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The Herbivore Awareness Project
offers critical information to the public that is immediately actionable and transformative at the individual and group level.
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ALL Humans are HERBIVORES by natural (ecological) design.
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WATCH VIDEO---> 
(see 'The Comparative Anatomy of Eating' chart below)
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"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
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"We are not predatory by nature, but we've been taught that we are, in the most potent way possible: we've been raised from birth to eat like predators. We've thus been initiated into a predatory culture and been forced to see ourselves at the deepest levels as predators. Farming animals is simply a refined and perverse form of predation in which the animals are confined before being attacked and killed. It doesn't stop with animals, however. As we all know in our bones, there is a predatory quality to our economic system, and competition underlies all our institutions. We prey upon each other."
From The World Peace Diet
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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 a technologically sophisticated global military (1, 2, 3)/police state (1, 2, 3) with totalitarian control of social (1, 2, 3) and material resources).
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(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 secret development by UK and US Air Forces) 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 outrageously violent and deceitful in pursuit of its doctrinaire and imperialistic policies that are fundamentally anti-nature.)
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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 (1,2) including starvation
** Heart disease and cancer
** Social and economic exclusivity (1, 2, 3) and elitism
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How can we make a difference?
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Answer:
They are endemic to meat-eating (dominator) cultures.
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Catalyze understanding.
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"As long as there are slaughter houses
there will be battle fields."
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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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 species 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 most individual and institutional behavior will be based upon deception and denial...
 Understanding Violence
image credit: Frank and Mary Hoffman Family Foundation
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.
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
Comparative Anatomy of Eating by Milton Mills, MD.
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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
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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
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 "Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles frugivorous animals in every thing, and carnivorous in nothing; he has neither claws wherewith to seize his prey, nor distinct and pointed teeth to tear the living fibre."
COWS FEEL JUST AS WE DO!
But, in our raving lunacy, look at the completely unnatural and unjustifiable experiences we mete out to them:
Modern Meat: A Brutal Harvest
'They Die Piece by Piece'
PASCO, Wash.--It takes 25 minutes to turn a live steer into steak at the modern slaughterhouse where Ramon Moreno works. For 20 years, his post was "second-legger," a job that entails cutting hocks off carcasses as they whirl past at a rate of 309 an hour.
The cattle were supposed to be dead before they got to Moreno. But too often they weren't.
"They blink. They make noises," he said softly. "The head moves, the eyes are wide and looking around...
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excerpted from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A60798-2001Apr9
(click on URL to read complete article in which the live skinning of innocent creatures is discussed as a too common occurrence.)
 "If the use of animal food be, in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and the barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice that they may drag out a short and miserable existence of slavery and disease, that their bodies may be mutilated, their social feelings outraged. It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"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)
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""One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them."
Martin Luther King, Jr
(A source for many great quotes: http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/Quotes.php)
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AN END TO WAR AND GENOCIDE: It truly is in YOUR Hands!
One summer day in 1985, I looked into the eyes of two cows and the beings staring back at me were none other than myself! And right there and then, a lifelong quest came to an end which was to understand the genesis of war and violence in human society... For in that moment, these two cows revealed; "What you do to me, you do to yourself for we are one."
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." Tolstoy
It was my 'Eureka!' moment. And I immediately realized, "If what these cows have just 'spoken' to me is true, then it should be possible to prove that the violence we commit against them is immediately destructive to us in all ways including; medically, ecologically, and even economically." I was not free to do anything with this insight. So, I promised myself that if I survived and was able to return to the US, I would find a way to prove these things. But I expressed this certainty aloud to the one who controlled my every waking and sleep-deprived moment.
I did return over a year later but it would still be sometime before I could begin my investigations as I had been psychologically and physically impacted by years of torture and also had been financially ruined. Those who had cooperated with the SS operation to disenfranchise me included close family members, former 'business' associates and even people I had once considered somewhat friends.
Additionally, I feared for the fate of my children and for a year after returning, was unsuccessful in obtaining contact information for them. So, while I carried a great gift from the two cows which I desired to share with all, I was still under enormous pressure lest those who had conspired to set me up, have me drugged and ultimately destroy me, be alerted to orchestrate a final attack...
To this day, I enjoy the contempt of so many who have never met me. I have learned that this is what is called gang-stalking and it is a sophisticated and highly coordinated police action managed by the secret services which involves community members and private businesses (InfraGard). The main weapon is slander and all sorts of false accusations are compiled and then hurled by supposedly credible sources.
So the task is not easy. But, I did turn my attention to the research I had promised myself to do and then I discovered that John Robbins had already written a book, "Diet for a New America." I was so ecstatic when I read it. I thought we were almost home. But, I still had not fully comprehended the totalitarian nature of the elite corporate state nor its determination to maintain power and control by continuous outpourings of disinformation, acts of false flag terrorism (both large and small) and genocidal programs... so facts got spun, pseudo scientists got air time and responsible researchers and community activists were characterized as flakes (and sometimes much worse) while the spin doctors were decorated with responsible sounding titles...
But what the cows told me is true. "What you do to me, you do to yourself."
You see life is something we share. It is not that killing is wrong, it is that killing is wrong when it is wrong... because each of us is ecologically determined. Some creatures, such as lions, are co-evolved to obtain sustenance (in part or in whole) from ingesting animal matter and others are ecological herbivores and thus co-evolved to obtain sustenance from plants alone. So, in the matter of killing, it is clear that natural hunters (such as lions) will also be gifted with specialized abilities that assist in determining; who, when, where and of course, how many. Humans obviously lack the design faculties for killing as well as the natural hunter instincts.
In the highly developed ecosystems in which humans evolved, most large animals were herbivores. And, the fact that they were herbivores allowed those ecosystems to sustain them often in amazingly great numbers. And each of course participated in maintaining the balance and vitality of the whole.
Furthermore, the evidence is overwhelming and comprehensive that humans who eat meat are not only not contributing to their own vitality and that of the whole, they are the major factor in de-vitalizing the earth's biosphere.
Life is indeed an expression of astounding intricacy, intelligence and conscious intention.
If we participate in the grand natural expression, we have enormous power. On the other hand, if we annihilate the greater part, can we really continue to hold onto the belief that the greater part does not include us?
We can continue to tear ourselves asunder with our "dichotomized worldview" and deceitful, destructive and elitist control policies or, we can understand our ecological placement and live according to the Natural Law that insures the greater good and the fullest possible expression and experiences for all of Life's members.
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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.
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"Should ever a physician be born with the genius of Locke, I am persuaded that he might trace all bodily and mental derangements to our unnatural habits, as clearly as that philosopher has traced all knowledge to sensation."
"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)
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“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.”
Theodore Roszak
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Human: Isn't evolution 'survival of the fittest'?
Dr Beetle: No, evolution is 'survival of the wildest'...
... Therefore, the doom and gloom being reasoned out of evolution by biologists today is wrong. In truth, evolution produces harmony, diversity and beauty in nature, not a few selfish victors. Survival of the fittest implies it is strong to be a fit competitor to the exclusion of others. But to be wild, it is more important to have good instincts, and to be open enough to sense the information coursing through your world.
Get the complete Wildness FAQ:
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The Evolution of Humankind
is an idea to which we do not subscribe.
But, the DEVOLUTION of humankind is a process in which we are all participating. And, it is occurring at such a rapid pace that it is likely that this devolution will eradicate the largely unconscious remnants of our species in a relatively short time... my guess is that the last humans will succumb to ecological destructions of their species' own doing in less than ten decades.
It is our belief that all animals, including human animals, are much more vital (alert, intelligent, aware, conscious) when allowed to fully participate in the types of experiences and environments for which (and in which) they uniquely evolved.
Today, few to no humans have an experiential or physical environment that can engender maximum vitality. Given that this is true, and given that human awareness is limited by this obvious fact, and human behaviors increasingly exemplify a collective loss of ecological understanding...
...our species is soundly embarked upon a course of extinction which continues to include the eradication of many other species, the necessary co-elements/participants of natural human habitats/ecospheres.
The Superhuman
is an absurd idea born of a deranged mind in an alienated (from ecological realities) culture. Frankly, it is impossible not to be somewhat deranged if one has been reared within, and continues to live within, an anti-nature/dominator culture.
But, let's consider how one should achieve ones potential. Consider the turtle... how would you school a turtle in becoming all that he could be? Would you put him in a cage and surround him with toys from Petco? Would that help him live his life most fully?
What about a horse?
Would his intellect, capabilities and life experiences be enriched by many boring hours spent in a crowded barn, locked in a tiny stall? And then taken for a ride by a creature that knows nothing of his internal signals... such as with whom to associate, when to run, what to eat, when to contemplate, when to rest?
None of us will be fully realized until our faculties are allowed to develop within a natural crucible, which would include parents, possibly siblings, and appropriately nurturing and supportive (rather than oppressive) community. But also, awareness of other creatures, their thoughts, feelings, and requirements for wellness. And, the land itself, the manner in which it is ever renewing itself... the interplay of the manifold forces that contribute to each and every natural and vital moment.
Personal Achievement
Is more a myth than a natural fact. It is a goal that has little real sense in nature.
Rather, achievement in nature is complimentary and the finest state of achievement is one of immersion and awareness of the state of being of others, even all others ... rather than an isolated sense of personal value or personal accomplishment.
When we are able to enter that blessed state of natural connection that enables our natural selves to awaken, we do not feel so much personally accomplished as naturally realized/blessed... and quite ecstatically alive/happy.
And for this experience, we were all born about as perfect as we could ever hope to be.
Yet, we are descendants of a temple society that is based upon the notion of 'right to rule' or the supremacy of one class or race and ultimately of one ruler (Pharaoh, King, President, Pope, General, Chief) over all others.
The geometric model for this society (the very same in which we live today) is the pyramid. At the top is the supreme ruler, at the bottom are the slaves or 'unwashed masses' and in the middle are those who have managed to raise themselves from the depths of despair by offering services valued by those in power. The middle is where we find privileged architects, engineers, military officers, policemen and women, and school teachers who help perpetuate the myth of the naturalness of this absolutely unnatural social (dis) order.
But the geometric model for a natural society, one based upon natural requirements for the health of its members and the eco-sphere in which it is participating, is certainly NOT pyramidal. Instead, such a model would depict a complex of complimentary elements with each accorded a more realistic representation of its natural interdependencies.
In our pyramid society, we need the idea of competition to 'choose' the best, the one who 'should' (will be given the right to) ascend over all others. In our natural society, the idea of diversity is understood to be the very marrow of an exciting and stimulating experience for all... so, the many faces of Adam and Eve create the perfection... one is not sufficient... many aspects are needed to flush out all possibilities and entice interest from the entire community.
One of these aspects is you. And it is perfect when it expresses naturally.
Take the first step, recognize your rightful place. You are a human herbivore. Express this truth and come to know the perfectly defined you and the place (biosphere) once amply enabled to engender your perfectly wonderful life's expression.
The How-to for Achieving the Perfect You in the Perfect Life
was scripted in Nature long before you were born.
Humans Are Herbivores!
Live It! Love It!
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The Proof - Humans Are Herbivores
