Rethink The Meat You Eat
Courtesy of Frederick D. Opie
More on the nutritional philosophy of the 1970s and 1980s group that East. The East operated out of Bedford Stuyvesant a community in Brooklyn, New York. When you spend time reading the newspaper Black news to come away with the perspective that members of the East held similar food rebel ideas as Dr. Alvenia Fulton and Dick Gregory. The East advocated a plant-based diet because of the problems that existed within the US food system when it came to producing and shipping meat to consumers. Starting in the 1970s, the US food system increasingly raised farm animals in doors in confined spaces away from the grass, acorns, and insects they preferred it. Instead corporate farmers fed animals less expensive corn. Farmers trying to survive contracted with corporations that insisted that animals receive growth hormones in order to grow faster and bigger. In addition, meat producing corporations butchered and shipped animals further distances before arriving at grocery stores and restaurants. Additional shipping time allows the decaying process that begins after slaughter to advance which reduces the freshness and nutritional value of the meat. Decaying meat producing extra mucous in the body. Excessive mucus leads to diseases entering the body through the colon.
