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"South Asian farmers had begun to give their cattle a drug called diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory pain reliever that is prescribed to Americans suffering from arthritis. The farmers used the drug in their cattle because it was cheap and they believed it would ward off lameness and fever. The farmers depend on vultures to eat the carcasses of cattle that die. But when the vultures ate the dead animals, they also ingested the drug, which proved to be an acute poison in their bodies that caused their kidneys to fail. Many of the birds died within days of eating the drug-tainted beef." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Although in 1997 the FDA established some controls, there are significant loopholes such as farmers being allowed to feed cow's blood to cattle, even though research shows the blood can transmit the prions of Mad Cow Disease, and factory farms are still allowed to feed pigs and poultry the remains of slaughtered cattle and the remains of these slaughtered, cattle-fed animals can be fed back to cattle. The Center for Disease Control refuses to make CJD a reportable disease. At least one U.S. company that wants to test all its cows has not been allowed to by the U.S." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

"There, the Egyptian pharaoh has a troubling dream of seven fat cattle, followed by seven thin cattle. Dissatisfied with his counsel's interpretation, he turns to Joseph, who interprets the dream to mean seven years of abundant food will be followed by seven years of famine. Feeling the interpretation's correctness, the pharaoh makes appropriate plans and prepares to store extra food stocks in the good years. Crucial to warning dreams is the issue of proper interpretation. Though van Eeden clearly received a financial warning, the exact nature remained unclear to him." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"Poultry, pigs, calves, cattle - they are to a large degree fed with drugs and hormones; poultry averages more so than cattle, by the way. In other words, there are side effects from sources never envisioned. One could call it side effects of side effects. Now hardly anyone knows the true proportion of those side effects of side effects. Why? Because it is not known, in the first place, that we are drugging ourselves continuously with "normal" food and "normal" beverages. Another example: caffeine...." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Farms that specialize in grass-fed cattle are also better for the environment. cattle allowed to graze on large areas of land are easier on the land and pollute less than do factory farm animals. Where chicken (and other poultry) is concerned, you'll not only want to look for the meat (and eggs) of grass-fed versus grain-fed animals, you'll also want to be certain that the animals are "free range," meaning that they roam freely in the outside environment, rather than being cooped up in factory farms where they are overcrowded and often subject to inhumane conditions." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"There, the Egyptian pharaoh has a troubling dream of seven fat cattle, followed by seven thin cattle. Dissatisfied with his counsel's interpretation, he turns to Joseph, who interprets the dream to mean seven years of abundant food will be followed by seven years of famine. Feeling the interpretation's correctness, the pharaoh makes appropriate plans and prepares to store extra food stocks in the good years. Crucial to warning dreams is the issue of proper interpretation. Though van Eeden clearly received a financial warning, the exact nature remained unclear to him." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"In theory, free-range and free-roam cattle should offer a better alternative to meat raised in feedlots. cattle are ruminants, which means their digestive systems are primed for grass, not grain, but it's faster and easier to fatten them up on corn. A corn diet is rich in omega-6 fatty acids (which we get too much of), and so the meat of corn-fed cattle becomes high in this fatty acid, too. Corn-fed cattle will also tend to have higher residues of hormones and antibiotics. Antibiotics are often used as growth promoters in farm animals." - Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews, SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"The problem is, when cattle handlers fatten their cattle for slaughter, they send them to the feedlot and give them unlimited corn and grain, which marbles their meat and liver with saturated fats and increases their body mass, just as it does in humans. Conversely, a vegetarian cow is a lean cow whose meat is higher in omega-3 fats, monounsaturated fats, and polyunsaturated fats. These fats improve your kidneys' ability to excrete acid, lower your blood pressure, lower your triglycerides, and raise your good cholesterol." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Farms that specialize in grass-fed cattle are also better for the environment. cattle allowed to graze on large areas of land are easier on the land and pollute less than do factory farm animals. Where chicken (and other poultry) is concerned, you'll not only want to look for the meat (and eggs) of grass-fed versus grain-fed animals, you'll also want to be certain that the animals are "free range," meaning that they roam freely in the outside environment, rather than being cooped up in factory farms where they are overcrowded and often subject to inhumane conditions." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The problem is, when cattle handlers fatten their cattle for slaughter, they send them to the feedlot and give them unlimited corn and grain, which marbles their meat and liver with saturated fats and increases their body mass, just as it does in humans. Conversely, a vegetarian cow is a lean cow whose meat is higher in omega-3 fats, monounsaturated fats, and polyunsaturated fats. These fats improve your kidneys' ability to excrete acid, lower your blood pressure, lower your triglycerides, and raise your good cholesterol." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"In 1877 Pasteur showed that a germ, anthrax, was the cause of a disease that was killing cattle. He went on to develop an anthrax vaccine, made from a weakened strain of the disease that caused only a mild illness, but then protected vaccinated sheep and cattle from getting the fullblown disease. A few years later, a 9-year-old boy, Joseph Meister, was brought to Pasteur, not yet sick but doomed to die within four to eight weeks after having been bitten many times by a rabid dog. At the time, Pasteur was working on a rabies vaccine made from infected spinal cord tissue taken from rabid rabbits." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Although Asian Hyksos princes now ruled over the delta to the north, the people of Thebes still pastured cattle there and imported emmer from the fields of their rivals. Technological innovations helped expand crop yields for a rising population; for instance, the shaduf, a simple, lever-operated water-lifting device, allowed farmers to water their fields outside the flood season. And when the Hyksos were expelled and Ahmose I of Thebes assumed the throne in 1570 B.C., Egypt entered on its most glorious imperial centuries." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In the United States, most ranchers inject their cattle and sheep with synthetic steroid growth-promoting hormones. Hormone-treated meat is a very real health issue. In the late nineties, Roy Hertz, then director of endocrinology at the National Cancer Institute and a leading authority on hormonal cancers, warned of the carcinogenic risks of estrogenic additives, which can cause imbalances in natural hormone levels. Pesticides and plastics. Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are routinely applied to mass-produced fruits and vegetables." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Since then, however, primarily due to discoveries made in the large-scale raising of cattle, hogs, and chickens, we have learned that trace minerals are among the most important components of good health—and even life itself. A full complement of the 72-84 trace elements is essential for optimum health. Vitamins The dictionary defines a vitamin as "an organic compound naturally occurring in plant and animal tissue and that is essential in small amounts for the control of metabolic processes." A more illuminating definition is that vitamins are coenzymes." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Anyone who has any awareness of how cattle, poultry, and pigs are treated in our modern "superfarms," must think twice about consuming products produced by this system. It is incredibly cruel. Unfortunately, after years of speaking engagements in numerous places around the world, I got tired of eating iceberg lettuce with second-rate Italian dressing for lunch, and white rice and dead vegetables for dinner. I broke down and started eating small amounts of chicken and fish. My diet now consists of: • Fresh juices, superfoods, and ground flaxseed (see next chapter) for breakfast." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Factory-farmed cattle eat grain, which causes the fats in their meat and milk to accumulate more inflammatory omega-6 fats. In the days when milk and meat came from pasture-raised cattle, that milk and meat were full of those wonderful omega-3s, which are made into anti-inflammatory chemicals in the body. Omega-3 oils are found most plentifully in fish, flaxseeds, and walnuts; vegetables and algae also contain some omega-3s. Think of omega-6 fats, sugars, and refined grains as slow-burning fires and omega-3 fats as cool, fresh, quenching water." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Unlike most precognitive dreams that rely on symbolism (the pharaoh's fat and thin cattle, for example), these ambient precognitive lucid dreams seem noteworthy for their direct relation to the later materialization. Some have suggested that the landscape may contain the energy pattern of past and future events." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"The forests eventually gave way to cow pastures dotted with humped-back Brahman cattle and occasionally the massively crowned guanacaste trees after which the region is named. We crossed the Taiwan Friendship Bridge spanning the alligator-infested Tempisque River and onto the roughly 80-mile-long finger of land south of the Nicaraguan border along the Pacific coast—the Nicoya Peninsula. "Until very recently, this was one of the most isolated parts of Costa Rica," Luis said. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"I know firsthand how cattle axe raised and how meat is produced in this country. Today I am president of Earth Save International, an organization promoting organic farming and the vegitarian diet. Sure, I used to enjoy my steaks as much as the next guy. But if you knew what I know about what goes into them and what they can do to you, you'd probably be a vegetarian like me. And, believe it or not, as a pure vegetarian now who consumes no animal products at all, I can tell you that these days I enjoy eating more than ever." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.)

"This date corresponds well with archeological data suggesting that cattle domestication came to different parts of Africa 3300 to 9000 years ago. These SNPs developed independently of the European mutation, providing striking evidence of both convergent evolution and the strong and relatively recent impact of a cultural practice such as dairy farming on the genome. The genetic regulation of LPH has been studied extensively. Most evidence supports reduced levels of lactase mRNA in lactose maldigesters, suggesting that regulation is primarily at the level of transcription [23-26]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." This is a very strong belief that has been carried down through generation upon generation, and yet it may be an issue of translation as Rev." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"I remembered a time when my wife and I were sorting out fattened, top-end Charolais cattle for market. I was about to load a 1,400-pound white steer onto the truck when Willow Jeane stopped me. She said, "This one's so beautiful, let's let it go in the next load." I deferred to her re-luctantiy. In the morning, we found that steer dead. Had it made it onto the truck alive, it would have been worth about seven hundred fifty dollars, and it wovdd have been someone else's problem had it died en route to slaughter. Instead, it was worthless." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.) "In Arkansas, for example, the average farm feeds over fifty tons of chicken litter to cattle every year. One Arkansas catde farmer was quoted in U.S. News & World Report as having re-cendy purchased 745 tons of litter collected firom the floors of local chicken-raising operations. After mbdng it with small amounts of soybean bran, he then feeds it to his eight hundred head of catde, making them, in his words, "fat as butterbaUs." He explained, "If I didn't have chicken Utter, I'd have to sell half my herd. Other feeds are too expensive." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.)

"The cattle grazing the pastures polluted by the poisonous chemical are owned either by the phosphate companies or by cattlemen leasing the land from the companies. "According to several sources contacted by the Herald-Tribune, complaint of pollution by a cattleman is sufficient cause for termination of his lease. "As a result, diseased cattle rarely surface at the state's veterinary diagnostic clinic, are treated privately if at all and are seldom mentioned as clinical examples in recent professional literature on the medically unique disease." - Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, Fluoride the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride (Get the book.)

"This strategy is not about the ethics of eating animals, being the highest carnivore on the food chain, or deforestation of the Amazon to raise cattle. Rather, it is about finding the balance of animal protein to green plants in your diet that is right for you. You may transition to a near total vegephile existence in your Diet Evolution, or you may decide that all you are comfortable with is one meatless day a week. The choice is yours." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The chemists had better luck with a different tactic: they mixed the antibiotic with animal feed to create "a growth enhancer" for hogs, chickens, and cattle. To promote this agricultural use, Pfizer organized a hog-judging contest at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, which ended with two-hundred-pound squealing pigs running through the lobby as newsmen caught the mayhem on film. Delighted with the publicity, Pfizer hauled a steer into the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, where a waiter in a white jacket served the bovine hay on a silver tray." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"There is a folktale told by the Basumbwa of East Africa, of a man whose dead father appeared to him, driving the cattle of Death, and conducted him along a path that went into the ground, as into a vast burrow. They came to an extensive area where there were some people. The father hid the son and went 68 All of these are described and discussed at length by Sir James G. Frazer in The Golden Boueh. 69 Hebrews. o:is-u. off to sleep. The Great Chief, Death, appeared the next morning. One side of him was beautiful; but the other side was rotten, maggots were dropping to the ground." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) "When the woman reached the animal's stomach, "she saw large forests and great rivers, and many high lands; on one side there were many rocks; and there were many people who had built their village there; and many dogs and many cattle; all was there inside the elephant." 58 The Irish hero, Finn MacCool, was swallowed by a monster of indefinite form, of the type known to the Celtic world as a peist. The little German girl, Red Ridinghood, was swallowed by a wolf. The Polynesian favorite, Maui, was swallowed by his great-great-grandmother, Hine-nui-te-po." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

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