By Gundhramns Hammer & Salvatore Scimino January 23, 2014
Modern man lives fast. People are no longer "normal" living beings. They have become teeth on a giant economic wheel.
As
a result, people do just about anything fast, from fucking fast, if
they can because they may be dysfunctional, to eating fast and, if they
are not careful with what they eat, they may die fast too.
These
fast people often say they have no time to cook at home. So when they
are on the run in the modern hunt, what do they eat? They eat fast
food.
Which also means millions of animalsdie at the slaughterhouses (Video
1) round the clock worldwide to manufacture fast foods to fill up the
bellies of these insane fast people. And consequently fast people´s food
habits put a lot of strain on the environment.
"At
this moment , the main problem with the oceans us that they are getting
emptier and emptier. If we don´t do anything, then we face one of the
biggest disaters in the history of mankind"
Nothing can be added to Don Winkel´s statement above. The message is clear and straightforward. It remains for each of us humans to do his or her part. And we must. For our part, soon we realised that without letting bloom our own biophilia in our own hearts, our empathy towards other species, we as a species might be doomed or are already on a collision course. So our next move was to become vegetarians a few decades ago. We are happy we did. We are healthier too. We
are fully aware that what we have done has not changed or will not
change anything unless you and the rest change at the same time. This is
the hard part. It
is common knowledge that religion and politics are delicate subjects
and that people have gone and still go to war because of this. So is what people eat. It is also a delicate matter. People
get upset if you tell them what they should or must eat. Unless they
see themselves cornered by disease, they will not change their food
habits. And
even then, they still tend to go their own way until the illness
catches up with them and finds them eating what they were not supposed
to eat or meant to eat. People generally have entrenched food and eating
habits learned in childhood at home. What we eat we learn to eat as
part of a social programming we all experience as children. As
we grow older these habits are reinforced by the media, the people
around us and the cultural soup we are immersed in, so we all end up
being robotised, not being able to question what we do. And what we do
we are taught to do. The irony of this is that it is good for the economy for the most part not to question what we do. We are not supposed to question what we are taught and have learned to do as a result of our own programming as biological robots. Even
scientists basically follow predictable routes in their questioning of
what they were trained to question in their quest for "the truth", for the "sake of humanity" or for their own pocket. After all science is done in a social milieu. So what are we left with? We are left with lot of overprogrammed people
around the world. People who are not willing to change anything in
their lives unless someone really strong comes along and shakes up their
own tree. Are
you one of these overprogrammed people or are you flexible and logical
enough to consider a change in food habits so that the oceans continue
flourishing with life? Or do you want to hand in an empty ocean to your future generations?
We hope your will regard the following matter (Video 1) as something very important for all of us living on Earth, be it human and nonhuman.
This matter is something we cannot and should not dismiss as unimportant and thus sweep it under the carpet.
What you will do next, it is entirely up to you, of course.
We hope that what you get to do is for the benefit of not only you but also the other species on the planet as well, for these are also YOU.
Sea the Truth is based on numerous scientific publications that
examine the problems of seas and oceans. Below follows an overview of the themes
addressed in the film and a brief explanation.
DEEP TROUBLE: WHALE
MORTALITY CAUSED BY OVERFISHING
According to a report of the New Zealand news
channel 3News sea mammals, among which whales, are dying of malnutrition. The
makers claim that this is caused by overfishing. Watch the report here: http://www.3news.co.nz/Deep-Trouble-/...
FISHING POLICY
AND QUOTA
Fishing policy around the world is destructive. Recommendations
from scientists on quotas are ignored by policy makers, wealthy countries
plunder the fishing territories of poor countries and bottom trawlers sow
destruction all over the seafloor with their dragnets. In Europe, 88% of fish
stocks have been overharvested, such as the blue fin tuna which sadly is
threatened with extinction.
EFFECTS OF FISHING ON MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
In
addition to the effect on the fish stocks, fishing also affects all other
organisms in the same habitat or ecosystem. Whether the fish being harvested are
predatory or prey, the balance of the ecosystem is disrupted and this can have
serious consequences. The degree of disruption strongly depends on the fishing
method employed.
BYCATCH
The term bycatch has come to be used to refer
to fish caught unintentionally when fishermen fish for commercial fish. These
kinds of fish are not interesting to sell and as a consequence they are thrown
back into the ocean either death or mutilated. The average bycatch worldwide is
about 40.4% of the total amount of fish being caught. This means that 3 kilos of
consumed fish brings about 2 kilos of bycatch. In total, 37 billion kilos of
fish per year is wasted bycatch.
FISH SUFFERING
People once thought
that fish could not feel anything when they are caught. This idea was probably
motivated because fish are cold blooded; this is in contrast with humans who are
warm blooded. However, the ability to feel pain does not have anything to do
with body temperature. From research studying the behavior of fish, as well as
the study of anatomy and physiology, it turns out that fish have feelings and
are in fact able to feel pain. This means that the current methods to catch and
kill fish are in truth a torture for fish, moreover captured fish die of
suffocation: a process that can take up to several minutes or hours.
THE
PLASTIC SOUP
Between Hawaii and San Francisco floats an enormous amount of
rubbish -- a plastic soup with a surface area of 8.6 million square kilometres.
To compare: This is 33 times greater than the surface area of the Netherlands
(41,528 km2). This plastic soup was 'discovered' by Charles Moore when he sailed
through this area with his boat and found himself surrounded day in day out by
plastic waste. He later returned with scientific equipment to determine the
soup's total size. The plastic soup is a huge threat to a number of marine
animals and mammals.
TOXINS IN FISH
We're told we should eat fish
twice a week as it is packed with nutrition. These healthy nutrients are however
easily obtained from other food sources, whereas fish may also contain large
amounts of toxins. Mercury and dioxins 'enjoy' the status of most researched
toxins in fish.
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Conclusion
This is Dos Winkel´s message:
"Ladies and gentlemen, what shall we do? Is there a solution? Yes, there is! We
just have to stop fishing and we have to stop eating fish. Remember,
your fork is your most powerful weapon and this is the only way. At
least that´s the way I look at it".
Nous sommes littéralement sur un saccage, une course folle pour terminer quelque nage
sur cette planète.
Nous sommes en train de piller les océans en ce
moment. Il n'y a pas un seul coin dans le monde épargnée par la main meurtrière
de l'homme sur les navires de pêche. Il s'agit d'une gauche de tuer et droite
jusqu'à ce que ne reste rien.
Dans le bassin du Congo, la chasse de subsistance traditionnelle est aujourd'hui
supplantée par une chasse commerciale hors-la-loi et exterminatrice, qui
transforme les sous-bois en charniers. Chaque année, environ un million de
tonnes de viande de brousse braconnée alimente les étals des marchés des grandes
villes de Douala, Yaoundé, Bangui et Brazzaville. D'ici moins de vingt ans, des
dizaines d'espèces animales devraient disparaître, et la famine gagner des
régions de plus en plus nombreuses. Parmi les pays les plus touchés par le
trafic de viande de brousse, le Cameroun occupe la première place. [YouTube]
July 7, 2012 was a historical date to remember as far as the issue of animal consciousness is concerned. A group of scientists gathered at Cambridge University to commemorate Francis Crick and his work made the famous Declaration on Coinsciousness.
They came to the conclusion and made the profound statement that animals have a consciousness much like we humans do.
And according to the best ecology experts, if we continue on the meat highway there is no hope for the human species.
More and more people in the so called "developing nations" are getting on a diet high in animal protein from industrial farms, which are basically animal concentration camps.
And as a result, more and more natural resources (cereals, grains, fish meal, water, etc.) are being pumped into these energy sucking farms to produce the meat that the new consumers are demanding and consequently straining and putting pressure on Earth´s ecosystems.
Meat eating - feeding on livestock - has too much impact, too much destructiveness, too much pressure on the environment: A "long shadow".
Soon, if we keep up the present rate of consumption, we will need the equivalent of at least 5 Earths to support this squandering life style.
It is obvious that the present system has got to go.
The only way out for the 7.000.000.000 humans living now on this planet with finite resources is to go vegan, according to these experts. We concur.
Here is the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness:
Nkayi and Ouesso: Site
contaminated with pesticides and
persistent organic pollutants in Congo
Association pour la Protection de L’Environnement
et de la
Promotion de L’Agriculture
Biologique
alpepab@yahoo.fr
Phone : 242 52 46 95/242
82 56 32
Congo
October 2005
SUMMARY
In Congo, various types of pesticides, including POPs have been used for 40 years. The bulk of these products have been used in agriculture at the time when cash crops (coffee and cocoa) and certain industrial crops (palm oil) were promoted; in forestry by companies specialised in reforestation and in health field by hygiene services to combat certain disease vectors. Although these products are banned, they are still used in the country. Indeed, works carried out within the framework of the GF/PRC14/02 project relating to activities on POPs in Congo have revealed that certain POPs such as heptachlor and chlordane are still smuggled in countries and are used under other appellations in Nkayi and Ouesso. Indeed, many agricultural and industrial activities (wood treatment, orchards, intensive maize and paddy cultivation, plantations of sugar cane, cotton, cassava and cement works) are led in these two cities. Besides POPs, agricultural activities led in these areas result in an intensive use of a various range of chemicals that are hazardous to human health and to the environment. To date, very little information about the impacts of pesticides and POPs used in the country are available, mainly in Nkayi and Ouesso.
Read the full article: Click HERE (In French: HERE).
