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"The three-field system yielded enough oats that livestock could now be raised as a money "crop," and in fact, would become one of the most important agricultural products of premodern Europe. The surplus of food and livestock attracted both wolves and wolfhounds: warriors who preyed on, and defended, the wealthy created by Europe's new, and ever more productive, farmers. More wealth paid for more formidable tools of both attack and defense, including warhorses, armor, and lances, and made the armored knight—the European version of Belisarius's heavy cavalry—the top of the military food chain.2?" - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"A 2006 report issued by the United Nations stated that the world's livestock generate more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation industry. Henning Steinfeld, et al. Livestocks Long Shadow:Environmental Issues and Options. A report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome: FAO, 2006). Available online at http://www.virtualcentre .org/en/library/key pub/longshad/A070lE00.htm. tages and disadvantages of being at the top of the food chain: It accumulates and concentrates many of the nutrients in the environment but also many of the toxins." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The gas expelled by cows and other livestock is responsible for nearly 20% of methane emissions worldwide. Nitrogen-rich manure also adds to the problem.The situation is even worse in New Zealand, where a whopping 60% of greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock. vomiting blood, and bloody stools. (See The Scoop on Poop, below.) Finally, excessive burping with severe nausea or vomiting may be danger signs of a heart attack. FREQUENT FARTING Farting probably provokes more laughter and embarrassment than any other normal bodily function." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Roughly one-third of the world's annual grain harvest is fed to livestock, and more fish is fed to livestock in the United States than is consumed by humans. The least efficient livestock product is beef: it takes about seven pounds of grain to produce a pound of meat. Raising livestock takes over half of all cropland in this country and produces much less food than if we directly ate the crops used to feed the animals. We waste 90 percent of the protein, 99 percent of the carbohydrates, and 100 percent of the dietary fiber by cycling grain through livestock." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"In fact, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an estimated 70 percent of the antibiotics made in the United States are used to fatten livestock. I believe this is contributing to our Spent crisis. Public-health authorities have even linked low-level antibiotic use in conventionally raised livestock directly to greater numbers of drug-resistant infections in people—another ever-growing health crisis. To make matters worse, switching ruminants from their natural diet of grasses to grains also lowers their nutritional value." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Will we see "mad chicken disease" emerge in future years as well, since many livestock chickens are fed dead chickens? These poor livestock animals are also drugged with steroids and antibiotics in addition to being forced to eat an unnatural diet of inferior food full of pesticides and herbicides. Some of the pesticide and herbicide residues from all the plant food the animal ever ate are concentrated in its fats. All of those pollutants reach the body of the person consuming animal products, thus injuring him or her also. Most meat is laden with harmful ingredients." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The problem isn't solved by not eating fish—after all, half the world's fish catch is fed to livestock. According to Diet for a New America by John Robbins, more fish are consumed by U.S. livestock than by the entire human population of all the countries in Western Europe. Periodic testing in the U.S. has found eggs and chickens highly contaminated with PCBs after being fed fish contaminated with PCBs. Mercury toxicity from ingesting fish is another well-known source of illness." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"It is one of the main grains fed to livestock, and only a small amount is used for human consumption, mainly for beer and other foods. Barley kernels must be first polished or "pearled" to remove the inedible hull. Barley malt is a fundamental ingredient in making beer. A Serving of Food Lore... The actual origin of barley remains unknown but many researchers believe it came from China or Ethiopia. Archaeologists have discovered that barley was one of the first grains domesticated in the Fertile Crescent by Egyptians some 10,000 years ago." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The surplus of food and livestock attracted both wolves and wolfhounds: warriors who preyed on, and defended, the wealthy created by Europe's new, and ever more productive, farmers. More wealth paid for more formidable tools of both attack and defense, including warhorses, armor, and lances, and made the armored knight—the European version of Belisarius's heavy cavalry—the top of the military food chain.2? More than forty years ago, the historian Lynn White argued that the "stirrup and the plow" determined the path of modern Europe." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Even grain-fed livestock supply red meat containing a small amount of ALA. This ALA becomes incorporated into the cells of these animals, along with other fatty acids. We ingest these lipids when we eat red meat. This fact, in combination with the historically low ingestion of omega-3 fatty acids over the past 100 years, is why omnivores actually have higher tissue levels of ALA than vegetarians. Therefore, omnivores with a high meat diet will have slightly more omega-3s in their tissues than moderate meat eaters and vegetarians." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Yet, these cases may merely indicate that a diet with high meat intake providing a dominance of unhealthful saturated fat, as well as hormones used to accelerate livestock growth, might have adverse effects on prostate health. The cooking of meat adds another issue to be considered. In the process of cooking meat at high temperature, there is a strong possibility that ALA is transformed from its natural cis-isomer to the undesirable trans-isomer. Even conventional medical authorities are looking askance at trans fatty acids." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "The positive link between certain cancers and meat intake may suggest the influence of animal hormones and fatty acids produced from grain consumption by livestock. No distinction is made between wild fish, richer in natural omega-3s, and farm fish, raised on manmade fish food rich in omega-6s. No distinction is made between freshwater and saltwater fish, between fish from cold Arctic waters or those from warmer regions. These factors influence omega-3 content." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"In the fast-food livestock industry, animals live under inhumane conditions and require constant antibiotics to keep their diseases under control. They are fed synthetic growth hormone to rapidly increase their size. Unhealthy animals hold fluid due to inflammation, making them weigh more than healthier animals. Many livestock animals never get exercise, ensuring they will be fatter (profit is by weight). The food produced in this manner apparently needs radiation to kill all the germs resulting from the filthy growing and slaughtering conditions." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"Another cyclone, Nano, lashed the Marquesas with winds of 225 kilometers per hour and nine-meter seas in January, bringing more than ten solid days of rain that triggered gigantic mudslides, destroyed roads and houses, and drowned most livestock. Soon afterward, Cyclone Reva, known locally as "the thrasher," passed within 120 kilometers of Papeete, Tahiti, uprooting trees or reducing them to stubble, peeling off roofs, and turning the harbor into a froth of white water." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Carefully rotated livestock could flourish here in good rainfall years, but sustained agriculture without large-scale irrigation was another matter. As farmers moved in, the nomadic cattle herders shifted even farther north, right to the frontiers of the desert. The nomads were trapped between the Sahara and a rapidly growing farming population, which, in turn, was stripping the natural vegetation off land that could support farming only for short periods of better rainfall." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "In 1914 grain reserves were low, livestock were already weak, and malnutrition was widespread, especially among children. By the time the growing season arrived, many people were too weak to work in the fields. Entire families died at the side of paths as they tried to flee south into better-watered areas. Those who survived did not have the strength to bury the dead. Many mothers abandoned their children in marketplaces, hoping some benefactor would feed them. Hundreds of younger people moved elsewhere to work on groundnut plantations in Gambia and Senegal." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The explanation for this may be that our current food supply—which is genetically modified or engineered; grown in nutrient-depleted soils and fertilized with petrochemicals; shipped in boxes across thousands of miles; filled with antibiotic-, hormonally pumped livestock or farmed fish that is fed grain rather than grasses or algae, which are its native foods—can send the wrong signals to our bodies.21 Our cells see these foods, which are a far cry from what we evolved to eat, as foreign. "What's this?" our cells say. "Something foreign? Something dangerous?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Any farmer knows that without proper nutrition, his livestock will not grow to be at their marketable and performing best; it is the same with our own bodies. All living organisms require a regular supply of the full range of nutrients to survive and thrive. Those nutrients must include live enzymes that help provide working energy for a long and healthy life. If we do not put quality nutrition in, we cannot expect to get quality performance out." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"This was accompanied by a decline in consumption of fish and wild game and a dramatic increase in the use of grains (another source of omega-6) to feed livestock. These factors, along with the popularity of fast-food restaurants and processed foods that contain vegetable oils, combined to drastically alter the balance between omega-6 and omega-3 in the Western diet." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"About seventy-five percent of corn produced in the United States is fed to livestock. Why Should I Eat Corn? Corn is a good source of fiber, vitamin Bl, folate, vitamin C, and pantothenic acid. Corn contains the phytochemicals beta-cryptoxanthin, lutein, saponins, alkaloids, sitosterol, stigmasterol, malic acid, palmitic acid, tartaric acid, oxalic acid, and maizenic acid, which have heart health and cancer-fighting properties. Home Remedies The entire corn plant has long been used in Native American cultures for medicinal purposes." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "In the United States, sorghum is primarily used as livestock feed. In China, sorghum is important in producing many beverages, including Maotai and kaoliang. In many parts of India, bhakri (unleavened bread) made from sorghum is a staple in the diet. Where Is Sorghum Grown? Sixty million tons of sorghum are grown annually and the main producer is Africa, followed by North America and Asia. Most sorghum syrup production occurs in the south-central and southeastern United States. Why Should I Eat Sorghum?" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Indeed, this fear of the "evil eye" and its ability to harm children, adults, livestock, and even crops is one of the most ancient and universal superstitions. References to the evil eye can be seen scattered throughout the Talmud, the Bible, and the Koran. Belief in the evil eye, called mal occhio by the Italians, mal de ojo by the Spanish, and ayin ha'ra in Hebrew, persists today in many Mediterranean, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries. But ancient Egyptians and other cultures also believed in the positive, protective, and healing power of the eyes." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"In fact, studies have shown that children raised on a farm or exposed to certain livestock may grow up to have fewer allergies than children reared in an excessively sterile environment. I completely understand your impulse to protect your child from threats in the world around him. But remember, too much of a good thing can be dangerous. Antibiotics Overload Antibiotics are another potential area of concern for parents today. The invention of antibiotics represents, Dr. Boscamp told me, one of the "biggest advances of the twentieth century." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"We've gone from a whole-foods diet—one in which we digested whole grains, fruits, vegetables, poultry, and livestock produced locally or on our own land—to a processed-food diet. This processed-food diet often consists of highly preserved bread products, doughnuts, prepackaged coffee cakes, and cereals laden with sugar for breakfast. (Think of it: one bowl of Cocoa Puffs has the same amount of sugar as a 50-gram bag of Hershey's Kisses, and a bowl of Corn Pops is the sugar equivalent of eating a Kit Kat bar." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"A livestock example is pigs that are being injected with genetically engineered growth hormones to make them grow faster and 40% larger. Genetically altered produce has now found its way into many foods in our stores. Do you know what you are eating? Do you know whether the tomato has fish genes, or your corn has genes from bacteria? Is this a problem? Often, problems with this kind of experimenting can be observed in nature first. As an example, it is now being discovered that pollen from genetically modified corn can kill monarch butterflies." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In other words, emissions from livestock have become a significant source of atmospheric methane. As of 1990, domestic animals currently account for about 15 percent of the annual anthropogenic methane emissions, and the number has been steadily increasing ever since. • Eighty-five percent of the topsoil lost in the USA each year is directly associated with the raising of livestock. In this way, 4 million acres of cropland is destroyed every year. In the same way, precious rain forests have had to give way to satisfy the demand for more meat in the world." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Only 10 percent of the protein and calories we feed to our livestock are recovered in the meat we eat. In the case of the United States, for the 20 million tons of humanly edible and nutritious protein that is fed to livestock yearly (apart from the waste products and drugs), only about 2 million tons of meat protein are obtained; and out of that amount, less than 27 percent can be utilized by the human body." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The idea that you're creating superbugs in livestock that will then be easily passed to humans—it's huge," Dr. Boscamp said. He also cautioned against prescribing antibiotics to people "with an obvious viral illness—people who come in sneezing, with a runny nose, or a cold. That's really a problem because we know antibiotics don't do anything against viruses, so every time we use an antibiotic when we don't need to, we'll pay a price in the future. People are starting to understand that, to say, 'Maybe I don't need an antibiotic this time.'" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"A fourteenth-century almanac adjured the farmer to "multiply his livestock for it is this which will give the land the manure that produces rich harvests."5 Nor did crops like barley, oats, and rye produce higher crop yields. The plants choked one another. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, Europe's peasants subsisted on coarse soups and gruels, as they had in prehistoric times. The 1430s saw long spells of severe winter weather interspersed with very dry, hot summers and exceptionally wet springs and falls that caused havoc from England to the Alps." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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