Earth to meat eaters, what are you thinking?

Hey, meat-eaters, don't you know that you are damaging your health, making the world's food shortage worse, fouling up the environment, and causing misery and suffering for animals?

On health the evidence is clear. Check out T. Colin Campbell's book The China Study (http://www.thechinastudy.com/). The people who eat the most protein, especially animal protein, get the most heart disease, cancer, and obesity.

Milk and cheese are just as bad. No other animal drinks milk past infancy, and it is even more bizarre to drink the milk of another species! Nature designed cow's milk for baby cows. It has three times more protein as human milk, and much of the protein is in the form called "casein" which is commonly used as glue and is difficult for humans to digest.

Cow's milk also contains many hormones including a very potent growth hormone called IGF-I that happens to be identical between cows and humans. The high level of this growth hormone is nature's way to cause the calf to gain hundreds of pounds in its first year. All those hormones are concentrated in cheese because it takes 10 pounds of milk to produce 1 pound of cheese. Americans are eating more cheese than ever. No wonder so many are obese. There is also considerable evidence that IGF-I promotes the growth of cancer cells. What would you expect when humans adults consume powerful hormones designed to promote very rapid growth in infants? There are many other problems with milk as Dr. Kradjian outlines nicely in his famous "Milk Letter" to his patients: http://www.notmilk.com/kradjian.html

And of course, as Dr. Milton Mills has shown, the human body has all the features of a dedicated herbivore, not an omnivore and not a carnivore. You don't even have to read the article, just check out the table summary at the bottom. See: http://www.vegsource.com/veg_faq/comparative.htm No surprise that if you put lots of meat into a body that was designed to eat plants you get a lot of colon cancer (the number two cancer in the U.S. and other countries with high meat consumption).

That's all that I have time for now. I will be back soon to address the world food shortage, the environmental impact of animal agriculture, and the ethics (karma) of needlessly killing animals just for one's pleasure.