Hi Everyone, on Saturday May 24, 2008, I was watching live tornado coverage on CNN. Somebody was filming several tornados from a helicopter.  As I watched, one of them struck a pig farm, ripping the roofs off of several barns.  Here is a short description from news coverage:

One of two tornadoes near Lacey destroyed several buildings at Seaboard Foods Farm No. 62, a pig farm.

John Hardaway, production manager with Seaboard Foods, said the six of the farm’s eight barns were completely destroyed and the other two were heavily damaged.

Many smaller buildings and sheds, including a water storage building, were also destroyed.

Several employees were at the farm when the tornado hit, Hennessey Fire Chief Bert Gritz said.

“There were some employees that got in the office and they were hunkered down in the showers,” Gritz said. “It blew some windows out, but they are all OK.”

The farm houses 3,900 sows and their piglets, most of which escaped unharmed, Hardaway said. The barns fell down around them, but the animals were kept in crates that generally withstood the storm.

“The crates actually protected them somewhat,” Hardaway said. “The majority will actually be fine.”

There were some pig carcasses in the area. (probably the uncrated piglets-C)

SO, WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ABOVE? Today on CNN they showed film of inside one of those barns, and to my own horror I was reminded of the torture pigs go through before they arrive nicely cut up and packaged in the market place.  The sows lived because they are kept in a "crate" that keep these mothers of the little pigs from laying down and rolling on them, something that is very rare on old fashioned farms where the animals have sufficient room. The Mother pig knows better, and this only occurs accidently once in a while. It is only a problem when animals have inadequate moving space.

This film today was shocking, and CNN should be about, if they wish to claim themselves the best news agency on the planet, showing this in detail and explain the suffering of these animals. Would YOU like to be cramed for your entire short life in a cage where you could not lay down, turn over, and had to also either stand in your excrement  or stand on a grid through which the excrement flowed?

And now imagine dear ones, of having to say, live in an out house for your full life. This is what animals that are confined and caged do. They live in an outhouse. And then there is dealing with that excrement on the environment as a whole. I will be posting shortly on that.

It is time for those living in any country utilizing factory farming verses small family owned farms to discover the truth and rise up against it. This is NOT sustainable for the planet, as there is also great environmental damage.

We are an overpopulated planet, and we also consume an excess of animals for the various products they produce. Don't forget fur farms. Don't forget the slaughter houses which must employ humans. What a horrid way to earn a living!!!!!!!

I attempted early in my marriage to become vegetarian, meaning still using eggs and cheese, because our literature informed us the body could not live without animal products. That is very false for the most part. There are some people who can't produce adequate cortisone without some cholesterol in the diet, and for that reason, man was gifted with the chicken. But chickens are horribly abused also.

I stopped, because I didn't feel well on it, and the problem I know now, was the over consumption of dairy. My body stores the excess calcium and phosphate in dairy, and caused a goodly portion of my arthritis. MOST "old age" osteoarthritis is the result of consumption of excess dairy, and it worses as the kidney's become more inefficient with aging. My arthritis began while I was still a teenager.

I still need some cholesterol in my diet as part of my healing. I went off eggs for three weeks awhile back, and the fatigue built up from not quite enough Cortisols being manufactured by my body, so I went back on them. One a day. ONLY organic Free Range eggs. You can also buy slightly cheaper eggs from cage free chickens, but these don't necessarily get to walk around outside. Some chickens are only fed vegetarian food, but this is of  issue for me, as chickens eat bugs and should be allowed the natural bugs in their diet. But I am not able to locate a farmer close by to get eggs of this sort, and the time and gas would be in excess for the benefit.

Those of you who have read all my work might remember the arthritis material I covered with Arch Angel Rafael, (called Sky Doc in the messages).  I stopped the vegetarian attempt those many years ago because of lack of knowledge and lack of suitable products on the market. I liked soy, but it is very time consuming to make soy milk, tofu, and tempeh at home. These are abundantly available in the market place now.

I returned to vegetarian eating in fall of 2000. I "cold turkied" the meat and it was NOT that hard to do. I was already adding more soy to my diet, having used soy milk for sometime before then and stir frying with tofu and tempeh. MEAT IS NOT REQUIRED for MAN at all. Some dairy and eggs are useful and provide interesting eating. But for you star children who are bringing in new DNA, you may not be able to process very much dairy. See again the work with Raphael.

With my MS that I got from the swine flu vaccine, and other stresses on my system, my pituitary gland pooped our completely and I had to take replacement thyroid and cortisone therapy. My Sky Doc has rebult my pituitary and adrenal glands and I make my own now, but I still need some eggs, as outlined above.

Kosher meats are NOT a solution. The animals are tortured horribly because of Kosher law saying they may not be touched during processing. I watched a film that covered this, and I will find my notes sometime soon and place the film in the resource section. The animals were driven into chutes of some kind and into a spinning device and I never did see how they were actually killed after that process. They went into the chutes and spining machine LIVE and were horribly terrified. I actually didn't finish watching the whole film, because of the crying of the animals and what I watched. I left before it was over.

On CNN today, the sows were very large and heavy, and the rails of their "cage" pressed against their flesh. I saw no way for them to move around. Try standing constantly. I thought it would be difficult and possibly impossible for them to even lie down. This was disgusting and very disturbing to watch. It is time to show these things on TV. And it is time for each of you to research this, and give up the meat. Esu said through his beloved Sister Thedra, that man was not to consume meat, he is of a higher order.

And the reasons for that are not only that man is of a higher order and moved away from cave man, but the huge factory farming of animals is very harmful to the planet as a whole, and with that said, I will place several pieces today from one or more websites to illustrate the problems with factory farming of meat. Our overpopulated planet should be eating of the plants fed to animals, and we should also NOT be growing plants for fuels, as these solve NO problems, and the land should be used for food for man. 

Man must learn to live as part of nature. Nowhere does nature use factory farming. Man is very out of balance with nature on this planet and nature is going to bite us back where it hurts. No matter on the Pig farm two days ago. CNN is not going to cover this further, but all of you can call and write and request it!  The pigs will just be moved other places until the barns are rebuilt and business will be back to normal. But at least for a bit of time the "lid" was off those barns to peer inside.

Until recently, when eating out, I would sometimes have a bean burrito with green chili. Since NO restaurants I have been in have green chili without pork, I now have salsa on my burrito. And I order it with less cheese. I need to give up the cheese, because I don't know the source of it either. I know I am not getting organic pork in the chili. Organic meats are family farmed usually, but not always. But the organic label means the animals have been cared for decently at least. I also have to ask if animal fats are used in the beans before I order, because at least twice I have forgotten and then tasted bacon or pork fat in them.

People that do NOT know truth are not held responsible for their decisions, but once you know truth, you are. Read your labels, go to websites, find out about the animals. Buy organic cheese if possible. One decent cheese that is not organic yet is Tillamook. Go to the website. This is a co-op diary group. The cows live outdoors during nice weather and graze normally weather permitting. If antibiotics are needed, the milk may not be sold until antibiotic free. 

 These are NOT factory dairy farms. So I will buy it, being more available here in the Denver Metro area than organic, and actually its tastes better than the organic cheese available here. I only use small quantities to season some foods I still enjoy, since I am sensitive to the phosphates in dairy.

Please, if you must eat meat, which is a mental thing, (as is my cheese use) and not a body requirement, buy organic and cut back the quantity. Experiment with other ways to eat. I have two wonderful large vegetarian cookbooks that have recipes from around the world, including from many countries which use little meat and have marvelous food.

Your body makes MOST of the protein you require. There are 8 amino acids it doesn't manufacture, but these are all generously availabe in plant foods. Meat contains all 8, where only a few plant foods contain all 8. Soy is one of those. But you don't need all 8 at the same time in any one meal. Any time you mixed legumes (dried beans) and any grain, you will get all 8 in the same meal or recipe. Bean Burritos anyone? How about meat free chili with corn bread?

 Lots of middle east recipes mix beans (often garbanzo) with rice or flat breads. It is NOT hard to find all the 8 amino acids in plant food.  Nuts have some of them also. All SEEDS have some of them. Mixing of seeds will often produce all 8 in the same recipe. Grains, nuts, and beans are seeds. Then there are sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and the like. Use many different kinds of seeds to a nice mix of not only amino acids, but everything else your body needs.

All plants offer at least some protein. Fruits have protein. Greens have protein. You would be amazed how much protein is in lettuce!!!!! It is easy to get a very high protein meal in a salad with nuts, maybe a bit of cheese on it, and several other veggies mixed in. Today I will make a slaw with brocolli, red cabbage, some apples, carrots, and whatever else I find in the fridge. Because of the many colors it will be very nutrious, and it will have a decent amount of protein just from the mixing of the various vegetables. Maybe I will add some sunflower seeds or sesame seeds to it.

SEEDS beloveds, have everthing in them needed to start a new baby plant. Think on that!!!!! Very nutricious. Stop eating those poor mistreated pigs and the other mistreated animals. Ok, enough, need to post this before I am kicked off the server!  Take care, Candace

PS, I am adding this wiki link which has some pic's and further description of hog farming. Not one more bite of pork, ever for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_pig_farming