These animals unlike people, who may have lied or committed another act of sin against their fellow humans, are innocent in every way. They, nor their predecessors, have ever harmed humans, but have assisted human society in unquantifiable ways. I dare say that we may not have any society to speak of without the use of horse power. Horses, who are now used for dog food and hauled off to factory farms in their prime or old age when they should be enjoying grazing in a peaceful pasture, not being prodded with electric sticks to walk to their deaths, have been the back bone of building human society. They have transported us across continents and have carried our most precious cargoes and pulled logs and stone blocks for building our cities and houses. Cows, another benevolent creature who has blessed mostly Europe and some of Africa with their sustenance for most of human history, are now seen as milk machines, rather than living beings. She is constantly impregnated so that she produces more and more milk. Her male calves are taken away immediately to be put into wooden milk crates and fed an iron deficient diet to keep their flesh white. There is no such thing as milk fed veal. Milk has some iron, farmers do not feed male calves milk. And the females are taken away too until they return pumped full of hormones and Monsanto corn so that a farmer can stick his arm into them to impregnate them while they scream. All of these acts, citizens are sanctioning every time they take a bite of their abused, chemical laden, hormone filled piece of animal flesh, or they drink a big glass of cow’s milk designed to feed a baby cow not a human.
If knowledge of any kind turns your stomach because you are part of the problem and fear change more than the suffering you are causing yourself and billions of others, just stop and listen to your poor ignored heart and conscience for a moment. If every cell in your body screams when you hear about animals suffering, perhaps it is because long ago, humans made a contract with our creator to be the stuarts of the planet and all life upon it. We made a vow to protect and to take care of the beautiful planet that we are leasing in essence until we die. What are the karmic consequences of such a violation of trust?
Not only do we harm ourselves by consuming animals that our bodies are not designed to eat, we are harming the essence of life itself on the planet. Humans do not have acidic saliva, nor do we have short intestines like carnivores and omnivores. Our blood has a ph that is alkaline based unlike all carnivores and omnivores which have more acidic blood. And by consuming foods in the massive quantities that we do that are not fit for us, we are also harming the planet. Ninety percent of all food grown in the U.S. goes to feed animals on factory farms. Most of this food is created by chemical companies like Monsanto who not only use genetically modified seeds but also use massive amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on these crops. Corn is genetically engineered with genes from Round-Up, a pesticide. The reason for this is so the plant does not reject the pesticide when it is sprayed. This pesticide works to kill bugs by exploding their stomachs. Consequently, there is also an epidemic of stomach disorders in the U.S. since Monsanto has taken over corn, soy and sugar beet production. The sugar beet is now used to produce almost all of the white sugar found in America. Now almost any foods purchased in grocery stores are sealed with some form of poisonous chemical and genetically altered organism.
What we sow, we too shall reap. We cannot escape the consequences of our actions any more than we can escape life. What might life on this planet be like if all humans woke up to their calling, to the unique purpose humans were designed to fulfill which is to be the stuarts of the planet and to express compassion for all of life? If each individual turned away from the propaganda of greed, which breeds sickness of body, mind and spirit, this planet would experience a profound shift in energy. Energy could be directed towards healing and growing rather than directed towards destruction. Unfortunately, it is difficult to remain a centered, compassionate, person when we are filling our bodies, the vessels of our spirits, with toxic substances. And it is difficult to think “right” when we are poisoning our brains via the toxic foods we eat and the healthy foods we deprive ourselves of. When the body is deprived of nutrition, the mind is deprived. And when the mind is deprived and spinning on an ego-centered wheel, the spirit is also deprived, and the individual becomes depraved and sick.
All the drugs in the world cannot cure an ailing society from a disease of such enormous proportions, the disease of a society made sick by it’s misuse of its mind and a broken contract. We break contracts we make all the time. We get divorced from one another. We make promises to ourselves, “I’ll quit smoking tomorrow,” that we seldom keep. We make promises to others and break their trusts with lies. Lying is the norm on reality television. And the main stream media is far worse, convincing society that the drama of rich people is news. Religion, the media and advertisement have been used to brainwash society from its true purpose to a more deformed and debilitated existence where everything is controlled by a few and the rest of the souls in bodies, very similar to the billions of factory farm animals these bodies consume, are simply machines being used by the controllers to create more chaos and disorder.
How does this happen, that humans' thoughts and minds are used to further a malicious purpose? The answer is the same way that computers can be hijacked to do the bidding of computer hackers. In essence, the constant bombardment of negative, mind-numbing propaganda via magazines, television, films, news papers, the Internet, radio and even ourselves in our daily lives has been the vehicle for implanting this virus into our minds, the radio signals of our souls. As we communicate and spread this program that has hijacked and is now running this serious virus that continues to disable the hardware of our minds, our souls, which were designed to be co-creators, are now evolving into the great destroyers we have been brainwashed to become.
Perhaps our destiny is to overcome this virus that affects our hearts and minds and souls and to evolve to realizing our true potential and our true purpose. Our destiny is not to kill ourselves as a species, taking much of the life on the planet with us. Perhaps our destiny is to blossom like lotus flowers in the mud into our own enlightenment and realization of oneness and responsibility towards not only ourselves, each other but also towards all of life, perhaps not only on this planet but on future yet undiscovered planets and beyond.
If we are consuming a diseased food and then spewing that poison everywhere we go, how can we as a species or specific individuals evolve. Perhaps taking baby steps to heal ourselves via choosing to live a healthy, happy, and holy life, is the path to open not only our own hearts but the collective human heart and heal the planet, ourselves and all of life.
One way to begin the process of taking our minds back is to chant, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, a Buddhist chant for world peace which has the power to raise not only our individual vibrational energy but to raise the vibrational energy of the entire planet. If you’re not ready to live a truly compassionate life yet, you can begin to chant that one day you will be ready. And that day will come. That's what I do, one step at a time.
Let change begin with me. Let change begin with each individual. Let that change and peace spread like a mighty wind and a gentle breeze, sometimes roaring around the edges of existence wearing down the cliff walls of false propaganda and sometimes whispering softly into the ear of the soul, “wake up, wake up.” Before it’s too late, humans must wake-up and will wake-up. We will wake-up regardless. Let us not be regretful but be victorious.
