The influence of meat on human behavior
Animal protein labeled as "meat" actually comes from the muscle tissue of vertebrates on land after death. Specifically, the meat comes from cattle (yellow cattle, buffalo, bison); Deer (roe deer, sika deer and reindeer), camels, moose and single mountain camels; Goats and sheep; Donkeys and horses; Rabbits, rabbits; American porcupine, hippo, kangaroo; There are also domestic pigs, porcupines and wild boars. The meat of vertebrates in the ocean is also eaten by human beings, so: fish … We can't forget that fish is also a kind of meat, and so are other aquatic animals, such as whales, frogs and various birds, such as chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, ostriches and various game birds. In addition, meat eaters brutally kill and eat many invertebrates, such as mollusks (octopus, squid, squid, clams, snails, oysters, clams and other shellfish); Shelled aquatic animals, such as freshwater crayfish, freshwater crayfish, European lobster, lobster, Dolphin Bay prawn, crab, spider crab; Echinoderms, such as sea urchins, sea cucumbers and so on.
All these protein from the animal world mean an absolute bloody massacre, which is not only unnecessary but also contrary to morality. Carnivores must also suffer from physical diseases caused by toxemia, even cancer, and psychological disorders caused by aggression. We know that the so-called "meat" is actually muscle tissue, which contains saturated fat, which is the most unhealthy food. Animal internal organs are not muscle tissues, but people who love meat still like to eat animals' livers, kidneys, brains and other organs, etc. What people also eat is actually a part of the complex stomach of ruminants. There are many kinds of sausages, pork chops, bacon, ham, trotters and so on. People also eat tongues and oxtails, and so on. In China, there are dog meat and offal of animals, not to mention caviar and some rare birds and animals that meat eaters love.
In short, it was a terrible massacre, a real catastrophe.
After eating a lot of animal protein, human behavior has been deeply influenced. In nature, carnivores are usually very fierce and aggressive, while a non-carnivore is peaceful and gregarious. In addition, it can be clearly found that if people no longer eat a lot of high-protein diet, especially meat, their personality will gradually become gentle. As we all know, although dogs are carnivores, if we feed them more meat than usual, they will be more defensive and attack strangers. Similarly, in wartime, when a soldier will take part in a highly dangerous military action, the military will give them a lot of meat. Meat is like medicine, which will arouse the hatred, violence and reduce the moral sense of the soldiers. It is written in Homer's Iliad that every soldier will be rewarded with a feast of wine and meat before going to war, which is the reason. Seneca, a famous philosopher, once pointed out that you can see among people who eat a lot of meat: tyrants, instigating butchers, fighting between relatives and compatriots, instigating murderers and slave traders. But in vegetarians, you can find detailed and harmonious behavior. Liebig, a German chemist, told us that bears in the Giesen Zoo will appear restless and dangerous if they are forced to replace fruits and vegetables with meat.
Just like the history of human diet described by J- Dalemont in his Handbook of Mental Health Care, we can say that physical health care is mental health care. The slogan "Eat meat to get energy" is an excuse made by meat eaters in society. They think that this society is based on competition. In order to compete freely and climb up, they must wear a combative mask in order to get ahead and win the needs of life.
Sociobiology has simply and clearly explained why eating meat has a negative impact on human behavior. As you can see, people are easily influenced by environmental factors, especially diet. One of the important facts comes from 1855, when the German philosopher Fellbach said "der Mann ist vaserist", which means "what you eat is like what you eat". Actually, a century ago, at 1728, a famous Italian scholar, Becagli (doctor, chemist, chemistry teacher of Bologna University), made a fair remark, saying, "Quitalius sumus, nisi it unde alimur? If we are not like the animals we eat, what are we like? ), for Fellbach said later made comments in advance.
It is no coincidence that these two great thinkers happen to be vegetarians. Especially, Beccari discovered gluten and its inducing power to human body among animals and plants protein. Man is not just a digestive tract for filling food, but a thinking creature. The human brain, like other parts of the body, must be nourished by blood through metabolism. Most of the food we eat now comes from the food industry that only makes money, ignoring the dietary needs of our bodies. Just as orthodox medicine is funded by the pharmaceutical industry, we can say that the so-called "nutrition" is actually controlled by those chemical food industries.
This kind of industry, especially the industry with animal protein as its main product, is just an industry that specializes in manufacturing and selling "junk food" with the help of the media. If we turn a blind eye to the behavior of such industries and let human beings and other animals eat corpses, it will inevitably lead to the violent tendency of human beings and other creatures. Twenty centuries ago, the Latin satirist Juvenal (the tenth satirical poem, page 5 12) explained the close relationship between body and mind with the immortal famous saying "Mens sana in corpore sano" (a healthy mind comes from a healthy body).
If you want a healthy mind, you must have a healthy body, which means that we should put health first. Immediately after Zhu Wenner, John Locke, an English philosopher in the17th century, also affirmed Zhu Wenner's statement in his Opinions on Education written in 1693. He said that "a smart and healthy mind requires a healthy body first".
This is the most important place of vegetarianism. Vegetarianism can help the body detoxify and purify the blood supplied to the brain, make our minds clearer, and then move towards a truly open mind, one with self-control and the ability to withstand high intellectual and physical work, and make our manners gentle, our speech gentle and polite, and we are not easy to quarrel with others, and we know how to get along with others, love others, get along with others and share with others.
From the electronic activity in EEG, we can see that vegetarianism will stimulate Alpha Waves, which shows that neuromuscular relaxation requires not only relaxing the mind, but also relaxing the whole body. Leadbeater firmly believes that this scientific research proves that vegetarianism is beneficial to human behavior, because vegetarianism produces a feeling of peace and tranquility in the process, "which is similar to the state produced by meditation when the truth is deeply understood."
The above clearly explains why the most intelligent, literate, patient and generous people in the world have been vegetarians for so many centuries. Although they come from all different fields of knowledge, such as science, philosophy, art, literature and medicine, they all choose to be vegetarians.
It is very clear that after people eat meat, the blood carries the decomposition products of meat to the brain, which affects the brain function and makes their behavior different. I repeat, people will become impatient, quarrelsome and aggressive at this time; At this time, hatred replaces love, alienation replaces gregarious, and antisocial and violent behavior replaces communication and harmony. At the same time, people will fall into an antisocial state and annoying individualism without realizing it. And those who want to have power can achieve their goals as long as they divide and control them. Those who have power also know very well how to use food as a weapon to change human behavior. Because this is the simplest way to achieve their goals, they do their best to encourage people to eat dead and toxic so-called delicious food, especially meat. Their real purpose is to control our minds, and they want us to become judgmental. In a word, vegetarians can gain high intelligence through food, while eating meat will make people depressed and less active. Meat will make us have behaviors that harm individuals and society, and reduce the level of serotonin in the blood. Eating every meal in protein, which contains a lot of meat, will reduce the tryptophan content in the brain, leading to people's tendency to be aggressive, anxious and aggressive; If we can eat more fruits and vegetables grown on land according to the vegetarian principle, our behavior will be more positive. Because the food we choose affects our behavior and mood.
This is what Dr. Rossi wants to express, and this sentence has also been confirmed by the experiments of biologists John Fernstrom and Richard Hurthman in the Department of Nutrition and Diet at MIT, that is, serotonin has the ability to promote drowsiness.
Some "nutritionists" who oppose vegetarianism (for various reasons, openly or unpublished) think that human aggression is not caused by protein, who eats meat, but that human nature is evil. This is an absurd claim, because no one is born aggressive or evil, but they can become so by eating meat. Luigi Lombardi Satriani, a well-known archaeologist, said that it was just an excuse to blame violence on nature, in order to escape our responsibility to society. Archaeologists have confirmed that no one is born a bad person, otherwise violence would have flooded the whole world. In fact, ethnic groups with completely non-violent culture still exist on the earth, for example, some African tribes, some tribes in the Indian region of northwest Brazil or some tribes in Piaroa Indian region of Venezuela have established a very harmonious society on the basis of mutual cooperation, and children have no track of aggression to follow in their growth. From children's games, they can see their peaceful lifestyle, because there are singing, dancing and love. They don't know what hatred is, and these people are all vegetarians. This is the best evidence that diet can affect personality.
We should not forget that meat eaters often boast of their self-proclaimed superiority by being able to eat meat luxuriously, because they believe that meat is a symbol of fierceness and a symbol that they belong to a strong class. But in order to eat meat, they must first use violence, kill animals and end their lives, so meat-eating behavior is equal to murder, and violence is inevitable. However, vegetarians have gained life and strength from Mother Earth, and they are in a firm, calm and serene state of mind and body after eating vegetables with lofty energy. Professor Carlo Sirtori, an outstanding clinical worker and scientist, clearly pointed out why eating meat makes human beings violent, because he found that the ratio of phosphorus and calcium in meat is 50:1,and phosphorus has greatly exceeded the actual needs of human body. Professor Stoli said that the low calcium concentration in the body will lead to irritable and violent human behavior, and some children will have convulsions. (Author: armand-Ilya Armando DElia, naturalist, chemist, vegetarian nutritionist, honorary chairman of the scientific committee of Italian vegetarian association) Translation: Lin Meiping.