The Supplement Myth!

I have seen a proliferation of potions, powders, pills and liquid magic supplements adorning wall to wall in healthfood shops and now chemist/pharmacy shops (who are getting in on the act). In Australia this is a multi billion dollar profitable business, yet the people who buy this rubbish still continue to take these supplements and yet are they benefitting from these doses? Vitamin and mineral supplements are robbed of their nutrients by the process they are treated with to get them into the bottles/packets. If you go back to why are you taking these magic bullets, you might get to the root of your problems! If you are consuming processed foods or eating a bad diet, swallowing supplements is NOT going to solve your issue. Processed foods is devoid of natural nutrients, so you should be eating as much as possible natural organic produce, which has the nutrients that you need. Much of the supplements are synthesised with with toxic chemicals such as magnesium stearate or stearic acid, silicon dioxide, metylcellulose, carnauba wax, titanium dioxide and many more concoctions in a laboratory setting under high heat and under centrifugal forces. These vitamins can stimulate a cell's metabolism, but it can not upgrade or replace the cell's component with the superior, 'better' element. Our bodies are NOT chemical factories, the body knows the difference of 'bad denatured' supplements, so many of the fancy supplements like the water-soluble vitamins, are flushed out of the body easily. The fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K tend to build up in the body's fat tissues, fat deposits, liver etc. This will cause potentially serious toxic side-effects over a period of time, so its better to eat a more natural organic plant-based diet. Prior to 1990 nobody took vitamin E now millions of people are popping down daily doses. Yet there is NO evidence that vitamin E is an antioxidant, but can cause neurological problems. You cannot reproduce the health benefits of an organic plant-based diet by taking supplements. In order to obtain optimal health, you must maintain a form of holistic healthy physical, mental and emotional living. Reduce stress, exercise daily, sleep well and eat a rich diet of fruit and vegetables, eliminate ALL animal products. Using supplements, potions, powders etc is a waste of dollars, there is no magic bullet, many supplements acts as a false support for your body. So why not spend less on 'potions' and spend the same on good natural fruits and vegetables. Nutritional supplements such as vitamin B is made from petrochemicals! If the label states vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B3 (niacin), vitamin B5 (calcium pantothenate) you can be sure this 'junk' nutri-supplements are toxic. So when you next grab effervescent vitamin C, high-dose vitamin E, cranberry capsules, green tea extract, bee vomit, or some other antioxidant pill proven evidence over the past years has shown at best antioxidants supplements do little or nothing to benefit our health.
refs new scientist issue 2563 page 40-43 '06, earthsave '06, seattle times '07

honey (bee vomit)

As an ethical vegan, over the years I have come across many raw fooders and have read in numerous raw food books example Fabulous Living Food Recipes by Paul Benhaim who promotes the use of honey and bee pollen in their recipes. What is natural about stealing bee's food, bit like stealing cow's milk which is for the calf? These 'psuedo' raw foodies are having themselves on. Firstly some facts on honey. Honey (bee vomit) is produced by bees, bees are insects and therefore are animals. HONEY IS NOT VEGAN. Has that sunk in raw foodies who use honey products? There no such thing as 'organic' honey, since when do bees fly to organic flowers and plants and other bees fly to non-organic flowers and plants? Organic honey is a furfy. Queen bees are artifically inseminated with sperm obtained from decapitated bees. The queen bees are slaughtered every two years because over a period of time their egg producing abilities decline (in her natural lifespan she produces half a million eggs, however, as she lives for two years in the factory farm hives she produces 150,000 eggs). So then the hive becomes unproductive and uneconomic. When the human bee stealers smokes the hive and remove the combs many bees are crushed and killed, many lose their legs and wings. The clipping of the queen bees prevent them from swarming (flying off). Bees are also victims of vivisection and in Australia trials are being undertaken to produce a 'stingless' bee for easier handling. Other experiments are conducted in research and development (Macquarie University is one) into colonies that will produce more honey thus making more money. Bees left in their natural environment have 40,000 to 60,000 bees in the swarm and can survive up to 20 years and fly about 800km in their life. In the factory farmed hives the bees live a much lesser life the queen bee up to 2 years! Bee Pollen is the food source for bees yet human steal the pollen from the bees for their own greed. Royal Jelly is the sole source of nourishment for the queen bee, again the human steals this for their own vanity. Venom (sting of the bee) is collected by putting an electrically charge membrane across the entrance to the hive, so when the bees fly into the factory farm hives they receive an electric shock and sting the membrane, thus depositing the venom. This is collected by the bee stealers which is used in 'pseudo' medicine industry. Propolis is a resinous substance produced by the bees to fill the holes, varnish and strengthen the hive, bees also use it as a natural antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal agent, again is stolen by the human bee stealers for medicine and food supplement. If after you have read this and you feel good about eating bee vomit, don't tell yourself you are a vegan/rawfoodie. Alternatives maple syrup, concentrated fruit juices, molasses, golden syrup, stevia, rice syrup, xylitol-plums and dates.

vegan society nsw promoting tortured and dead non-humans

I read on the Vegan Society NSW restaurant page they are promoting Ocean Thai 309 Clovelly Road this place has on its menu liquid meat (cow's milk) and bees vomit (honey). The Vegan Society NSW are again celebrating an evening at Harvest (Rozelle), this place caters for flexitarians and now it seems flexivegans. The people who organise these vegan dinners appear to be ignorant, dumb or just blatantly stupid about eating in places that caters for people who enjoy dining on misery, tortured and then slaughtered animals. Do these flexivegans really think (which I doubt) they are helping the millions of animals who are slaughtered, when they spend their money propping up such places as Harvest. This place should be avoided like the plague, why not dine in and support vegan restaurants? What is so ethical about Harvest? Cheese, cow's milk, organic dead corpse and the by-products of tortured and slaughterd animals. Are you telling me organic cheese is ethical? or organic eggs are ethical? The free-range eggs crush all the male chicks in a huge mincer for chicken stock cubes, and then slaughter the hens when they are no longer laying vegetarian. The organic free-range egg, chicken, pig, sheep, cow and fish, I suppose the ignorant ovo, lacto, pollo flexitarian think these non-human animals are 'humanely' slaughtered? Or the rennet free cheese is more ethical? I have been told by some vegans (are they really ethical?) that "do not upset everyone or you will not get your message across, because everyone has their own opinion, and we should respect that compromising vegetarian?" Or the weak jelly (gelatin free?) vegan who tell me "we don't want to offend anybody, it's really their choice to be flexitarian?"
Something else that I have been saying for years about Peter Singer, many vegetarians who think this person is the "father" of the animal movement. This is one big wank. Donald Watson "father" of the vegan movement who mooted these issues long before Singer walked this planet. Singer promotes what "tortured meat is most humane to eat", whether one should eat 'farmed fish or free ranged (wild ones)' or promotes how to be a 'conscientious carnivore' make sure the animals you consume are not from factory farms and are 'humanely' slaughtered. Come on you animal lovers and "pseudo" flexitarian liberationist, get a real grip on yourselves. This Singer is nonsense. He is a sychophant for the Meat and Live Slaughter. Just because he has a few letters after his name and writes bull dust books, the "pseudo" animal liberationist think the sun shines out from this person rear appendage and go ga ga. If you mute 'animal liberationist' don't know or have not read the rubbish Singer has uttered. In all the years I have heard this person he has not uttered once that veganism is the way to go. I think this quote sums up Singer's ignorance. "If we substitute humans for animals in Singer's reasoning the inherent speciesism of his viewpoint becomes clear. Would we argue that fewer beatings and a longer chain would make slavery acceptable or ethical? Not any more than we should contemplate 'kindly' cutting the throat of an innocent animal to feed our face." To all who love non-animals look at the bigger picture. To think anything less is to put your finger on the trigger of the captive bolt pistol.
Go vegan the animals don;t need your excuses.

my thanks to Patty Mark Animal Liberation (Victoria) the only animal abolitionist group in Australia that actively promotes the abolition of animals are property in their mission statement. my thanks to Coral Hull and Fiona Rees, again who actively promote veganism and the rights of all animals both human and non-human.