[AGL] Two hours of life style therapy...

[Frances Morey]

That earlier break out of BSE barely made a dent. in demand, or a ripple to
the supply. Now the cyberhacking of the meat plants is doing what couldn't
be done back then, slowing down the production of meat to the grocery
stores.
OMG, the scourge of meat preference has gone world wide.  I really pity the
children whose stomachs are being stapled! It turns my stomach just
watching people consume meat. The image of "bat gulpers" won't be easily
forgotten.
Best,
Frances

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 4:58 PM Byron Allen Black <
englishcorrection at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am saving your most eloquent post, dear Frances. Facts seem so obvious
> you bump your head and skin your knee on it. But I can hear mothers wailing
> "But my kids *like *meat. They *need *it!"
>
> Precisely the same phenomenon can be seen in every "developing economy" in
> Asia: plump people, obese kids. They are stapling the stomachs of
> eight-year-olds in Japan.
>
> It will probably take some grotesque horror like BSE to dissuade people
> from eating flesh. But even Crony-19 hasn't slowed down the bat-gulpers in
> China.
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 at 22:58, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is no mystery that the reason it took 30 years for doctors to
>> recommend that their patients quit smoking was because the doctors
>> themselves smoked. Thirty years and 3000 scientific studies found it to be
>> unhealthy but that's how long it took for the government to declare it
>> unhealthy and for doctors to stop recommending smoking as a health measure.
>>
>> Now it has to do with doctors themselves eating all the meat and dairy
>> products of the Standard American Diet. Since Nixon asked Big Food, "What
>> do we have to do to get food prices to stabilize to avoid losing
>> elections?" the answer to that question was "Deregulation"! Since then
>> deregulation and cutting taxes became the mantra of the Republican Party,
>> and sometimes even the Democratic Party paid attention to the needs of the
>> food producers. Yet the outcome for the last 40 years or so was that the
>> obesity curve took off at a 45 degree angle since then and now Big Food
>> Lobbyists are the most plentiful on K street.
>>
>> One reason that we can't make reducing meat industry subsidies a
>> political issue is that the first primary is in Iowa, aka Corn Country.
>> Most of the corn grown by the US agricultural industry is going to feed
>> animals for people to eat cheaply. But it is hardly cheap for the society
>> in terms of health care costs from the fact that meat products have
>> overtaken all food products. This is an economic and health care disaster.
>> Three quarters of the population is now obese/diabetic. Some 72% of the
>> volunteers to the military are rejected due to their weight and ill health.
>> Not even the military can afford to deliver health care to their soldiers
>> given the Standard American Diet. This is Sputnik, a national security
>> problem. But it is getting no traction in the political arena.
>>
>> Best,
>> Frances
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 9:22 AM Byron Allen Black <
>> englishcorrection at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah Frances,
>>>
>>> I was just thinking, the other day: how many seasoned medical
>>> professionals will stand up to a wealthy, stubborn patient and tell them
>>> "God damn it, Henry, if you keep eating meat and eggs and butter you will
>>> be dead in six months. Hell, a year at the outside."
>>>
>>> No, at best he'll do some mealy-mouthed "Now Henry, you have had a
>>> quadruple bypass and you're only sixty-two. Don't you think it might be a
>>> little wiser for you to cut back a little on the fatty meat and cholesterol
>>> foods?"
>>>
>>> (Or am I all out-of-date on this?)
>>>
>>> One of those brilliant doctors on YouTube was complaining that a heart
>>> specialists' convention planned to be held in Georgia was to be sponsored
>>> by ... a Cattlemen's Association!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 01:03, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://youtu.be/BGcU9wy8_Dw
>>>>
>>>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
>>>> Windows 10
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, dear ones,
>>>>
>>>> I’m happy to devote two hours of this long Memorial Day weekend to this
>>>> enlightening Rich Roll interview of Dec. 16, 2018. Lifestyle medicine is a
>>>> somewhat recent development.
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Dean Ornish is a splendid repository of scientific evidence that
>>>> lifestyle consideration must be paid attention for health reasons not--just
>>>> of our individual survival but in broader quality of life terms for
>>>> population success.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Frances
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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