Confederation and meat consumption

[Jade]

It's really hard to shed light on things that are kept in darkness. Hence why a lot of spiritual catalyst seems "dark" on the surface. There are so many misconceptions in this thread - like the idea that picking a bean is the same as eating a lizard. EXCEPT, that picking a bean doesn't kill the host plant, and plants have evolved to have "fruits" so that animal species, those who have legs and can move, can help them move their DNA to further places. It is a purely symbiotic relationship. There are really basic understandings of biology that seem to be lost on people, which is just another symptom of how far we have removed ourselves from participating in the natural order of things.

I'm also tired of whatever fallacy it is that says that because there are things we can't control (like toilet paper - btw I've been looking into reusable!), that we shouldn't care about things that are within our control. You're right, it's not likely I can go without buying toilet paper. I CAN go without buying eggs or lunch meat or other butchered parts of animals. We all have to do what we can! For now I buy only recycled toilet paper and I often go out of my way to do so. But to me, it's at least better than the alternative, which is buying toilet paper that has had a tree cut down to produce it.

Anyway, this study was published two days ago, which I find to be an astounding coincidence: Bacteria in milk and beef linked to rheumatoid arthritis

A team of UCF College of Medicine researchers has discovered a link between rheumatoid arthritis and Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, known as MAP, a bacteria found in about half the cows in the United States. The bacteria can be spread to humans through the consumption of infected milk, beef and produce fertilized by cow manure.

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Naser had previously discovered a connection between MAP and Crohn's disease and is involved in the first ever phase III-FDA approved clinical trial to treat Crohn's patients with antibiotics. Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis share the same genetic predispositions and both are often treated using the same types of immunosuppressive drugs. Those similarities led the team to investigate whether MAP could also be linked to rheumatoid arthritis.

"Here you have two inflammatory diseases, one affects the intestine and the other affects the joints, and both share the same genetic defect and treated with the same drugs. Do they have a common trigger? That was the question we raised and set out to investigate," Naser said.

For the study, Bég recruited 100 of her patients who volunteered clinical samples for testing. Seventy-eight percent of the patients with rheumatoid arthritis were found to have a mutation in the PTPN2/22 gene, the same genetic mutation found in Crohn's patients, and 40 percent of that number tested positive for MAP.

"We believe that individuals born with this genetic mutation and who are later exposed to MAP through consuming contaminated milk or meat from infected cattle are at a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis," Naser said.

About 1.3 million adults in the U.S. have rheumatoid arthritis -- an autoimmune and inflammatory disease that causes the immune system to attack a person's joints, muscles, bones and organs. Patients suffer from pain and deformities mostly in the hands and feet. It can occur at any age but the most common onset is between 40 and 60 years old and is three times more prevalent in women.

So, it would appear that it's not necessarily the preservatives, but a bacteria produced by cows in their flesh/dairy excretions that caused Carla's allergies, which resulted in her rheumatism, which is discussed quite extensively in the Ra material. Or maybe it was the bacteria that caused it and the preservatives triggered it throughout her life? I don't know, like I said, just found it to be an amazing coincidence.