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We Were Warned: NAFTA, the Environment and Swine Flu

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Meat Is Bad for the Environment

Besides being bad for the individual, eating meat is bad for the environment. Here are the facts:

  • It takes 55 Square Feet of tropical rain forest to produce a 4 ounce hamburger.
  • Each pound of beef requires 11 pounds of grain to produce.
  • A meat-eater, over the course of one year, will require 3.25 acres of land to produce the feed stock to feed the cattle to produce their meat.
  • A vegetarian only requires 1/2 acre of land per year to produce their food.

    So who's destroying the environment more: vegetarians or meat-eaters? Even though you and I, and millions of others may like meat, the stats show that our addiction is deleterious to the economy, the environment, the animals and the world's health.

    THE CURRENT PANDEMIC FROM MEXICO IS A RESULT OF MEAT AND NAFTA.

    Don't Support Meat

    Here are the basic reasons you, your family, friends and associates should no longer support the meat industry:

    1. MEAT is bad for your health;
    2. MEAT production pollutes the environment;
    3. MEAT production is unspeakably cruel to animals;
    4. MEAT production preempts valuable resources;
    5. MEAT causes diseases and undermines economies.

    Points 1 - 5 are fully substantiated in the video clips and in numerous books on the subject such as DIET FOR A NEW WORLD by John Robbins (and other books referenced in the videos).

    Watch FAST FOOD NATION, available at Netflix and Blockbuster video. You will never be the same and you will come to understand why increasing numbers are concluding that current day Homo sapiens is not designed to eat meat. Studies on the structure of our bodies (such as the teeth and intestines) have increasingly provided evidence for this claim (discussed further below). Also (excessive) consumption of animal products is probably the reason so many in the nation are over-weight, obese and/or sick.

    Other videos on MEAT are here and here 

    Warning: these videos will make you sick, but realize, if you continue supporting this heinous industry by eating (excessive amounts of) pig and cow meat, being "sick" will be the least thing you will have to worry about. You will have to worry about pandemics. The contamination and pollution generated by the animal-products industries have reached a point where responsible citizens need to study this issue and act accordingly.

    Given that we are into a massive health care crises, the first thing all citizens could do is attenuate are cease their meat intake. This would lead to improved health, individually and collectively as a nation, and a better use of dwindling natural resources. This would also help the economy rebound, especially if NAFTA were rescinded and Americans were to focus on rebuilding the infrastructure and manufacturing base the idiot BabyBoomers have destroyed the past 44 years.

    Don't Support NAFTA

    Here are the basic reasons you, your family, friends and associates should no longer support NAFTA and work to have this anti-U.S. law rescinded:

    1. NAFTA causes and promotes pandemics;
    2. NAFTA allows millions of illegal workers to enter the US;
    3. NAFTA undermines the manufacturing base and middle class of the U.S.;
    4. NAFTA supports excessive profit-motive of the global corporatocracy;
    5. NAFTA keeps Mexico from becoming strong and independent.

    The problems described above have been caused and brought to a head because of NAFTA. NAFTA has allowed an unfettered, unregulated border to exist between Mexico and the U.S. just so the Democrats can get voters and the Republicans can get cheap labor. Now all citizens in the U.S. may suffer as a result of the greed of these two parties. Ross Perot warned us about this, OVER AND OVER, but Americans still HAD to vote for one of the bozo Democrats or Republicans.

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