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What Are Some of the Detrimental Effects of a
Vegetarian Diet?
Q:
You find that you feel it is healthier for people to eat meat than to go on a
vegetarian diet? RK:
Well, Jesus, or I should say Christ, used to eat at feasts and partake of all
of the foods that were given and that seems to have been the example that he
was giving, whatever he might have said or somebody said that he said about
what kinds of foods to eat. The example he gave was partaking of the feasts
as everybody else did. Eating of the lamb or the goat or whatever it was that
was being provided. He even drank wine, which he made quite a few comments
about. You know, some people complained about him being a wine dibber, and
other people complained about John the Baptist not drinking wine and so he
kind of inquired: what do you want? How can anybody win? So, … many people
would say, I suppose, in as much as Christ drank wine at the festivals and
sacramental times, that everybody should drink wine all the time to the point
of getting drunk. I don’t think that that’s a good argument because it
doesn’t seem that there’s any records of him getting drunk. So, what should
we follow? His example, or what some people translated or think some of the
people who talked about him said he wanted to do. Q:
Have you seen any actual reports of studies comparing vegetarians to meat
eaters that actually show meat eaters are healthier? Because I have seen
innumerable studies that prove from actual observation there’s no doubt that
meat eaters are more unhealthy. For example, breast cancer is well over a
doubled rate amongst meat eaters; colon cancer, which is the third most
common cancer, is virtually unheard of amongst vegetarians and many other
things. RK:
The problem with that is that people do not eat a balanced diet. In many
places it’s meat and potatoes, meat and potatoes. That was my father’s idea
and I know how prevalent that is, and salad was rabbit food and vegetables
had no taste. Of course he smoked cigarettes and of course vegetables didn’t
have any taste unless he doused them with a lot of pepper. So, it didn’t have
much appeal to him. People who are into that sort of thing can take as long
as three weeks from the time they ingest something to the time that it passes
out. That’s the kind of thing that can cause cancer. It’s just an
accumulation of poisons. I would say that a person should have at least three
quarters of the things that they eat being of vegetable or fruit origin and
only one quarter meat. Then, you have to eat so much vegetable stuff in order
to get the basic amount of minerals and vitamins that you would need that
unless you’re a ditch digger or a farmer who doesn’t believe in using mechanisms
on his farm, you’re not going to be able to work off the calories that are
involved. Q:
Is this something the Brotherhoods taught you or is this your? RK:
This is what I was asked to do and to teach people to do. But I have, not to be
rude—I mean I’ve known vegetarians —I find many of them do not have the kind
of physical strength necessary to carry out a full day’s work. I even tried
vegetarianism one time because I read a yoga book and it seemed to imply that
I would be likelier to become more spiritual if I did not eat so much meat.
As a matter of fact it recommended that I cut out all meat and things of
vegetable origin like butter and milk and things of that sort. I was eating
continuously it seemed like, but I kept losing weight more and more and
finally when I was down to one-hundred and twenty pounds I figured this
wasn’t good for my health so I decided to go back to normal eating. Got back
to normal, I would say, in about two years. So, at least for me it doesn’t
work and most of the people I’ve known who’ve tried vegetarianism just kind
of waste away so far as their muscles are concerned. But there’s also other
difficulties too as far as being able to have proper transmission of
electrical impulses along the nervous system. That is dependent somewhat on
the choline that comes in through primarily meat products. Choline is the
principle neurotransmitter of the system. We have had a number of people here
who have tried macrobiotic type things. Aside from the physical wasting, a kind
of a change in personality came about as well. They be came so passive that
they really did not seem to have any drive to accomplish anything, to have
ambition to go out and fire up and get something done. And, I guess they got
very spiritual, or some people said “spacey”, but I think spiritual is what
they were looking for, and it seemed about the only way to get them back to
normal again was to go back to a conventional diet. I have heard that people
who have survived over the many, many generations in the Middle East, for
instance, or, when I said Middle East I really meant the middle of Asia,
which is like India, those people have, or at least the survivors over the
many generations, have actually developed an ability to do without meat and,
indeed, have managed to continue life fairly effectively on a strictly
meatless diet. People in western areas of Europe, and, from which most of the
descendants in the But, people in Q:
Would you agree, then, that the most violent people have, race-wise, always have been the heaviest meat-eating
cultures? RK:
I agree one-hundred percent. Q:
Some tribes, for example, who have developed the highest spiritually have
always been vegetarians, such as the Essenes in the Middle East, the Hopis,
who are the only vegetarian American Indians which were considered the
spiritual leaders, and, as you spoke of, in RK:
Well, the person who is adept at clairvoyance soon begins to understand that
this spiritual ability is really a spiritual takeover by other entities on
the other side, where they give strange ideas, diminish self-determination, a
willingness to surrender, to go with the flow, to do whatever they are told
to do and indeed do not know how to resist after awhile because the spirit
entities who influence them really dominate them quite thoroughly. They just
do not have the drive to raise themselves up out of that kind of spiritual
domination by nether entities. Literally whole continents have been dominated
by Black Mentalists in the past because they just do not have the spiritual
resistance to be self rather than being told and constantly encouraged
subliminally by the telepathic hypnosis that such spirit entities use to give
up their will, to surrender to “God” to obey. The meat eaters are kind of a
feisty bunch and they do give themselves a hard time and they have not yet
learned to practice the kind of moderation and consideration for other people
which, I think, an awareness of karma can help people to modify by saying,
well, okay, if I introduce something which is hurtful to another then the
same kind of hurt precisely is going to come back to me. I think that is the
kind of knowledge which people have lacked in western Europe. Indeed, Western Europeans
have been the ones who have constantly gone in and been the conquerors, the
dictators, the colonialists, the ones who, have just to the great
consternation of peaceful peoples all over the world come in and just
enslaved them either economically, or politically, or worse. So, I am
inclined to suspect the best thing to do is not to give up
self-determination, but to learn how to balance it, to understand from the
wisdom that has been carried out by the people of the East and by the
Brotherhoods that whatever you introduce is going to come back to you and if
you think there is something that might hurt you, just do not start it with
somebody else. That is the kind of restraining thing I think that is
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