The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

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death, unnaturally fattened on animal flesh so humans can fatten themselves
on dairy products and cow flesh. One would almost hope that for
their enormous sacrifice, the dairy cows would at least be supplying
humans with something beneficial. And yet the deeper justice is
inescapable: by killing them, we kill ourselves; by enslaving them, we
enslave ourselves; by sickening them, we sicken ourselves.
Mother cows, like all lactating mammals, produce high levels of
estrogen in their milk. It is not healthy for humans to take in this high
estrogen load at any age. One obvious result is that young girls’ bodies
are unnaturally pushed to become sexually mature at an early age. The
average age of menarche, of first menstruation, instead of being seventeen
as it was in the mid-nineteenth century, is now 12.5 years. 17 This
was made startlingly clear in Japan after World War II, where in the
space of just one or two generations after dairy products were introduced
there, the average age of menarche went from 15.2 to 12.5. 18
According to researcher Kerrie Saunders, “Both African villages and the
Chinese have retained many of their dietary traditions of eating plantbased
foods, and they both average an onset of female puberty at seventeen
years of age.” 19 The unnaturally early menarche in our culture
causes untold anguish, with unnecessary teen pregnancies, abortion
dilemmas and debates, and unnatural physical, psychological, and
social stress that is simply a result of pushing our girls into sexual maturity
too early, just as we do to the young cow slaves on the dairy.
Even as they eat milk products, instigating the rape, exploitation,
and death of other female animals, women may be viewed simultaneously
by men as meat, mere objects to be used. Ironically, just as cows are
forced to have unnaturally large and swollen mammary glands to overproduce
milk for the dairy industry, the resulting foods produce unnaturally
large mammary glands in the women who consume them—a feature
that is prized in our herding culture and further reinforces women’s
status as mere objects for the eyes of men. The interconnected dairy and
meat industries perpetuate the patriarchal herding mentality that sees
both animals and women as “meat,” to be milked and eaten in one case
and used sexually in the other.
There are other disasters linked with human consumption of cow’s