My dad, who suffers from heart disease, was told to “eat more meat” by his GP as a response to his iron deficiency! And when he went into hospital last year for stent operations there was not a single vegan option on the Coronary Care Unit menu. I complained to the hospital but they ignored me. This is madness! Support and share Plant Based Health Professionals‘ campaign to get meat off hospital menus: Give Bacon The Boot!
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It’s unbelievable how addicted humans have become to meat. I wrote a piece earlier this year on the sustainability of eating meat where I address meat addiction, and I find it astonishing that the Chicken McNugget has been encapsulated as an iconic symbol of our 21st century zeitgeist: https://myhomefarm.co.uk/sustainability-of-eating-meat
Meat is not sustainable or healthy. Crazy!
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It is crazy. Thanks for sharing your post with me – I read it and tried a couple of times to comment but every time I clicked SEND it said ‘invalid security token’! Never seen that before! Anyway, what I tried to send you was: If the meat industry is so profitable why are animal farmers so heavily subsidised? On average, subsidies for small farms make up 78% of profits, on medium concerns, about 61% and on the largest farms, around 46%. It is my belief that Big Pharma are the ones who actually profit from the meat addiction – from the vast amounts of meds they sell to farmers for the animals AND from the huge cost to human health which results from eating animal products. People who vehemently defend their “right to eat meat” are just playing into their hands. Big Pharma are terrifyingly powerful. Governments won’t stop them. Only consumers can.
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My partner works in a hospital and has to take food in, for there is hardly ever anything there in the canteen that’s vegan and who wants to survive on a baked potato and beans for the rest of their life?!
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It makes no sense! Except – have you seen the documentary What the health? In that they try to interview a plant-based heart surgeon who wanted to help with the film. But when they got to the hospital to do the interview the administrator wouldn’t let them in, telling them that the hospital makes a lot of money out of these surgeries so they wouldn’t be a part of encouraging plant-based living!
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This is one of those moment where “WTF!” actually applies, for how on Earth can these administrators live with themselves?
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I do not know.
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Let’s hope that parents use this time to ponder what really matters and what they need to help their kids to learn about: Kindness and how to live a fruitful compassionate life.
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Absolutely 🙂
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