It's no longer a health freedom movement,
it's a health responsibility movement.
What is the Health Freedom Movement? Tereza at the Third Paradigm suggests it should no longer be called health freedom, rather a health responsibility movement, including responsibility for the whole of our lives, our education and energy and food production. A bottom up, not a top down process, of taking responsibility, not of gaining freedom.
I have been thinking about this. Say we chose to only eat grass fed dead flesh because we can afford to. Was the land our grass-fed grew on taken from indigenous people who now subsist on junk food? Can everyone afford grass-fed?The fact remains that the vast majority of people can only afford horrifically treated, factory farmed flesh. How much are we willing to pay those who do the soulless job of slaughtering or the bloody job deboning and dicing, or wiping our grandparents bums or other menial jobs in our society?
So petrol cars allow us greater freedom to roam the world. What of the huge impact that drilling for it, retrieving and transporting it has?
At last some sense on this from the MidWestern Doctor;
‘About 60% of the US’s energy supply comes from fossil fuels, of which a third (20% of our energy production) comes from coal. My primary issue with our reliance on fossil fuels is that coal is highly polluting when burned and is responsible for much of our air and water contamination. Most of this comes from China, which consumes 54.4% of the world’s coal (the US, in comparison, consumes 6.6%) and has created significant pollution both locally and globally.
Unfortunately, due to the fact, we are now transitioning to less efficient forms of power (e.g., generating electricity from fossil fuels, transferring it across the electrical grid to a charging station, and then storing it in an electric car battery, all of which wastes a lot of energy, rather than just burning fossil fuel within the car) coal is often needed to make up for the deficit in electrical energy production.’
How will we address the huge imbalance in health and mortality between indigenous/ethnic and non-indigenous/white people? How will we address millions starving to death and millions dying of being too fat?
These are big responsibilities for a movement to address.
Though it most certainly must.
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I think part of taking responsibility for the environment and our fellow sentient beings starts with defeating the globalist's agenda. People are slowly waking up, but without freedom to make their own choices, we'll never have the world our hearts know is possible. Change is slow, that's just the way it is. It would be nice if we could stop drilling for fossil fuels, but until someone actually comes up with a suitable replacement (next gen nuclear), we can't just stop. Millions of people would starve to death.
So I'll continue to eat plants and support environmentally sound entities, but, at the same time, fight the globalist agenda so that when other people are ready to make better choices, they have the freedom and support to make those choices.
Thank you for writing this. It's something that we all have to contend with at some point. And when push comes to shove (as it inevitably will) people will not agree on what actions are best on an individual level or collectively. The collectivists will want to impose whatever solutions they come up with on everyone (such as vaxxes in the name of public health) and individualists will hold out for as long as they can doing what they believe to be right for them.
I've found that even among close family, extended relations and local community it's almost impossible to see eye to eye on any single topic or course of action. The last three years was an education in itself. We are "extremists", "radicals", "crazy people" because we don't adhere to the mainstream view. It is what it is. And if things get nasty (or nastier) then we'll be the first to rounded up or at minimum ostracized (again). Such is life.
On what to do... some obviously think they have the right to cull the population using various methods. It's not difficult to understand why they might act in this way. Most humans think it's perfectly ok to treat animals as food, a resource. The elites see us as a resource, nothing more.
Others believe we can use technology to escape the incoming collapse or at least to soften the transition to a new state of being. Possibly, but right now it looks like a pipe dream.
I personally don't think we have to return to caveman standards of living (hunter gatherer) to achieve some kind of sustainable conditions for life on Earth. We can evolve beyond our current adolescent stage to a new plateau where meat eating will be viewed as barbaric and completely unnecessary and unsustainable.