals that we domesticated for meat, work, and manure. (Yes, manure. What did we think natural, nonindustrial fertilizers were made of? Poop is important. In a sustainable farming model, animals provide more than just meat.)
Despite the long-accepted and long-respected roles that wild-hunted or properly raised animals played in human life for thousands of years, both before and after the advent of agriculture, in the early 1900s a few folks began to oppose the eating of animals for reasons vastly different than those we might cite today (i'll post an article about this in the future). These folks were far more concerned about reducing—through vegetarianism, religious devotion, and colon cleansing—the very thing that keeps us, and every other living thing on the planet, from going extinct: our instinct to reproduce.
Kellogg’s bullshit flakes
John Harvey Kellogg, who with his brother invented what we now know as cornflakes in 1894, was actually less concerned with cereal than he was with "salvation". As a teen, he worked and lived for several years under the tutelage of an extremely religious woman named Ellen White [xian as fuck]. White believed such vices as “tea, coffee, meat, spices, fashionable dress, and sex” were driving young people to masturbate and thereby become diseased and insane. To live appropriately meant a vegetarian diet and total devotion to fighting the “animal passions.”
Holy shit, right?
We Spiritual Satanists all know that human sexuality is a natural part of who we are, the brainwashed but influential people in the early part of the twentieth century vehemently disagreed. Their beliefs represented a great departure from the spiritual significance that many native cultures ascribed to the process of hunting, preparing food, and eating.
In 1876, at the age of twenty-four, eighteen years before the accidental discovery of cornflakes, Kellogg took on the role of physician-in-chief at what he would rename the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Although he advocated healthy practices like stress relief, sun exposure, and exercise, he continued to follow the brainwash of Ellen White’s mantle of sexual suppression and strongly advocated limited meat consumption, all while extolling the benefits of fiber-rich plant foods for his patients, because he felt five bowel movements per day was the best way to rid the body of disease-causing bacteria. Kellogg’s meat-phobia is also largely responsible for the myth that meat rots in the colon, which I’ll analyze later.
Kellogg, known as an “incorrigible publicity hound,” was driven by ego: Between 1875 and 1940, he recorded and sold his thoughts on topics of health through his own popular magazine, Good Health, through pamphlets, and through books marketed door to door. His “zealous efforts to proselytize the world at large,” as the description of the John Harvey Kellogg Papers at the University of Michigan puts it, were conducted aggressively and continuously. And by continuously, I mean continuously: Kellogg wouldn’t even go to the bathroom without a stenographer!
Through this aggressive self-promotion, Kellogg managed to become world famous (the University of Michigan describes this as his “vigorous efforts as a promoter and publicist”). Kellogg was a successful propagandist who managed to spread his beliefs across the world, and while we remember his name thanks to his co-discovery of cornflakes (a product his brother was left to develop and market), and although this discovery grew from his vegetarian values, cereal is a very small part of his legacy.
What Kellogg truly left behind was the framework for modern-day vegetarianism. Though his last name isn’t synonymous with that movement, he certainly played a powerful role in its development. He believed that humans should emulate the higher primates—gorillas and orangutans—by emphasizing a diet of grains, fruit, and nuts. He was among the early advocates of the development of “meat analogs” (or faking bacon), and he developed meat substitutes beginning with the peanut-based Protose in 1899, followed by the nut-based Nuttose and Nuttelene.
Today, the most widely known vegetarian protein source, which appears in everything from plant-based bacon bits to vegan sausage, is soy—which Kellogg predicted would become hugely important in America. Although Kellogg developed probiotic soy milk (I would argue that any supposed benefits attributed to the milk should have been attributed to the probiotics that came with it) and encouraged the incorporation of soybeans into the diet as a source of protein, the technology for mass-producing edible soy protein was not widely used until the late 1950s, when solvent extraction of soy oil was introduced. This industrial process allowed the protein-rich by-product of soy oil production to remain intact, enabling the isolated soy protein fibers to be texturized into a meat-like consistency.
Note that: The margarine industry, born of animal-product scarcity and saddled with trans fats, morphed into a crop oil industry with an anti–animal fat agenda; and the by-products from these industries provide the raw materials for the “fake meat” market and the factory-farming industry. Remember, the by-products of margarine production helped establish the feedlot industry, and most modern soy is used to produce animal feed for that same enterprise.
But let's get back to the topic...
Follow the money
Unlike Kellogg’s, our moral/religious attitudes have little to do with our choice in foods. Even so, our cultural enthusiasm for meatlessness has increased. Why? Part of the reason is that history is written by the winners—or at least by those who find a way, through ego or sheer enthusiasm, to foist their personal agendas and theories on the public.
I’m talking about Kellogg and antifat crusader Ancel Keys [we mentioned him in the previous parts] and the industries that were built up around them. You may have noticed that nearly everything with a label has a corn or soy by-product in it, and cornflakes are a mainstay of supermarket shelves, as are their by-product brethren, vegetable oils. These products are even considered by some to be healthy, although I evidence shows the exact opposite.
Let’s quickly revisit the truth about cholesterol and foods rich in saturated fats from properly raised creatures: Not only are they not dangerous, they’re actually extremely dense in nutrition. And while we probably don’t need to further ridicule Kellogg’s propaganda, we certainly can credit his work, along with that of Keys and researchers from the vegetable oil industry, in building the infrastructure for a modern meatless agenda that, at its core, has roots more deeply embedded in cardiovascular confusion and commerce than in true health. Massive industries arose around the shaky theories and questionable agendas of Keys and Kellogg, and their beliefs were inscribed in our cultural narrative. Other common arguments for a meatless diet are just fuel to a flame that should have died out long ago.
All this propaganda was for the profit of jew owned companies, not health!
Though the evangelists of meatless nutrition have been loud throughout history, and their concerns about animal welfare are shared, albeit addressed differently, by compassionate omnivores dedicated to properly raised animal products, their proclamations can’t mute the truth: We can’t replace all animal products with plants and expect to get equal nutrition. Animals and plants are different outside our bodies, and they work differently within our bodies. One reason: protein. More specifically, amino acids.
Protein and Amino acids
Proteins are made of varying combinations of amino acids, and amino acids make up every tissue and substance in our bodies, from hair to heart to hormones. We need the right combinations of amino acids interacting with fundamentally healthy cells in order to build tissues as nature intended. To misunderstand this is to misunderstand the roles that individual amino acids play in the growth, repair, and maintenance of healthy tissue. Amino acids matter.
See this theoretical/abstract 3d representation of protein creation from DNA. Note that proteins are made of amino acids.
https://youtu.be/gG7uCskUOrA
Here is another more accurate 3d representation to understand the complexity of our nature. To those not familiar with biology/chemistry, note that every little ball like structure you see in this video is a chemical structure.
https://youtu.be/D3fOXt4MrOM
Amazing right? Anyway back to the topic...
There are eight essential amino acids for adults and nine for children. The body can make all other amino acids from these essential ones, but we must get the essential ones from the foods we consume.
Creature protein contains all the essential amino acids in proper proportion to one another—a characteristic of all flesh foods—and thus is known as complete protein. While all essential amino acids can also be found in the plant kingdom, they are not found in the same complete-protein proportions: Most plants provide inadequate amounts of certain amino acids in relation to others. For this reason, plant protein is known as incomplete. Although the meatless and the meat-full communities do not agree on the significance of this information, and many plant-based-diet devotees insist that the question of amino acid proportions doesn’t matter, I aim to make clear that it does.
During the digestive process, our bodies free the amino acids within our food and create other substances from them. If something we eat doesn’t contain the full suite of essential amino acids needed by the body, we have a very small window—one day by the estimation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—to ingest the complementary ones to complete the amino acid equation. This is because the body doesn’t house amino acids while they wait for their perfect counterparts to pass through.
Let's repeat that. If you don't ingest the complementary amino acids, it's useless!
The body doesn’t store complete proteins for a rainy day, either. According to the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes [from here on SCotSEoDRI] “There is no evidence for a protein reserve that serves only as a store to meet future needs.” Complete protein must be eaten daily to serve the body’s ongoing needs, and those needs are many: tissue repair, the normal growth and development of a child, and the biochemical transactions that enable those tasks, from zinc and iron utilization to cholesterol-carrying to the building of proteins for oxygen transport. All depend on the amino acids found in protein. So, say the SCotSEoDRI, “The most important aspect of a protein from a nutritional point of view is its amino acid composition.”
All this mumbo jumbo pertains most to those who rely primarily on plants for their amino acids with the false belief that protein is protein is protein, or the mistaken claim that the amino acid composition of protein doesn’t matter. According to the SCotSEoDRI analysis, “unless amino acids are present in the diet in the right balance . . . protein utilization will be affected.” There are, in fact, consequences to relying exclusively on plants for protein, even if they aren’t immediately recognizable. We may not be wasting away sans protein from animals or fish, but many of us are wasting perfectly good opportunities to feel better.
We’re also wasting a great opportunity to transform our food system by advocating for the humane treatment of animals by spending our food dollars on properly raised animal products!
In the next episode...
I want to keep these parts a few thousand words in order to make them easily readable (and easy to write), so I'll end this part here. In the next part I'll post about some of the most famous myths about animal protein.
Never forget. Do your own research. What I post here is just my own research, hoping to give some initial information for those that don't know where to start.
Keep fighting comrades!
Hail Father Satan Forever
Hail All the Gods of Hell
