Health education or vegan indoctrination?
Today is theme day at the b5 Science & Health Channel. Our theme this time around is ‘back to school,’ and it’s being hosted by Kristina at Autism Vox. I’m going to take this opportunity to talk about a current news story concerning veganism and schools. A middle school teacher, David Warwak, has been suspended for advocating a vegan diet to his students. First, some headlines about the story:
- Vegan teacher dismissed by Fox River Grove school
- Vegan views may cost teacher’s job
- Teacher says he was sent home for preaching vegan lifestyle
- Vegan teacher won’t return to school until school stops serving milk and meat
- Vegan threatens legal action
- Veganism’s new martyr (editorial)
On one hand, I have to applaud Mr. Warwak’s efforts. There is so much misinformation about nutrition being taught in American schools. Remember the four food groups we learned about growing up? Total BS from a health perspective – the people behind the food groups (meat, dairy, fruit/veggies, and grains) were more concerned with protecting and promoting the meat and dairy industries than they were teaching children how to take care of their bodies properly. It’s their fault that vegetarians still get asked inane questions like “how do you get enough protein in your diet?” And look where all this misinformation is leading Americans, health-wise. Not a pretty picture.
On the other hand, this story reminds me too much of some other past news stories involving teachers/schools imposing their views on students, with disastrous consequences. Children made to feel like pariahs because they didn’t want to participate in a class prayer. Foreigners forced to say the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of each school day. Teachers who claim it is their moral duty to make sure their elementary school students know and accept Jesus. Of course a main difference between these stories and Mr. Warwak’s case is that these examples all involve teachers in the majority stance (Christian and pro-American), while vegans are clearly the minority.
I have to agree that some sort of line has to be established, a line between appropriate and inappropriate ways for a teacher to share ideas with students. It’s interesting to think about where that line should be, and in this case, I’m not sure I know. Warwak has been losing my sympathy as the news has progressed from ‘teacher just trying to teach kids about the benefits of veganism’ to ‘teacher threatening to sue school if all meat and dairy items aren’t removed from the cafeteria immediately’. But the media likes to play up the ‘vegans are radical wackos’ angle, so it’s hard to say how accurate the stories even are.
What do you think about Warwak’s actions and the way he is being treated?
Thanks for this post, Jul. (Don’t forget the government still classifies fruits and veggies as “specialty” items!)
I think he is definitely feeding into the “crazy vegan” assumption a lot of people have. Especially since he only became a vegan in January. It makes him seem a little flighty. When I was that early into it, I was still doing extensive research on my own, not converting others! His points may be valid but I get the feeling that in a few months he will have a new favorite issue and will be off on that bandwagon.
Sara – that is disturbing!
Dana – It also irked me that he is such a recent vegetarian. As someone who consumed non-vegan foods less than a year ago, surely he should have more tolerance for others who haven’t yet crossed over to a vegan diet?
press release – my beliefs – do what you wish with them in print or fire – editorial at your disposal
Vegan America
People, people, people, please, settle down – take a break – go read up on Vegan or Humane Education or Factory Farming – then please come back in a few hours and leave your Ignorance at the door and stay on topic with real knowledge of both sides. I know your side well. Remember, I am a product of your World. I was a Fishing Guide and on Atkins, so I understand how we grow up to believe certain things. Those Milk Mustache posters hanging in a place that stands for truth is a crime when we know otherwise. This is where Hereditary Ignorance remains alive. It is killing us. Be honest and change for our Children.
I think the average American would be appauled to find out what goes on in those sheds in the distance. You are busted FACTORY FARMING – THE GIG IS UP – WE ARE SICK OF IT! Where is the love and compassion in people? Have we become so hardened and disconnected that we are willing to just die off. I KNOW THE CHILDREN WANT A BETTER WORLD – JUST AS I DID AND STILL DO – DO IT FOR OUR CHILDREN I want everyone who knows of Factory Farming to go to your nearest mountaintop and scream out at the top of your lungs, “FACTORY FARMING” so loud, in hopes the Children will hear you. I want them to hear. They still have sense and can see how wrong it really is. Children understand. Stop hiding it from them. Do you want your Children growing up in a confused World full of death, destruction, violence and hate? What we do to our friends, the Animals, really does come back to us. Can’t you see it? WAKE UP!
Everyone wants to make this about me losing my job. I keep saying this is not about my views or beliefs, but no one hears me. It is about how they are running things. I can not participate in their broken system and they are mad. You really should not fire or hurt a person for being loving, caring, and compassionate, especially with the whole World watching. If everyone really wants to make this about me and my beliefs, and if everyone insists on ignoring the mountain of scientific data that screams Vegan=Humane Education. Here you go, my beliefs, …do what you wish with them in print or fire, …
Isn’t it funny how I link to misinformation – I want everyone to know both sides, just to show you the forces at work to keep you brain-washed – WAKE-UP PEOPLE – You won’t see any of them linking to my site. There was an editorial printed by a mindless sheep, who cut and paste things they never really researched, that are just dead wrong! Such non-sense – IS THIS 2007? I know, Ignorance hates to read, and especially hates to admit they might be wrong. This is how the HEREDITARY IGNORANCE CONTINUES – WAKE UP! “We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered” Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Milk and Dairy Industry in grand concert with the Government getting their hold in Schools, brainwashed us in childhood, just as they did our parents, and theirs, and now our very own Children. Why do we fight so hard for them to continue such an evil legacy? The only reason this poisonous garbage is still in school is because our loving Government stepped in and offered the free and reduced lunch program (nothing is free, and believe me, we pay). “If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny” Thomas Jefferson
Lazy ignorance hates work and change. Lazy ignorance only changes when it is forced to change. Our ever so loving Meat and Dairy Industries in joyous harmony with our beautiful Government know this and have placed their wonderful killing machine in place with all its wondrous safeguards. These same loving people try to unload this horrific-sleuth they call food on other countries. Europe will not even consider it. So we call it surplus and it sits around, and sits around. And so it goes, generously rammed down our innocent and ever so trusting Children’s mouths.
Records, paperwork, and a few too many sick Children, and our loving friends have a recall of millions of pounds of ground Animals, only to find, most has been already consumed (or Lazy Ignorance neglects to find Recall Info and it is eaten later), a few thousand pounds in all actuality is returned, which our loving friends then feed back to the Animals (turning them from herbivore to cannibal), your Child will eat later. And still, we fight to keep it in our Children’s schools. WOW – HEREDITARY IGNORANCE IS STRONG! Selling out our own Children and the fate of the Human Race. This is not just about diet. Don’t believe everything you see. The world is an illusion. Wake up. There are many things all around us made from animals that we never notice. We’re so disconnected; we don’t even notice this right in front of our face three times a day. When we open our circle of compassion to all, we grow as a people and our treatment of each other and others improves. It really is about peace, love, and compassion for all. How many more school shootings until we wake-up? Humane Education=Veganism=VEGAN AMERICA is the answer.
When we look into the Ancients’ artworks, you see the hidden history. This information is the drop of water deep inside a rock that bursts it open when the freeze comes. It is not in any textbook or lecture. The Ancients were telling us how to survive in their Art. The messages all the same, every time, over and over again. They all, say the same thing, and we are at a crossroads of a new age. This crossroad can go in the direction it is going and we end as a people just after the turn of the century, close to the Ancient Mayan Calendar end. Just as is their Cosmic Ball game, we can reverse our fate, which they also foresaw, in that we change and open our circle of compassion. This is our last big test as a people. Do we want better for our Children? If not, screw you, I ask them, and every time, they say they want to live longer, healthier lives in a healthy loving world. Don’t you want that for them? Well they want the future and they want it now. We have to change NOW! Come clean – TELL A CHILD TODAY!
Most know this and that, and only, this and that; but, limited perspectives are stagnant when the bigger, more important reality is contained in this and that and everything else. Look at the entirety of the situation and do a search of John Robbins Realities from Diet for a New America. The re-print statistics are all over on the internet. You will see the connections of diet to starvation, disease, pollution, its all there, takes 5 to 10 minutes for the average person to make the connections. People simply do not know about Factory Farming, Veganism, Humane Education, or any of the other implications. Most people never have time to think of such things. We need to slow down, even for 10 minutes and read. The majority of people suppress themselves by adopting systems of thoughts and actions shaped by their own perceived desires of those in control. To deny our children their freedom is to commit a crime against humanity. “Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, “Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that …” George Carlin
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly” Buckminster Fuller. To many people, this seems like a stupid, meaningless personal choice, dietary issue; however, this issue is not a crazy fad or news from a crazy zealot. Just as a caterpillar turns to a butterfly, a simple change in diet can evolve into the solution to the Health Care crisis, war, starvation, pollution, global warming, school shootings and violence in society. This one change brings a new way of living – actually, it is a very old. Suppressed and long forgotten way of living the Ancients new well. Humane Education. Teaching a reverence for life. God gave life, man never should have taken it away – never, ever – and yet, here we are engulfed in this horrific killing machine.
A silent Holocaust is going on in America, right here and now, right in front of our noses three times a day. Can’t you smell it? Look off in the distance. Factory Farming is hazing our World. Well, maybe, you cannot see it. I see it in the far off distance, a wavy haze melting the ground. I’m chasing it down and grappling this machine with you as you read my words. Even Einstein saw it 50 years ago, when he said, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet”
There is no magic bullet to cure cancer, heart disease, stroke, and on, and on. Prevention is the cure, leave your bandage solutions at home and do a little research. The best diet is Vegan. The science is out, PLEASE LET GO OF THE STONE AGE – THIS IS 2007. Our Children need this. The Human race and the future of Earth hinges on this. Your kids, family, and self all dieing of hideous cancers, heart attacks, strokes, and the list is a mile long – do some research and you will see. Oh how well I know, how Lazy Ignorance hates to read at all costs, after all, it might lead to change=work.
The Factory Farming Industry in concert with your loving government has created the most horrific killing machine that is spiraling out of control. The only way to stop this is through Education Reform. Teaching our youth a philosophy of respect, responsibility, and love of life=Humane Education=Veganism. No more time will be spent arguing with Hereditary Ignorance. Generation after generation slips through our hands playing this silent game of “we don’t want to scare them with the truth” mentality. This mentality is the same mentality of Hereditary Ignorance that wants to drag this out a few thousand more years. Sorry, we won’t last that long. It really is now or never.
Every kid in America should know where their food comes from as soon as they can pick up a fork. And if you are to afraid to be honest, Public Schools have no place in helping you hide your weak character and lack of respect and lack of responsibility. Children are the key to saving our race, as a people, on this planet, for they are the transmission of society. Maybe you did not know that. The Meat and Dairy Industry knows how important it is to Indoctrinate our Children with a constant reminder, rammed down their innocent eyes, hanging on the walls of an institution that Children are Indoctrinated into TRUSTING FOR TRUTH – NOT TO HIDE SOCIETIES ILLS.
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind” Einstein. To leave the responsibility of “The Talk” to the parents, does not work, because most parents do not know, as, they themselves, are brainwashed and desperately cling to their Hereditary Ignorance, for without it, their world crumbles apart. The crumbling should not be feared, for this is your part in the evolution of the Human Race, and your awaking as who you really are.
Children never grow and “Find out themselves” when they are old enough to decide what is right and then make it a personal choice. Until then, have you decided correctly for them, until then? Public School should be one place that delivers the truth in the form of healthy, nutritious food that is not the product of the suffering or demise of another being. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, or use in any other way.
This is how the Hereditary Ignorance continues. Schools are one place that should teach students how to see the world as it really is. This is every Teacher’s job. The Art Teacher does it best though. Real Artists are really Teachers. We deal with the real world. People really do believe everything we see. You may have said, “I saw it with my own eyes!” Instead of teaching our children what to know, let them find themselves and how to decipher our falsehoods. Why would anyone want their child to live a lie and die early in a dieing World? Who would want to be involved with Factory Farming in any way? Who would want to ignore TRUTH? Who would want to hide TRUTH? Answer: People who believe what the people they trusted told them.
Just because we enter into a world with little humanity and know of no other, does not mean we have to accept all we have ever known to be singular, indisputable, and real. The truth is we can make this world better, right here, right now. In the great words of Sitting Bull, “Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children” No more School shootings=Vegan America. After all is said and done, history cares not of pride, nor, conformists, only to a gasp at how primitive they must have been; whereas, we always remember those who are able to change with great reverence, for they put aside pride and refused to conform to evil. Warwak
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October 3, 2007
Timothy Mahaffy, Jackie Krause, Fox River Grove District 3 Board Members***, and the Illinois State Board of Education,
In direct response to Fox River Grove School District 3 letter of termination received on September 27, 2007, a hearing is now officially requested as an appeal to the wrongful termination of Dave Warwak per ILSC 105 in which a hearing on the below charges before disinterested hearing officers on a date no less than 15 nor more than 30 days after the enactment of the motion. The secretary of the school board shall forward a copy of the notice to the State Board of Education. Within 5 days after receiving this notice of hearing, the State Board of Education shall provide a list of 5 prospective, impartial hearing officers. Each person on the list must be accredited by a national arbitration organization and have had a minimum of 5 years of experience directly related to labor and employment relations matters between educational employers and educational employees or their exclusive bargaining representatives. No one on the list may be a resident of Fox River Grove, IL.
Fox River Grove School District 3 chose to ignore the Federal Trade Commission’s ruling against misleading commercial advertising in schools. I am being terminated for my response to the pro-dairy propaganda in the school cafeteria in which, I, as an Art Teacher, was educating students about the power of advertising in the Visual Arts. Specifically, how the Meat and Dairy Industry uses its influence to shape and guide the values and morals of society through indoctrination. Charges, not limited to, but include the following:
In retaliation of Dave Warwak’s performance of his official duties and in an attempt to avoid compliance and/or legal action regarding their neglect in addressing ILSC violations and other Child Endangerment issues, Jackie Krause, Timothy Mahaffy, and the Fox River Grove School District 3 Board of Education Members***, knowingly and willfully, exposed Dave Warwak to hatred, contempt, and ridicule, while Warwak was engaged in the execution of his official duties, in which, said members prevented the defendant from performing his official duties. SB0100 (720 ILCS 5/12-110) (was 720 ILCS 5/12-6)
Sec. 12-110 12-6. Intimidation; aggravated intimidation.
(a) Intimidation. A person commits intimidation when, with intent to cause another to perform or to omit the performance of any act, he or she communicates to another, directly or indirectly by any means whether in person, by telephone or by mail, a threat to perform without lawful authority any of the following acts:
(1) Inflict physical harm on the person threatened or any other person or on property; or
(2) Subject any person to physical confinement or restraint; or
(3) Commit a felony or Class A misdemeanor any criminal offense; or
(4) Accuse any person of an offense; or
(5) Expose any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule; or
(6) Take action as a public official against anyone or anything, or withhold official action, or cause such action or withholding; or
(7) Bring about or continue a strike, boycott or other collective action.
(b) Aggravated intimidation. A person commits aggravated intimidation when he or she violates subsection (a) and:
(1) the person committed the offense in furtherance of the activities of an organized gang or because of the person’s membership in or allegiance to an organized gang; or
(2) the offense is committed with the intent to prevent any person from becoming a community policing volunteer; or
(3) the following conditions are met:
(i) the person knew that the victim was a peace officer, a correctional institution employee, a fireman, or a community policing volunteer; and
(ii) the offense was committed while the victim was engaged in the execution of his or her official duties, to prevent the victim from performing his or her official duties, in retaliation for the victim’s performance of his or her official duties, or by reason of any person’s activity as a community policing volunteer.
(c) (b) Sentence.
(1) Intimidation as defined in subsection (a) is a Class 3 felony for which an offender may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 2 years and not more than 10 years.
Tim Mahaffy, as acting Principal, knowingly and willfully neglected his duties in reporting child abuse occurring in and out of Mr. Warwak’s class as required in (105 ILCS 5/34 84a.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34 84a.1)
Sec. 34 84a.1. Principals shall report incidents of intimidation. The principal of each attendance center shall promptly notify and report to the local law enforcement authorities for inclusion in the Department of State Police’s Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting Program each incident of intimidation of which he or she has knowledge and each alleged incident of intimidation which is reported to him or her, either orally or in writing, by any pupil or by any teacher or other certificated or non certificated personnel employed at the attendance center. “Intimidation” shall have the meaning ascribed to it by Section 12 6 of the Criminal Code of 1961.
(Source: P.A. 91 357, eff. 7 29 99.)
Timothy Mahaffy, as acting Principal, knowingly and willfully prevented Dave Warwak from performing his said duties as described under (105 ILCS 5/27 12)(from Ch. 122, par. 27 12)
Sec. 27 12. Character education. Every public school teacher shall teach character education, which includes the teaching of respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship, in order to raise pupils’ honesty, kindness, justice, discipline, respect for others, and moral courage for the purpose of lessening crime and raising the standard of good character.
(Source: P.A. 94 187, eff. 7 12 05.)
Timothy Mahaffy, Jackie Krause, and the Fox River Grove District 3 Board Members***, knowingly and willfully withheld Moral and Humane Education from teachers of Fox River Grove School District 3 for 8 years, as required under (105 ILCS 5/27 15)(from Ch. 122, par. 27 15)
Sec. 27 15. Moral and humane education In institute programs. The superintendent of each region and city shall include once each year moral and humane education in the program of the teachers’ institute which is held under his supervision.
(Source: P.A. 79 597.)
Fox River Grove District 3 Board Members***, Gerry Blohm, Steve Knar, Tom Mollet, Susan McGarrigle, Lisa Anderson, Kris Germain, and Pat Hughes are personally liable as described under (105 ILCS 5/22 7) (from Ch. 122, par. 22 7)
Sec. 22 7. Liability for loss of funds. County superintendents, trustees of schools, township treasurers and directors, or either of them, or any other officer having charge of school funds or property, shall be pecuniarily responsible for all losses sustained by any county or township fund by reason of any failure on his or their part to perform the duties required of him or them by this Act or by any rule authorized to be made by this Act, and each of such officers shall be liable for any such loss sustained, the amount of which may be recovered in a civil action brought in the circuit court, at the suit of the State of Illinois, for the use of the county, township or fund injured. The amount of the judgment obtained in such suit shall, when collected, be paid to the proper officer for the benefit of the county, township or fund injured.
(Source: P.A. 79 1366.)
The following 1989 Realties are included herein, as this data has been delivered and recorded delivered, in April 2007 to Timothy Mahaffy, and again at the 24 September 2007 Board of Education Meeting to all concerned parties in attendance:
Food Realities from 1989
Human population of United States: 243,000,000
Number of Human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U. S. livestock: 1,300,000,000
Sacred food of Native Americans: Corn
Percentage of corn grown in United States eaten by human beings: 20
Percentage of corn grown in United States eaten by livestock: 80
Percentage of oats grown in United States eaten by livestock: 95
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
Percentage of carbohydrate wasted by cycling grain through livestock:99
Percentage of dietary fiber wasted by cycling grain through livestock:100
How frequently a child dies of starvation: Every 2 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000
Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of land: 165
Percentage of U.S. agricultural land used to produce beef: 56
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef: 16
Pounds of protein fed to chickens to produce 1 pound of protein as chicken flesh: 5 pounds
Pounds of protein fed to hogs to produce 1 pound of protein as hog flesh: 7.5 pounds
Number of children who starve to death every day: 40,000
Number of pure vegetarians who can be fed on the amount of land needed to feed 1 person consuming meat-based diet: 20
Number of people who will starve to death this year: 60,000,000
Number of people who could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 60,000,000
Historic cause of demise of many great civilizations: Topsoil depletion
Percentage of original U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75
Amount of U.S. cropland lost each year to soil erosion: 4,000,000 acres (size of Connecticut)
Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly associated with livestock raising: 85
Number of acres of U.S. forest which have been cleared to create cropland to produce a meat-centered diet: 260,000,000
How often an acre of U.S. trees disappears: Every 8 seconds
Amount of trees spared per year by each individual who switches to a pure vegetarian diet: 1 acre
A driving force behind the destruction of the tropical rainforests: American meat habit
Amount of meat imported annually by U.S. from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama: Less than the average American housecat
Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests and related habitats: 1000/year
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the United States: Livestock production
Quantity of water used in the production of the average cow: sufficient to float a destroyer
Water needed to produce 1 pound of wheat: 25 gallons
Water needed to produce 1 pound of meat: 2,500 gallons
Cost of common hamburger meat if water used by meat industry was not subsidized by U.S. taxpayers: $35/pound
Current cost for pound of protein from wheat: $1.50
Current cost for pound of protein from beefsteak: $15.40
Cost for pound of protein from beefsteak if U.S. taxpayers ceased subsidizing meat industry’s use of water: $89
Length of time world’s petroleum reserves would last if all human beings ate meat-centered diet: 13 years
Length of time world’s petroleum reserves would last if all human beings ate vegetarian diet: 260 years
Principal reason for U.S. military intervention in Persian Gulf: Dependence on foreign oil
Barrels of oil imported daily by U.S.: 6,800,000
Percentage of energy return (as food energy per fossil energy expended) of most energy efficient farming of meat: 34.5%
Percentage of energy return (as food energy per fossil energy expended) of least energy efficient plant food: 328%
Pounds of soybeans produced by the amount of fossil fuel needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef: 40
Percentage of raw materials consumed in U.S. for all purposes presently consumed to produce current meat-centered diet: 33
Percentage of raw materials consumed in U.S. for all purposes needed to produce fully vegetarian diet: 2
Production of excrement by total U.S. human population: 12000 lb/sec
Production of excrement by U.S. Livestock: 250,000 pounds/second
Sewage systems in U.S. cities: Common
Sewage systems in U.S. feedlots: Nil
Amount of waste produced annually by U.S. livestock in confinement operations which is not recycled: 1 billion tons
Relative concentration of feedlot wastes compared to raw domestic sewage: Ten to several hundred times more highly concentrated
Where feedlot waste often ends up: In our water
Number of U.S. medical schools: 125
Number of U.S. medical schools with a required course in nutrition: 30
Training in nutrition received during 4 years of medical school by average U.S. physician: 2.5 hours
How frequently a heart attack strikes in U.S.: Every 25 seconds
How frequently a heart attack kills in U.S.: Every 45 seconds
Most common cause of death in U.S.: Heart attack
Risk of death from heart attack by average American man: 50%
Risk of death from heart attack by average American vegetarian man: 15%
Risk of death from heart attack by average American purely vegetarian man: 4%
Amount you reduce your risk of heart attack by reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and eggs 10%: 9%
Amount you reduce your risk of heart attack by reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and eggs 50%: 45%
Amount you reduce your risk of heart attack by reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and eggs 100%: 90%
Rise in blood cholesterol from consuming 1 egg per day: 12%
Rise in heart attack risk from 12% rise in blood cholesterol: 24%
Meat, dairy and egg industries claim there is no reason to be concerned about your blood cholesterol as long as it is: “normal”
Your risk of dying a disease caused by clogged arteries if your blood cholesterol is “normal”: over 50%
Your risk of dying of a disease caused by clogged arteries if you do not consume saturated fat and cholesterol: 5%
Leading sources of saturated fat and cholesterol in American diets: Meat, dairy products and eggs
Hollywood celebrity paid by Meat Board to tout beef as “Real food for real people”: James Garner
Medical event experienced by James Garner in April, 1988: Quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery
World populations with high meat intakes who do not have correspondingly high rates of colon cancer: None
World populations with low meat intakes who do not have correspondingly low rates of colon cancer: None
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to women who eat meat less than once a week: 4 times higher
Egg Board’s advertising slogan: The incredible edible egg
Photographs often accompanying the egg board’s slogan: Young women in bathing suits, emphasizing the shape of their breasts
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat eggs daily compared to women who eat eggs less than once a week: 3 times higher
Milk Producer’s original ad campaign slogan: “Everyone needs milk.”
What the Federal Trade Commission called the “Everyone needs milk” slogan: “False, misleading and deceptive”
Milk Producer’s revised campaign slogan: “Milk has something for everybody.”
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat butter and cheese 3 or more times a week compared to women who eat these foods less than once a week: 3 times higher
Part of female chicken’s body that produces eggs: Ovaries
Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week compared to women who eat eggs less than once a week: 3 times higher
Foods males in U.S. are conditioned to think of as “manly”: Animal products
Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meats, cheese, eggs and milk daily compared to men who eat these foods sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times higher
The Meat Board tells us: “Today’s meats are low in fat.”
The Meat Board shows us: A serving of beef they claim has “only 300 calories”.
The Meat Board doesn’t tell us: The serving of beef they show us is only 3 ounces (half the size of an average serving of beef) and has been surgically defatted with a scalpel.
The dairy industry tells us: Whole milk is 3.5% fat.
The dairy industry doesn’t tell us: That 3.5% figure is based on weight and most of the weight in milk is water.
The dairy industry doesn’t want us to know: The amount of calories as fat in whole milk is 50%.
Oscar Mayer tells us: It is a “myth” that hot dogs are fatty.
Oscar Mayer demonstrates their point favorably comparing the fattiness of hot dogs to such low fat bastions as: Margarine, mayonnaise, salad dressing and cream cheese.
The Dairy Council tells us: Milk is nature’s most perfect food.
The Dairy Council doesn’t tell us: Milk is nature’s most perfect food for a baby calf, who has four stomachs, will double its weight in 47 days, and is destined to weigh 300 pounds within a year.
The Dairy Council tells children: To grow up big and strong drink lots of milk.
The Dairy Council occasionally tells children: The enzyme necessary for digestion of milk is lactase.
The Dairy Council never tells children: 20% of Caucasian children and 80% of Black children have no lactase in their intestines.
The meat, dairy and egg industries tell us: Animal products constitute 2 of the “Basic 4″ food groups.
The meat, dairy and egg industries don’t tell us: There were originally 12 official basic food groups, before these industries applied enormous political pressure on behalf of their products.
The meat, dairy, and egg industries tell us: We are well-fed only with animal products.
The meat, dairy, and egg industries don’t tell us: The diseases which are commonly prevented, consistently improved, and sometimes cured by a low-fat vegetarian diet include: Strokes, Heart disease, Osteoporosis, Kidney Stones, Colon cancer, Prostate cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Ovarian cancer, Cervical cancer, Stomach cancer, Endometrial cancer, Breast cancer, Hypoglycemia, Diabetes, Kidney disease, Peptic ulcers, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Hiatal hernias, Diverticulosis, Obesity, Gallstones, Hypertension, Asthma, Salmonellosis, Trichinosis, Irritable colon syndrome
Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide residues in the U.S. diet:
Supplied by meat: 55%
Supplied by dairy products: 23%
Supplied by vegetables: 6%
Supplied by fruits: 4%
Supplied by grains: 1%
Percentage of U.S. mother’s milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99%
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother’s milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8%
Relative pesticide contamination in breast milk of meat-eating mothers compared to pesticide contamination in breast milk of vegetarian mothers: 35 times as high
Percentage of male college students sterile in 1950: .5
Percentage of male college students sterile in 1978: 25
Sperm count of average American male compared to 30 years ago: Down 30%
Principle reason for sterility and sperm count reduction of U.S. males: Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides (including dioxin, DDT, etc.)
Percentage of hydrocarbon pesticide residues in American diet attributable to meats, dairy products, fish and eggs: 94%
The Meat Board tells us Not to be concerned about the dioxins and other pesticides in today’s beef because: the quantities are so small
The Meat Board doesn’t want us to know: How potent dioxin and other pesticides are
The Meat Board particularly doesn’t want us to know: A mere ounce of dioxin could kill 10 million people
The USDA tells us: Our meat is inspected
The USDA doesn’t tell us: Less than 1 out of every quarter million slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues
The dye used for many years by the USDA for many years to stamp meats “Choice”, “Prime”, or “U.S. No. 1 USDA”: Violet dye No. 1
Current status of Violet Dye No. 1: Banned as proven carcinogen
Wingspan of average Leghorn chicken: 26 inches
Space average leghorn chicken given in egg factories: 6 inches
Number of 700 plus pound pigs confined to space the size of a twin bed in typical factory farm: 3
Reason today’s veal is so tender: Calves never allowed to take a single step
Reason today’s veal is whitish-pink: Calves force fed on anemia producing diet
McDonald’s brags: 60 Billion sold
McDonald’s doesn’t brag about: 50 million butchered
McDonald’s clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children: Hamburgers grow in hamburger patches and love to be eaten.
McDonald’s clown, Ronald McDonald, doesn’t tell children: Hamburgers are ground up cows who’ve had their throats slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by sledgehammers.
Original actor to play Ronald McDonald: Jeff Juliano
Diet now followed by Jeff Juliano: Vegetarian
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in U.S.: 500,000
Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S.: Slaughterhouse worker
Occupation with highest employee rate of injury in U.S.: Slaughter- house worker
Cost to render an animal unconscious prior to slaughter with captive bolt pistol so that process is done humanely: 1 penny
Reason given by meat industry for not utilizing captive bolt pistol: Too expensive
Percentage of total antibiotics used in U.S. fed routinely to livestock: 55
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1988: 91
Reason: Breeding of antibiotic resistant bacteria in factory farms due to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock
Effectiveness of all “wonder-drug” antibiotics: Declining rapidly
Reason: Breeding of antibiotic resistant bacteria in factory farms due to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock
Response by entire European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: Ban
Response by American meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: Full and complete support
Only man to win Ironman Triathalon more than twice: Dave Scott (6 time winner)
Food choices of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
World record holder for 24 triathalon (Swim 4.8 miles, Cycle 185 miles, Run 52.5): Sixto Linares
Food choices of Sixto Linares: Strict vegetarian
Athlete who most totally dominated Olympic sport in track and field history: Edwin Moses (undefeated in 8 years, 400 meter hurdles)
Food choices of Edwin Moses: Vegetarian
Other notable vegetarian athletes:
* Stan Price (World record-bench press)
* Robert Sweetgall (World’s premier ultra-distance walker)
* Paavo Nurmi (20 World’s records in distance running, 9 Olympic medals)
* Bill Pickering (World record – swimming English Channel)
* Murray Rose (World records – 400 and 1500 meter freestyles)
* Andreas Cahling (Winner – Mr. International body-building championships)
* Roy Hilligan (Winner – Mr. America body-building championships)
* Pierro Verot (World’s record for downhill endurance skiing)
* Estelle Gray and Cheryl Marek (World’s record for cross- country tandem cycling)
* James and Johnathon deDonato (World’s record for distance butterfly stroke swimming)
* Ridgely Abele (Winner of 8 national championships in Karate, including U.S. Karate Association World Championships)
Source: This is a reprint of REALITIES 1989, which are facts excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize nominated “Diet for a New America” by John Robbins. Mr. Robbins is the heir of the Baskin Robbins fortune; and instead of following in his dad’s footsteps, he did some research on how the American flesh eating diet affects everyone’s lives.
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Notice what I say on the sept. 16th post above – and the school shootings and million pounds of meat are recalled after, and still, people say I am crazy – happens just like I said, and still no one listens – Humane Education + Vegan School Lunch = No more school shootings – WAKE UP!
Dave Warwak received a strong warning today from his hometown police.
The warning came in response to complaints from parents and teachers who were in attendance at the town’s annual homecoming parade.
Accompanied by his dog, Warwak allegedly entered the parade and passed out small cards to children.
Police stopped Warwak, escorted him home and instructed him to “stay away from the town’s children”.
At particular issue with police was Warwak telling children, Santa Claus is not real.
The card’s front reads:
Remember the Santa Claus lie?
One lie is so bad, some people prefer to keep it hidden.
So hidden, some never find out!
Do you want to live a lie?
The back reads:
Go to your favorite search engine.
Look-up “Factory Farming” Look-up “Vegan”
“Naming a rock, a banana, does not make it food”
A teacher of ten years in Illinois, Warwak was recently fired for his vegan views.
Warwak filed an appeal in response to his termination. No date has been set.