The Herbivore Awareness Project

offers critical information to the public that is immediately actionable and transformative at the individual and group level.

We welcome and appreciate your interest and participation.

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Humans are HERBIVORE by natural (ecological) design.

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(see 'The Comparative Anatomy of Eating' chart below)

"When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores." William C. Roberts, M.D., editor, American Journal of Cardiology

Man's separation from his own nature, introduced at birth and supported through lifelong orchestrated deceptions, enabled and continues to enable an anti-nature disinformation culture of regimented elitism and genocide ((1,2,3) implemented by an increasingly technologically sophisticated global military (1, 2, 3)/police state (1, 2, 3) with totalitarian control of all social (1, 2, 3) and material resources).

(In an attempt to expose some of the basic dynamics, relationships and conditions of human society, we link to a number of other sites. These sites though do not necessarily reflect our fundamental thesis or concerns. For example, we do not believe in UFOs (generated in part by advances in holography under top secret development by the UK and US Air Forces for the past several decades) nor do we fear the "coming 'One World Order'..." centered on the UN. Instead, we attempt to reveal the OLD WORLD ORDER (1,2,3,4) which continues to be extremely violent and deceitful in pursuit of its doctrinaire and imperialistic policies that are fundamentally anti-nature.)

What do these things have in common? ** 'Wars' (like the genocides ongoing in Iraq, Afghanistan & Africa (1, 2, 3))   ** Environmentally insensitive behavior (1, 2) (like dumping pesticides and clear-cutting and burning forests)   ** Animal abuse ( e.g. raising them for slaughter or torturing them in 'research' facilities)   ** Child abuse (1, 2, 3, 4)   ** Obesity and nutritional deprivation including starvation   ** Heart disease and cancer   ** Social and economic exclusivity (1, 2, 3) and elitism

How can we make a difference?

Answer: They are endemic to meat-eating (dominator) cultures.

Answer: Catalyze understanding.

"As long as there are slaughter houses there will be battle fields." Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy More Famous Quotes

 

 

¹( An introduction to logical historical discovery

 

Yet on the other side of unnatural indoctrination exists the potential for natural connection, what we call Ecostacy. Once you discover Ecostacy, you will not only feel great, you will be closer to expressing your unique potential and the natural truth upon which all life depends. (The Ecostacy sound is dedicated to you and all the other beings who share this miraculous biosphere with you. We hope you enjoy the connection. songs can be downloaded and/or streamed on iTunes, Amazon and Rhapsody. and CDs may also be purchased at Cafepress (click on CD titles below to go to Cafepress.)) 16 original songs on 2 CDs On the Shore of Miracles & Many Selves

 

Re-open THE DOOR to THE GARDEN

By ecological design, humans are herbivores.

This simple realization restores peace, health, community and spiritual communion. It is our staff and our guide. Without this understanding, we are adrift.

With it, our rightful place is fulfilled; we are restored.

 

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The Natural Human Diet

According to biologists and anthropologists who study our anatomy and our evolutionary history, humans are herbivores who are not well suited to eating meat.

Unlike natural carnivores, we are physically and psychologically unable to rip animals limb from limb and eat and digest their raw flesh. Even cooked meat is likely to cause human beings, but not natural carnivores, to suffer from food poisoning, heart disease, and other ailments.

People who pride themselves on being part of the human hunter tradition should take a second look at the story of human evolution. Prehistoric evidence indicates that humans developed hunting skills relatively recently and that most of our short, meat-eating past was spent scavenging and eating almost anything in order to survive; even then, meat was a tiny part of our caloric intake.

Humans lack both the physical characteristics of carnivores and the instinct that drives them to kill animals and devour their raw carcasses. Ask yourself: When you see dead animals on the side of the road, are you tempted to stop for a snack? Does the sight of a dead bird make you salivate? Do you daydream about killing cows with your bare hands and eating them raw? If you answered "no" to all of these questions, congratulations, you're a normal human herbivore, like it or not. Humans were simply not designed to eat meat.

The above discussion was copied from http://www.goveg.com/naturalhumandiet.asp

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For thousands of years, the connection between humans who murder other animals (or otherwise violate their right of natural experience and expression) and humans that behave violently towards members of their own specie has been understood.

But it is the prevention of this understanding (taught from early childhood primarily through denial) which creates the 'response insulation' (emotional and intellectual disconnection and consequent immaturity) that enables human violence to manifest; and determines that nearly all individual and institutional behavior will be based on deception and denial... Understanding Violence

 

 

 Comparative Anatomy of Eating by Milton Mills, MD.

Facial Muscles CARNIVORE: Reduced to allow wide mouth gape HERBIVORE: Well-developed OMNIVORE: Reduced HUMAN: Well-developed Jaw Type CARNIVORE: Angle not expanded HERBIVORE: Expanded angle OMNIVORE: Angle not expanded HUMAN: Expanded angle Jaw Joint Location CARNIVORE: On same plane as molar teeth HERBIVORE: Above the plane of the molars OMNIVORE: On same plane as molar teeth HUMAN: Above the plane of the molars Jaw Motion CARNIVORE: Shearing; minimal side-to-side motion HERBIVORE: No shear; good side-to-side, front-to-back OMNIVORE: Shearing; minimal side-to-side HUMAN: No shear; good side-to-side, front-to-back Major Jaw Muscles CARNIVORE: Temporalis HERBIVORE: Masseter and pterygoids OMNIVORE: Temporalis HUMAN: Masseter and pterygoids Mouth Opening vs. Head Size CARNIVORE: Large HERBIVORE: Small OMNIVORE: Large HUMAN: Small Teeth: Incisors CARNIVORE: Short and pointed HERBIVORE: Broad, flattened and spade shaped OMNIVORE: Short and pointed HUMAN: Broad, flattened and spade shaped Teeth: Canines CARNIVORE: Long, sharp and curved HERBIVORE: Dull and short or long (for defense), or none OMNIVORE: Long, sharp and curved HUMAN: Short and blunted Teeth: Molars CARNIVORE: Sharp, jagged and blade shaped HERBIVORE: Flattened with cusps vs complex surface OMNIVORE: Sharp blades and/or flattened HUMAN: Flattened with nodular cusps

Chewing CARNIVORE: None; swallows food whole HERBIVORE: Extensive chewing necessary OMNIVORE: Swallows food whole and/or simple crushing HUMAN: Extensive chewing necessary Saliva CARNIVORE: No digestive enzymes HERBIVORE: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes OMNIVORE: No digestive enzymes HUMAN: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes Stomach Type CARNIVORE: Simple HERBIVORE: Simple or multiple chambers OMNIVORE: Simple HUMAN: Simple Stomach Acidity CARNIVORE: Less than or equal to pH 1 with food in stomach HERBIVORE: pH 4 to 5 with food in stomach OMNIVORE: Less than or equal to pH 1 with food in stomach HUMAN: pH 4 to 5 with food in stomach Stomach Capacity CARNIVORE: 60% to 70% of total volume of digestive tract HERBIVORE: Less than 30% of total volume of digestive tract OMNIVORE: 60% to 70% of total volume of digestive tract HUMAN: 21% to 27% of total volume of digestive tract Length of Small Intestine CARNIVORE: 3 to 6 times body length HERBIVORE: 10 to more than 12 times body length OMNIVORE: 4 to 6 times body length HUMAN: 10 to 11 times body length Colon CARNIVORE: Simple, short and smooth HERBIVORE: Long, complex; may be sacculated OMNIVORE: Simple, short and smooth HUMAN: Long, sacculated Liver CARNIVORE: Can detoxify vitamin A HERBIVORE: Cannot detoxify vitamin A OMNIVORE: Can detoxify vitamin A HUMAN: Cannot detoxify vitamin A Kidney CARNIVORE: Extremely concentrated urine HERBIVORE: Moderately concentrated urine OMNIVORE: Extremely concentrated urine HUMAN: Moderately concentrated urine Nails CARNIVORE: Sharp claws HERBIVORE: Flattened nails or blunt hooves OMNIVORE: Sharp claws HUMAN: Flattened nails

"ONCE they were a byword for mindless docility. But cows have a complex mental life in which they bear grudges, nurture friendships and become excited by intellectual challenges, researchers have found. Cows are capable of strong emotions such as pain, fear and even anxiety about the future. But... , they can also feel great happiness. The findings have emerged from studies of farm animals that have found similar traits in pigs, goats and chickens. They suggest such animals may be so emotionally similar to humans that welfare laws need to be reconsidered." (VegNews.org)

  

Learn more about the sentience of all creatures: http://www.sentientbeings.org/

"Our complex global economy is built upon millions of small, private acts of psychological surrender, the willingness of people to acquiesce in playing their assigned parts as cogs in the great social machine that encompasses all other machines. They must shape themselves to the prefabricated identities that make efficient coordination possible... that capacity for self-enslavement must be broken." (Theodore Roszak - The Voice Of The Earth)

“Inflicting irreversible damage on the biosphere might seem to be the most obvious kind of craziness. But when we turn to the psychiatric literature of the modern Western world, we find no such category as ecological madness.”

“Psychotherapists have exhaustively analyzed every form of dysfunctional family and social relations, but "dysfunctional environmental relations" does not exist even as a concept."

 

Theodore Roszak

 

As long as we are reared within a cultural paradigm that denies our natural and ecological being (that of a human herbivore) and prevents healthy environmental interactions; we will continue to be emotionally, intellectually and spiritually retarded in all our capabilities, expressions and perceptions.

Cows feel just as we do. They are our companions by natural design, not our meal. But in our raving lunacy, look at the earthly experience we mete out to them: