[pom19]

"When the students are ready the master shall arrive." POM

[seraphic]

"When the students are ready the master shall arrive." POM

Very true. All there is to do is lead by example and plant little seeds here and there.

[pom19]

"When the students are ready the master shall arrive." POM

Very true. All there is to do is lead by example and plant little seeds here and there.

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True, and Emerson reminds us:

"What you are speaks so loudly that I cannot hear you."

[surferjoe2007]

I spend a lot of time at the USDA nutrient database finding the most nutritious foods. And I'll add that there's not much to be gained from farmed meat and dairy. I mean in terms of pure numerical nutrient content they're close to useless. What they do have is over-hyped in ads and over-consumed. Grains, seeds and veggies are the best. Wild ocean seafood and egg yolks are nutritious but you can get vegan EPA & DHA, plus soy lecithin. Fruit isn't that great either btw, and while you should have a little it shouldn't be over-consumed.

[peggy]

Vegan here! Thanks for creating this thread, Peggy. A wealth of info here!

Once you go vegan, it tends to open up a whole new portal of reality, as you are lead to so much information that was previously kept from us. It can become quite overwhelming and sad when learning about the things that are going on behind closed doors, and the lies that we are being told. I'm doing the best I can to spread these messages, but so many people are not ready to hear it.

Hey there. So true what you wrote. I have been vegetarian for so many years without knowing what's going on "behind the scenes". It's shocking to face the truth therefore most people prefer to lie to themselves.

"It's so important to seek the truth and not to simply just accept what conventional society is doing as correct. Just because we have been doing something for a long time doesn't make it right at all. The earth genuinely needs a revolutionary shift in social consciousness to transform a culture of exploitation, commodification and oppression to one of non violence and respect for all life.

Most people can agree that the way factory farmed animals are treated is deplorable but still they find it easier to block it out rather than jeopardise giving up the foods they have become so familiar with. I encourage people to delve deeper especially if you consider yourself an animal lover.

Also health wise we are experiencing the biggest health crisis in the history of humanity with rates of chronic diseases and obesity constantly increasing. For example In the last 10 years we have doubled the amount of money spent on cancer research but still they predict that half of us will hear the words 'you have cancer' in our lifetimes. Global cancer rates are set to soar 75% by 2030. It's evident we are doing something very wrong here. The one thing we all do is eat at least 3 x a day, so it makes sense to begin to look at how we are nourishing our bodies? Is eating saturated fat and cholesterol ridden animal products supporting health? Vegans have considerably lower rates of chronic disease and obesity. FACT. Most diseases are preventable and reversible with a plant based diet, that's substantial evidence that speaks volumes.

Aside from that our planet and precious ecosystem and resources are dwindling. Animal agriculture is the number one cause of global warming.

Also globally there are approximately 1 billion people on the planet that today will go starving. Our priority is feeding up farm animals on mostly genetically modified oats and soy so we can eat them. In the meantime 1 billion fellow humans suffer immensely.

So you can assume that vegans are extreme freaks, just trying to perceive themselves as pure as snow. However despite what the naysayers say our intentions are good, not just for the animals either, for humanity and the planet. End the lies. Go vegan."

quote from: https://instagram.com/p/7FUfVuAsO9/

[peggy]

UC Berkeley researchers have linked bovine leukemia virus, a cancer-causing virus prevalent in cattle, with human breast cancer.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/15/bovi...st-cancer/

A new study by UC Berkeley researchers establishes for the first time a link between infection with the bovine leukemia virus and human breast cancer.

In the study, published this month in the journal PLOS ONE and available online, researchers analyzed breast tissue from 239 women for the presence of bovine leukemia virus (BLV), comparing samples from women who had breast cancer with women who had no history of the disease. They found that 59 percent of breast cancer samples had evidence of exposure to BLV, as determined by the presence of viral DNA. By contrast, 29 percent of the tissue samples from women who never had breast cancer showed exposure to BLV.

“The association between BLV infection and breast cancer was surprising to many previous reviewers of the study, but it’s important to note that our results do not prove that the virus causes cancer,” said study lead author Gertrude Buehring, a professor of virology in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. “However, this is the most important first step. We still need to confirm that the infection with the virus happened before, not after, breast cancer developed, and if so, how.”

Bovine leukemia virus infects dairy and beef cattle’s blood cells and mammary tissue. The retrovirus is easily transmitted among cattle primarily through infected blood and milk, but it only causes disease in fewer than 5 percent of infected animals.

A 2007 U.S. Department of Agriculture survey of bulk milk tanks found that 100 percent of dairy operations with large herds of 500 or more cows tested positive for BLV antibodies. This may not be surprising since milk from one infected cow is mixed in with others. Even dairy operations with small herds of fewer than 100 cows tested positive for BLV 83 percent of the time.

What had been unclear until recently is whether the virus could be found in humans, something that was confirmed in a study led by Buehring and published last year in Emerging Infectious Diseases. That paper overturned a long-held belief that the virus could not be transmitted to humans.

“Studies done in the 1970s failed to detect evidence of human infection with BLV,” said Buehring. “The tests we have now are more sensitive, but it was still hard to overturn the established dogma that BLV was not transmissible to humans. As a result, there has been little incentive for the cattle industry to set up procedures to contain the spread of the virus.”

The new paper takes the earlier findings a step further by showing a higher likelihood of the presence of BLV in breast cancer tissue. When the data was analyzed statistically, the odds of having breast cancer if BLV were present was 3.1 times greater than if BLV was absent.

“This odds ratio is higher than any of the frequently publicized risk factors for breast cancer, such as obesity, alcohol consumption and use of post-menopausal hormones,” said Buehring.

There is precedence for viral origins of cancer. Hepatitis B virus is known to cause liver cancer, and the human papillomavirus can lead to cervical and anal cancers. Notably, vaccines have been developed for both those viruses and are routinely used to prevent the cancers associated with them.

“If BLV were proven to be a cause of breast cancer, it could change the way we currently look at breast cancer control,” said Buehring. “It could shift the emphasis to prevention of breast cancer, rather than trying to cure or control it after it has already occurred.”

Buehring emphasized that this study does not identify how the virus infected the breast tissue samples in their study. The virus could have come through the consumption of unpasteurized milk or undercooked meat, or it could have been transmitted by other humans.

The University of California Breast Cancer Research Program and the U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program helped support this research.

[EllaC]

Thus solidifying the link between milk/dairy and BC rates.
Keep posting up , it's a reminder every time you do for me to keep on track with the diet.

[WantAPair]

It also cures cancer!!

[EllaC]

It also cures cancer!!

Raw milk?
I heard goats milk

[WendyA]

It also cures cancer!!

Raw milk?
I heard goats milk

Not milk, a whole food plant based diet.