Commentary on Veganism and Vegans with Health as the Primary Focus.

April 10, 2022

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General Vegan Health Resources:

The vegan health resources I have found most helpful are John Rose, Loren Lockman, Markus Rothkranz, Andrew Perlot, Michael Arnstein, Buddy "The Coconut Boy", and Dr. Robert Morse. As always, listen to your body.

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There is no one vegan diet just as there is on one carnivore or omnivore diet. Some people in some circumstances might have to eat some animals to survive if they do not have access to high quality tree ripened fruits and certain plant foods. This does not mean that humans could not thrive without eating animals if they lived closer to the equator and quality plant foods. The further one lives away from the equator and the natural tropical habitat for humans, the more compromises must be made and the more most people need to try to simulate their natural habitat by wearing more clothes and taking saunas.

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Healthy Vegans. Long-Term. Some Since Birth. Reversed "Uncurable" Diseases without Eating Animals:

The World Speaks Up For Markus Rothkranz - Powerful Life Changing Testimonials - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaF0oIAT3NU

Markus Rothkranz
YES My Hair is Real - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e22XPTWnSJQ

Michael Arnstein, My Move to Hawaii & Planting Fruit Trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irjr1OjCkRQ

Tree Bicycle, Coconut Climbing - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl4r3DBqrIo

The INVINCIBLE Coconut Boy - Raw Since Birth | Short Documentary - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpFNMVBItGw

Shredded on Coconuts - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__tjhJJOOzdJ6VjrmHEfjg

Anette Larkins is a black woman who has eaten raw vegan foods only for over 30 years.
Can You Guess Her Age? -- Raw Vegan Diet Is Woman's Fountain of Youth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6oJA_xhTa8

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Advice for Vegans with Health Issues:

Epic Markus video: Why Some Vegans Aren't Doing Well - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k92vBO-qaHU

Why do some raw foodists not look so great - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_xfWp0K0Q

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Sugar and fruit are not all bad and actually can benefit one's health.:

Even the "CarnivoreMD" himself Paul Saladino now recommends eating high sugar fruit for carbohydrates.:

Paul Saladino
The benefits of consuming fruit as a primary carb source - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFcL025tVuw

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Ancestral Diet and the Christian history of Veganism:

The true "ancestral diet" is raw vegan mostly fruitarian, not carnivore or omnivore as most supposedly "ancestral diet" promoters claim. Look up how God created humans to eat certain plants only and fruits mostly in the beginning as recorded in the Bible. It was not until after the Flood of Noah that God allowed humans to also eat animals to survive since the Flood wiped out the fruit trees and shifted the Earth's climate colder causing less available surface area warm enough to grow fruit trees. The Earth's climate has been returning to a warmer climate since the Flood. Humans and fruit trees were made for each other.

Michael Arnstein, My Move to Hawaii & Planting Fruit Trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irjr1OjCkRQ

Tree Bicycle, Coconut Climbing - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl4r3DBqrIo

The INVINCIBLE Coconut Boy - Raw Since Birth | Short Documentary - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpFNMVBItGw

Shredded on Coconuts - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__tjhJJOOzdJ6VjrmHEfjg

So humans were designed to cultivate fruits to keep them high in sugar and fat as they used to be before the Flood of Noah wiped them out. Humans have been cultivating high sugar and fat fruit for thousands of years with some examples of grape juice, wine, and olive oil as recorded in the Bible, paintings, and other ancient records and artifacts. Recent cultivations are merely restoring more fruit to their former high sugar and fat content.

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More Christian History of Ancestral Veganism and the Corruption and Restoration of Creation. Part 2:

The Bible seems to be talking about the spiritual aspects of eating animals not health effects. The Bible also says God originally created people to eat certain plants and only after the flood of Noah were we allowed to eat animals too. Then God restricted which animals we were allowed to eat when He gave Moses the law and commandments. It wasn't until after Jesus ascended that God told Peter and the other apostles that we were once again allowed to eat all animals without sinning against God.
The Bible also says some God fearing people abstained from animal foods at some times in their lives. Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Hebrew names Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah) refused to eat the Babylonian king's meat and ate only plant foods for 10 days after which they were judged to have a healthier appearance than their peers. People who took the Nazarite Vow, of whom Samson was the most notable example, seemed to also abstain from meat since they vowed not to touch a dead carcass during their vow.
The Bible also says all people and animals will no longer eat animals or people when Jesus returns and restores the Earth.
So yes, we are spiritually allowed to eat meat, but health wise we might not benefit from it and God did not design humans to eat animals originally nor will He allow it once He returns again.

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More Christian History of Ancestral Veganism and the Corruption and Restoration of Creation. Part 3:

In the beginning, the world was without sin and suffering and God told humans and animals to eat certain plants only. God placed the first two humans, Adam and Eve, into the Garden of Eden. In the garden, there were many plants, but the most relevant plants were the Tree of Life (ToL) and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (ToKoGaE). God said humans would die if they ate from the ToKoGaE but that humans would live forever if they did not disobey God, by eating from the ToKoGaE, and if they ate from the ToL.
Adam and Eve sinned the first human sin by disobeying God and eating from the ToKoGaE. This original sin and fall from innocence caused the rest of creation to be cursed and to also fall causing suffering to first begin on Earth and in creation.

The ground was cursed causing edible plants to not be as readily available without increased labor from man to produce it.
God banished humans from the Garden of Eden and the ToL.

For hundreds of years, humans still ate only certain plants, but they began sacrificing animals to God as payment for their sins.
These sacrifices of animals were actually precursors to the true sacrifice for sins that would come later in the form of Jesus Christ.

Due to rampant violence and corruption across the Earth, God flooded the Earth with water while sparing Noah's family and some animals.
After the flood, God allowed people to eat all animals for unspecified reasons. One theory is that the flood destroyed most of the readily available edible plants and shifted the climate of the Earth from warm to cold causing a significant reduction in available warm land area to grow these plants in.

Later, God told Moses to restrict the animals we were allowed to eat without sinning against God.
Still later, Jesus came, died on the cross to pay for our sins, rose from the grave and defeated death, and ascended to heaven to prepare a place for us.

After Jesus ascended to heaven, God told Peter and the Apostles that humans were now allowed to once again eat all animals without sinning against God.

The Bible says that Jesus will return to restore the Earth from it's cursed and fallen state and will no longer allow humans and animals to eat animals and humans.

So God allows humans to eat animals for survival in this fallen world without sinning against God, but God also did not design humans to eat animals.
So health wise, humans are supposed to eat certain plants only, but humans might also need to eat animals if there are not enough readily available plants to live healthily.

God said humans can be saved from hell and go to heaven if we acknowledge and confess our sins to God, repent of our sins, and ask God to forgive of us of our sins by putting our faith in the blood sacrifice of Jesus as being sufficient to pay our debt of sins to God.

If we accept Jesus as our savior and Lord of our lives, souls, hearts, minds, and spirits, then God will accept Jesus' sacrifice for payment of our sins and declare us as forgiven and innocent again.

Once we die and/or Jesus returns, we will live with God and no longer live in this suffering world.
Jesus will stop all suffering on Earth when He returns to restore this world.

Therefore, reincarnation does not exist in the way that these other spiritual vegans seem to believe it does.
All humans are condemned to die once as wages for our sins. After death, all humans will be judged by God for their sins and either spend eternity with God in heaven or in the restored Earth or they will spend eternity in hell separated from God.

In the meantime, while humans live in the fallen world today, we are allowed to eat all animals without sinning against God, but we can also try to eat only plants that God designed us to do and reduce the suffering of animals out of compassion and love.

While I hope that you will someday no longer have to eat animal products, if you have to eat animal products to survive that is not sinning against God.
Just keep carefully listening to how your body reacts to certain foods.

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Regenerative Environmental/Agriculture Better than Grass-fed animals while minimizing Slaughtering Animals Unnecessarily:

We can do better than grass-fed animal foods for the environment by implementing permaculture food forests instead even in the desert without slaughtering animals.

Farming the Desert - How To Turn The Desert Green - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfblLpKKM1Q

In Senegal, a master of permaculture grows a lush oasis in the desert - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYMIbLoxW8U

How To: From Grassland To A Permaculture Food Forest Paradise. With Ian Trew in Noosa, Australia. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2tUc1ymuIE

Natural sequence farming: How Peter Andrews rejuvenates drought-struck land | Australian Story - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OBcRHX1Bc

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Myth of Regenerative Agriculture Using Grass-Fed Animals:

Dr. Tushar Mehta

The Myth of Regenerative Grazing - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtDkEAaK5aw

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Veganism is not a White or Western Only Diet.:

Black vegans:

The Surprisingly Black History of Veganism - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquWUNiwzVo

In-depth: Why Black Americans are the fastest-growing vegan demographic in the country - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzg3hJYoivQ

MILTON MILLS – Traditional African Diet vs Today’s Plate of Plantation Food - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghofJpkGaYM

SCAVENGERS or HERBIVORES? Human Diet Explained - Dr. Milton Mills - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2_Q1NY8nU

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The Possibility of Animals Understanding the Possibility of Life and Death as Well as Experiencing Emotions and Suffering.:

Some people say animals have no awareness of death or emotions or suffering and that they just basically have reflexes only. They say this justifies slaughtering animals and not considering their well being.

They say animals can not communicate with us anyway so humans probably just project their own ideas of emotions onto animals. Some people say the animals may have agreed to be here for food and want to be killed.

My response is the folowing:

Um, I think the running away, screaming, kicking clawing, etc. might be a hint that most animals do not want to die. Communication is not all spoken or written language only. Even if the animals wanted to be eaten, it might be better to just be safe and let them live just on the off chance they want to live.
Tell you what. Set-up a slaughter spot in front of the animals, slaughter one animal in plain view of the other animals, then any animals who want to be slaughtered should come skipping for joy to the slaughter spot so they can be slaughtered next. Slaughter the eager and willing ones and leave the others alone. Problem solved.