Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Monday, April 9, 2012

Being A Vegetarian - Pros And Cons

By Owen Jones


If you are thinking about becoming a vegetarian, then you have to be asking yourself about the pros and cons of doing so. There are different methods of looking at this. On the macro or global scale, you as an individual, by giving up eating meat, will personally save the lives and distress of all the animals that you would have eaten, if you had not given up.

On the other hand, a few hundred animals during quite a number of years will not make much difference to the animal population. What is more, with the Chinese and Indian populations becoming richer, it is almost certain that they will be eating more and more meat in the near future. You will be doing your piece though.

However, on the micro, or personal level, becoming a vegetarian will change your life. Those who have faith in detox diets say that lots of the toxins that they say mount up in our bodies come from the hormones, pesticides and antibiotics that are in meat but ought not to be.

Meat, eggs and dairy products are a Westerners foremost sources of cholesterol and fat and cholesterol and fat are blamed for being the main contributor to the West's principal killer - heart disease.

It is a fact that there are other reasons for heart disease, yet it has been worked out that vegetarians have about a quarter of their meat-eating compatriots' chances of having a heart attack. This seems significant, but the difference between vegans and meat-eaters is even more stark at one tenth the chance.

So, it seems to count what kind of vegetarian you become, because lots of vegetarians still eat fish, eggs and cheese and drink milk. However, by giving up meat alone, you will miss out on lots of the chemicals that farmers pump into their meat and poultry.

For example, preservatives are thought to become linked to some cancers; growth hormones given to animals affect our own hormones and many crowd merely cannot digest milk, which causes the production of mucous and can give rise to digestive worries

On the negative side, you will need to learn a whole new system of supplying your body with the nutrients and vitamins that it requires. Meat is a concentrated kind of food and just eating a regular western meat and two vegetables sort of meal without the meat will soon become boring and land you in very hot water.

Malnutrition is the risk that novice vegetarians have to become suspicious of. Obviously, it is not so difficult to be hold of information to help you become your vegetarian diet right as it used to get yet there is a vast choice of foodstuffs available to the modern vegetarian, but they are not all cheap, so cutting out meat will not likely save you any money.

At the end of the day, becoming a vegetarian is a highly personal affair. It is between you and your conscience, and doing the correct thing will make your life more of a problem, as does attempting any lifestyle change, but you will find it simpler as you get into the swing of things.




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