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WEB POSTED 10-01-2001

Poison Animal Eaters

When I first became acquainted with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad�s term, "poison animal eaters," I, like most of my peers, thought that he was referring to people who ate a specific type of meat, which was poison, as distinguished from other meats which were not poison. I assumed, incorrectly, that meat could be classified as "healthy", and "unhealthy". Certainly, he wanted to get us to immediately give up the most poisonous of all the animals we were eating � the filthy swine (politely referred to by avid pig-eaters as "pork"). In his lectures and in his writings, The Messenger often stated, "No meat is good for us." Honor student that I was, and top English student in all my elementary and high school classes, I was completely thrown by such a simple sentence. I missed the "double-entendre," which consisted of the fact that not only was there not a single type of meat in existence that was good for us, but that the one type of diet which was good for us was a diet of "no meat!"

It took me a while, but I finally came to understand that The Messenger�s term "poison animal eaters" referred to those who ate any kind of animals, all of which were poison.

I don�t think I would get much of an argument, if any, by stating that only life can produce life � death cannot!

There are many who will raise the point that The Messenger made a distinction between various types of meat. This is true, but he never deserted his bottom line � "NO MEAT IS GOOD FOR US!" This is why The Honorable Louis Farrakhan stated to all his ministers, on Thanksgiving Day, 1984, "No Minister of mine will ever eat any more meat, ever again in life!" Soon after that, he made us to understand that the ban did not apply only to land animals, but to seafood as well. Many months later, he realized that I had obeyed, because of a decided change in the condition of my skin. Even though doctors had diagnosed it as a form of protein poisoning, it never occurred to me that my scaly complexion, which itched so badly sometimes that I would scratch it until I bled, was the result of my greed for animal flesh. Soon after I abandoned meat as a food, the condition began disappearing. I had not noticed the change until the current Supreme Captain, Brother Mustapha Farrakhan, pointed it out to both me and his father in New York.

Now, according to the news media, President Bush and his crew want to poison our children in their school lunches. A press release appearing in THE NEW YORK TIMES quotes Dr. Samuel S. Epstein as pointing out that, "The government�s assertion that irradiated food is safe for human consumption does not even pass the laugh test." Dr. Epstein is emeritus professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago. He is quoted as stating, "Exposing America�s school children to the hazards of irradiated food is reckless negligence, compounded by the absence of any warning to parents."

It comes down to the simple realization that death cannot produce life! Have not we noticed that portions of most fruits and vegetables which we eat can be planted and nourished and will reproduce the plant which produced it. But you can�t impregnate a steak or a pork chop and make it reproduce itself. The plants can do it, for they contain life. The meats cannot do it because death just cannot produce life!

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