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Federal report: Vegan diet best for planet
The Hill ^ | April 5, 2015 | Lydia Wheeler

Posted on 04/06/2015 8:53:30 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: rhoda_penmark

The hatch back automatically pops up....................


21 posted on 04/06/2015 9:20:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: C19fan

WHAT! No Fish!


22 posted on 04/06/2015 9:23:15 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: C19fan

23 posted on 04/06/2015 9:24:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: C19fan

Vegans often die prematurely


24 posted on 04/06/2015 9:28:14 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: C19fan

Nobody worries about the sustainability of our country under progressivism.


25 posted on 04/06/2015 9:32:45 AM PDT by Usagi_yo (The declining morals of the West vs the increasingly brutal Jihadists. Coincidence?)
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To: C19fan

Another government agency or whatever that needs abolished


26 posted on 04/06/2015 9:35:16 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: GeronL

You had to be blind not to see this coming.


27 posted on 04/06/2015 9:39:19 AM PDT by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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To: C19fan

We’ll be eating seeds and grass. Maybe peas and radishes.

I hate these people.


28 posted on 04/06/2015 9:43:06 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: C19fan

The soviets, chinese, and many other socialist/fascist/communist regimes invoked mass starvation to ensure the compliance of the peasants and masses. Now the US government is going to employ this approach?

Control the food, fuel, and water, and you control the people.

The Constitutional purge of the DC tyrannts should have started a long time ago.


29 posted on 04/06/2015 9:50:10 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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“1938, English magazine Home & Gardens features Hitler

... and his very lovely house in the mountains

“A life-long vegetarian at table, Hitler’s kitchen plots are both varied and heavy in produce. Even in his meatless diet Hitler is something of a gourmet — as Sir John Simon and Anthony Eden were surprised to note when they dined with him in the Chancellry at Berlin. His Bavarian chef, Herr Kannenberg, contrives an imposing array of vegetarian dishes, savoury and rich, pleasing to the eye as well as to the palate, and all conforming to the dietic standards which Hitler exacts.”

5th November 1941, evening
Hitler talks to SS Colonel Blaschke and Nazi scientist Dr. Richter

...on the virtues of organic produce

There is an interesting document, dating from the time of
Caesar, which indicates that the soldiers of that time lived on a
vegetarian diet. According to the same source, it was only in
times of shortage that soldiers had recourse to meat...

...It’s probable that, in the old days, human beings lived longer
than they do now. The turning-point came when man replaced the raw elements in his diet by foods that he sterilizes when he eats them

...Everything that lives on earth feeds on living materials. The
fact that man subjects his foodstuffs to a physio-chemical
process explains the so-called “maladies of civilization”. If the
average term of lifis at present increasing, that’s because people
are again finding room for a naturalistic diet. It’s a revolution.
That a fatty substance extracted from coal has the same value as
olive-oil, that l don’t believe at all!

...But there’s one thing I can predict to eaters of meat, that the

world of the future will be vegetarian !

Night of I2th-i3th January 1942
Hitler talks in private to his secretary Bormann

...about becoming King of the Muslims

Mark my words, Bormann, I’m going to become very
religious!

Bormann: “You’ve always been very religious”

I’m going to become a religious figure! Soon I’ll be the great chief of the Tartars. Already Arabs and Moroccans are mingling my name with their prayers. Among the Tartars I shall become Khan. The only thing of which I shall be incapable is to share the sheikhs’ mutton with them. I’m a vegetarian, and they must spare me from their meat. If they don’t wait too long, I’ll fall back on their harems!

22nd January 1942, evening
Hitler meets with Admiral Fricke

...and talks about sumo wrestlers

Among the animals, those who are carnivores put up performances much inferior to those of the herbivores. A lion’s in no shape to run for a quarter of an hour—the elephant can run for eight hours! The monkeys, our ancestors of prehistoric times, are strictly vegetarian. Japanese wrestlers, who are among the strongest men in the world, feed exclusively on vegetables. The same’s true of the Turkish porter, who can move a piano by himself.

When you offer a child the choice of a piece of meat, an apple or a cake, it’s never the meat that he chooses. There’s an ancestral instinct there. In the same way, the child would never begin to drink or smoke if it weren’t to imitate others. The consumption of meat is reduced the moment the market presents a greater choice of vegetables, and in proportion as each man can afford the luxury of the first fruits.

I suppose man became carnivorous because, during the Ice Age, circumstances compelled him. They also prompted him to have his food cooked, a habit which, as one knows to-day, has harmful consequences. Our peasants never eat any food that hasn’t been cooked and re-cooked, and thus deprived of all its virtues. The southern peoples are not acquainted either with a meat diet or with cooking. I lived marvelously in Italy. I don’t know any country that enlivens one more. Roman food, how delicious it is!

25th April 1942, Reich Chancellery, midday
Hitler meets with Dr. Göbbel’s for an important conversation

...about the virtuous eating habits of African Vegetarians

One has only to keep one’s eyes open to notice what an extraordinary antipathy young children have to meat. It is also an interesting fact that among the Negroes the children of those tribes which are primarily vegetarian develop more harmoniously than those of the tribes in which it is customary for the mother to feed her infant up to the age of four or five. As regards animals, the dog, which is carnivorous, cannot compare in performance with the horse, which is vegetarian. In the same way, the lion shows signs of fatigue after covering two or three kilometers, while the camel marches for six or seven days before even his tongue begins to hang out. Speaking generally, the experts do not take facts sufficiently into consideration. It has been proved that a vegetarian diet—and particularly a diet of potato peelings and raw potatoes—will cure beri-beri within a week.

Those who adopt a vegetarian diet must remember that it is in their raw state that vegetables have their greatest nutritive value. The fly feeds on fresh leaves, the frog swallows the fly as it is, and the stork eats the living frog. Nature thus teaches us that a rational diet should be based on eating things in their raw state. Science has proved, too, that cooking destroys the vitamins, which are the most valuable part of our food. It has not yet been established beyond doubt whether cooking destroys merely certain chemical particles or whether it also destroys the essential fermentation juices.

Our children to-day are much healthier than those of the Imperial and Weimar Republic periods because mothers now realise that they contribute far more to the health of their children if they give them raw vegetables and roots to chew
than if they give them boiled milk.

April 26, 1942, Joseph Goebbels writes in his diary

...about what he learned about vegetables that day

An extended chapter of our talk was devoted by the Führer to the vegetarian question. He believes more than ever that meat-eating is harmful to humanity. Of course he knows that during the war we cannot completely upset our food system. After the war, however, he intends to tackle this problem also. Maybe he is right. Certainly the arguments that he adduces in favor of his standpoint are very compelling

8th July 1942, at dinner
Hitler addresses everyone in attendance

...about how wise his dog Blondi is

In many ways, my sheepdog Blondi is a vegetarian. There are lots of herbs which she eats with obvious pleasure, and it is interesting to see how she turns to them if her stomach is out of order. It is astonishing to see how wise animals are, and how well they know what is good for them.

When I later gave up eating meat, I immediately began to perspire much less, and within a fortnight to perspire hardly at all. My thirst, too, decreased considerably, and an occasional sip of water was all I required. Vegetarian diet, therefore, has some obvious advantages. I shall be interested to see whether my dog eventually becomes a complete and confirmed vegetarian.”

https://www.quora.com/Was-Hitler-vegetarian?share=1

Hitler, Goebbels, etc., in their own words, being vegetarians.


30 posted on 04/06/2015 9:53:29 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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Fine. Since the federal standards most directly impact federally funded school lunch plans, let’s require the public schools to go vegan.


31 posted on 04/06/2015 10:04:00 AM PDT by sphinx
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Cows eat vegetables so by eating a cow you are a vegan.....


32 posted on 04/06/2015 10:10:01 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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"The organically grown vegan diet also had the lowest estimated impact on resources and ecosystem quality, and the average Italian diet had the greatest projected impact,” according to the report.

Agenda alert. If the report is buying into the organic fetish, it is not an honest piece of work. The world will have nine billion people by 2050. They can't be fed a middle class diet with organic farming. Modern ag techniques, including biotech and precision farming, increase yields while reducing soil loss, energy use, pesticide use, and irrigation. Modern ag is greener than organic ag. If you are really interested in sustainability, you would ding organics and embrace growoing more with less.

33 posted on 04/06/2015 10:10:21 AM PDT by sphinx
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It will get the world’s population down to the Georgia Guidestones 500 million max.


34 posted on 04/06/2015 10:11:26 AM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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Penny: I’m a vegetarian. Well, except for fish, and the occasional steak. I love steak!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaj8eIkrEPM


35 posted on 04/06/2015 10:12:11 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, a federally appointed panel of nutritionists created in 1983, decided for the first time this year to factor in environmental sustainability in its recommendations.

Only a matter of time. Surprised the meat industry didn't see this coming.

36 posted on 04/06/2015 10:15:23 AM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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Control the food, fuel, and water, and you control the people.

How very, very true. Except you left out health care.

37 posted on 04/06/2015 10:25:39 AM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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To: C19fan

More pressure on price as the industry pads legislators in Washington and fights more baseless regulation.


38 posted on 04/06/2015 10:27:23 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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