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ARKANGEL Journal of animal liberation |
Arkangel Magazine BCM 9240 London WC1N 3XX |
| Superstition And Ignorance |
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Modern medicine is a tangled web of vain superstitions. All medical activity is based on symptomatic, apparent, deceptive and contradictory data, while the most essential and fundamental principle has been buried in oblivion. This principle is that the efficient operation of every organism is subject to the uniform supply of the integral raw materials specified by its biological design. In this case, the integral raw materials designed for the human organism are nothing other than living plant cells. Intoxicated by a few perceived technical successes, humanity today imagines itself as the zenith of civilisation, while in reality, it is in a primitive, unnatural, and gruesome state. Generally speaking, in the fields of politics, economics, morality and health, the minds and feelings of humans are ruled, and their actions dictated, by loathsome addictions and vain superstitions. Forgetting the most essential and basic problems of life, humans exaggerate quite trivial matters of secondary importance and turn them into vital questions. People then waste an incredible amount of time and resources, create enmities, shed oceans of blood, pollute, and spread universal ruin for nothing more than their own pointless self-destruction. Historians of the past have painted in the most abhorrent colours and taxes, imposts, and tributes levied by kings and foreign conquerors. Whereas today, the moment they take the helm of the state, individuals who are regarded as civilised and enlightened use various legalised pretexts to confiscate large percentages of their own people's earnings in order to satisfy their own short-sighted addictions and ambitions. They encourage the production of tobacco, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, meat and dairy products, as well as thousands of wares which undermine the health of the people, and then pride themselves on the increase in the gross national product obtained from those sources. The fact that the haphazard suggestions and recommendations found in diet books to eat more raw fruits, vegetables, and herbs, do not achieve any useful results is apparent. Spurred on by the urge of all-powerful addictions, the nutritional habits of humankind have gradually developed a more and more frightful pattern that encourages the destruction of beautiful animals and the production of dangerous foodstuffs lacking vitamins and minerals. Without the least rest or respite, there continually arise factories for the production of smokeables, alcoholic beverages, fizzy drinks, chips, biscuits, ice cream, soy milk, yoghurt, canned food, bread, butter, sweets, meat, and various other dangerous substances. The degree of human ignorance is so massive, it defies description. Obviously, citrus fruits are vital sources of living vitamins and organic minerals. In the 1750s, James Lind, a British physician, conducted one of the first recorded controlled experiments in medicine. He found that sailors on long voyages without rations containing citrus fruits developed bleeding gums, rough skin, poor muscle tension, and slow-healing wounds - symptoms characteristic of the vitamin C deficiency disease called scurvy. This experiment marked the earliest proven link between a single nutrient and disease. Though Lind cured scurvy, his discovery, like most innovative ideas, went unheeded. One hundred years later, during America's civil war, more people died of scurvy and other forms of malnutrition than of bullet wounds. Today, things are not much different in America. The 'great steak religion' has taken complete control. Each weekend a new tribute is demanded. Indeed, the chef is the religious leader of the cooked food addict. What kind of ignorance leads one to put a dead piece of animal muscle (steak) on a black eye? What kind of ignorance leads one to believe that feeding their pets grapes, cantaloupe, or avocados will harm them; while feeding them factory-canned, cooked meat will strengthen them? Amongst the tangled web of humanity's fanatical presuppositions have arisen a myriad of medical misconceptions; the vitamin B-12 myth, anaemia syndrome, and the protein deficiency concept are three startling examples. A vitamin B-12 deficiency arises when there is a complete disruption in the body's internal flora. In a normal situation, vitamin B-12 is absorbed from bacteria in the intestinal tract. A small percentage of long-term cooked food vegetarians who eat extremely degenerated beverages and sterilised foods (especially carbonated soft drinks) are affected by a B-12 deficiency, which 'miraculously' disappears on a raw food diet - especially when wild or garden plant foods are eaten unwashed. Unwashed wild or garden plants contain the proper bacteria to create excellent intestinal flora. Anaemia is an iron deficiency which affects vegetarians who eat cooked food, which destroys vitamins and minerals. Again, this problem is easily remedied by eating green-leafy vegetables. All these come to prove that in the conduct of their daily lives people are guided not by common sense, but by the destructive addictions and vain superstitions particular to cooked-food eating. There exists in this world countless political parties, religious sects, and other groups that concern themselves with trivial questions of strictly limited interest. Henceforth, the primary duty of true humanity should be to wage an urgent and decisive campaign against addictions and superstitions of every description. This is the only basic means by which humanity will succeed in attaining that plentiful, comfortable, healthy, long, and happy life which it has always desired. Cooking stands in opposition to all intellectual well-being. It proclaims a curse against the freedom of the healthy spirit. The above text was taken from the book 'Nature's First Law' which can be obtained from: The fresh network PO Box 71 Ely Cambs CB7 4GU priced £11 (+£2 P&P) Nature's First Law PO Box 900202 San Diego CA 92190 USA Email: nature@cari.net Web: www.rawfood.com |