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

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when it is introduced into the stomach. The juicy steak which lovers
of flesh smack their lips over is saturated with salty urea, which in
the stomach calls for liquid. Physiologists say that this juice in the
steak is the urine of the animal arrested on its way to the kidneys. In
eating this mess man not only makes his system a sewer for the corrupting
animal flesh, but he also puts into his stomach an irritant
that demands a cooling solvent at once.
With this constant fever of rotting flesh in the stomach calling
for a cooling draught, it is marvelous that any escape drunkenness.
Blot out flesh eating and men will soon become temperate without
the enactment of a single law. No one who eats the food that Nature
prepared will have any desire for strong drink, not even tea or coffee.
Then the sure cure for the drink habit is to stop eating meat and
all animal products. This includes butter and eggs. Cereals, vegetables,
nuts and oils have all the elements necessary to the body’s sustenance.
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In addition to the physiological connection Fillmore describes
between eating animal foods and craving strong drink, there are several
other possible links that could be explored and discussed more broadly
in our culture’s battle against the horrendous effects of addiction to
drugs and alcohol. There are the rather obvious psychological connections
that were discussed earlier. Our herding culture is by its very
nature abusive to its children, forcing them to disconnect from whom
they’re eating and to distance themselves from their natural feelings of
empathy. This abuse, with its attendant hardening and disconnectedness,
must certainly be a powerful contributing factor to substance
abuse and to other pathologies as well. The drugs, hormones, artificial
colors, preservatives, and toxic chemicals contained in animal foods
may contribute to alcohol and drug addiction, as well as the fact that
animal foods are filled with the vibrations of grief, misery, hopelessness,
and despair—vibrations that would tend to push sensitive people who
eat them into substance abuse and addiction. And, since we inevitably
reap what we sow in others, we will unavoidably find ourselves reaping
the consequences of our misguided “research” experiments on animals,