More and more my role as Your SVT coach is to help you elevate your health and heal your heart. Your food sources are an important part of this process. Today’s topic is sensitive. Please know that I am not here to be controversial, but to help you be informed, and propel you (and myself) into action….whatever that means for you.
Maybe we can all try a little harder to eat humanely raised meat. Why is this important when you are trying to HEAL and prevent SVT? Because the food we eat gives us energy, it gives us life. As compassionate human beings, we don’t want to eat or support violence. As SVT sensitive beings we take on energy that impacts our heart.
When I eat meat, I have bad dreams. I starting noticing this a few years ago. When I eat meat I get constipated. When I eat meat, I feel more aggressive, Can you think of any associations that you feel when eating meat?
Everyone has their own unique diet needs. Some of us like meat, love meat, hate meat. Some of us need meat, or don’t need as much. No matter where you are at on the spectrum of meat consumption….Animals need our help.
You don’t have to become a vegan, but you can stop eating factory farmed meats. Not just for the sake of suffering, but for the environment, for the sake of your own health and well-being, and for the sake of your sensitive heart.
I am all about giving solutions…here are some of mine:
- Eat less meat
- Experiment with other protein sources like nuts, legumes, hemp, qunioa, nut butters, tofu etc.
- Make Monday, meatless Mondays
- When you do eat meat, buy it from a local store or farm that supports animals being humanely raised.
- Buy Organic
- Buy Grass-fed
- Buy Pasture-raised
- Buy Hormone-free
- Look for Certified Humane meat
- Ask your local restaurant if their meat and chicken is factory farmed? organic? from a local farmer? humanely raised? Just ask..a manager is best. Know what you are ordering.
- Vote with your dollar
- Eat more beans!
- Watch painful videos about factory farming…it hurts but you will become more educated.
Don’t watch the video, if you don’t want to get upset.
Do watch this if you want to get upset, and then allow your hurt or anger to propel you into better choices, supporting animals, and trying harder to find humanely raised meat. Viewer discretion is advised. #love
In the United States our food animals are fed “commodity corn and soy” as feed. This feed is GMO corn and soy. The corn and soy are genetically modified and that is the trouble with the meat supply in this country. The changes that occur in the crops affect the animals and in turn affect our health, digestion and immune system. A huge increase in disease has occurred in our country in the last 50 years due to GMO’s….Help your health & your heart, eat clean, eat organic non-GMO food only.
We all need to educate ourselves about the sources of our food. My father worked for a feed company that sold supplements to farmers. Most farmers would grow the hay, corn or soybeans they fed their livestock, and add the supplements onsite. He told often of how farmers would routinely add the waste products of the sawdust cleaned from the floor of chicken houses after the chickens were harvested to the ground up feed because this was an acceptable source of urea and protein in the diet. (Google “Feeding Poultry Litter to Beef Cattle. There are USDA guidelines) Our cattle that we used for our consumption were always fed pasture, hay and corn,and the meat tasted nothing like what is in stores today. Consumer education is key to making truly healthy choices.
Thank you Cheryl for your valuable insights. I would love to hear even more! If you are ever interested in writing me a blog post article with your unique experience and take on this important subject I would love to publish it! Thank you!