Intensive And Industrial Animal Farming Results In Less Nutritious Food

Food Standards Agency Reports ‘Significant Increase’ Of Harmful Pathogen Campylobacter In British-Farmed Chickens.
Chickens for sale in Britain’s supermarkets are showing record levels of superbugs resistant to some of the strongest antibiotics, new research from the government has found.
The results are concerning because resistance to antibiotics among farm animals can easily affect resistance among humans, rendering vital medicines ineffective against serious diseases.
The Food Standards Agency, which tested a large sample of fresh whole chickens from retailers, reported “significantly higher proportions” in the last 10 years in instances of campylobacter, a harmful pathogen, that were found to be resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat it.
The agency warned: “This survey provides evidence that AMR [anti-microbial resistant] campylobacter are to be found on whole fresh chickens sold at retail in the UK. It is therefore important to handle chicken hygienically and cook thoroughly to reduce the risk to public health.”
( Fiona Harvey, 15.01.2018 )  ..  theguardian.com

A society that keeps cures a secret so they can continue to sell medication for huge profits is not a real society but a huge mental asylum.
( Alfredo Bowman )

Intensive and industrial animal farming results in less nutritious food.
Six intensively reared chickens today have the same amount of omega-3 as found in just one chicken in the 1970s.
( WWF, October 2017 )

I am not biased because I am vegan.
I am vegan because after extensive research I have learned that besides being the most ethical decision, a plant-based diet is the best diet for my health and the health of the environment.
( Dr. Garth Davis )

When your body is hungry, it wants nutrients, not calories.
( Rose Winfold )

Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
( Len Firswood )

Teeth Are The Gateway To Our Bodily Health.
Decent dental care in the UK has, for the past couple of decades, scandalously, been mainly available to sore-mouthed people with large salaries.
Teeth are not merely cosmetic additions to our face, they’re a vital part of our digestive systems and the gateway to our bodily health.
Poor dental health is associated with dementia, diabetes, kidney disease and some cancers.
Tooth extractions are among the most frequently carried out hospital operations.
We should be chomping at the bit for the return of proper affordable high street NHS dental surgeries.
( Fiona Phillips, 06.01.2018 )

Being a vegan is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as possible, all forms of exploitation and cruelty to animals.
( Rose Winfold )

Every vegan seems to have their own lightbulb moment when something clicked and they stopped eating animal products.
( Cambridge University )

Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do.
It’s not a punishment for what you eat.
( Rose Winfold )

Some people seem to imagine that a burger made from plants is “unnatural” but one made from a cow’s butt couldn’t be more pure.
They seem to dismiss the suffering and the brutal slaughter, and the antibiotics, hormones and drugs that are pumped into them and that rage inside them, and then finish up in meat burgers.
( Wilfred Soon )

Health is not just what you’re eating, it’s also what you are thinking and saying.
( Rose Winfold )

Which vegetable has 77% of the recommended daily dose of vitamin C, is a good source of vitamin K, protein, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, magnesium, fibre, vitamin B6, the list goes on?
The answer:  Cauliflower.
( Saira Khan, 14.01.2018 )

Chickens today are bred exclusively for weight gain and fed a diet of grain, soya and chemical additives they would never have encountered in the wild.
Eating chickens, or any ‘meat’, is a serious risk to our health.
( Rose Winfold )

No disease, including cancer, can exist in an alkaline environment.
( Dr. Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize Winner in 1931 for proving that cancer can’t survive in an alkaline, oxygen rich environment, but thrives in an acidic, low oxygen environment )

Is What You Eat Your Personal Business?
When your choice of food relies on the forced, unnatural breeding and slaughter of billions of animals, which pollutes our rivers, lakes, streams, the soil, and even the air we breathe, and kills millions of our wild animals and plants, and is a threat to all future life on our planet.
What you eat is EVERYONE’S business.
( Rose Winfold )

If you knew how meat was raised, you wouldn’t eat it.
( Justin Timberlake )

Going meat-free can make a huge difference.
Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40% and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.
( Ingrid Newkirk )

A Worrying Shortage Of NHS Staff In England.
One in 11 posts in the NHS is vacant with the situation particularly bad among the nursing workforce.
The latest figures published by the regulator, NHS Improvement, for the April 2018 to June 2018 period, showed: 11.8% of nurse posts were not filled – a shortage of nearly 42,000.
9.3% of doctor posts were vacant – a shortage of 11,500.
Overall, 9.2% of all posts were not filled – a shortage of nearly 108,000.
( Fred O. Wilson )

We need protein, not meat.
We need calcium, not milk.
We need omegas, not fish.
We need nutrients, not the life of an animal.
All of which can be found in a plant-based diet.
( Rose Winfold )

Tory Neglect Coming Home To Roost.
For the Tories to abolish A&E waiting time targets that are regularly missed is crass dishonesty on a dangerous scale.
The dilution, sidelining and abolition of National Health Service goals is the political equivalent of chopping down the mast in the hope nobody spots the white flag.
Because the Tories are surrendering in the battle to improve the NHS.
Instead they starve hospitals and doctors of precious funds while privatising chunks of the service to line the pockets of fat cats.
A&E units, at times, resemble war zones due to chronic underfunding and staff shortages – years of Tory neglect coming home to roost.
( Daily Mirror, 03.02.2018 )

You’re not lactose intolerant, you’re just not a baby cow.
( Wilfred Soon )

Most parents will do almost anything for their children.
Except, it seems, replacing burgers and junk food with tasty plant-based alternatives, so their children will have a healthy life and a planet to live on after them.
( Rose Winfold )