Slavery and Slaughter of Animals for Consumption

By Peter A.J. Holst MD PhD

From chickens, pigs, fish, rabbits and cattle to chimpanzees, animals are locked up for consumption.

Since the fifties of the 20th century, intensive breeding in livestock has increased sharply. An increase that keeps pace with the recent increase in cancer mortality and premature mortality.  Factory-produced and factory-prepared food has everything to do with it. 

Closure of slaughterhouses can be a solution. For many addicts to animal proteins and fats this is not a pleasant prospect. We would like to eat everything we like.

Besides agriculture, food can also be safely produced in the oceans. Changing eating habits from food which are highly processed with a lot of animal proteins and low in vegetable content to plant-based food from land and animal-based food from the Oceans, may be a more cost effective way towards health and well-being than developing additional drugs. Or .. would you prefer to eat your beef- fish-hamburgers, cold cuts, BBQ, battery layed eggs, meatballs and sausages and a future with more chronic diseases and cancer, regular screening of your “food baby” and many doctor visits.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter A.J. Holst MD PhD
• Release date: Sep 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386363200

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INTRODUCTION

The Netherlands is a dairy and meat land with over-production of calves, piglets, chicks, tropical birds, eggs, dairy products and meat etc. The poultry industry in the Netherlands consists of breeding farms, hatcheries, slaughterhouses and a large number of processing companies. Every year 40 million male chicks are already slain on the first day, because there is no place for them in the meat production. The Netherlands is number 2 in the world as regards the export of agricultural products. In 2016 it involved the record amount of over 88 billion euros. With 500 million cadavers a year, delivering 6.7 billion euros, we are also one of the largest slaughterhouses in the world. Calves mortality occurs relatively much in the Netherlands and is still increasing every year. The priority is too high in the cows. Only 30 percent of the calves become a milk cow. The rest is sold to veal calves companies and is a waste product. Especially the calves are worth less.

Our country claims to have the best care industry in the world. The government has this measured by patient satisfaction and financial investigations not to premature death before the age of sixty and number of chronic diseases in the elderly. Unfortunately, the Dutch do not have the best health.

Do you know, that the Netherlands has the highest lung cancer mortality in the world and that mortality from breast and prostate cancer is also very high compared to other countries? In 2012, cancer was the cause of 31% of all deaths in the Netherlands (Eurostat). According to the World Health Organization, the Netherlands has the lowest growth since 1980 in life expectancy at birth of a total of seventeen EU countries. As for the life expectancy we take 8th place in this ranking. The mortality rate among the elderly is remarkably high. In seventeen European countries, our country stands with cancer mortality in 13th place, a very low ranking, infant mortality during the first year in the 15th place.

Consumption of animal fats and proteins has increased sharply

Cardio-vascular disease, obesity and unrestrained growth of derailed cells, there are the result of. Fruits and vegetables are eaten too little. Complete plant food contains more antibodies and dietary fiber to protect us. Intensive breeding for profit of pigs, poultry, cattle and fish became the new business model mid 20th century.

Increase in cancer is, very recently, since mid 20th century

1  Oncogenic retroviruses as chicken and bovine leukemia viruses are now detected in our food chain with more refined laboratory research

2  Bovine leukemia virus was detected in breast cancer tissue

3  Consumption of red meat is related to colorectal cancer

4  Common bird flu infections with Chlamydia were found to be related to lung cancer and malignant lymphomas

5  In the last 50 years, our diet has become increasingly unnatural. Meat, milk and eggs in our diet contribute more to climate change in the world than the emissions of our fleet.

6  The rapidly growing meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all the traffic together

7  Fatter beef meat, chicken meat and pig meat contain more animal proteins and saturated animal fat and cause more welfare diseases like cerebrovascular disease, obesity and common cancers

8  Animal proteins in food accelerate our aging.

Two Australian general practitioners realized that mycobacteria (acid-fast organisms) survive the acidic environment of the stomach, which other pathogenic bacteria cannot. They discovered a major human pathogen, Helicobacter pylori, which is capable of causing severe inflammation of the stomach wall. Subsequently, these microbes were discovered to cause gastric carcinoma and malignant lymphomas. Helicobacter pylori not only infects the surface cells, which are about to be sloughed off, but some of the bacteria manage to invade deep into the glands and reach the stem cell compartment. They have now found that these stem cells do indeed respond to the infection by increasing their division, producing more cells and leading to the characteristic thickening of the mucosa observed in affected patients.

Animal viruses are commonly found in meat products and cause bowel cancer

In minced beef samples, three types of polyoma virus have been shown, which are resistant to BBQ temperatures and carcinogenic to their natural hosts. Especially the papilloma and polyoma viruses are resistant to medium-heated steak tartar, with the central parts of the meat not heated above 40-70 degrees Celsius. These viruses last for 30 minutes 80 degrees Celsius without losing their ability to cause infections. These viruses are also insufficiently inactivated in pasteurization of milk products.

Inhalation of pathogenic microbes causes lung cancer in humans

Bird keeping and bird breeding were proven to be a risk of lung cancer. During my PhD in 1987 I defended the thesis that malignant cell proliferation can be a result of persistent Chlamydia pneumonia infection (ornithosis) in basal lung mucous cells in bird breeders.

Increased mortality of multiple forms of cancer among workers in slaughterhouses and meat processing industry has been established. These workers are exposed to viruses that cause cancer in consumer animals and in overwhelming exposure, such as during meat processing, also cause cancer in humans. Pigeon fanciers and tropical bird breeders also have a very high  exposure to microbes, of which the Chlamydia are carcinogenic. For breeders, more lung cancer and premature mortality occur before the 60th year.

Only human is capable of birth control, both contraception and the breeding of animals. This process began in the beginnings of the twentieth century. Population explosion and the famine on earth have led to the breeding of animals solely for consumption. Genocide, accelerated extinction of species, and Ecocide, large environmental damage, is the consequence. This process is self-ending ............ and forces us to reconsider. In the past fifty years, our diet has become increasingly unnatural. More meat products and more refined sugar products cause more chronic diseases.

The expansion in the intensive monoculture livestock and poultry breeding threatens our health. More antibiotics are given to animals than to our patients. Multi resistant bacteria were the result. The pharmaceutical industry has taken full advantage. Patient care is likely to be prohibitively expensive.

Cancer has increased tremendously over the past century

In Germany the mortality for cancer was only 3,3% in 1900, and climbed to over 20% in 1970. Today about half of all men and one-third of all women develop cancer and about 20% of all deaths are due to cancer. This is an impressive increase and seems to demonstrate that the increase in cancer is only a recent biological event. Cancer is now the most common cause of death in Western Europe, more frequent than Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Cardiovascular diseases and Diabetes (IHD). While COPD and IHD death rates decrease by improved health services, death rates from cancer have increased.

The adherence to our western eating habits and addiction to animal proteins has not been so successful in other countries

In Japan and Korea, large scale beef and pork imports started after World War II or after the Korean War. A steep rise in colorectal cancer incidence was noted after 1970 in Japan and 1990 in Korea.

The introduction of methods of intensive farming in the Middle and Far  East was not successful. Water sources have been tapped to intensify farming. Hafiz al Assad, the father of the current Syrian president has wanted to encourage agriculture and livestock to bring his people more prosperity and food. Wells