Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Livestock Agriculture is Just a Small Contributor in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Lying vegan propagandists and militant animal-rights activists are spreading lies about global livestock agriculture being a major cause of global Greenhouse Gases, but they are not able to show any evidence, they just keep repeatedly making empty false claims.

The truth is world's biggest Greenhouse Gas producers are electricity and heat production, manufacturing industry, consumerism and transportation! Greenhouse Gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributing about 78% of the total Greenhouse Gas emission increase from 1970 to 2011.

The information below came from US Environmental Protection Agency website:
https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html#four

Total GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions from the entire crop and livestock agriculture in the world account for only 10% of the total global GHG emissions.

High percentage of the global GHG emissions, about 3/4, are carbon dioxide, not methane. Greenhouse Gas emissions from agriculture consist of non-CO2 gases, specifically methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Crop and livestock agriculture has only a tiny direct carbon dioxide emission ratio, crop and livestock agriculture produces mostly methane in its GHG emissions.

Crop agriculture produces as much GHG and methane as livestock agriculture does. Rice cultivation alone contributes 10%, synthetic fertilizers contribute 13%, burning savana contributes 5%, crop residues contribute 4%, cultivation of organic soil for vegetables contributes 3% of the total global GHG emissions by agriculture sector.

These are four major Greenhouse Gases:

Carbon dioxide (CO2) contributes 76% of the total Greenhouse Gas emission globally. Fossil fuel use is the primary source of CO2. Agriculture doesn't contribute much to global CO2 emission. Both Crop agriculture and livestock agriculture may help remove CO2 from the environment.

Methane (CH4) contributes 16% of the total Greenhouse Gas emission globally. Agricultural activities, waste management, energy use, and biomass burning all contribute to CH4 emissions.

Nitrous oxide (N2O) contributes 6% of the total Greenhouse Gas emission globally. Agricultural activities, such as fertilizer use, are the primary source of N2O emissions. Biomass burning also generates N2O.

Fluorinated gases (F-gases) contributes 2% of the total Greenhouse Gas emission globally. Industrial processes, refrigeration, and the use of a variety of consumer products contribute to emissions of F-gases.

2010 Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector

Electricity and Heat Production 25%
The burning of coal, natural gas, and oil for electricity and heat is the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Industry 21%
Greenhouse Gas emissions from industry primarily involve fossil fuels burned on-site at facilities for energy. This sector also includes emissions from chemical, metallurgical, and mineral transformation processes not associated with energy consumption and emissions from waste management activities. (Note: Emissions from industrial electricity use are excluded and are instead covered in the Electricity and Heat Production sector.)

Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use 24%
Only less than half of these Greenhouse Gas emissions come from agriculture (cultivation of crops and livestock). This estimate does not include the CO2 that ecosystems remove from the atmosphere by removing carbon in biomass, dead organic matter and soils, which offset approximately 20% of emissions from this sector.

Transportation 14%
Greenhouse Gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine transportation. Almost all (95%) of the world's transportation energy comes from petroleum-based fuels, largely gasoline and diesel.

Residential & Commercial Buildings 6%
Greenhouse Gas emissions from this sector arise from on-site energy generation and burning fuels for heat in buildings or cooking in homes. (Note: Emissions from electricity use in buildings are excluded and are instead covered in the Electricity and Heat Production sector.)

Other Energy 10%
This source of Greenhouse Gas emissions refers to all emissions from the energy sector which are not directly associated with electricity or heat production, such as fuel extraction, refining, processing, and transportation.


People, beware, don't fall for the lies by those lying vegan trolls/shills, go to the US Environmental Protection Agency website, linked below, and read up on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, you can find the above real information and a lot more there.


The information below came from United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO)

In 2011: 

Enteric fermentation from livestock contributes about 4% of total global Greenhouse Gas emissions, or 40% of total global emissions from agriculture. GHG emissions from enteric fermentation consist of methane (CH4) produced in digestive systems of ruminants and to a lesser extent of non-ruminants. Estimates include emissions by cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, camels, llamas, horses, mules, asses and swine. The GHG issue in enteric fermentation can easily be solved, there are natural safe methods to reduce enteric fermentation, more researches are underway.

Livestock manure management contributes about 0.7% of total global Greenhouse Gas emissions, or 7% of total global emissions from agriculture. Greenhouse Gas emissions from agricultural soils consist of methane and nitrous oxide produced in the following sub-sectors: synthetic fertilizers, manure applied to soils, manure  left on pasture, crop residues, cultivation of organic soils and synthetic fertilizers. GHG problem in manure management can easily be solved if serious attention if given on it.

Rice cultivation contributes about 1% of total global Greenhouse gas emissions, or 10% of global agriculture GHG emissions. GHG emissions from rice cultivation consist of methane (CH4) produced from the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter in paddy field. There is not any good solution to water paddy rice cultivation, the only way is GMO rice but who wants to eat Frankenstein rice?

Synthetic fertilizers contributes about 1.4% of total global GHG emissions, or 14% of total emissions from agriculture. GHG emissions from synthetic fertilizers consist of nitrous oxide from synthetic  nitrogen added to managed soils.

Manure applied to soils as fertilizer contributes about 0.4% of total global GHG emissions, or about 4% of total emissions from agriculture. GHG emissions from manure applied to soils consist of nitrous oxide (N2O) produced from nitrogen additions. Estimates of emissions include manure from cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, camels, llamas, horses, mules, asses, ducks, turkeys, chickens and swine.

Manure left on pasture was about 1.5% of total global GHG emissions, or 15% of total GHG emissions from agriculture. GHG emissions from manure left on pasture consist of nitrous oxide (N2O) produced from nitrogen additions to managed soils from grazing livestock. Estimates include emissions  by cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, camels, llamas, horses, mules, asses, ducks, turkeys, chickens and swine.

Crop Residue was about 0.4% of total global GHG emissions, or 4% of total GHG emissions from agriculture. GHG emissions from crop residues consist of direct and indirect nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from nitrogen in crop residues and forage/pasture renewal left on agricultural  fields by farmers. Specifically, N 2 O is produced by microbial processes of nitrification and  de-nitrification taking place on the deposition site (direct emissions), and after volatilization/ re-deposition and leaching processes (indirect emissions). Emissions of crop residues were dominated by rice and wheat, both contributing 27%, followed by maize (21%) and soybeans (10%).

Cultivation of organic soils was about 0.3% of total global Greenhouse gas emissions, or 3% of total emissions from agriculture. GHG emissions from cultivation of organic soils are those associated with nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from the drainage of cropland and grassland histosols (peatlands). Emissions from cultivation of organic soils in agriculture originate for three-fourths in cropland areas.

Burning of savanna was about 0.5% of total global Greenhouse gas emissions, or 5% of total emissions from agriculture. Greenhouse gas emissions from burning of savanna consist of methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous  oxide (N 2 O) produced from the burning of vegetation biomass in the following five land cover  types:  savanna, woody savanna, open shrubland, closed shrubland  and grassland. Emissions from burning of savanna were dominated by savanna (39%) and woody savanna  (35%), followed by open shrubland and grassland (14% and 9%, respectively). Africa was by far the largest emitter (70%), followed by Oceania (19%) and the Americas.

Burning of crop residues was about 0.05% of total global Greenhouse gas emissions, or 0.5% of total emissions from agriculture. Greenhouse gas emissions from burning crop residues consist of methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N2O) produced by the combustion of crop residues burnt in agricultural fields. Emissions from burning of crop residues were dominated by maize, contributing 45%, followed by wheat and rice (26% and 25%), respectively.

A must read for anyone really wants to know the truth, a very well written detailed report on agriculture in relation to GHG by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO): Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Emissions by Sources and Removals by Sinks, 1990-2011 Analysis

This report discusses new knowledge on anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) activities.






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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Causes of Mental Disorders in Vegans

Some vegans' cholesterol level is too low

If your cholesterol is too low — that is below about 4.42 mmol/L (170 mg/dL) your risk of mood disorders, depression, stroke, and violence is increased. During trials to lower levels of cholesterol in the blood, it became obvious that there was a tendency towards more suicides and violent deaths in the treatment groups.

In 1991 Canadian investigators examined this trend. Adjusting for age and sex, they found that those whose cholesterol was below 4.27 were 6 times more likely to attempt suicide that those with cholesterol above 5.77.

This was confirmed by a study conducted at the Psychiatric Clinic, Charles University of Prague. Patients in this study who had attempted a violent suicide had significantly lower cholesterol levels than patients with non-violent attempts and the control subjects. The authors say 'Our findings . . . are consistent with the theory that low levels of cholesterol are associated with increased tendency for impulsive behavior and aggression and contribute to a more violent pattern of suicidal behavior.' They conclude 'These data indicate that low serum total cholesterol level is associated with an increased risk of suicide.'


Vegan diet tends to have too much carb

There have been many studies of the effects of these different meal patterns and different foods. Some tested and measured subjective things such as fatigue, vigor, anger, hostility, confusion, anxiety and depression. In all of these tests, those who ate carbohydrate-based meals reported worse scores in all classes except anxiety, where there was no difference. In other, objective tests of alertness, auditory and visual reaction times, and vigilance, carbohydrate eaters again came off worse.

Vegan diet tends to have too much polyunsaturated fat

Polyunsaturated vegetable oils could also add to the risk of suicide as a 2006 study found that people with a high intake of polyunsaturated vegetable oils were more likely to commit suicide!

Many studies examining the effects of polyunsaturated fatty acid levels on suicide and violence reported finding evidence of 'a striking correlation' between the greater consumption of Polyunsaturated vegetable oils over the period 1961 to 2000 and the growing number of homicides in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and Argentina.

Infants and children feed on vegan diet tend to have lower weight which leads to higher suicide rate in later life.

A team from the Medical Research Council, led by Professor David Barker traced suicide rates in 15,500 Hertfordshire men and women whose birth records are available since 1911. They found that men and women who committed suicide had low rates of weight gain in infancy. And that too could be caused by a carbohydrate-rich, nutrient-poor diet, which the common vegan diet is one.

85% of vegans suffer from vitamin B12 deficiency

Vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to vitamin B12 deficiency anemia and neurological dysfunction. A mild deficiency may not cause any discernible symptoms, but as the deficiency becomes more significant symptoms of anemia may result, such as weakness, fatigue, light-headedness, rapid heartbeat, rapid breathing and pale color to the skin. It may also cause easy bruising or bleeding, including bleeding gums. GI side effects including sore tongue, stomach upset, weight loss, and diarrhea or constipation.

If the deficiency is not corrected, nerve cell damage can result. If this happens, vitamin B12 deficiency may result in tingling or numbness to the fingers and toes, difficulty walking, mood changes, depression, memory loss, disorientation and, in severe cases, dementia.

Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause severe and irreversible damage, especially to the brain and nervous system. These symptoms of neuronal damage may not reverse after correction of hematological abnormalities, and the chance of complete reversal decreases with the length of time the neurological symptoms have been present.

Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause symptoms of mania and psychosis, fatigue, memory impairment, irritability, depression, ataxia, and personality changes.

Vitamin B12 is not found in plants, but it's naturally found in animal based foods, including fish and shellfish, red meat (especially liver), poultry, eggs, milk, and milk products.

Vegan diet lacks a nutrient for one of the most important and most abundant, if not the most, friendly gut bacteria called Lactobacillus

Vegans might ingest some Lactobacillus in low-acid fermented foods, but not much is found on them, furthermore the bacteria require milk lactose but vegan diet doesn't include any dairy.

Lactobacillus Acidophilus (acid-loving milk-bacterium), also called probiotics, is a kind of bacteria feeds on a milk sugar called lactose. Milk contains high amount of lactose, this is one of the reasons humans are naturally designed to consume dairy products.

The consumption of a probiotic-containing milk products improved the mood of those whose mood was depressed.

Vegans have higher arsenic level

Produce is major source of arsenic in foods consumed by humans. Vegans' body arsenic level is higher than normal people who eat meat and fish, because large percentage of the vegan diet is produce which is rich in arsenic.

Produce farms use less municipal water supply because they depend more on rain. Most produce farms choose locations where rain water is abundant to keep cost down. The overall water usage by produce farms is far greater than animal farms and ranches. Because produce farms depend more on rain than municipal water, the safety quality of rain water is not reliable due to uncontrollable levels of arsenic, heavy metal, industrial pollution, etc.

Meat-eaters get less arsenic in their diet than vegans and vegetarians, that's because meat-eaters eat less plant based foods, while vegans and vegetarians eat more of them.

Vegans ingest more arsenic than lacto-ovo-vegetarians because their vegan diet has higher percentage of plants. One of the reason most vegans and vegetarians are psychotic is because they have too much arsenic in them, even 10% higher than lacto-ovo-vegetarians and 20% higher than meat-eaters is too much. The official arsenic toxicity level should be set at same level as meat-eaters'.

There are lots more, these are only some of the causes of mental disorders in vegans and strict vegetarians.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Today's Vegan Movement was Started by Adolf Hitler!

Vegans are psychopaths. Today's vegan movement was started by Adolf Hitler! Today's vegans brainwashed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi propaganda. Adolf Hitler is the founder of today's vegan/vegetarian movement and militant animal rights activism.

PETA's philosophy and militant actions are based on Hitler's psychopathic philosophy and militant actions. He was the first politically powerful person in history to promote animal rights and stop eating meat.

In his 1938 autobiography, Mein Kampf, he describes how, when food was scarce, he would share his meager meals with mice. Hitler had a particular fondness for ravens, wolves and dogs. He abhorred hunting and horse-racing and referred to them as "the last remnants of a dead feudal world."

Adolf Hitler was often distressed by images of animal cruelty and suffering. Hitler also disapproved of cosmetics since they contained animal by-products. Today's vegans are acting like Adolf Hitler who often told people not to eat meat. At social events he sometimes gave graphic accounts of the slaughter of animals in an effort to make his dinner guests shun meat. As an animal rights activist,
Hitler followed his selective meatless diet out of a profound concern for animals.

In a 1937 article, The New York Times noted "It is well known that Hitler is a vegetarian and does not drink or smoke". (New York Times Article: 'At Home with the Fuhrer.' 30 May 1937. Otto D. Tolschuss (1937). "Where Hitler Dreams and Plans" - New York Times, 30 May 1937)

In November 1938, an article for the English magazine Homes & Gardens describing Hitler's mountain home, The Berghof, stated that in addition to being a non-drinker and a non-smoker, Hitler was also a vegetarian. Article wrote, "A life-long vegetarian at table, Hitler's kitchen plots are both varied and heavy in produce. Even in his meatless diet Hitler is something of a gourmet — as Sir John Simon and Anthony Eden were surprised to note when they dined with him in the Chancellery at Berlin."

Hitler's Bavarian chef, Herr Kannenberg, confirmed he prepared vegetarian dishes conforming to the dietic standards which Hitler demanded. Herr contrives an imposing array of vegetarian dishes, savoury and rich, pleasing to the eye as well as to the palate, and all conforming to the dietic standards which Hitler exacts.

Personal accounts from people who knew Hitler and were familiar with his diet indicate that he did not consume meat.

Hitler once told a female companion who ordered sausage while they were on a date, "I didn't think you wanted to devour a dead corpse...the flesh of dead animals. Cadavers!" Hitler claimed that meat-eating was a major factor of the decline of civilization and that vegetarianism could rejuvenate society. His henchman Goebbels wrote in his diary, "The Fuhrer is a convinced vegetarian, on principle. His arguments cannot be refuted on any series basis. They are totally unanswerable."

The Nazis were particularly concerned with the suffering of lobsters in restaurants. The German Nazi government hosted one of the first international conferences on animal protection.

The Nazi started animal rights activism. Many of today's veganism leaders are German Nazi supporters. There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany among the country's leadership. Adolf Hitler and his top officials took a variety of measures to ensure animals were protected. Many Nazi leaders, including Hitler and Hermann Göring, were supporters of animal rights and conservation.

Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime.

The most chilling episode in the bizarre annals of Nazi animal protectionism was a 1942 law banning pet-keeping by Jews. As a result, dogs and cats owned by Jews were rounded up and humanely euthanized according to the German regulations pertaining to pets. But unlike their companion animals, Jews themselves were not covered under the humane slaughter legislation.

There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany among the country's leadership. Adolf Hitler and his top officials took a variety of measures to ensure animals were protected. Many Nazi leaders, including Hitler and Hermann Göring, were supporters of animal rights and conservation.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Jewish kosher butchering and animal experimentation were the main concerns of the German animal welfare movement. The Nazis adopted these concerns as part of their political platform. The Nazis rejected anthropocentric reasons for animal protection—animals were to be protected for their own sake.

In 1927, a Nazi representative to the Reichstag called for actions against cruelty to animals and kosher butchering.

In 1931, the Nazi Party (then a minority in the Reichstag) proposed a ban on animal vivisection. In early 1933, representatives of the Nazi Party to the Prussian parliament held a meeting to enact this ban.

On April 21, 1933, almost immediately after the Nazis came to power, the parliament began to pass laws for the regulation of animal slaughter. Adolf Hitler was against eating and killing animals, he refused to eat animals. His Nazi Party promoted animal rights, the first full scale animal rights activism in human history.

As soon as the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, they began to enact scores of animal protection laws, some of which are still operative in Germany. (See end of this article for the 1933 legislation.) For example, in Nazi Germany, people who mistreated their pets could be sentenced to two years in jail. The Nazis banned the production of foie gras and docking the ears and tails of dogs without anesthesia, and they severely restricted invasive animal research. The Nazi Party established the first laws insuring that animal used in films were not mistreated and also mandated humane slaughter procedures for food animals and for the euthanasia of terminally ill pets. (The Nazis were particularly concerned with the suffering of lobsters in restaurants). In addition, the German government established nature preserves, a school curriculum for the humane treatment of animals, and they hosted one of the first international conferences on animal protection.

Transcripts dated 11 November 1941, Hitler said, "One may regret living at a period when it's impossible to form an idea of the shape the world of the future will assume. But there's one thing I can predict to eaters of meat: the world of the future will be vegetarian."

On 12 January 1942, he said, "The only thing of which I shall be incapable is to share the sheiks' mutton with them. I'm a vegetarian, and they must spare me from their meat."

In a diary entry dated 26 April 1942, Joseph Goebbels described Hitler as a committed vegetarian, writing:

  An extended chapter of our talk was devoted by the Führer to the vegetarian question. He believes more than ever that meat-eating is harmful to humanity. Of course he knows that during the war we cannot completely upset our food system. After the war, however, he intends to tackle this problem also. Maybe he is right. Certainly the arguments that he adduces in favor of his standpoint are very compelling.

All accounts by people familiar with Hitler's diet from 1942 onward are in agreement that Hitler adhered to a vegetarian diet. Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark met with Hitler in 1932 and wrote in her memoirs that she had been "warned he was a vegetarian, and found it difficult to plan an appropriate meal" Margot Wölk, who became his unwilling food taster in 1942, stated that all the food she tested for Hitler was vegetarian, and she recalled no meat or fish.

Traudl Junge, who became Hitler's secretary in 1942, reported that he "always avoided meat" but that his Austrian cook Kruemel sometimes added a little animal broth or fat to his meals. "Mostly the Fuehrer would notice the attempt at deception, would get very annoyed and then get tummy ache," Junge said. "At the end he would only let Kruemel cook him clear soup and mashed potato."In addition, Marlene von Exner, who became Hitler's dietician in 1943, reportedly added bone marrow to his soups without his knowledge because she "despised" his vegetarian diet.

Frau Hess's comments are also backed up by several biographies about Hitler, with Fritz Redlich noting that Hitler avoided any kind of meat.

At social events, he sometimes gave graphic accounts of the slaughter of animals in an effort to make his dinner guests shun meat. An antivivisectionist, Hitler may have followed his selective diet out of a profound concern for animals. Bormann had a greenhouse constructed near the Berghof (near Berchtesgaden) to ensure a steady supply of fresh fruit and vegetables for Hitler throughout the war.

In the BBC series The Nazis: A Warning from History, an eyewitness account tells of Hitler watching movies (which he did very often). If ever a scene showed (even fictional) cruelty to or death of an animal, Hitler would cover his eyes and look away until someone alerted him the scene was over. The documentary also commented on the German animal welfare laws that the Nazis introduced, which were unparalleled at the time.

It has also been theorized that Hitler's diet may have been based on Richard Wagner's historical theories which connected the future of Germany with vegetarianism. In the book, The Mind of Adolf Hitler by Walter C. Langer, it is said:

    "If he (Hitler) does not eat meat, drink alcoholic beverages, or smoke, it is not due to the fact that he has some kind of inhibition or does it because he believes it will improve his health. He abstains from these because he is following the example of the great German, Richard Wagner, or because he has discovered that it increases his energy and endurance to such a degree that he can give much more of himself to the creation of the new German Reich."



Nazi leaders were noted for love of their pets and for certain animals, notably apex predators like the wolf and the lion. Hitler, a vegetarian and hater of hunting, adored dogs and spent some of his final hours in the company of Blondi, whom he would take for walks outside the bunker at some danger to himself. He had a particular enthusiasm for birds and most of all for wolves. [...] Goebbels said, famously, ‘The only real friend one has in the end is the dog. . . The more I get to know the human species, the more I care for my Benno.’ Goebbels also agreed with Hitler that ‘meat eating is a perversion in our human nature,’ and that Christianity was a ‘symptom of decay’, since it did not urge vegetarianism. [...] On the one hand, monsters of cruelty towards their fellow humans; on the other, kind to animals and zealous in their interest. In their very fine essay on such contradictions, Arnold Arluke and Boria Sax offer three observations. One, as just noted, many Nazi leaders harboured affection towards animals but antipathy to humans. Hitler was given films by a maharaja which displayed animals killing people. The Führer watched with equanimity. Another film showed humans killing animals. Hitler covered his eyes and begged to be told when the slaughter was over.

There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany among the country's leadership. Adolf Hitler and his top officials took a variety of measures to ensure animals were protected. Many Nazi leaders, including Hitler and Hermann Göring, were supporters of animal rights and conservation. Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime.

Heinrich Himmler made an effort to ban the hunting of animals. Göring was a professed animal lover and conservationist, who, on instructions from Hitler, committed Germans who violated Nazi animal welfare laws to concentration camps. In his private diaries, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels described Hitler as a vegetarian whose hatred of the Jewish and Christian religions in large part stemmed from the ethical distinction these faiths drew between the value of humans and the value of other animals; Goebbels also mentions that Hitler planned to ban slaughterhouses in the German Reich following the conclusion of World War II.


The current animal welfare laws in Germany are modified versions of the laws introduced by the Nazis.

At the end of the nineteenth century, kosher butchering and vivisection (animal experimentation) were the main concerns of the German animal welfare movement. The Nazis adopted these concerns as part of their political platform. According to Boria Sax, the Nazis rejected anthropocentric reasons for animal protection—animals were to be protected for their own sake. In 1927, a Nazi representative to the Reichstag called for actions against cruelty to animals and kosher butchering.

In 1931, the Nazi Party (then a minority in the Reichstag) proposed a ban on vivisection. In early 1933, representatives of the Nazi Party to the Prussian parliament held a meeting to enact this ban. On April 21, 1933, almost immediately after the Nazis came to power, the parliament began to pass laws for the regulation of animal slaughter. On April 21, a law was passed concerning the slaughter of animals; no animals were to be slaughtered without anesthetic.

Read the full details on Adolf Hitler the vegetarian and Nazi animal rights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany


NAZI GERMANY AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
1933 Law on Animal Protection
(Signed into law, 11/24/1933)

The government has resolved on the following law, which is hereby made known:

Section I

Cruelty to Animals #1
    (1) It is forbidden to unnecessarily torment or roughly mishandle an animal.
    (2) One torments an animal when one repeatedly or continuously causes appreciable pain or suffering; the torment is unnecessary in so far as it does not serve any rational, justifiable purpose. One mishandles an animal when one causes it appreciable pain; mishandling is rough when it corresponds to an unfeeling state of mind.

Section II

Measures for the Protection of Animals #2

It is forbidden:
1. to so neglect an animal in one's ownership, care or accommodation that it thereby experiences appreciable pain or appreciable damage;
2. to use an animal unnecessarily for what clearly exceeds its powers or causes it appreciable pain, or which it-in consequence of its condition-is obviously not capable of;
3. to use and animal for demonstrations, film-making, spectacles, or other public events to the extent that these events cause the animal appreciable pain or appreciable damage to health;
4. to use a fragile, ill, overworked or old animal for which further life is a torment for any other purpose than to cause or procure a rapid, painless death;
5. to put out one's domestic animal for the purpose of getting rid of it;
6. to set or test the power of dogs on cats, foxes, and other animals;
7. to shorten the ears or the tail of a dog over two weeks old. This is allowed if it is done with anesthesia;
8. to shorten the tail of a horse. This is allowed if it is to remedy a defect or illness of the tail and is done by a veterinarian and under anesthesia;
9. to perform a painful operation on an animal in an unprofessional manner or without anesthesia, or if anesthesia in a particular case is impossible according to veterinary standards;
10. to kill an animal on a farm for fur otherwise than with anesthesia or in a way that is, in any case, painless;
11. to force-feed fowl;
12. to tear out or separate the thighs of living frogs.
#3
The importation of horses with shortened tails is forbidden. The minister of the Interior can make exceptions if special circumstances warrant it.
#4
The temporary use of hoofed animals as carriers in the mines is only permitted with the permission of the responsible authorities.

Section III
Experiments on Living Animals
#5
It is forbidden to operate on or handle living animals in ways that may cause appreciable pain or damage for the purpose of experiments, to the extent the provisions of #6 through #8 do not mandate otherwise.
#6
    (1) The minister of the Interior can at the proposal of the responsible government or local authorities confer permission on certain scientifically led institutes or laboratories to undertake scientific experiments on living animals, when the director of the experiment has sufficient professional education and reliability, sufficient facilities for the undertaking of animal experiments are available, and guarantee for the care and maintenance of the animals for experiment has been made.
    (2) The minister of the Interior can delegate the granting of permission to others among the  highest officials of the government.
    (3) Permission may be withdrawn without compensation at any time.
#7
In carrying out experiments on animals (#5), the following provisions are to be observed:
1. The experiments may only be carried out under the complete authority of the scientific director or of a representative that has been specifically appointed by the scientific director.
2. The experiments may only be carried out by someone who has previously received scientific education or under the direction of such a person, and when every pain is avoided in so far as that is compatible with the goal of the experiment.
3. Experiments for research may only be undertaken when a specific result is expected that has not been previously confirmed by science or if the experi­ments help to answer previously unsolved problems.
4. The experiments are only to be undertaken under anesthesia, provided the judgment of the scientific director does not categorically exclude this or if the pain connected with the operation is outweighed by the damage to the con­dition of the experimental animals as a result of anesthesia.
    Nothing more severe than a difficult operation or painful but unbloody experiment may be carried out on such an unanesthetized animal.
    Animals that suffer appreciable pain after the completion of such a difficult experiment, especially involving an operation, are, in so far as this is, in the judgment of the scientific director, compatible with the goal of the experiment, immediately to be put to death.
5. Experiments on horses, dogs, cats, and apes can only be carried out when the intended goal may not be achieved through experiments on other animals.
6. No more animals may be used than are necessary to-resolve the associated question.
7. Animal experiments for pedagogical purposes are only permitted when other educational tools such as pictures, models, taxonomy, and film are not suf­ficient.
8. Records are to be kept of the sort of animal used, the purpose, the procedure, and the result of the experiment.
#8
Experiments on animals for judicial purposes as well as inoculations and taking of blood from living animals for the purpose of diagnosing illness of people or animals, or for obtainment of serums or inoculations according to procedures that have already been tried or are recognized by the state, are not subject to provisions #5 through #7. These animals, however, are also to be killed pain­lessly if they suffer appreciable pain and if it is compatible with the goals of the experiment.

Section IV

Provisions for Punishment

#9
    (1) Whoever unnecessarily torments or roughly mishandles an animal will be punished by up to two years in prison, with a fine, or with both these penalties.
    (2) Whoever, apart from the case in (1), undertakes an experiment on living animals (# S) without the required permission will be punished by imprisonment of up to six months, with a fine, or with both of these penalties.
    (3) A fine of up to five hundred thousand marks or imprisonment will, apart from the punishment mandated in (1) and (2), be the punishment for whomever intentionally or through negligence.
1. violates prohibition #2 though #4;
2. acts against regulation #7;
3.violates guidelines enacted by the Ministry of the Interior or by a provincial government according to #14;
4. neglects to prevent children or other persons that are under his/her supervision or belong to his/her household from violating the provisions of this law.
#10
    (1) In addition to the punishments in #9 for an intentional violation of the law, an animal belonging to the condemned may be confiscated or killed. Instead of confiscation it may be ordered that the animal be sheltered and fed for up to nine months at the cost of the guilty party.
    (2) If no specific person can be identified or condemned, the confiscation or killing of an animal may be undertaken in any case when the other prerequisites are present.
#11
    (1) If someone is repeatedly guilty of intentionally violating the provisions that are punishable according to #9 the local authorities that are responsible can prohibit that person from keeping certain animals or from business involving them either for a specified period or permanently.
    (2) After a year has passed since the imposition of the punishment the re­sponsible local authorities may rescind their decision.
    (3) An animal subject to appreciable negligence in provision, care, or shelter may be taken away from the owner by the responsible local authority and ac­commodated elsewhere until there is a guarantee that the animal will be cared for in a manner above reproach. The cost of this accommodation shall be paid by the guilty party.
#12
If in a judicial process it appears doubtful whether an act violates a prohibition of #1, (1) or (2), a veterinarian shall be summoned as early in the process as possible and, in so far as it concerns a farm, an agricultural official of the gov­ernment shall be heard.

Section V
Conclusion
#13
Anesthesia as it is understood in this law means all procedures that lead to general painlessness or eliminate localized pain.
#14
The Minister of the Interior can issue judicial and administrative decrees for the completion and enforcement of this law. In so far as the Minister of the Interior does not make use of this power, local governments can make the necessary decree for implementation.
#15
This law becomes binding on February 1, 1934 with the exception of #2, (8) and #3, (11), for which the Minister of the Interior must see the time of imple­mentation in consultation with the Minister of Food and Agriculture.

The laws #1456 and #360, (13) of the law of May 30, 1908  remain unchanged.

Berlin, November 24, 1933                  
Signed:                  
Adolf Hitler                  
Chancellor

NEVER EAT RAW SPINACH!

Some Vegetables Give You Kidney Stones.

FACT #1: Most meat-eaters don't get kidney stones.

FACT #2: Vegans and vegetarians are not immune to kidney stones, they also get them!

FACT #3: Ratio of vegans and vegetarians getting kidney stones is almost same as meat-eaters.

FACT #4: Most of those meat-eaters with kidney stones are not health conscious, they ate a junk food diet consisted of large amount of sugar, soda, refined fruit juice, chocolate, candies, potato chips, beer, very little pure water, and many of them used prescription drugs that are known to contribute to causing kidney stones, and most of them don't take vitamin supplements.

Vegetarians and vegans are mostly health conscious, they are careful not to touch most of those bad junk food stuffs, and they drink plenty of filtered pure water and most of them take vitamin supplements.

FACT #5: Average 40% of the oxalates consumed by those people with kidney stones (meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans) came from spinach!

FACT #6: People who regularly ate spinach are more likely get kidney stones than those who didn't eat spinach at all.

FACT #7: People who drink plenty of pure water daily has lower risk getting kidney stones, whether they're meat-eaters, vegetarians or vegans.

Can Eating Too Much Spinach Give You Kidney Stones?

Spinach contains a high amount of oxalate, which are naturally-occurring substances found in the food you eat and in your body. Oxalate found in urine combines with calcium to form calcium-oxalate kidney stones. There are different types of kidney stones, but calcium-oxalate stones are the most common. If you have a high risk for kidney stones, your doctor may advise you to avoid or limit intake of foods that contains high amounts of oxalate.

A low-oxalate diet can help prevent calcium-oxalate kidney stones. Limit your oxalate intake to 40 to 50 milligrams each day, according to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Foods high oxalate include spinach, beets, okra, leeks, collard greens, kale, celery, Swiss chard, zucchini, parsley, rhubarb, soy milk and black tea.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/485037-can-eating-too-much-spinach-give-you-kidney-stones/

Apple Cider Vinegar helps prevent or dissolve kidney stones. My suggestion though is not to drink ACV liquid but to take tablet or capsule to prevent harm on teeth enamel and burning esophagus, because ACV is very acidic. Should swallow the ACV tablet or capsule in the middle of a meal so its acid doesn't burn either the bottom or top of the stomach.

How to Treat Kidney Stones With Vinegar
http://www.livestrong.com/article/32253-cure-kidney-stones-vinegar/

https://bragg.com/testimonials/testimonials_13.html


Harvard has a list of high oxalate foods (mostly plants) and information on oxalate:
https://regepi.bwh.harvard.edu/health/Oxalate/files

Several factors can increase chance of getting calcium stones, including:

Not drinking enough water.

Not getting enough calcium in your diet.

Eating or drinking calcium-rich foods does not increase your chance of getting calcium stones. In fact, a diet too low in calcium can actually increase the risk of getting calcium stones.

Eating a lot of plant based foods high in oxalate (for example, spinach, rhubarb, nuts, or wheat bran).

Consuming a lot of foods or drinks high in fructose (for example, soft drinks, fruits, ketchup and other condiments, and many canned or packaged foods).

Having family members who have had kidney stones.

Having had kidney stones before.



Calcium oxalate stones are the most common kidney stones in humans, accounting for 76% of stones; their most common cause is high urine calcium levels.

Kidney Stones: Oxalate-Controlled Diet

Eat fewer oxalate-rich foods. These include rhubarb, beets, okra, spinach, Swiss chard, sweet potatoes, nuts, tea, chocolate and soy products.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/kidney-stones/basics/prevention/con-20024829

Some high oxalate foods:
Almonds
Tahini
Sesame seeds
Beets
Beet greens
Spinach
Sweet potato
Swiss chard
Soy milk
Miso
Starfruit
Rhubarb
Figs
Potato
Tomato
Quinoa
Most grains
Most legumes

Source: http://alwayswellwithin.com/2010/04/30/the-low-oxalate-diet/


Vegetables and legumes can cause kidney stones due to their oxalate content. Some edible plants that contain significant concentrations of oxalate include, in decreasing order, star fruit, black pepper, parsley, poppy seed, amaranth, spinach, chard, beets, cocoa, chocolate, most nuts, most berries and beans.

Many metal ions form insoluble precipitates with oxalate, a prominent example being calcium oxalate, the primary constituent of the most common kind of kidney stones.

In the body, oxalic acid combines with divalent metallic cations such as calcium and iron to form crystals of the corresponding oxalates which are then excreted in urine as minute crystals.

Oxalate in some vegetables and legumes can bind to the iron to form ferrous oxalate and render much of the iron unusable by the body. In addition, high levels of oxalates remove iron from the body.

These oxalates can form larger kidney stones that can obstruct the kidney tubules. An estimated 80% of kidney stones are formed from calcium oxalate.

Those with kidney disorders, gout, rheumatoid arthritis, or certain forms of chronic vulvar pain (vulvodynia) are typically advised to avoid foods high in oxalic acid.

Spinach has a moderate calcium content which can be affected by oxalates, decreasing its absorption. The calcium in spinach is among the least bioavailable of food calcium sources. The human body can absorb only around 5% of the calcium in spinach.

NEVER EAT RAW SPINACH!

Best way to get rid of oxalate in oxalate-rich vegetables is boil in water then throw away the water.

References:

Noonan SC, Savage GP (1999). (PDF). Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 8 (1): 64–74.

Williams, Sue Rodwell; Long, Sara (1997). Nutrition and diet therapy. p. 229. Insel, Paul M.; Turner, R. Elaine; Ross, Don (2003). Heaney, Robert Proulx (2006).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinach#Nutrition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalate


PubMedHealth; Kidney Stones; Jan. 14, 2009

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Low Oxalate Diet; 2006

National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information; Kidney Stones; October 2007


Willcox, the fraudulent fabricator of Okinawa sweet potato longevity diet

Willcox, the fraudulent fabricator of Okinawa sweet potato longevity diet makes false claim that Okinawan's longevity is the result of eating a diet of mostly sweet potatoes, he based his claim solely on a 1950 US government report on Okinawan food intakes survey conducted in 1949, he concludes that the diet consisted of mostly sweet potatoes was the secret to Okinawans' long life span. He also claims the high number of old age people is the evidence of longevity. The real truth is before WW2 Okinawa's traditional diet wasn't high in sweet potatoes but high in pork, and the high ratio of old age people on Okinawa islands was the result of US invasion on Okinawa islands during WW2 in which about 1/2 of Okinawa's young population was killed!

Willcox hides the fact that in 1949 Okinawa was in postwar ruin and had very bad food shortage crisis immediately after WW2 and into the early 1950s, meat supply was very short due to Okinawa's pre-war farm inventory of 100,000 hoof livestock on the islands were mostly killed during the heavy battles between Japanese troops and American troops.

According to a US government report made before WW2 there was average one hoof livestock as meat supply for every 3 to 4 Okinawans. After the war US government conducted a survey on the remaining living Okinawans who were starving to death, dying of malnutrition and diseases, but that horrible condition was not mentioned in the report, which Willcox uses, in order to cover up US military atrocities and war crimes committed on Okinawans in postwar time. The 1949 US government's physical and medical condition report on Okinawans was fabricated to make the world thinks the Okinawans were living happily and healthy when in fact they were not.

Willcoxs uses 65 years old data collected during a food shortage crisis in Okinawa in 1949. At the time the US government conducted the small survey the Okinawans had just came out of the biggest war with Americans. Okinawa islands were in ruin caused by US military bombings and fire burning during the battles.

In 1949 there was a food shortage for Okinawans because their homes and lands were confiscated by the US govt, who restricted their rights to fish, hunt and farm. Okinawans were starving and malnourished. They lived in badly make-shift shelters.

Here is the real truth about Okinawa:

In 1949 many Okinawans were in starvation due to food shortage after their lost in WW2 and the US military occupation that came afterward.

U.S. military invasion of Okinawa, launched in late March, 1945, bogged down into a devastating war of attrition that dragged on for three months, taking a recorded total of 237,318 lives, more than half of them Okinawan civilians. In the aftermath of massive human, material, and environmental destruction, entire Okinawan families were missing, and whole villages destroyed.

Many Okinawans in Japan mainland cities who hoped to escape the burnt-out ruins and return to their homeland after the war had nothing left to go back to. U.S. military seized local farmlands for a major expansion of military bases.

[An account by an Okinawan who lived through that food shortage period:] After living in the Koza refugee camp for about a year, we finally returned to Misato Village, moving into what was called “standardized housing” [prefabricated wooden huts with thatched roofs]. Food was still hard to come by. Although we received some rations—mostly canned goods—and clothing from the U.S. military, we were always hungry. The term “postwar palm fern hell” best describes conditions at a time when we ate anything, including wild plants, thought to be edible. One day, we fried [sweet] potato tempura in motor oil. My uncle insisted on eating some first to be sure it wasn’t poisonous. He always did that because, he said, he was old and weak, and didn’t expect to live much longer anyway. Three years later, he died.

Okinawans living on the Japan mainland today also recall atrocities committed by American soldiers. Battle-survivor Yamashiro Kenko recounted one of the all-too-frequent incidents of what Okinawans called “girl-hunts” (musume-gari). “After I was captured and brought to a shed with other refugees, one of the American soldiers picked out a young woman. Ignoring the screams of her children, he led her away at gunpoint and raped her.”161 Interviewed in July, 1999, another woman recalled, “I made sure to muss my hair and blacken my face with charcoal before the Americans took me to a refugee camp.” The U.S. government seized large tracts of privately owned farm land for its military bases, claiming that this was permitted by the “Rules of Land Warfare” under the 1914 Hague Convention. Yet these seizures continued long after the war ended, and the U.S. military still occupies these lands to this day. The Battle of Okinawa took more than a quarter of a million lives [half were Okinawans]. Most Okinawans who survived were left destitute, homeless, or both.

Source: The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory - By Michael S. Molasky
https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=f1qFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=okinawa+food+shortage&source=bl&ots=QpB6hrne3K&sig=ibSfOw6DQ0xNFGRLTiq8YMCO4RU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEoQ6AEwCGoVChMI5NKy7LWnyAIVhOamCh2umwtY#v=onepage&q=okinawa%20food%20shortage&f=false
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Here is the reason soon after WW2 Americans discovered there was a high proportion of centenarians on Okinawa islands: most of the younger Okinawan people had died in WW2!

One third to one half of Okinawa people perished in WW2! Estimate of 300,000 Okinawans died during WW2 when Americans invade their islands. Most dead were young people, young men who died defending their homes, also many were young girls and women committed suicide to avoid rape by American troops. So of course the remaining Okinawans were mostly old people, the reason Okinawa had high percentage of centenarians!

Another insight article for dumb people who fell for stupid dumb Willcox lies, learn this real truth:

...the Battle of Okinawa devastated the lives of Okinawans on the mainland who lost family members and homes in the prefecture. In 1944, Osaka’s newspapers began reporting the events leading up to this last and worst battle of the Pacific War. What came to be known as the “ten-ten air raid” of American planes on October 10 left much of Naha, Okinawa’s capital, a plain of burnt ruins.

In preparation, the [Japanese] military mobilized local civilians, including schoolchildren, to build fortifications and airfields. Evacuations to the mainland had already begun. Some of the transport ships carrying women, children, the infirm, and the elderly were sunk by Allied torpedoes, with a loss of more than 2,000 lives.

Both sides’ enormous sacrifices in the Battle of Okinawa, the costliest of the Pacific War for both Japan and the United States, seem particularly outrageous in retrospect.

Much later they would learn that twenty times as many local residents lost their lives in the Battle of Okinawa. Imperial Headquarters’ strategy of sacrificing Okinawa as a “throwaway pawn” imposed devastating losses on both armies. It also resulted in massive civilian casualties, mostly women and children killed or wounded by U.S. bombings and shellings, and in the crossfire of ground combat. Many also died because Japanese soldiers, seeking cover for themselves, forced them from caves and shelters at gunpoint. Others starved to death after the Japanese military seized dwindling food supplies from farms and homes.

Eighty-two days of what Okinawans also call “hell on earth” took the lives of a recorded 122, 228 local residents....

One day, some American soldiers told us a tidal wave was coming, and we’d all have to leave immediately for a mass evacuation to the nearby hills. We followed them, fearing the worst, then waited and waited, but there was no sign of a tidal wave. The date was April 1st [1946]. We had no way of knowing about April Fool’s Day in America. Much relieved, we walked back down from the hills.

After living in the Koza refugee camp for about a year, we finally returned to Misato Village, moving into what was called “standardized housing” [prefabricated wooden huts with thatched roofs]. *Food was still hard to come by*. Although we received some rations—mostly canned goods—and clothing from the U.S. military, *we were always hungry*. The term “postwar palm fern hell” best describes conditions at a time when *we ate anything, including wild plants, thought to be edible. One day, we fried potato tempura in motor oil*. My uncle insisted on eating some first to be sure it wasn’t poisonous.

Okinawans living on the mainland today also recall atrocities committed by American soldiers. Battle-survivor Yamashiro Kenko recounted one of the all-too-frequent incidents of what Okinawans called “girl-hunts” (musume-gari). “After I was captured and brought to a shed with other refugees, one of the *American soldiers picked out a young woman. Ignoring the screams of her children, he led her away at gunpoint and raped her.”*

Interviewed in July, 1999, another woman recalled, “I made sure to muss my hair and blacken my face with charcoal before the Americans took me to a refugee camp.”

During the battle, American forces killed not only Japaese forces but also Okinawan civilians taking shelter with Japanese soldiers in caves. They also sprayed areas with phosphorous and CS (military-issue tear gas), which are sometimes classified as chemical weapons. Moreover, the U.S. government seized large tracts of privately owned farm land for its military bases, claiming that this was permitted by the “Rules of Land Warfare” under the 1914 Hague Convention. Yet these seizures continued long after the war ended, and the U.S. military still occupies these lands to this day.

The Battle of Okinawa was fought because the Japanese government decided to sacrifice the prefecture even after Konoe Fumimaro, a former Prime Minister, influential senior statesman, and advisor to the emperor, had urged two months earlier that the war be ended. *The battle took more than a quarter of a million lives. Most Okinawans who survived were left destitute, homeless, or both*. Many now consider the imposition of such disproportionate losses to be the ultimate form of discrimination.

This article is adapted from “Chapter Four: Wartime” in Steve Rabson, The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within, University of Hawaii Press (2012). The book is based on the author’s two-year study in residence (1999-2001) in Taishô Ward of Osaka City, location of the largest Okinawan community (approximately 20,000) on the Japanese mainland, where he conducted interviews, collected writings, and administered a questionnaire survey.

 Steve Rabson is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Brown University, and a Japan Focus Associate. His other books are Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989, reprinted 1996), Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998), and Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Michael Molasky (University of Hawaii Press, 2000). Islands of Resistance: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Davinder Bhowmik, is forthcoming from University of Hawaii Press.


Source: Steve Rabson, "The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan at War," The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 41, No. 1, October 13, 2013.

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Senka (Fruits of War)

In Okinawa under U.S. military rule, provisions were given by America but the people still suffered under chronic food shortages. For that reason there were many who stole stores from the depots of the U.S. military which they named the "Fruits of War."

Widely considered to be the most brutal battle of the Pacific Theater of WWII the Battle of Okinawa was Americans first large-scale introduction to Okinawa. This battle lasted from April to June of 1945.

From what Osensei has told students, the Okinawan people had great difficulty during these times between the destruction of their island and food shortages (Master Kyan died as a result of a food shortage). 

During & after the war, the US military occupation herded almost all Okinawan civilian survivors into POW detention camps throughout the islands. Conditions in the camps were not good; many died of disease and inadequate food. 

The civilians were not released until the US military had finished the seizure of private lands for construction of the first round of postwar US military bases on Okinawa. Futenma Air Base was one of the US military bases built on a seized & bulldozed village during the 1940s. 

Refugees sang established minyo (folk songs), but also composed new lyrics about war trauma, loss, and pain in their current situation. The songs focused on nostalgic feelings for earlier times in Okinawa, regretting the realities of Okinawa as a battlefield. For example, the Okinawan refugee songs told of the mountains and fields engulfed in flames, and how the sea became the sole place for refuge, food, and life.

"These songs that encapsulated the hardships of daily life in the camps became known as yaka bushi, songs from the Yaka refugee camp, or PW mujo (prisoner of war songs). The camp songs and dances served as a crucial medium for beginning to convey wartime experiences, creating an embodied counter-telling to official narratives, but also for coping with life as postwar refugees unable to return home. Okinawans living 'everyday with the loss of their homes, separated from their parents and brothers and sisters' relied on 'sanshin songs and dances' in order to express their 'happiness to be alive.'[40]Nakamura Fumiko remembers, 'when I heard the sound of that sanshin in the midst of all the disaster, I got choked up. “At least the Okinawan spirit wasn't completely destroyed by the war," I said to myself.'"

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the kidnapping, rape and murder of 6-year-old Yumiko Nakayama by a US soldier. On September 4, 1955 - exactly 40 years to the day before the 1995 rape - Sergeant Isaac Hurt kidnapped Yumiko-chan as she was walking to kindergarten. Then he raped her, disemboweled her, & threw her into a military base garbage dump. Less than a week later, another US soldier raped another child.

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Here is an old newsletter published by an American citizen who cared about the welfare of Okinawans and their food shortage crisis.

PEACE-NEWS-LETTER
October 21, 1949

There is still 100% hunger on OKINAWA (October 1949) and Americana have a peculiar responsibility . The best way to help here is to send a goat . Cost, $50. We will collect and pool smaller gifts if some one wants to start a new invasion of Okinawa . Remember "a goat is more than a goat ."She is'4 M's : Milk for children, a Mother for kids, Manure for worn soil, Morale for shattered souls."

http://www.peacecouncil.net/pnls/PNLs1941-50/PNL138-1949.pdf

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In late 1945, Kaneko was moved to Haru (Spring) Island in the Truks as a prisoner of war. He worked on construction of a runway and roads under the supervision of the U.S. military.

“Looking at the young, vigorous U.S. GIs, I could not help remembering those civilian workers who died of hunger. My pity for them deepened. I thought I had to reform myself, having spent my youthful years being shallow, so that I could console the souls of those who died such pitiful deaths,” Kaneko said.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/27/reference/special-presentations/war-exacts-top-toll-on-bottom-echelons-vet/#.VizKfyvIWcw

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The cost of living rose about ten percent a month for two years, and by the end of 1949 the consumer price index had multiplied to 240 times the pre-war level. Millions of people in Japan had their homes destroyed by the bombing, and many lived in shanty towns or were homeless. In February 1948 the number of orphaned and homeless children was 123,510.

Rice was 32% below prewar production, and fishing was down 40%. Official food rations provided each person with only 1,050 calories per day.

http://www.san.beck.org/21-9-JapansWar1937-49.html#a8

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When school first opened, the children’s faces were pale because of food shortages, so thecurriculumwas minimal.

Testimony1-2

Recollections of Motomura Tsuru who worked as a teacher whenTsuboya Elementary School was founded. I was assigned to Tsuboya Elementary at the end of January 1951.There were about 150 pupils with a staff of 8, teachers and principal. We were paid in such U.S. military supplies as canned goods, bivouac mattresses, mosquito nets, and army fatigues.The free rations of food we got were never enough, though. So sometimes after class or on Sundays the M.P.’s would lead us out to the Mawashi or Haebaru areas to dig for sweet potatoes. Lying under thick growths of green vines were the white bones of corpses, places where we found lots of sweet potatoes.We gathered the harvest of sweet potatoes to store, and all the families were told about it.

In March, the schools received mimeographed teachers’copies of textbooks, one for each grade.As I recall, they were for Japanese language and math.The first small-scale elementary school sports meet was held around that time. One U.S. military field-use fold-up organ was our only musical instrument, but, with each class using an empty fuel can as a drum, it was a lively occasion.When grade assignments were made in April, I was assigned to the fourth grade class.Teachers were paid in wages, and I remember that my first salary was 240 B-yen.

Motomura Tsuru, “From theTime Tsuboya Elementary School First Opened,” Naha City Educational Research Center, in “Post-conflict Education, Starting from Zero (1) 1988,” excerpted from Bunka,1974, No. 5.

In its Tsuboya district, where much of the land was seized for use by the American military, there were about 1,000 neighborhoods with many children, but the adults were so consumed with making a living from day to day and rebuilding their homes that they had little time for the children. Just after the defeat in war, unexploded shells were lying all around the district.“People agreed this was dangerous and something had to be done about it. At first the school was built as a place where someone could look after the children”.

http://jica-ri.jica.go.jp/IFIC_and_JBICI-Studies/english/publications/reports/study/topical/post_conflict/pdf/post02.pdf
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Here is a document by the US government that gave insight to the postwar food shortage in Okinawa:

Foreign agriculture : a review of foreign farm policy, production, and trade
by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics; United States. Foreign Agricultural Service; United States. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations

Published 1949
Topics Agriculture Statistics Periodicals

https://archive.org/stream/foreignagricultu137unit/foreignagricultu137unit_djvu.txt

Okinawa's Agriculture
In the Wake of War

July 1949, Vol. XIII, No. 7

By JOHN C. HOBBES

Okinawa, a small, densely populated island southwest of
Japan, was the stage of one of the most savage battles of
World War II. As a result, its population was displaced,
its economy disrupted, and the area of cultivated land re-
duced. Before the war, the Okinawans could not produce
enough food to meet their needs, but they exported sugar to
Japan to pay for the necessary imports. Today there is no
market for Okinawa's sugar, and American taxpayers must
pay for a large part of the native diet until Military Govern-
ment can rehabilitate the island's agriculture.

Okinawa is unique among the islands of Japan,
having a different type of people, a different pattern
of agriculture, and being the only one on which actual
combat took place during World War II. As a result
of the havoc wrought by the occupation in the spring
of 1945, its economy and social fabric were almost
completely destroyed, and the island's ability to pro-
vide its food requirements was greatly reduced.

Okinawa, along with other islands of the Ryukyus,
has been severed from the Japanese Imperial Govern-
ment and added to the chain of American defenses in
the Pacific. Under the aegis of Military Government,
efforts are under way to restore to the natives some
semblance of economic solvency. Since power and
mineral resources are almost totally lacking, "economic
problems" are "agricultural problems." The island's
principal asset is an abundant supply of agricultural
labor. The population is excessive, the soil is poor,
and, as a result, Military Government is faced with
an urgent and delicate problem of agricultural reha-
bilitation.

Okinawan farms, averaging about 1%
acres, were slightly more than half as large as those
tilled by Japanese farmers, which explains the poverty
of the natives.

A third aspect in which agriculture on Okinawa
varied from the Japanese norm was found in its live-
stock population. In both the ratio of animals to
cultivated land and to population, Okinawa was the
more favorably situated. This small island had rela-
tively more draft animals than the rest of Japan, and
more than one-third of the goats in Japan were to be
found on Okinawa. The small sure-footed native
horse predominated among draft animals. The
native cattie are suitable only for draft power and
meat and few had ever been used for dairy purposes.
Swine and goats played a strategic role in the tightly
knit subsistence economy of the island by providing
an economical means of disposing of garbage and
waste. In addition to augmenting the native diet
and supplying draft power, the large animal popu-
lation afforded the farmers relatively greater quan-
tities of manure.

Even before the island was invaded in April 1945,
it felt the effects of the war. In the preceding few
years the cultivated area had contracted slightly and
animal population declined because of a lack of feed.
The battle for the island centered in the populous
agricultural area in the south. More than 90 per-
cent of the buildings and equipment were destroyed,
and most of the people were displaced from their
homes and from the food-producing areas. The
armed forces found the livestock scattered and under-
nourished, and, lacking sufficient food for both the
animals and the natives, they were forced to kill the
former to feed the latter. To add to the food problem
created by moving the farmers from the land, re-
patriates began to pour in from the mandated islands,
and in a short time the population exceeded that of
the preceding decade. In anticipation of an assault
on the main islands of Japan, military establishments
mushroomed over much of the cultivated area on
the island. The normal facilities for governing and
feeding the natives were destroyed completely by
the occupation, presenting Military Government
with an immense task involving the health and liveli-
hood of half a million people.

For more than 4 years, the Okinawans have had
to rely upon the United States for a substantial
portion of their diet. The problem of agricultural
rehabilitation has been one of reconciling the military
needs for land and civilian food requirements, the
latter having increased abnormally due to the influx
of repatriates. Heavy earth-moving equipment lev-
eled some of the hilly, sparsely settled northern region
in an effort to reclaim land for farming so as to com-
pensate for the areas of farm land necessarily occupied
by military establishments and to expand the area
available to native farmers. The equipment de-
stroyed in battle has been replaced by imports or by
native craftsmen using metal salvaged from war
surplus and battlefield debris. Military Govern-
ment has also provided fertilizers and supplies that
otherwise would not be available to the Okinawans
and without which they would be helpless. In the
rehabilitation of the rural community, a large prob-
lem centers around the depleted livestock population
that declined to a small fraction of prewar. There is
an urgent need for the manure and draft power that
they supplied, and years will pass before a balance is
attained between the increased food production made
possible by the animal population and the amount of
feed they themselves consume. To date, the live-
stock population has been replenished largely by im-
ports from other islands less affected by the war and
by natural reproduction.

Military Government is actively improving social
and economic conditions on Okinawa by reestab-
lishing and improving on prewar institutions and by
furnishing on a welfare basis the necessary food, equip-
ment, and supplies.

Despite the efforts of military and native personnel, the
current agricultural situation is far from favorable.
Only in the case of vegetables and sweet potatoes are
yields equal to those of former years, and total production
of all foods is still below normal.

Military authorities anticipate that the best use of
the maximum area of cultivable land made available
to the natives will necessitate food imports only
slightly less than those currently required. It is im-
probable that the small amount of farm land available
will ever produce enough food for the islanders. Two
alternatives, or a combination of them, might be
adopted to make the natives self-sufficient to a greater
degree. One would be to plant the land formerly
producing sugarcane — one-fourth of Okinawa's arable
area — to food crops. The other would be to concen-
trate on the production of some new export crop,
which would utilize the abundant manpower avail-
able, and to buy abroad the balance of the food re-
quirements with the income so derived as was done
before the war. Greater production under any pro-
gram is the object of the Military Government.
Because of the more pressing military problems, it has
not been possible to work out completely the postwar
pattern of agriculture for Okinawa. Until a satis-
factory agricultural economy is established, the island
and its people will continue to be a burden to the
American taxpayer.


The only Japanese island to suffer direct invasion, Okinawa
lost 90 percent of its buildings and equipment.

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At the end of WWII, the US took over the administration of the Okinawa islands. Immediately after the war, Okinawan civilians, displaced by the terrible Battle, were placed in POW camps while the military claimed land for bases. In 1951, the San Francisco Peace Treaty placed Okinawa under US military administration until 1972 when Okinawa's administration reverted to Japan. Today there are 37 US bases and military installations in Okinawa, 23,842 troops and 21,512 military family members.

Some of the most productive land, used for farming and sustaining people's livelihood, was requisitioned for US military use. In historically populated areas in the central and southern part of Okinawa island, the rebuilt towns were squeezed around the bases.

Even after reversion to Japan in 1972, most of the US bases remained in Okinawa. Seventy-five percent of the US military facilities in Japan are located in Okinawa, although Okinawa is only 0.6% of the land area of Japan.

US bases take up 20% of the land area -- land that could be used more productively to benefit local people. US troops live in spacious, fenced-off enclaves -- some with golf courses and swimming pools -- in marked contrast to the close-packed cities nearby.

Kin, a small, old town of 10,000, for example, is squeezed between Camp Hansen, which houses 5,000 Marines, and the sea. The city of Ginowan has been built around the sprawling Futenma Marine Corps Air Station, one of the largest airfields in Asia. Local people cannot enter the bases. Traveling around them adds miles to everyday trips.

Environmental Contamination

Highly carcinogenic materials (fuels, oils, solvents and heavy metals) are regularly released during military operations, affecting the land, water, air, and ocean, as well as people's health.

Okinawan people suffer deafening noise from low-flying military aircraft. In other parts of Japan, US planes cannot leave or land after 7pm. At Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, they can leave or land any time, and generate severe noise. Students in schools near the bases often have classes disrupted due to noise, and suffer from poor concentrations.

White Beach, a docking area in Okinawa for US nuclear submarines, is an area where regional health statistics show comparatively high rates of leukemia in children and cancers in adults.

Under the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA, Article 4), the US is not responsible for environmental clean-up of land or water. As in Korea and the Philippines, host communities do not have adequate information on the extent of military contamination.

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=16492

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Historical records show Okinawans consumed a lot of pork, the only time their pork consumption decreased was due to WW2 when American troops killed half of the Okinawan population and most of the 100,000 hoof livestock to stop Japanese troops from surviving on the islands.

In the 10 years after WW2, the US military restricted Okinawans from fishing, hunting and farming for foods, that caused a serious food shortage crisis for the Okinawans. It was at that time the US government conducted a dietary survey on Okinawans, Willcox uses that survey for his lying "Okinawa Sweet Potato Longevity Diet" scam!

For many centuries Okinawa was famous for its traditional pork cuisine so much that for centuries it's traditional nickname was "Islands of Pork"!

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This is how much Okinawans loved their pork and how important pork was to them.

In September 1948, the immigrants shipped 550 White pigs back to Okinawa to help the island, which had been devastated a few years earlier by the Battle of Okinawa, deal with severe food shortages. The pigs, which are easy to breed because of their high fertility rate, are believed to have helped ward off starvation for many Okinawans.


http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/19/national/history/hawaii-pig-shipment-after-the-war-to-be-memorialized-in-okinawa/#.VizILSvIWcw

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Willcoxs know the fact the Okinawa had a food shortage in the several years after WW2, it lasted at least into the early 1950s, Willcoxs never mentioned a word of it in his papers, but instead they lied and covered up the truth, tricking people into thinking Okinawans traditionally lived mainly on sweet potatoes when in fact Okinawans ate plenty of pork for centuries at least since Chinese taught them to cook pork cuisine.

It's a common myth that Okinawa has low meat or animal protein consumption, the truth is Okinawa has always been known as Island of Pork for centuries. Willcox also hid the fact that for hundreds of years before WW2 since the introduction of Chinese cooking from China, Okinawa has always been known as the Islands of Pork because of the popularity of Okinawan pork cuisine dishes on the islands, and that Okinawans had the highest pork consumption compared to entire Japan at for hundreds of years. Another traditional Okinawan food is raw goat meat sushi.

The Chinese dating back to the 14th century influenced the Okinawans’ love for pork. Okinawa is just 400 miles from China and they established an economic and cultural relationship that thrived to the 16th century. When Okinawans started migrating to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations in 1899 they brought their pork traditions with them.
http://shegrowsfood.com/explore/food-traditions-security/

Postwar food shortage in Okinawa was caused by US military on the islands. Farmlands were confiscated by the US government and made into US military bases with air strips to launch attacks on Korea and prepare for war with China. Many Okinawans were detained in POW camps and intern camps where they lived in horrible living conditions. Okinawans weren't allowed to farm, fish or hunt like they had been doing before WW2, their freedom is restricted by the US military.

Willcox did admit that sweet potatoes were brought in by Chinese from China, what he didn't say is the fact that sweet potatoes were grown and used as pig feeds, not for human consumption but for the pigs that had also been brought in by the Chinese from China decades before sweet potatoes!

Okinawan has had a culture of using livestock since the Edo era (1603 to 1868). A traditional Okinawan saying states that Okinawan cuisine "begins with pig and ends with pig" and "every part of a pig can be eaten except its hooves and its oink." A characteristic of traditional Okinawan cuisine is its reliance on meat. The main protein sources of traditional Okinawan cuisine are derived from livestock, specifically pigs.

Dr. Willcoxs used a 1950 US government report that contains a 1949 survey on Okinawan dietary statistics, at that time most Okinawans were confined in temporary intern camps imposed by the US military, Okinawa was in complete ruin due to WW2, meat supply was low, even the US military had meat shortage, most of their meat is in the form of SPAM canned meat, but Willcox portrays 1949 dietary data was responsible for longevity in Okinawan people, it's like Adolf Hitler claimed that Jews had high IQ because of their starvation diet in German Nazi concentration camps.

Before WW2, Okinawans didn't normally eat that kind of postwar era starvation diet that consists of mostly sweet potatoes, this is something Willcox invented and tries to fool people with. The Okinawan sweet potato diet is a myth invented by lying vegan cult promoter Dr. Willcox. In postwar sweet potatoes were Okinawans only abundant food source because sweet potatoes easily grow wildly everywhere on the islands.

There has never been any clinical study done on sweet potato consumption in relation to human life span, but without any scientific evidence Willcox the fraudster concluded that sweet potato was the cause of longevity in Okinawans. UN data reveals countries with high sweet potato consumption but have shorter life span than countries that consume little or no sweet potato. India is one of world's largest consumers of sweet potato, but it has short life expectancy and very poor health index.

This makes WIllcox's fabrication of Okinawan sweet potato "longetivty diet" very unethical and misleading, because low-calorie sweet potato diet wasn't what the Okinawans traditionally ate before WW2.

Even Willcox doesn't deny the fact that Okinawans quickly dropped eating sweet potatoes as meat and other food supplies resumed. Even in the paper by Willcox it showed a chart for Okinawan sweet potato consumption dropped 90% from 1950 to 1960, in only a period of 10 years or so. If Okinawans loved sweet potato so much why did they drop it so fast?

Since 1960 to current, a period of 55 years, the per capita sweet potato consumption in Okinawa has been very low, only about 3% of their diet (was 60% in 1949), while their pork consumption increased more than sweet potato consumption , but their life expectancy didn't drop, it has been on rapid increase since 1960.

Before WW2, Okinawa was known to had highest pork consumption in Japan. Today's Japan as a whole has higher pork consumption than Okinawa, many other prefectures in Japan have higher pork consumption than Okinawa, their life expectancy is longer than Okinawa's.

The quantity of pork consumption per person a year in Okinawa is larger than that of the Japanese national average. For example, the quantity of pork consumption per person a year in Okinawa in 1979 exceeded by about 50% that of the Japanese national average.

Now you are seeing the truth that Okinawa suffered food shortage crisis during 1949. So why does Willcoxs use 1949 data to mislead people into thinking the poor diet of mostly sweet potato is the cause of long life span in Okinawans?

A proper scientific study must use official data of life span trend decade by decade and/or year by year, actual official food consumption statistics of item by item in precise amount per person within a certain period during the entire period in the study. Okinawa Diet study by WIllcox has extremely little amount of data, and those data are not reliable and applicable because they were of the war and postwar time period, that can reflect the diet Okinawans ate before WW2.

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Pork - The Favored Meat of Okinawan Cooks

Pork in Okinawa originated from China and seemed almost tailor made for the tiny island nation. Okinawa had very little grazing land so it could not support cattle but the pigs were another story as they have thrived on Okinawa for hundreds of years. Compared to cattle pigs were quite easy to raise and could be kept on relatively small areas of land. However, during World War II the population of pigs was desimated in the heavy fighting and Uchinanchu people who had emmigrated to Hawaii realizing the grave food shortage after the war set sail to deliver new stocks of island pigs. Thanks to their efforts the islanders were able to once again establish a sustainable food source on the islands. Here is a short film from an old japanese TV show telling about the Island pigs today and the wonderful food source they provide.

It is often heard in Okinawa that the only part of a pig that an Okinawan won’t eat is the “Oink.” I actually think some Okinawans enjoy the oink too. Although, maybe only with a little awamori on the side. In Okinawa the word meat has always been the equivalent to pork. It is the most important ingredient in Okinawan Cookery. Literally everything is usable to the Okinawan cook even the ears, feet, blood, and internal organs.

Hello, my name is Tom Corrao and I am the blogger behind the Okinawaology Blog. I created this blog to share and discuss all things Okinawan. I’m also the Public Relations Officer and Minkan Taishi to the Chicago Okinawa Kenjinkai. My experience with Okinawa is derived from the time I spent there during the 1980's and 90's (10 years) when serving in the United States Air Force. I've also been married to an Okinawan woman for 30 years now and have been immersed in many things Okinawan through both friends and family.

http://chicagookinawakenjinkai.blogspot.com/2010/03/pork-favored-meat-of-okinawan-cooks.html

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If Okinawans were nearly vegetarians then why did they have to hunt Dugong, a sea mammal for food in post-WW2 time if they were happily on a sweet potato diet?

The History of the Okinawan Dugong

There was formerly an abundant dugong population spread throughout the Ryukyu Archipelago. Dugong bones have been excavated from many shell mounds and archeological sites in the same area. Dugong meat was eaten and its bones crafted. During the Ryukyu Dynasty dugong meat was used as tribute paid to the Ryukyu Court and to the Chinese Emperor. There are numerous traditional songs, sayings and folklore related to dugong. The dugong population suffered a sharp decrease due to over hunting over the late 19th century and early 20th century. The use of explosives to hunt dugong during the post-WW2 food crisis caused a further decline.  Today, the dugong has disappeared from much of its former range with only a limited number observed off the Main Island of Okinawa.


http://sea-dugong.org/english/we_do.html

Dugongs are manatee-like animals which used to be common across Okinawa. But residents hunted them and - after WWII - ate them because of food shortages. Now they are critically endangered in Okinawa.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11390280


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Just the fact that Willcox's paper is based on unreliable information from questionnaire survey in 1949 when Okinawans were starving due to food shortage crisis is enough to throw his paper into the garbage can.

Why doesn't Willcoxs point these out?

1) In 1949 Okinawa had just came out from losing WW2 when the islands were totally ruined by bombings and battles.

2) At least half of Okinawans who were mostly young people killed in the war.

3) US military snatched farm lands from Okinawa and prevented them from farming.

4) US military restricted Okinawans from living their traditional way of fishing, hunting and farming. Okinawa turned in a US military base prepares for more wars. Okinawan people abused by US military and their livelihood jeopardized.

5) Serious food shortage for Okinawans due to lost of their farmlands, fishing rights, hunting rights and civil rights, all snatched away by US military.

6) Massive numbers of malnutrition and diseases in Okinawan people caused by a war-ruined Okinawa. Their homes destroyed in the war, they lived under poor living conditions in rundown temporary shacks.

Pork is longevity food according to Okinawa traditions and Japanese scientists.

Let's look at the amount of pork eaten by Okinawans and how it helps them live longer life span. Okinawans life expectancy has been on the increase, they consume more pork than they did in 1960, now their life expectancy is 20 years longer than in 1960.

Let's compare pork consumption and life span in Okinawa and other places in the world. Okinawans consume 20% more pork than world average, their life span is 20% longer than world average.

India, on the other hand, has almost zero pork consumption, and has very little meat consumption. A large percentage of people in India are dietary vegans either by economic or religions, but their life span is a lot shorter.

Pork Consumption (grams/person/day), UN 2007 data:

Okinawa Islands 51
World Average 41
India 1

Life Expectancy in years, UN's average of 2005-2010 data:

Okinawa Islands 82.76 (Japan Government 2005 data)
World Average 68.84
India 65

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Pork is Okinawan Longevity Food

From the mid-1960s until the early 1990s, in my laboratory we have conducted experiments with foodstuffs our Okinawan elders eat everyday as being ‘good for the health’, feeding them to white rats in freeze-dried powder form. In one of these experiments, we fed pigs feet, ears, stomach and intestine to hyperlipidaemic white rats and examined the effects on lipid metabolism.

The results, as shown in Tables 3 and 4, show that a statistically significant reduction in serum and hepatic triglyceride levels was seen in rats fed pigs feet.

This indicates that pork cuisine is not simply a source of protein, but also has health-giving effects as a result of its collagen content. It deserves attention as an integral part of Okinawan longevity food. We tend to avoid pork in this present era of overeating, but in Okinawa it is a major pillar of the longevity diet.

History and characteristics of Okinawan Longevity Food
http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/10/2/159.pdf

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Okinawan Food
Learn About Okinawa

...the roots of the various popular pork dishes began with pork introduced from China in the 14th century. Moreover, ingredients and cooking methods as well as the spirit of “Ishoku Dogen, Healthy Eating to Prevent Disease” were also passed on through exchange with various countries. In Okinawa, dining is regarded as “Kusuimun” (meaning “something which becomes medicine”) in the Okinawa dialect.

The statements below comes directly from Okinawa government:

Ingredients of Okinawa

One of the most popular ingredients in Okinawan food is pork. For the pig, which had been introduced from China to Okinawa [600 years ago], all parts are consumed from the head and tail to the organs*. Pig’s feet, “Rafute”, or clear soup of pork tripe in the Okinawa dialect, and “Soki”, or spareribs in the Okinawa dialect, are famous.

Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau (OCVB) 1831-1 Oroku, Naha City, Okinawa 901-0152 JAPAN (Okinawa Industrial Support Center 2F)

http://en.okinawastory.jp/learn/food_okinawa/

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Okinawa Traditional Food Guide

Rafute

Rafute is a traditional Okinawa pork dish featuring thick cuts of meat from the pig's belly that have been boiled to become very soft. It was originally part of the cuisine of the Ryukyu royal court, but has since become a common dish.

An order of rafute typically comes with one to three pieces of meat, but each piece is quite thick. The meat is cooked in soya sauce and fish broth, and sometimes awamori as well. The pieces of rafute are sometimes served with a bit of mustard as seasoning. The taste of the meat is usually very rich and savory.


Mimiga

Another traditional Okinawa pork dish, Mimiga consists of thinly cut pig's ear that is boiled or steamed. It comes with a crunchy texture and is usually seasoned with a ponzu sauce, salt or a peanut dressing.

Yagi Sashimi

Yagi sashimi is raw goat meat, one of Okinawa's more challenging traditional dishes. The slices of raw goat meat are presented and eaten in a similar fashion as regular seafood sashimi. The meat has a rather strong goaty flavor and is somewhat chewy.


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Rapes Committed by US Military

The rape-murder of Yumiko-chan took place during "Bayonets and Bulldozers" – a period of US military forced seizure and destruction of 50,000+acres of Okinawan land (including entire villages), to construct military bases across the Okinawa islands. The seizures – usually at gunpoint – left 250,000 Okinawans homeless and without means of livelihood. Because the US did not allow Okinawans any real legal protections, Okinawans had no recourse against the US military violations of their property rights and human rights.

Okinawan mass protests, marches, and sit-ins date back to this period because the people had no legal power to resist the US use of force against them. The pattern of American soldiers taking young girls from civilian houses at gunpoint to rape (and even murder them) began during the early days of the US occupation of Okinawa and worsened during the 1950's violent period of "Bayonets and Bulldozers." Rape has been used by soldiers for centuries as a weapon to dominate and control local populations. At this time, the US military rape of women and children became synonymous with the rape-like taking and destruction of their land.

The 1955 murder of Yumiko-chan outraged the Okinawan public, sparking what Okinawan Moriteru ARASAKI calls the first wave of the Okinawa Struggle for human rights and property rights. Okinawan resistance culminated in the 1956 "island-wide struggle" (shimagurumi toso) challenging US military domination.

Korean American filmmaker Annabel Park's five-minute video interview of Hirotoshi Iha brings us back to 1955 by illuminating how deeply Okinawns have been injured by the pattern of US violent violations of human rights, land rights, and also why the US and Japanese governments have never been able to extinguish the Okinawan struggle for rights, self-determination, safety from US military violence, and peace.

Filmed in Takae in 2010, Mr. Iha explains why he became an activist and the deep meaning of the "Heart of Okinawa." Yumiko-chan was his cousin.

The life-long activist then explains why the majority of Okinawans don't want Futenma training base "transferred" to Henoko: "because we know the human cost of it."