In
this discussion with William LePar's spiritual source, The Council, the
questioner wants to know if we can substitute other forms of protein for meat
protein.
Questioner: I have a question about protein
complementarity. Nutritionists tell us that if you combine several incomplete proteins
that you get a high-quality protein. It
would seem that we would need to kill fewer animals if we obtained more of our
protein through combining non-meat protein sources. What about that?
The
Council: That is a temporary possibility
or, how shall we put it, a temporary condition that one can bring themselves
into, but over any period of time this is not acceptable. First of all, the full knowledge, nutritional
knowledge is not available or mankind does not understand what happens to the
nutritional value of the food as it is combined, and it is not just a matter of
combining different foodstuffs or products, natural products, it is how they
are cooked, what heat degree, what temperature, what manner. Are they boiled, steamed, fried, baked? All this changes, and since the protein is an
essential building block of the physical body, to try to reconstruct the amino
acids necessary for proper physical health and emotional health is a tremendous
task that man has not yet evolved knowledge wise. Do you understand?
Q: I think so.
C: So, for a short period of time, if one wishes
to take up a fad, then it would be acceptable, but it is not advisable for a
length of time.
The
physical body itself, if one looks at the digestive system, the structure of
the upper part of the physical body, in particular, the jaw structure, the type
of teeth, it is quite evident even to a novice that that structure is such for
meat-eating, but it is also a structure that is for nut-eating and of course
fruits and vegetables.
So,
this attitude of eliminating all meat from one's diet is pure foolishness. That comes from an approach of reaching
spirituality through physical means. One
of two avenues or two areas of thought is that cleansing the body of the meat
influences which are considered base and heavy and then rejuvenating it with
the finer quality or the less dense of fruits and nuts and vegetables and what
have you is taken completely out of text.
The purpose of the reduction of meat as a source of protein originated
many, many eons ago in a means of self-sacrifice in preparation of a deeper
insight. Now, basically fasting was the
vehicle. Fasting from this form of food
or that form of food in order to cleanse the body or reduce the density of the
body. Now, that is the, how shall we put
it, the bastardized concept of what was the original concept, and the original
concept was simple fasting as a means of self-discipline, nothing else. So, the act of fasting was developed as a
means of discipline of oneself in order to control the physical desires, such
as food, and replacing it with more control.
Do you understand?
Q: Yes.
C: There is so much concerning the physical body
that your scientists have not even begun to think about, let alone to realize
that anything is there, to attempt to eliminate entirely certain things from
the diet. We have said in the past and
we still say that your society, this society, eats entirely too much red meat.
It is not necessary, it is not healthy.
But at the same time to eliminate such products completely creates a
likened condition but through the opposite channel or the opposite means. Much of the growing vegetables, fruits, nuts,
what have you, that type of life, its nutritional value is governed by the
condition of the soil, and in some areas where certain minerals are in short
supply or depleted, combining certain vegetables or fruits or nuts in hopes to
establish the necessary mineral in the body is of no value because it is not in
the plant itself. Do you understand?
Q: Yes.
C: So there is too much information that is not
available, not in the awareness of man, it never will be. It is one of those blind alleys that leads
nowhere. Live with what is obviously provided for through nature. If you would all concentrate on demanding
cleaner food products or foodstuffs, eliminating much of the preservatives and
chemicals that are utilized in your food, you would not have to worry about
nutrition. But unfortunately that takes
an activity, and that means one must be productive, one must reach out and do
instead of simply dealing with one's own individual self. So it takes a combined effort of many people
to change what is being done to your food products or your foodstuffs today.
