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Here’s an interesting ‘Meaty’ story published in The Age today:

A steady diet of red meat makes the body more susceptible to a virulent form of intestinal bug that can cause bloody diarrhoea and even death, according to a study to be published on Thursday.

Researchers in the United States and Australia said persistently eating red meat appears to prime the body for exposure to this potent form of Escherichia coli (E. coli).

The meat naturally contains sugar molecules called Neu5Gc that accumulate in cells lining the intestines and blood vessels.

These molecules also act as a sort of magnet for the toxins exuded by the E. coli strain, thus making it easier for the poisons to enter the blood stream, they said.

“Prior meat eating would set one up for the toxin to bind when it shows up,” explained Ajit Varki, a researcher at the University of California at San Diego, one of the study’s co-authors.

The Neu5Gc molecule is virtually absent in other foods such as fish, poultry and vegetables and fruits, Varki told AFP in an email exchange.

The investigation, published in the London-based journal Nature, is led by Travis Beddoe of Monash University in Melbourne.

In experiments, the team first tested the affinity of the E. coli bacteria for Neu5Gc using cultured human cells in a lab dish.

“The human samples showed the presence of the Neu5Gc toxin binding sites in the gut and the kidney, the two target organs for the disease,” said Varki.

The researchers then confirmed the positive results using genetically modified mice in which the gene which naturally produced Neu5Gc was suppressed.

E. coli is found in the lower intestine of animals and humans. Many of its strains are harmless, but others can cause serious, sometimes fatal health problems.

There are about 75,000 cases of E. coli-related to food poisoning every year in the United States, including an average of 60 fatalities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Most outbreaks have been traced to undercooked ground beef tainted with faecal matter post-slaughter.

E. coli can also be transmitted through unwashed vegetables grown in farmland irrigated by sewage-contaminated water. 

This is one video worth watching just to get your head around the ‘Cost of the War in Iraq’. Very interesting to actually see the numbers up there in front of your eyes and what such high dollar values look like on screen. This also shows examples of what such money could do to help better the world if only it was put into health-care, education or something else more positive for all of humanity.

National Priorities Project (USA) analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand how their tax dollars are spent.

See for yourself here:

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We’ve been chatting a little over the past weeks about a new audiobook we’ve been working on here at Veg-Secrets and it’s due to be released very soon. Actually this audio is a revised and updated version of our existing ebook: ‘The Top Ten Things You Need to Know Before Going Veg’, and so we wanted to give you a sneak peak at the audio cover.

We’ll be launching the audiobook hopefully either next week or the week after that, so keep an eye out for news on that front folks.

….that change cannot be avoided in life. So do not resist change, embrace it.

 
Life is changing all the time — and certainly the day-to-day conditions on our planet are changing now in ways we could not have expected — so the fact of change is real, and very present.

 

Our invitation from life is to not let changes get us down, but to lift ourselves up, and move past them.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

Do you feel it? … The new dawn of our Vegan labours being materialized in the near future? Humanity is now being woken up in case you hadn’t noticed. We are collectively being forced from every which way to face up to our abrasive illusionary form instead of succumbing to the ignorance of the total illusion that’s been before us.

I’m not sure what millennia we were in when our initial impulse and fall from grace and plant based eating evolved, but it must’ve been what seems like eons ago. However we now stand here naked in the midst of a practical and probable cruelty-free revolution on behalf of the animals, the planet and ourselves.

Here’s Why:

Even though at face value we see the amplified playing’s out of torture, cruelty, pollution and power to such a high degree it feels to me at least like the glorious morphing of a moment that we the animal and humanitarian liberist’s have all been collectively working towards, you know those moments of grace so pure that we will no longer be living in a non-vegan world. We’ve longed for if for such a long time, the ideals we’ve been so passionately envisioning and now we stand ahead of the fact that one day in the not too distant future this birthing will appear.

It’s no longer a matter of IF, but WHEN!

We’ve all kept going, moving and helping inspire others to see the error of their ways, to look past the darkness of adversity and cruelty on all levels.

Sometimes it’s felt as though we’ve sacrificed our all on behalf of humanities power plays, wars and rulings over the sentient beings of this planet. Yet I believe that now our victory is at hand and all those who’ve been so selfless within service to the animals, the planet and humanity are being brought to the forefront for elevation.

There’s something in the air, can’t you feel it?

And yes I know that some may disagree with my stance or lack the sight to see the evidence of my words, however with that said, while many of you may profess we are still living in the ‘dark ages’ with our rape, pillages and cruelty to the animal kingdom and each other careening out of control, it may be wise to step back out of the illusion we all get so entangled in constantly and become fully aware of the unification of change that stands directly before us. I’m not saying we are not living in some of the most demanding and challenging times of our lives but is this not just a simple lesson in awakening for us to step up to a higher compassion and stewardship of life on this planet we call home.

Yes we now have a culture filled with ‘distractions’ coming at us from every way possible. But we also have the capacity in these moments to rise above the distortion and stretch ourselves to any challenges ahead. Just maybe the burden that we may feel we are in the depths of, is actually a gift. A gift sent to us so we can gain the strength and wisdom of a higher consciousness and commit to undertaking this change we so desperately wish to see in the world.

We are the ones of our own making in case you are not aware of it and that includes all aspects of living in peace and harmony with all of creation (including the animals). So how much longer can we continue the disconnection in our culture of be-little-ment towards ourselves, the planet and all others, therefore being hostages to the great hypnosis of our own game through greed and power and force?

Unfortunately or is it actually fortunately that just maybe the ecological and cruelty-crisis facing us here on this planet at this time is exactly what we’ve needed to make us grow up and stand tall and furthermore call us UP as Unified Revelationists to help heal the planet and it’s beings of all kinds.

The distortions of reality are shifting with such speedy outcomes at this time and yet on occasions may not seem real. But hasn’t it often been said in the past, that to be-able to see the light, you first must walk through the darkness. Afterall one can’t comprehend what hot is until one has experienced the cold.

So now just bare with me a few more moments… can you imagine what a glorious future exists outside of all the darkness that resides currently for us? If we clear away and clean things up we will create a fertile future on which a new reality will exist. In other words stepping through the dark into the light People!

Imbedding the compassion and spirit of cruelty-freedom in every place, person and thing you meet might just help start you off on a more optimistic journey that will birth forth this creation of a Peaceful Greener Veggie World.

Remember we are the ones we’ve been longing for, so why not close down the era of darkness and simply walk across the veil to the Light.  Living by example is one of the highest degrees of empowerment which also lights the road for others to follow.

Maybe it’s that only our hearts and souls enveloped through compassion, intention and selfless action is what will generate the New Blueprint for all of existence!

Imagine the healing that is being felt from the animal kingdom and is to be felt now and into the future by each of us taking the energy that exists, challenging it and cleansing the way for all Sentient Beings. Giving them voices that are heard through honestly, integrity, love and compassion and amping that up a few extra notches for the whole world to hear. The mighty roar of the Lion is what comes to mind here folks.

Sometimes it’s hard (believe me I know from my own past states of deep depression and anxiety) to imagine a life of peace beyond the pillages, rapes and cruelty currently being played out on every corner of the globe. But by flipping that rage that one may feel for such things as kindness and enveloping it into inspirational contemplation is possibly the key to success here.

Remember my friends, that we are the ones who can change this world for the better. And yes it will take all our vigour to divert back to a greener, peaceful happy world. But the tussle does not have to entail a feud. It can be as easy as Living simply so others can simply live.

No matter how dreary the outside world may seem at times. If you are contributing for the better of ALL then you are rising above the shadows and shining the pathway for all to join.

So Keep at it, my Friends. Let there be Light - Vegan Light Shining Everywhere!!!!

Our problems are man made, therefore they may be solved by the man. And man can be as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond beings.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) – 35th President of the United States

Too right JFK, our thoughts exactly… humans need to break free of all illusion and drama, to turn that NOT so common-sense into a conscious awareness, then I think most of our problems would be solved overnight on this planet. 

Funny thing we often think here at VS is that, if ‘common-sense’ was actually that ‘common’ then the world wouldn’t be in the mess it currently is. 

World Leaders Speaking About The Urgency of Global Warming.

The Moral to this Story . . . Go Veg and Save The Planet Today!