Healthy-Again, Your Path To Health and Recovery

Natural Non-Drug Cures - Therapies - Treatments - Remedies for Cancer, Heart Disease, AIDS, and other Chronic Illness


Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, 400 B.C.

Jonathan Campbell

Helping people take charge of their health

 


Introduction
Covid-19 Protection and Treatment
Covid-19 Supplement Protocol
Long Covid Treatment/Cure
Natural Therapies
How to Prevent/Stop Influenza
Natural Cancer Therapy
Natural Cardiovascular Disease Therapy
Natural Cholesterol Control Therapy
Natural Statin Injury Therapy
Type II Diabetes
What Is AIDS?
Natural AIDS Therapy
Natural Chronic Fatigue Therapy
Natural Hepatitis C Therapy
Natural Mental Disorders Therapy
Natural Sexual Dysfunction Therapy
Patient Empowerment
Menopause Naturally
Poverty In America
About Jonathan Campbell
Home Page

 

10 Reasons to Stop Eating Beef (and other Fast Food)

by Jonathan Campbell

Beef-eating is portrayed in the U.S. almost as a patriotic endeavor. Our favorite sports heroes - from Michael Jordan to Drew Bledsoe - are featured in McDonalds ads and toys. We are literally bombarded with ads for McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy's. But there is something very odd about all this. There are hints (or front page headlines) telling us that there is something wrong with all this beef consumption.

In fact, a quick study of the issues surrounding beef consumption finds some very disturbing facts:

1. Beef contains significant quantities of the most toxic organic chemical known - dioxin. This chemical is toxic in the trillionths of grams. (A trillionth of a gram, called a picogram, is one million millionth of a gram. A gram is about 1/30th of an ounce.) Dioxin has been linked to cancer, endometriosis, Attention Deficit Disorder (hyperactivity in children), reproductive systems defects in children, chronic fatigue syndrome, immune system deficiency, and rare nerve and blood disorders. A single hamburger (a little less than 1/4 lb, or 100 grams) contains up to 100 picograms of dioxin. That is 300 times as much as the EPA says is "acceptable" for a daily dose for an adult! There are some scientists who say that there is no acceptable dose; they say that any dose can cause toxic effects, because dioxin is a hormone disrupting chemical which changes the functioning of our cells, against which we have no defense. The dioxin comes from microscopic particles of ash from incinerators that have settled on grass and crops eaten by the beef cattle, pigs, and chickens. All farm animals are affected - even herds grown on "all-natural" feed. See dioxin.

2. The huge amount of beef that we consume, in combination with the usual side-orders of other fatty foods (such as french fries) and caffeine and refined sugars (cola beverages) appears to be one of the major causes of obesity in the U.S. and Europe. Beef is "dumped" into our schools by the beef industry and the USDA - beef producers are paid by the government for "surplus" beef (the vast amount they cannot sell) which is subsequently "donated" to school lunch programs, helping our children to get hooked on this unhealthy food.

3. Beef production is the major cause of the destruction of the world's rainforests. The high price of beef encourages ranchers to burn the forest to create new rangelands. The fragile, thin rainforest soil cover is quickly destroyed by grazing in 1-2 years, and the ranchers move on to burn another area, in a never-ending cycle of destruction. Thousands of species of plants and animals have already been destroyed forever, as well as straining the earth's ability to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. At current rates, the rainforests will be totally destroyed in 30-50 years.

4. Beef production is the major cause of "desertification" around the world - the rapid degradation of marginal, low-rainfall soil areas into desert. The constant pounding of the hoofs of cattle disturbs and eventually destroys the delicate root systems which keep the topsoil layer intact. Erosion by winds or storms removes the topsoil, leaving the sand or clay subsoil layer behind.

5. Beef production is a serious social justice issue. Beef cattle and their grazing land take up nearly a quarter of the land mass of the earth, to supply beef to the U.S., Europe, and Japan. About one third of the world's grain harvest is used for feed for cattle instead of food for people. In the U.S., that figure is over 70 percent. It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce a single pound of beef. This, in a world where nearly a billion people lack enough food, is unjust. Beef production for the developed parts of the world is severely limiting the amount of food available for people in the poor and developing world.

6. Beef can harbor a deadly new germ, called e. coli O157:H7. This new germ is now a major cause of serious food poisoning. Beef and dairy cattle can carry the germ with no apparent adverse health effects. The germ, found in cattle feces, has contaminated beef and produce grown with cow manure. So far it has killed dozens of people and sickened thousands. In August, 1997, 25 million pounds of beef were recalled, the largest food recall in the world's history, because of O157:H7 contamination of beef destined to Burger King restaurants. The precautions against the germ - including cooking to 160º F (71º C) - reveals a disgusting side of beef production - there is no way to prevent fecal contamination during slaughter. See O157:H7.

7. The consumption of beef and fast food "restaurants" that promote it have created a new, super-exploitative work environment. High school students and people in poverty have learned an old social order - the sweatshop. The frenetic pace of a McDonalds or Burger King at lunch or dinner time is easily a match for the non-unionized factories and garment shops of the '20s in the U.S. (or most developing countries today). But this is the modern U.S. sweatshop, where we are all members of a "team" working for the common good - minimum wages and windfall profits.

8. Beef consumption has created a self-perpetuating and rapidly-expanding distortion of local economies all over the world. As more McDonalds "restaurants" are established and beef consumption rises, more arable land is consumed for grazing and cattle feed. In developing countries, the local economy changes from one based on local food markets and trade to one based on beef exports, enriching a few wealthy landowners and merchants and impoverishing the rest.

9. The "fast-food" industry giants that promote beef - McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy's - have created and encouraged an artificial, plastic, uniform, standard "restaurant" environment that, because of their powerful advertising media, discourages diversity and local and ethnic culture in restaurants and in food choices. Beef - served as hamburgers - has been the driving force for this shift in how we view food and eating in the U. S.

10. The beef "fast-food" industry, notably McDonalds and Burger King, especially targets children in its marketing. As a result, millions of children (and in many cases, their parents) associate eating at those "restaurants" as a fun, positive, healthful eating experience. Obesity and other afflictions associated with excess animal fat intake and sedentary lifestyle are now affecting young adults and children in increasing numbers.

Sources: 1994 EPA Dioxin Reassessment, Dying From Dioxin by Lois Gibbs, Beyond Beef by Jeremy Rifkin, fact sheets from the McLibel case (Great Britain), Diet For A Small Planet by Francis Moore Lappe, Mother Jones magazine.

(Download a MS-Word 6 version for community organizing)



Payment/Donation Request

If you find that the information on this site has provided you  with useful health information, or you would like to contribute to help the cause of providing this kind of service to people, please consider a modest payment for these information services.

I use my Healthy-Again PayPal account for the payment button, and you can use your PayPal account or any credit or debit card for payment. I have programmed the button to be a payment for information services, so you will not be charged any extra transaction fees. Select the amount you would like to pay. Any amount will be gratefully received.

If you don't have a PayPal account, PayPal will allow you to use any credit or debit card. PayPal is a completely safe, data secure funds transfer and payment service. Look for the lock symbol next to the PayPal URL (https://www.paypal.com), which guarantees that your payment is secure and encrypted.

Payment Options

Natural Therapy Home Page

Download A Natural Therapy Guide

©Graphics, Web design, and content Copyright 2003-2024 by Jonathan L. Campbell.
HealthyAgain and HealthyHomes are trademarks of Jonathan L. Campbell of Massachusetts, as of June 1, 2010
 

Healthy-Again, Your Path To Health and Recovery
124 Metropolitan Ave.
Roslindale, MA 02131-4208

https://www.healthy-again.net


Could Vitamin C stop the Ebola epidemic?

Diabetes, Pre-diabetes, and Severe Hypoglycemia are 100% corellated to Cardiovascular Disease

All health guides are now free for download

Now Available For Free Download: The Looting of Social Security by economist Alan Smith, http://www.thebiglie.net

Japan Nuclear Emergency and Worldwide Fallout - What To Do? http://www.healthy-again.net/japannuclearemergency.htm

Has your doctor prescribed Lipitor or another statin drug? Just say no! http://www.healthy-again.net/lipitor.htm

You don't need to take statin drugs...please don't take them! http://www.healthy-again.net/lipitor.htm

Muscle aches, weakness, numbness, brain fog - have you been harmed by Lipitor? http://www.healthy-again.net/lipitor.htm

Can 40 million people be wrong on Lipitor? Yes they can! http://www.healthy-again.net/wrongonlipitor.htm

Lipitor may ruin your health! http://www.healthy-again.net/lipitor.htm

Read about Lipitor side effects - http://www.healthy-again.net/lipitor.htm

If you are seeking a natural therapy, treatment, remedy, or cure for cancer, heart disease, AIDS, or other chronic illness: go to http://www.healthy-again.net

Swine Flu Vaccine Causes Miscarriage: http://www.healthy-again.net/swinefluvaccine.htm

Effective Natural Treatment for cancer: http://www.healthy-again.net/cancertherapy.htm

Cure - Reverse - Heart Disease: http://www.healthy-again.net

Effective Natural Treatment for heart disease: http://www.healthy-again.net/cvd.htm

Effective Natural Treatment for hepatitis: http://www.healthy-again.net/hepatitis.htm

30-60 Million People Are Being Harmed By Statin Drugs. Are You One Of Them? http://www.healthy-again.net/lipitor.htm

Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS) Is A Toxic Fraud - Please Don't Take It! http://www.healthy-again.net/mms.htm

Colloidal Silver is Toxic - Don't Take It! http://www.healthy-again.net/silver.htm

Alternative "treatments" and "cures" to avoid:
Protocel (also called Cancell, Cantron, Sheridan's Formula)
Poly-MVA
Infrared sauna (especially far infrared, which actually causes cancer)
Cesium therapy
Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS)
Zeolite liquid (NCD)
Essiac Tea
Alkaline pH
Coral Calcium
Colloidal Silver
Any treatment that specifies not to take Vitamin C
Fasting
"Fruit-only" regimens

http://www.healthy-again.net/therapiestoavoid.htm

Thinking about getting an HIV Test? Don't! http://www.healthy-again.net/aidtests.htm

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Can Be Avoided! http://www.healthy-again.net/sids.htm

What's Wrong With Dricore: http://www.healthy-again.net/homeqa/dricore.htm

Reliable Concrete Cutting Massachusetts: http://www.healthy-again.net/homeqa/bcd.htm

Looting Social Security - How Reagan and Greenspan Stole the Trust Fund: http://www.thebiglie.net

How to Buy Siliver and Gold - An Economic and Health Survival Guide - Navigating Through Economic Turmoil: http://www.healthy-again.net/community-alert/survivalguides.htm

Bauman Remodeling of Dedham, a review: http://www.healthy-again.net/homeqa/contractorfrom.htm

Stop Spam - Subscribe to SpamCop - http://www.spamcop.net

Reduce The Burden of the HIV and AIDS diagnosis - http://www.reducetheburden.org

Quitting AIDS drugs is hard to do - http://www.healthy-again.net/quittingaidsdrugs.htm

Danger - Never Get An HIV Test - Ever! http://www.healthy-again.net/aidstests.htm

What Is AIDS? http://www.healthy-again.net/aids.htm

Conventional Medicine Does Not Provide Answers - http://www.healthy-again.net/conventionalmedicine.htm

Healthy-Again Computers - Buying And Maintaining Computer Equipment

Why My HP Printer Stopped Working - HP's Business Model

How To Avoid The HP "Firmware Update"

HP Printer Firmware Downgrade Links