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**HOW TO WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH A VEGAN**

**By An Ex-Vegan**

_"Vegans condemn what is."_

_"I look at what could be and say why not?"_

Copyright © 2017, Greg Dinneen.

All Rights Reserved.

Written and Published by Greg Dinneen.

Distributed by Smashwords.

ISBN: 9781370654161

### **Disclaimer**

Information in this eBook, is my personal opinion, and is not to be taken as professional advice.

Or, as a substitute for professional advice.

People seeking professional advice, should do so from appropriate, professional people.

### **Disclosure**

I have been a Vegetarian since 1971 because I like animals.

I still am a Vegetarian.

I was a Vegan for 18 of those years.

### **My Opinion**

_In my opinion, Vegetarian Diets are more humane, healthier, more sustainable, than Vegan Diets._

Some Vegan-Propagandists are even telling people not to make life better for Farm-Animals, because if you do, fewer people will want to be Vegans.

That is, some Vegan-Propagandists, have a vested-interest in Farm-Animal abuse.

Cynically putting their ideology above the interests of animals.

### **Acknowledgements**

I produced this eBook by using free and by donation programs.

OpenOffice, GIMP, Writer2ePub, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Digital Editions.

And, uploaded to Smashwords, by using FireFox.

# **VEGANISM IS BASED ON 2 FALSE ASSUMPTIONS**

_Which Vegans themselves disprove by their own actions._

**1: You Cannot Produce Animal Products Humanely.**

Disproved by Vegan Farm-Animal Sanctuaries, where:

a: Cows, produce milk;

b: Hens, lay eggs;

c: Sheep, grow wool.

So.

_Why don 't Vegan-Propagandists start Humane Dairy And Eggs Companies?_

_Why do Vegan-Propagandists tell Vegans not to make life better for Farm-Animals?_

Because.

If animal-products were produced humanely then fewer people would want to be Vegans.

Veganism is more important to Vegan-Propagandists than the happiness of Farm-Animals.

That is, _Vegans have an ideological vested interest in Farm-Animal abuse_.

**2: Everyone Can Be A Healthy Vegan – At All Stages Of Their Lives, Including Pregnancy, Lactation, Babies, Children, And Elderly.**

Disproved by almost all Vegans becoming Ex-Vegans.

Often because of ill-health, or irresistible cravings, due to the deficiencies in Vegan Diets.

Even if they were were taking multiple supplements.

As well as cheating.

And, most Ex-Vegans, including myself, who became unhealthy on Vegan Diets, becoming healthier by becoming Ex-Vegans.

I was a Vegan for 18 years, apparently healthily for 17 years, before returning to drinking Cow's milk and eating Cow's milk yoghurt.

I became noticeably fitter and healthier in a few weeks.

That has now continued for 8 years.

_And, even if it was true that Ex-Vegans "did not do it right" for themselves – how could they have done it right for their growing babies and children?_

# **SAVING ANIMALS 1000 AT A TIME**

The average Australian Animal-Eater eats more than 1000 animals in a life-time.

If you drank 4 litres of milk per week, for 80 years, then you would have drunk 16,000 litres of milk.

It only takes 1 Australian Dairy Cow, 2 to 3 years in a Dairy, to provide you with 16,000 litres of milk – a life-time supply of milk.

But, unfortunately, and partly because of Vegan Anti-Milk Propaganda, most Ex-Vegans, go back to eating more than 1000 animals.

Instead of drinking milk from just 1.

### **Cow 's Milk-Drinkers Are Happier, Healthier, And Live Longer**

A meta-analyses of 400,000 people showed that people who consume the most dairy products, have:

1: 13% lower overall death rates;

2: 8% less IHD [ischaemic heart disease];

3: 21% fewer strokes;

4: 15% less diabetes;

than people who consume the least:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2950929/

A meta-analyses of 1,063,471 women, showed women, who consumed the most dairy, got 15% less breast cancer:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21442197

Women who drink the most, skim or low-fat milk, are 46% less likely to get PMS:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15956003

Could this be one reason why there are so many bad-tempered, irrational, Vegan women?

But, what explains the bad-tempered, irrational, Vegan men?

Vegans get 30% more bone fractures:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17299475

If you cannot digest Cow's milk, you might be able to digest yoghurt, cheese, A2 Cow's milk, or Goat's milk.

For more details, see the above links, as well as Downloading my PDFs, from:

https://sites.google.com/site/vegetarianinformationcenter/

# **THE STEREOTYPICAL VEGAN-PROPAGANDIST**

I have been a Vegetarian since 1971.

I still am a Vegetarian.

I was a Vegan for 18 of those years.

I am now an Ex-Vegan.

And, as an Ex-Vegan, I have learned how to defend myself against Vegans.

**To me, the stereotypical Vegan-Propagandist is a self-righteous hypocrite, who:**

1: is pro-financing every form of animal-agriculture – by promoting and eating Organic-Food – fertilised with Blood and Bone, Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms, and sprayed with Fish-Emulsion;

2: is pro-vivisection – by promoting Rat and Mouse vivisector T Colin Campbell – and selling his book, "The China Study" – instead of exposing his book as an example of how vivisection misleads people;

3: cynically refuses to make life better – and tells other people not to make life better – for Farm-Animals – because if you do – fewer people will want to become, or to stay, Vegans;

4: does not care about all the animals – dispossessed and killed by ploughs and harvesters – to grow crops – when animal products can be produced without feeding grain;

5: does not care about all the animals – killed – to store crops;

6: tells people that drinking milk from 1 Cow is worse than eating more than 1000 animals;

7: tells people Vegan Diets are the healthiest diets – then victim-blames anyone who becomes unhealthy on a Vegan Diet – for "not doing it right";

while emoting on about other people being cruel to animals.

### **Who Not To Argue With**

I have not written this book in order to declare open-season on nice, polite, genuine, well-meaning, peacefully co-existing, Vegans.

But, so you, including you who are nice Vegans, can defend yourself against those obnoxious, self-righteous, bullying, abusive to both people and animals, Vegan-Propagandists, who enjoy feeling oh so smugly superior.

### **Who To Argue With**

Vegan-Propagandists who do not care about animals or people.

Vegan-Propagandists who emote on to you about your moral obligations and the plight of Farm-Animals.

_While cynically telling other Vegans, not to make life better for Farm-Animals because, if you do, fewer people will want to be Vegans._

Or, like Phil Wollen, "venture-capitalist for good causes", emoting on about how cruel dairy is, while refusing to start a Humane Eggs and Dairy Company, in which there would be no cruelty.

Vegan-Propagandists who tell people that Vegan Diets are healthy for everyone – including all pregnant women and all babies – even though some babies have died because of Vegan Diets.

_Human babies, like all mammals, are natural milk-drinking Vegetarians._

Vegan-Propagandists who selectively quote, lie, even fabricate "evidence", to try to "prove" Vegan Diets are healthy for all people, at all stages of life, including pregnant women and babies.

Vegan-Propagandists, who are not Vegans themselves, but are giving Veganism a bad-name, by using Veganism as a cover, to legitimise, their own abusive, bullying behaviour.

Vegan-Propagandists, who are cheating on their sham "Vegan" diets, anyway.

Vegan-Propagandists, who tell people that it, _"Really is very easy to be a Vegan."_

And, then victim-blame, anyone, if they or their babies get sick, with, _"You did not do it right."_

### **Famous Vegans "Who Did Not Do It Right."**

_Dead Vegans do not lie._

Leslie Cross – the man who defined the word "Veganism" – died at 65.

Frey Ellis MD – Nutritional Adviser and President of the UK Vegan Society – died at 59.

Jay Dinshah – founded the American Vegan Society – died at 66.

If Leslie Cross, Frey Ellis, Jay Dinshah, "could not do it right".

If Ex-Vegan Mahatma Gandhi, "could not do it right".

If the current 14th Tibetan Dalai Lama, "could not do it right".

And, if milk-drinking Herbert M Shelton, founder of the Raw-Vegan Health Lifestyle, Natural Hygiene, "could not do it at all".

Then who can do it right?

# **INTELLECTUAL HONESTY**

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, on 12th November 2015.

Intellectual honesty is an applied method of problem solving, characterized by an unbiased, honest attitude, which can be demonstrated in a number of different ways:

1: One's personal beliefs do not interfere with the pursuit of truth;

2: Relevant facts and information are not purposefully omitted even when such things may contradict one's hypothesis;

3: Facts are presented in an unbiased manner, and not twisted to give misleading impressions or to support one view over another;

4: References, or earlier work, are acknowledged where possible, and plagiarism is avoided.

FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_honesty on 12th November 2015.

**How Much Of The Following Applies To Vegan-Propagandists?**

1: Diverting the argument to unrelated issues with a red herring (Ignoratio elenchi)

2: Insulting someone's character (argumentum ad hominem)

3: Assume the conclusion of an argument, a kind of circular reasoning, also called begging the question (petitio principi)

4: Making jumps in logic (non-sequitur)

5: Identifying a false cause and effect (post hoc ergo propter hoc)

6: Asserting that everyone agrees (bandwagoning)

7: Creating a false dilemma (either-or fallacy) in which the situation is oversimplified

8: Selectively using facts (card-stacking)

9: Making false or misleading comparisons (false equivalence and false analogy)

10: Generalizing quickly and sloppily (hasty generalization)

FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy

### **Cyber-Abusers, Cyber-Bullies, And The Just Plain Bitter And Nasty**

Some young people have become depressed, anxious, even suicidal, because of the abuse they have had on the internet.

I have experienced abuse myself.

Mostly, by people claiming to be "Vegans".

And, "Ethical-Vegans" at that.

I was a Vegan for 18 years.

And, these "Ethical-Vegans", do not want me to tell people the truth, about the long-term health dangers of Vegan Diets.

Including deaths and brain-damage of Vegan babies.

It has not affected me personally.

I am old enough, mature enough, personally secure enough, to recognise these people for what they are.

And, since, almost all of them, are young enough to be my children, some even young enough to be my grand-children, I am not impressed by their dummy-spits.

But, if similar abusive behaviour is affecting you, your children, or other people you know, always remember that cyber-abusers are sick people.

And, that what they say and do – is a reflection on them – not on you.

# **HOW TO WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH A VEGAN**

_Yes, It Can Be Done_

Ask Them If They Eat Organic-Food

If they say, 'Yes'.

As most of them do.

You have got them.

Tell them that Organic-Food is fertilised with:

1: Blood and Bone from Abattoirs;

2: Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms;

3: Cattle-Manure from Feed-Lots;

4: Sprayed with Fish-Emulsion.

Tell them that Blood and Bone and Fish-Emulsion are not Vegan.

That they are not Vegans.

And, so why are they telling you to be a Vegan, when they are not?

[NOTE: If they say "No, I do not eat Organic-Food." My experience is that they are probably lying – especially if they say, "No", very aggressively.]

### **Now Lay A Guilt-Trip On A Vegan**

Lay a guilt-trip on those self-righteous, 'ethical' Vegans who so much like to lay guilt-trips on you.

ORGANIC-FOOD IS NOT VEGAN

Indeed, anyone, who deliberately eats Organic-Food, fertilised with Blood and Bone and sprayed with Fish-Emulsion, is not only not a Vegan, but a serious animal abuser.

Financially supporting, aiding and abetting:

1: Abattoirs;

2: Factory-Farms;

3: Cattle Feed-Lots;

4: The Fishing Industry.

Tell them that they are financially supporting every industry that exploits and abuses animals.

This strategy is most effective with those self-righteous, so-called 'ethical' Vegans.

And: This way you get to lay a guilt-trip, on those self-righteous pretend, Organic-Food-eating, so-called "Vegans", who so much like to lay guilt-trips on everyone else.

### **It Does Not Matter If You Eat Organic-Food**

It does not matter, if you eat Organic-Food, the point is to show these Vegan Propagandists that they are just as bad as you are.

Indeed, worse, because they add hypocrisy.

IF YOU DO NOT EAT ORGANIC-FOOD

And, if you do not eat Organic-Food, then you really can take the moral high ground.

By pointing out to them that by eating Organic-Food, they are financing every form of animal agriculture, whereas you only finance some, such as the dairy industry.

If you only eat genuinely free-range eggs, and never eat Factory-Farm eggs, then tell them they are worse than you because they are financing the Factory-Farm egg industry for chicken-dung.

THE LAME EXCUSES THOSE "VEGANS" MAKE

If they say they are only using by-products – say, I can use leather then.

If they say that little bit won't matter – say, my little bit of cheese won't matter.

You call also add, "Since you eat food, sprayed with fish-emulsion, and call yourself a Vegan – why can't I eat fish and call myself a Vegan?"

If they say I don't want to eat food with chemicals in it – say, fine, but stop calling yourself a Vegan.

And, do you really think that all those chemicals fed to animals; only come out in the meat, milk and eggs; and not in the dung, Blood and Bone.

You can also say, "You don't care much about animals if you would rather use Chicken-Dung from factory farms than super-phosphate."

### **How Will You Know If You Have Won?**

Usually, when you win, they will get angry, and refuse to talk to you.

### **Humane To Animals.**

Ask them about the Cows, Hens and Sheep at Vegan Farm-Animal Sanctuaries.

"Do the Cows, at Vegan founded Farm-Animal Sanctuaries, produce milk?"

"Do the Hens, lay eggs?"

"Do the Sheep, grow wool?"

Then ask, "Haven't you Vegans just proved that animal products can be produced humanely?"

If they say commercial milk, eggs and wool are not produced humanely.

Ask them, "When will you start campaigning for a humane milk, eggs and wool, company?"

And, "If not. Why not?"

Is it because if animal-products were produced humanely then fewer people would want to be Vegans?

Is it because Vegan-Propagandists have an ideological vested interest in Farm-Animal abuse?

### **Humane Milk.**

Tell them, that with hormonally-induced lactation, there is no need to get Cows pregnant to produce milk.

And, tell them, that if you drank 4 litres of milk per week, for 80 years, that is 16,000 litres, then you would keep 1 average Australian Dairy-Cow, who produces 5,500 litres per year, in a dairy, for 3 years.

You are not exploiting countless animals as Vegan-Propagandists claim.

### **Social Justice [World Food Supply]**

Vegan-Propagandists pick out the most abusive, most wasteful, most environmentally damaging, forms of farming, such as Factory-Farming, which even Paleos oppose, and then imply that is the only way to farm.

But, free-range, animal-plant agriculture, can produce more food, from the same land, with less labour, lower costs, and fewer inputs, than 100% plant agriculture.

While being kind to the animals.

For example, if you have an orchard, with a dam to collect water for the fruit trees.

"What do you do about all the long grass, that becomes a fire-hazard in summer; and weeds, that grow in the orchard?"

You could use money, labour, machinery and fossil-fuel, to mow the orchard.

Or, use herbicides.

If you are a peasant farmer, you could go into debt, to pay for all of that.

And, then perhaps, lose your land to the money lender.

Or, you could put grazing animals, Hens, Geese, Sheep, ... in the orchard.

To turn the grass and weeds, into eggs to eat, and wool to wear, while saving money, labour, machinery and fossil-fuel.

And, not go into debt.

And, you could put edible Fish in the dam, to eat the mosquito larvae, especially where mosquitoes spread fatal diseases.

To, produce Fish to eat, without any extra inputs.

By combining Poultry, Sheep, and Fish, with orchards, you can produce eggs, wool, and fish, with no added inputs.

Indeed, with fewer inputs – with less costs, less labour, less machinery, less fossil-fuel.

And, that is not only good for the peasant farmer – indeed, any farmer, anywhere – it is good for the environment.

### **The Environment.**

**Save Land.**

By combining Poultry, Sheep, and Fish, with orchards, you can produce more food, from the same land, with fewer inputs.

**Save Fossil-Fuel.**

By Poultry mowing the orchard, while turning weeds and insects, into eggs and wool.

**Save Water.**

Reduce Water Foot-Print – Green, Blue, Grey.

The Poultry, Sheep, and Fish, will not need any extra green water, the orchard is not already using.

And, very little extra blue water, beyond what they need to drink.

Since evaporation from the dams would not increase.

Even Grey water could be less.

Water Foot-Print Of Eggs Produced By Hens Free-Ranging In Orchards.

The Water Foot-Print of 1 kg of eggs could be reduced from:

Green Blue Grey Total

2592 244 429 3265

to: 0 20 429 449

**Reduce Greenhouse Gases.**

Greenhouse Gases depend on how foods are produced, stored, transported, and cooked.

Anaerobic bacteria in manure lagoons, used by Factory-Farmers, produce methane.

Free-range livestock, dunging directly on the land, fertilise soil, and sequester carbon, while the aerobic bacteria digest methane.

Methane: Rice, alone, produces about 15% to 20% of agricultural methane.

All livestock, combined, Beef-Cattle, Dairy-Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Poultry [hens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys], ... produce about 35 to 40% of agricultural methane.

That is, rice alone produces about half as much methane, as all livestock combined.

Indeed, rice produces more methane than Dairy-Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and all Poultry, combined.

**Water Efficient Milk.**

The average Water Footprint per litre [kilogram], of milk is 1020 litres of water.

962 litres per kg of fruit;

1020 litres per litre of milk;

1644 litres per kg of cereals [grains];

4055 per kg pulses [peas and beans];

9063 per kg nuts.

For Grey-water, used to dilute pollutants, to acceptable levels.

72 litres per litre of milk;

89 litres per kg of fruit;

184 litres per kg of cereals [grains];

734 per kg pulses [peas and beans];

680 per kg nuts.

Table 6, page 29, UNESCO-IHE [Institute for Water Education] Report 48, "The Green, Blue And Grey Water Footprint Of Farm Animals And Animal Products", Volume 1: Main Report; December 2010.

Green House Gases – Methane Efficient Milk

Dairy-Cattle, on pastures, can sequester carbon by dung-beetles burying their dung.

And, while anaerobic bacteria in rice paddies produce methane – aerobic bacteria, in the soil of Dairy-Cattle pastures, digest methane.

**Rice alone produces 15-20% of the annual methane.**

About half as much as all animal-agriculture combined.

About as much as beef.

And, far more than Dairy-Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Poultry, combined.

**Methane emissions from rice paddies: a process study summary.**

Ronald L. Sass

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Rice University

Frank M. FisherJr.

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Rice University

From their Abstract

_"Irrigated rice cultivation is one of the largest sources (approximately 15–20% of the annual total) of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas. This review examines the results of work performed over the past six years in which we have investigated the processes leading to the emission of methane from irrigated rice cultivation."_

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (1997) 49: 119. doi:10.1023/A:1009702223478

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1009702223478

**While all animal-agriculture combined produces 35-40% of the annual methane.**

From: Livestock's long shadow: environmental issues and options, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy, ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a0701e/A0701E.pdf.

# **DOING ANIMAL-AGRICULTURE RIGHT**

_Humane, Sustainable, Healthy, Profitable, Animal Products._

If animal-agriculture is not humane, sustainable, healthy, and profitable; then, _"you are just not doing it right"_.

There are billions of Farm-Animals.

And, with increasing wealth and population, world-wide animal-product consumption could double, yet again, over the next 25 years.

So it is important for people, Farm-Animals, and the environment, that healthy animal-products are produced humanely and sustainably.

### **Vegan Farm-Animal Sanctuaries Prove Animal Agriculture Can Be Humane.**

_The following is an outline of how to produce,_

_milk, wool, and eggs,_

_profitably, humanely, and sustainably,_

_using current technologies._

_If you are, or know,_

_an investor, a venture capitalist,_

_a dairy-farmer, or an orchardist,_

_who would be interested,_

_could you please email me:_

gregdinneen@yahoo.com

Cows, Hens and Sheep, at Vegan Farm-Animal Sanctuaries, produce milk, lay eggs, and grow wool.

Proving that animal-products, such as eggs and wool, can be produced humanely.

But, can animal-products, be produced humanely and sustainably, as a profitable business?

### **Humane Commercial Egg Production.**

Cut costs humanely by combining Hens with Orchards.

And, by using infra-red photography to sex-sort fertile-eggs before incubation – instead of killing day-old Chicks.

Hens can get half of their food for free, by eating weeds, insects, and fallen fruit; while saving the Orchardist, labour, time, money and fossil-fuel; on mowing, insecticides, and herbicides.

Sex-Sorting Eggs Before Incubation By Infra-Red Photography

The sex of a bird is determined by the egg – not the sperm.

So sex-sorted semen cannot be used to prevent male Chicks.

But, fertilised eggs can be sex-sorted, before incubation, by using infra-red imaging of the eggs.

And, so reducing cost of incubation and the hatching of male Chickens.

The few males, who did hatch, could be left to free-range in Orchards, where they could turn weeds, fallen fruit and insects into manure, for the 10 years or so, Chickens live.

### **Eggs Produced Humanely By Poultry Free-Ranging In Orchards.**

With all Poultry living a happy life, free-ranging all day in Orchards, producing high-quality eggs, until they die of old age.

They would only be locked in sheds, with plenty of natural air and natural light, at night, for protection from Foxes and feral Dogs.

Hens do not mind this as Hens sleep at night.

But, Ducks do, as Ducks are awake and feed at night.

### **Humane Commercial Dairy Farms.**

_Cows as Pets._

No-one gets killed.

No-one gets abused.

Calves stay with their mothers until they are naturally weaned.

[Heifers need never leave their mothers.]

Everyone is genuinely free-range.

HORMONALLY INDUCED LACTATION – INSTEAD OF PREGNANCIES

You do not have to kill Calves to get milk.

With hormonally induced lactation, you do not have to get Cows pregnant, to produce milk.

Lactation can be induced, by a 7 day course of 17β-estradiol and progesterone.

[7 days – once per year – compared to almost every day, for 20 years, on the contraceptive pill for women.]

Milking can begin 2 to 3 weeks later.

Hormonally induced lactation is a proven, cost-effective technology that reduces costs, and culling, by even inducing barren Cows into lactation.

And, reduces the number of Calves bred, to the Calves needed for replacement, or herd expansion.

SEX-SORTED SEMEN – 90% FEMALE CALVES

90% Female Calves, from using sex-sorted semen, means you will not have a lot of unproductive males to look after.

ROBOTIC MILKING

Robotic milking enables Cows to come into the Dairy, to be milked, whenever, and as often as, they like.

Some Cows enjoy being milked so much, that they come in to be milked, up to 11 times per day.

[You can program robotic milking to bypass Cows who come back too soon.]

And, because the Cows can be cost-effectively milked, more than twice per day, robotic milking can increase milk production, by about 10%.

Milking more than twice per day, also reduces mastitis, and damage due to overfull udders.

COMMERCIALLY VIABLE

Humane, sustainable milk, using current technology, is commercially viable now as a stand-alone business.

And, as technologies improve, and becomes less expensive, the cost-effectiveness can increase.

MARKETS and PROFITABILITY

Humane production means free-range, pasture-fed Dairy.

So, you have the environment-sustainability, gourmet, and health markets.

As well as the Vegetarian, Veganic, and humane markets.

For the first year, even the first few years, costs could be the similar.

But, with no-kill, you could eventually have 3 to 4 times as many Cows.

As well as some males.

But, not 3 to 4 times the costs.

Since off-farm costs could be the same.

Middle-aged Cows would still produce some milk.

And, males and retired females, are cheaper to feed and manage.

One could also grow Veganic-Food – humanely produced Organic-Food – from humanely produced manure.

Off-farm costs could be the same.

On-farm milk costs per litre might double.

Milk is currently sold from $2.25 to $6.50, for 2 litres, in Australian Supermarkets.

[Plant "milk" substitutes at higher prices.]

So humane milk could be sold at competitive prices – at a profit.

### **Veganic Food – Humanely-Produced Organic-Food**

The Cows are treated as pets.

So, the humanely-produced manure, could be used as humanely-produced Organic-Fertiliser, instead of the manure from Factory-Farms and Cattle Feed-Lots, that Organic-Vegans now use.

The Cows dunging directly on the pastures – also reduces the costs of spreading fertiliser and waste removal – as well as reducing methane while increasing carbon sequestration.

The Cow's pastures, naturally fertilised with humanely-produced Cow manure, from Cows treated as pets, could alternate with humanely-produced Veganic vegetable growing and cropping.

# **VEGAN PROPAGANDA AND VICTIM-BLAMING**

_"Everyone Can Be A Healthy Vegan."_

So why are there more Ex-Vegans than Vegans?

And, why do so many Vegans become Ex-Vegans, because of ill-health, due to the intrinsic deficiencies of Vegan Diets?

That no amount of supplements could fix.

And, why do so many become Ex-Vegans restore their health when they add animal products, such as Cow's milk, Cow's milk cheese, or eggs, to their diet?

_People only get sick on Vegan Diets because "they did not do it right"._

This is victim-blaming.

No matter what you did – Vegans will say - "you did not do it right".

If you were not 100% raw – Raw-Vegans will say – "you did not do it right".

If you were 100% raw – Soy-Vegans will say – "you did not do it right".

### **Some Points To Make.**

Vegan Farm-Animal Sanctuaries prove you can produce animal products humanely.

Vegan Diets are intrinsically deficient diets which is why most Vegans use supplements.

And, still have deficiencies.

Vegans tell people, without any evidence, that all people, at all stages of life, including pregnant women and babies, can be healthy Vegans.

But, even if it was true that the parents just "did not do it right" for themselves, then how could those same parents "do it right", for their babies.

Organic-Food is fertilised with Blood and Bone, Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms, sprayed with Fish-Emulsion, and is not Vegan.

Vegans deceitfully promote Organic-Food to genuine Vegans, without telling the genuine Vegans, that the Organic-Food is fertilised with Blood and Bone, Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms, and sprayed with Fish-Emulsion.

### **Prove It, Prove It, Always Ask Vegans To Prove What They Say.**

If they refer to T Colin Campbell and The China Study:

Ask them, _"How can you call yourself a Vegan when you are pro-vivisection?"_

And, _"How can experiments on rats and mice;_

_one survey of 6500 people in rural China – not one of whom was identified as a Vegan – and with no follow-up;_

_some correlations that do not prove causation;_

_prove anything about Vegan Diets?"_

### **Intellectually Lazy Vegan Propagandists.**

Most Vegan-Propagandists are intellectually lazy.

Vegan Propagandists just repeat false statements, over and over, without checking the original material.

The way Vegan Propagandists use the 2009 ADA Position Statement, which provides no evidence for Vegan babies, to justify Vegan Diets for babies, is one of the worst examples of this.

_It is appalling, that mothers, will actually put their babies on experimental diets, that have been proven to result in dead and brain-damaged babies, and miscarriages and still-births, without even looking at the evidence._

It is even more appalling, when these same mothers are eating Organic-Food themselves – fertilised with Blood and Bone and sprayed with Fish-Emulsion – while depriving their babies of milk.

While claiming to be "ethical" Vegans.

"Caring" about animals – while not caring about their own babies.

# **THE ADA POSITION STATEMENT – 2009**

_No Evidence For Vegan Pregnancies And Babies._

Two people – a Vegan and a Seventh Day Adventist – who provided no evidence for Vegan Diets for pregnancies and babies – wrote The ADA Position Statement 2009, that Vegan Propagandists use to "prove" Vegan Diets are healthy for all people, of all ages.

_"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases._

_Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes."_

_"A vegetarian diet is defined as one that does not include meat (including fowl) or seafood, or products containing those foods."_

From: Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2009;109: 1266-1282.

THE ADA POSITION STATEMENT 2009

Vegans use the 2009 ADA Position Statement to try to "prove" Vegan Diets are safe for babies.

Yet, "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that ... "

"Well-planned vegetarian diets [MY NOTE: NOT VEGAN DIETS] are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the lifecycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes."

### **No Evidence For Vegan Babies And Pregnancies.**

VEGETARIAN – NOT VEGAN

If you read page 1270, it says there is no evidence, for Vegan pregnancies, and birth outcomes:

1: MACRONUTRIENT AND ENERGY INTAKE DURING PREGNANCY.

"Four primary research studies were identified that examined maternal macro-nutrient intake during lacto-ovo-or lacto-vegetarian pregnancy (58-61). _None focused on pregnant vegans_."

EAL Conclusion Statement:

_"No research was identified that focused on macro-nutrient intakes among pregnant vegans."_

Grade V#Not Assignable.

2: BIRTH OUTCOMES.

"Four cohort studies were identified that examined the relationship between maternal macronutrient intake during pregnancy and birth outcomes such as birth weight and length (59-62). _None of the studies focused on pregnant vegans_."

EAL Conclusion Statement:

_"No research was identified that focused on the birth outcomes of vegan vs omnivorous mothers."_

Grade V#Not Assignable.

### **Soy Infant Formula and Seizures in Children with Autism: A Retrospective Study**

March 2014

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080488

Source: PubMed

Cara J Westmark

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Medical record data were obtained on 1,949 autistic children.

And:

_"There was a 2.6-fold higher rate of febrile seizures_

_[4.2% versus 1.6%, OR = 2.6, 95% CI = 1.3-5.3],_

_a 2.1-fold higher rate of epilepsy comorbidity_

_[3.6% versus 1.7%, OR = 2.2, 95% CI = 1.1-4.7]_

_and a 4-fold higher rate of simple partial seizures_

_[1.2% versus 0.3%, OR = 4.8, 95% CI = 1.0-23]_

_in the autistic children fed soy-based formula."_

# **THE CHINA STUDY**

_Pro-Vivisection "Vegans"_

Donald Watson, who invented the word, Vegan, said vivisection was the worst abuse of animals.

Now, Vegans are so desperate for any "evidence" for their diets, even some Animal-Rights, Abolitionist-Vegans promote Vivisection, by quoting, promoting, and even selling, Rat and Mouse Vivisector T Colin Campbell's book, "The China Study".

_Instead, of exposing T Colin Campbell and his pro-Vivisection book, by showing how the results he claimed he got from his Rat and Mouse Vivisection, have been disproved by humane longitudinal studies and meta-analyses, of real people, in the real world._

THE CHINA STUDY

"The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted"

Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D, and Thomas M. Campbell II

NOTE: I read this book in State Library of Victoria – 613.2 C15C – because I refuse to buy the book and so financially support a Rat and Mouse vivisector.

The China Study was written by a Rat and Mouse vivisector.

The results are based on:

1: T Colin Campbell's reductionist Rat-Vivisection, in which Rats [ _specially bred to be susceptible to getting cancer_ ]; on a diet of 5% highly purified casein [ _and not on a healthy whole-food diet of whole milk, yoghurt, or cheese_ ]; given as much aflatoxin in 12 days as you might eat in a 1000 years; did not get cancer, anyway;

[My Note: _A human diet of 15-20% Cow 's Milk would be less than 5% casein_.]

2: T Colin Campbell's one study of 6500 people, not one of whom was identified as a Vegan, in rural China, with no follow-up;

3: T Colin Campbell's correlations which do not prove causation.

Vegans then dogmatically declare, "The China Study", is "scientific" proof that Vegan Diets are the healthiest, for all people, including babies and children.

Even though T Colin Campbell's reductionist Rat-vivisection proves nothing.

The Rats, who were selectively bred to be susceptible to getting cancer, who were on a 5% casein diet, did not get cancer anyway.

And, you could drink 1 litre of Cow's milk per day, [30 g of casein], and still be on a 5% casein diet, if you ate 600 g of food by dry weight / day.

VIVISECTION

I have been an anti-vivisectionist, and eating a whole-food diet, since the 1960s.

And, writing about, and recommending, eating whole-food diets from the 1970s.

I learned about healthy, Whole-Food Plant-Based Diets, from anti-vivisectionists.

And, even from Herbert Shelton!

I did not, 50 years ago – and I do not, now – need Rat and Mouse vivisector, T Coin Campbell to tell me that a Whole-Foods, Plant-Based, Diet can be the basis of healthy diet.

Nor did Donald Watson – Founder Of The Humane Vegan Movement.

George D Rodger: _What are your views on animal experiments?_

Donald Watson: _I said that cruel sports were the bottom of the barrel._

_I think I 've got to move even them one up, and put vivisection at the bottom._

_It is probably the cruelest of all Man 's attack on the rest of Creation._

_Particularly since it hopes to give benefits._

_Even if it does, we must ask the question, after millions of lives have been sacrificed, if all this effort had gone into other fields of investigation, like simple reformed living, would not the results far outweigh the benefits of vivisection, whatever they may be._

From: 'Interview With Donald Watson On Sunday 15 December 2002', recorded by George D Rodger.

# **PLANT BASED DIETS versus VEGAN DIETS**

I was a Vegan for 18 years.

A real Vegan.

Not a cheating Vegan.

I returned to drinking Cow's milk and eating Cow's milk yoghurt, in 2010, after 18 years as a Vegan, because of an accumulation of deficiencies, that I did not notice for the first 17 years.

People are not natural Vegans.

Indeed, no Primate, is a natural Vegan.

All Primates eat insects which are high in animal protein, animal fats, and vitamin B12.

Chimpanzees and Bonobos – the closest genetically to people – hunt and eat gazelles and monkeys.

### **Vegan Diets – From Detox To Deficiency.**

Vegan Diets, especially Raw-Vegan Diets, can be very good Detox-Healing Diets, in the short-term.

And, many people have had 'miraculous' cures of 'incurable' diseases by going on a Raw-Vegan Diet.

This is because Raw-Vegan Diets can be very good Detox-Diets.

And, so the cures.

But, most people cannot be healthy, on Vegan Diets, long-term.

Because, Vegan Diets are intrinsically deficient Diets, for most people.

Which is why most Vegans use an ever increasingly long list of supplements.

Cheat.

Or, keep breaking out onto animal foods, because of cravings due to deficiencies.

Long-term, Vegan Diets can cause serious deficiency diseases.

Such as anaemia.

A tingling numbness in the finger tips, and ringing in their ears, indicative of serious nerve damage.

And, painful bleeding gums, which can lead to tooth damage and loss.

So.

While I do think that a Diet, based on raw fruits, nuts and vegetables, is the best Diet.

Based is the key word.

Because if you do not eat some animal products – such as pasture-fed, milk, yoghurt, cheese, or, genuinely free-range eggs – eventually you will almost certainly get serious deficiency diseases.

Including damaged teeth and gums, anaemia, and nerve damage.

This nerve damage can also lead to mental illnesses – including depression, anxiety, and panic-attacks – which are common among Vegans.

Vegans are also prone to emotional fragility.

And, as if you have not already noticed – anger-management issues.

### **A Healthy Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet.**

For a healthy plant-based diet I eat food from 6 groups:

1: _fresh, raw fruit;_

2: _fresh, raw or lightly cooked, in water, vegetables – including some raw green leafy vegetables;_

3: _raw nuts, other seeds, steamed potatoes, and other concentrated foods;_

4: _seaweed for trace elements that are hard to get in land plants;_

5: _some wild foods, such as apricot kernels and herbs, like dandelion and milk thistle, that still have nutrients that have been bred out of domesticated plants;_

6: _some animal product – such as skim, or low-fat, Cow 's milk, yoghurt, cheese – or, genuinely free-range eggs._

If you are lactose-intolerant, you can probably still digest some yoghurt, or the older, harder matured cheeses.

And, if you cannot digest United Stares Feed-Lot Cow's Milk, then you might be able to digest the more humane pasture-fed Cow's Milk.

Which most of Australia's Cow's Milk is.

If you cannot digest A1 Cow's milk then you might be able to digest A2 Cow's Milk.

Or, Goat's Milk.

### **The Long-Term Dangers Of Vegan Diets.**

For the long-term dangers of Vegan Diets, for all ages, and Cover-Ups, please Download and Read my PDFs, from:

https://sites.google.com/site/vegetarianinformationcenter

For the dangers of Vegan Diets for pregnancy, babies and children:

http://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet-veganbaby.html

For the long-term dangers of Vegan Diets for adults:

http://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet3.html

# **WHAT IS VEGANISM?**

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF THE VEGAN SOCIETY

[The original Vegan Society, founded in November 1944, by Donald Watson.]

_"In this Memorandum the word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude —as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment."_

_"In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."_

Defined by Leslie Cross who died at 65 years old.

### **Why Do People Become Vegans?**

_People become Vegans for the same reasons people become Ex-Vegans._

1: Humane to animals;

2: Health;

4: Environment-Sustainability;

5: Social Justice [World Food Supply];

6: Religious or Spiritual reasons.

_Some babies and children are forced into Vegan Diets – even though, it ought to be obvious, even to a Vegan, that babies are natural milk-drinking Vegetarians._

_And, since most adults who become Vegans – according to Vegan-Propagandists – cannot "do it right" for themselves – how can most Vegans "do it right" for their growing babies and children?_

### **How To Become An Ex-Vegan.**

_It really is very easy to become an Ex-Vegan._

I have been a Vegetarian, since 1971, because I like animals, and so do not want to eat animals.

I was a Vegan for 18 of those years.

And, I was a real Vegan.

I never cheated once.

I never even wanted to.

MILK WITHOUT GUILT

If you drank 4 litres of milk per week, for 80 years, then you would have drunk 16,000 litres of milk.

The average Australian Dairy-Cow produces 5,500 litres of milk per year.

So, it only takes 1 Cow, 3 years, to produce a life-time supply of milk, for 1 milk-drinking Vegetarian.

_If you use hormonally-induced lactation, there is no need to get Cow 's pregnant, to produce milk._

_You are not exploiting countless thousands of animals as Vegan-Propagandists imply._

And, if you ate 16,000 kg of plant foods, instead of drinking 16,000 litres of milk, you would probably kill more than 3 animals, by ploughs and harvesters, and during storage, anyway.

WHAT ARE NATURAL FOODS FOR HUMANS

Two foods, have been naturally designed, by animals for animals.

Milk and egg-yolks.

Milk was originally designed for baby mammals and marsupials.

Egg yolks to supply food for growing bird and reptile foetuses.

So, both a very good recovery foods.

EUROPEANS EVOLVED AS LIFE-TIME COW'S MILK-DRINKERS

About 7500 years ago, there was a mutation among some Europeans, that enabled them to digest milk like a baby, throughout their entire lives.

80% of Modern Europeans, including 90% of Irish and other Northern Europeans, now have that gene.

Which shows what a huge evolutionary advantage, Cow's milk-drinking, as adults, by Europeans, has been over the last 7500 years.

Indeed, in some parts of Europe, the milk-drinkers have almost driven the non-milk-drinkers to extinction.

Not by war, or persecution, but by the survival advantage of being able to digest milk as adults.

Similar mutations occurred in other parts of the world including Africa, India, and the Middle East.

30% of all people now have mutant genes than enable them to digest milk, just like a baby, right throughout their adult lives.

Yet, Vegan-Propagandists say milk-drinking is unnatural and unhealthy!

### **Doing Ex-Veganism Right – How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian.**

_By Someone Who Has Been A Vegetarian Since 1971._

_And, still is a Vegetarian._

For a healthy diet include:

1: fresh, raw fruit;

2: fresh, raw or lightly cooked, in water, vegetables; including, some raw green, leafy vegetables;

3: concentrated foods like nuts, walnuts are 6% omega-3, peanuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rolled oats, lentils, mung beans;

4: animal foods, such as low-fat milk and low-fat yoghurt, or genuinely free-range eggs;

5: seaweed for trace elements;

6: apricot kernels, and herbs, for nutrients bred out of domesticated plants.

# **WHY I WOULD NEVER BE A VEGAN AGAIN**

I have been a Vegetarian since 1971 because I like animals.

I was a Vegan for 18 of those years.

Never say never.

But, I would find it hard to imagine that I would ever become a Vegan again.

Because.

_There Is No Reason For Me To Be A Vegan._

**Vegan Diets are not healthy for almost all people.**

And, certainly not for me – although it did take me 17 years to find out.

Which is why almost all Vegans become Ex-Vegans.

Or, cheat.

No matter how many supplements they use.

**My solution to the humane aspects, is to be a Vegetarian, and to have Farm-Animals who are treated as pets.**

If there was no dairy then I would eat genuinely free-range eggs.

Or, have two pet hens free-ranging in my garden.

And, if there was no dairy and no eggs, then I would eat large, ocean-caught, sustainably-caught Fish, who eat small Fish, and so save more Fish than I ate.

**I do not want to eat meat.**

But, if people want meat, then eventually in-vitro meat will be cheap enough.

And, if they stop using Calf serum as food for the in-vitro meat, maybe humane enough.

**Vegan Diets are not better for the environment or social justice.**

You can produce more food, with fewer inputs, from mixed animal-plant agriculture, than 100% plant agriculture.

By, for example, having Poultry in orchards, turning weeds into eggs.

Instead of using fossil-fuel to mow the orchards.

And, peasant farmers, need grazing animals, to manage weeds and fire hazards, without the labour and expense of mowing and herbicides.

# **RAW VEGAN ILL-HEALTH – HERBERT SHELTON 'S COVER-UP**

_Natural Hygiene is a Raw-Vegan Health lifestyle founded by milk-drinker Herbert Shelton._

Vegan-Propagandists, like Herbert Shelton, have been covering-up the ill-health caused by the Vegan Diets they promote, while cheating themselves, since at least 1976.

_When I first read the 1976 interview of Dr Cursio, by Dr Bass, I thought of Richard Nixon and the Watergate Tapes._

This is my abridged version of an interview that Herbert Shelton refused to publish.

[Note by Dr. Bass: _The following represents the changes which have evolved in Dr. Cursio 's dietetic views over the years leading up to the present time, that is 1976_].

Dr. Bass: Talking about you [and your patients]?

Dr. Cursio: I'm speaking now of the women who came to me.

How these changes took place – especially in the care of children – so that we have here problems in the children when I followed the strict fruit program with nuts, and minimal amounts, compared to what I use now, of green stuff (salads).

The skeletal development wasn't right, the dental arches were not well-formed, teeth came in crowded because of it.

I noticed a great deal of boys were herniated – who had hydroceles.

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE THE 80 10 10 DIET TO YOU

Dr. Bass: Can you state specifically what diet they were on?

Dr. Cursio: Their diet would be predominantly fruit, nut proteins, a relatively small amount of salad compared to what they get now – they used to get one salad a day.

They'd have a fruit meal in the morning, a fruit meal at noon, and a salad at night.

In the morning, they'd have just fruit; at noon they'd have the fruit and nuts, and at night they'd have the salad, sometimes with nuts and sometimes with vegetables.

_First I noticed the hydroceles, nearsightedness, the skeletal development._

_And the musculature was not developed in these children._

_I noticed with other individuals – people who had been living this way and living, I know, 100%._

MISS NATURAL HYGIENE

_One of them – I don 't think he's [Herbert Shelton] going to publish this – with Miss Natural Hygiene._

_There were two Miss Natural Hygienes._

_One of them came to me with multiple sclerosis._

_And gum recessions, dental caries I noticed._

_But a great deal of gum recession and marginal erosion of the gum line of the teeth._

CLINICAL STUDIES MADE ON HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE

Dr. Bass: In sending this material to Dr. Shelton, shall I quote you?

Dr. Cursio: Quote me – also your observations too.

These were studies that were made on hundreds and hundreds of people.

What we call clinical studies and observations, in which there was a morphology, a clinical observation based on, rates of recoveries.

And also in post-fasting nutrition, when this kind of setup was used, that they rebuilt and were able to get back to a normal musculature.

There were individuals who came to me, for example, who'd never been able to go beyond the skeletal stage.

After you gave them blended salad, they started to fill up again.

Dr. Bass: And they wouldn't do it on the whole salad?

SOME HYGIENISTS

WENT BACK TO FISH-EATING

SOME IN A SLY MANNER

[My Note: _I recovered by adding only pasteurised Cow 's milk and yoghurt. I do not think that Fish is necessary._]

Dr. Cursio: _But the one thing that forced my attention to the defects, was the recession of gums and the marginal erosion of the gum line of the teeth._

_Why, in a so-called ideal diet, was this happening?_

_I didn 't want to go back to fish, as some Hygienists did in the past. _

Dr. Bass: Robert Walter?

Dr. Cursio: Yeah! Robert Walter and some other hygienists.

Some of them did it in a sly manner.

Dr. Bass: Tilden?

Dr. Cursio: No.

Tilden was not a Vegetarian.

These were Vegetarians.

The B12 and essential factors were missing.

RAW EGG YOLKS OFTEN WORKED WHEN SALADS FAILED

Dr. Cursio: _So hence the egg yolk and the cheese._

Also [anemia] in my own family.

No family was fed more scientifically.

We were unfired [raw] foodists.

They were raised that way.

RAW CHEESE

Dr. Cursio: Then I noticed in my generation, the second, the third generation that these problems began to show up.

That's how the [raw] Kutter's Cheese came to be.

When my daughter developed this anemia.

I couldn't get it to shift.

There was enough iron, the egg yolks were given.

The proteins were inadequate.

Dr. Bass: Was that the beginning of all the raw cheeses?

[My Note: _Pasteurised Cow 's milk and yoghurt was sufficient for me._]

DEATH FROM OSTEOPOROSIS ON A RAW-VEGAN DIET

Dr. Cursio: Look at my wife.

When I was 100% ... look at what happened to her, marginal erosion of the teeth.

_I lost one son._

_You want to bring that out._

_There were some deaths too._

Dr. Cursio: Jean Franton was carried into me [with MS].

The year before [that] she was Miss Natural Hygiene.

Dee Robins – one of the most gorgeous females, she died a most horrible death.

_She is in there [Herbert Shelton 's Monthly Journal of Natural Hygiene], as an example of Natural Hygiene._

_Died at 28._

_She was a model._

Dr. Bass: Of what?

Dr. Cursio: Osteoporosis.

Followed it to the letter.

Dr. Bass: Do you think Dr. Shelton will print this?

RAW EGG YOLKS

Dr. Bass: _Does that mean that one cannot live on nuts, fruits, and vegetables without egg yolks?_

Dr. Cursio: _You 'd have to go through a tremendous change, and I doubt that you could make it._

_You have to simply recognise that some of us can 't make the shifts._

### **Herbert Shelton 's Cover-Up**

Even though Herbert Shelton was a milk-drinking Vegetarian himself.

Even though Herbert Shelton asked Dr. Bass to interview Dr. Cursio, I have found no record of Herbert Shelton ever printing this interview.

Or, anything else that would have alerted Herbert Shelton's followers to what was happening.

Herbert Shelton wrote many books.

And, published a monthly magazine.

Herbert Shelton was not only the founder of the Raw-Vegan Natural Hygiene, so called "Health", movement.

Herbert Shelton was also a founder of the cheating, and the cover-ups of Vegan ill-health, that continue to this day.

THE VEGAN MOVEMENT

No primate is a natural Vegan.

But, the Vegan movement continues to promote the Vegan Diet, as the ideal diet, the most natural diet, the healthiest diet, the most environmentally sensitive, and the most humane to animals.

Even though none of that is true.

Even though so many 'Vegans' eat, and promote, Organic-Food, that has been fertilised with Chicken-Dung from factory farms, Cattle manure from Cattle Feed-Lots, Blood and Bone, and sprayed with Fish-Emulsion.

If Vegan was a natural, healthy diet then almost everyone who tried, would succeed without supplements.

But, most people who try any Vegan Diet, fail within their first year or two.

No matter how many supplements they use.

And, most of them, because of ill-health or because it is all too hard.

FROM DETOX TO DEFICIENCY

Many people have cured themselves of 'incurable' diseases, including cancers, by Raw-Vegan Diets.

Because of the detox benefits.

Just as others have by fasting.

But, if you stay too long on any Vegan Diet, or fast too long, you will invariably get deficiency diseases.

In my experience, which includes 18 years as a Vegan, Raw-Vegan Diets, for short periods of up to 3 months, can do a great deal of good.

But, long-term, any Vegan Diets, for most people, are the worst of diets.

# **FRUITARIANISM – TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING**

High fruitarian diets can be harmful.

But, my experience, of eating an average of at least 2 kg of fruit per day, for more than 40 years, is that eating fruit, in itself, is not harmful.

What is harmful, is not eating animal-products, especially dairy foods or genuinely free-range eggs.

### **Eating Fresh Fruit Daily.**

Dietary habits and mortality in 11000 vegetarians and health conscious people:

results of a 17 year follow up

Timothy J A Key, Margaret Thorogood, Paul N Appleby, Michael L Burr

BMJ 1996;313:775-9

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2352199/

In this Paper,people who ate fresh, raw fruit daily, were far healthier, with far lower death-rates, "from ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and all causes combined."

Even when compared to health conscious people, who had a death-rate of about half that of the general population.

Design-Observational study.

"In the United Kingdom, 4336 men and 6435 women, were recruited through health food shops, vegetarian societies, and magazines."

Results:

43% were vegetarian,

62% ate wholemeal bread daily,

27% ate bran cereals daily,

77% ate fresh fruit daily,

38% ate raw salad daily.

"Overall the cohort had a mortality about half that of the general population."

"Within the cohort, daily consumption of fresh fruit was associated with significantly reduced mortality from ischaemic heart disease

(rate ratio adjusted for smoking 0.76 (95% confidence interval 0.60 to 0.97)),

cerebrovascular disease (0.68 (0.47 to 0.98)),

and for all causes combined (0.79 (0.70 to 0.90))."

Conclusions:

"In this cohort of health conscious individuals, daily consumption of fresh fruit is associated with a reduced mortality from ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and all causes combined."

# **PHIL WOLLEN – VEGAN PROPAGANDIST**

" _If not Phil Wollen – who?"_

_"If not now – when?"_

Phil Wollen describes himself as a "Venture Capitalist for Good Causes".

I have asked Phil Wollen if he would start a Humane Dairy Company.

A former Vice-President of Citibank and Merchant Banker.

Phil Wollen is a wealthy man.

With wealthy friends and contacts.

A Vegan venture-capitalist with all the money, financial skills, business skills, and contacts, to start a Humane Dairy Company.

I have asked Phil Wollen if he would start a Humane Dairy Company.

In which no Cattle were killed.

All Calves were naturally weaned.

In which all Cows would be milked only when they wanted to be.

So far Phil Wollen has not.

Dairy-Cattle are still being killed.

Calves are still being taken from their mothers.

Phil Wollen continues to bleat about it – while doing nothing.

I think if Phil Wollen was a Vegetarian, and not a Vegan, he would be kind to Cows and Calves.

### **PHIL WOLLEN: "It takes 50,000 litres of drinking water to produce one kilo of beef."**

Phil Wollen, who lives in Melbourne, Australia, said, _"It takes 4,000 glasses of precious drinking water to make 1 glass of milk – while we will soon be drinking recycled sewage. It takes 50,000 litres of drinking water to produce one kilo of beef. To produce one Cow takes enough drinking water to float a battleship."_

Philip Wollen, "Peace, Ethics, Occam's Razor and India's Gift of Ahimsa": http://genthimayya.org/2008-philip-wollenoam/#more-184

Phil Wollen has since reduced 4,000 glasses of precious drinking water to 1,000 glasses of precious drinking water.

But, I still find this statement, and other statements Phil Wollen has made, unbelievable.

So, I have emailed Phil Wollen twice, for documentation for this and other statements.

Phil Wollen also claims to be against vivisection.

_"Mahatma Gandhi, my beloved hero, said "Of all the black crimes that man commits against God and Creation, animal experimentation is the blackest." "_

So, I also asked Phil Wollen why, in 2011, he gave his annual, "Winsome Constance Kindness Medal" – to Rat and Mouse vivisector, T Colin Campbell.

So far, Phil Wollen has not replied.

### **FACT: It Takes 18 To 540 Litres Of Water To Produce 1 Kg Of Red Meat**

_"The results of this study indicate that water used to produce red meat in southern Australia is 18–540 L/kg HSCW, depending on the system, reference year and whether we focus on source or discharge characteristics."_

Interpretation

"Including rain and evapotranspiration in LCI data used in simple environmental discussions is the main cause of disagreement between authors and is questionable from an environmental impact perspective because in the case of some native pastoral systems, these flows may not have changed substantially since the arrival of Europeans. Regarding the second factor, most of the grain and fodder crops used in the three red meat supply chains we studied in Australia are produced by dryland cropping."

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment March 2010, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp 311–320.

Cite as Accounting for water use in Australian red meat production.

From: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-010-0161-x

### **FACT: The Water Footprint of milk is less than for grains, beans, nuts.**

The Water Footprint, for fruit is 962 litres per kg.

1020 litres per litre [kg] of milk.

1644 per kg of cereals [grains].

4055 per kg of pulses [peas and beans].

9063 litres per kg of nuts.

Table 6, page 29, UNESCO-IHE [Institute for Water Education] Report 48, Vol 1: Main Report; December 2010.

NOTE: The Water Footprint for milk is not much more than for fruit – so the Water Footprint of a glass of milk – could be less than for a glass of fruit juice.

# **WHY I WOULD NEVER RAISE A BABY AS A VEGAN**

_Baby, you just did not do it right._

**Most people, who become Vegans as adults, become Ex-Vegans.**

Often because of ill-health, or irresistible cravings, due to the intrinsic deficiencies of Vegan Diets.

_Deficiencies that an ever growing list of supplements do not fix._

**If most adults cannot even maintain their bodies on Vegan Diets – how can babies be expected to build their bodies on Vegan Diets?**

Vegans can victim-blame Ex-Vegans for "not doing it right".

But, even if this was true, and they could not do it right for themselves, then how could they have done it right for their growing babies and children?

### **Why You Can Never Do Veganism Right.**

No matter what you did, Vegans can say, "You did not do it right."

Because there is no right way.

If you were not 100% raw, then the Raw-Vegans can say, "You did not do it right."

If you were 100% raw, then the Soy-Vegans can say, "You did not do it right."

People, who have only been Vegans for two months, can say, "You did not do it right."

Without even asking you what you did – even some people who have never been Vegans – can say, "You did not do it right."

_To do Veganism right, you would have to be eating cooked-soy, and taking multiple supplements, while being a 100% natural, needing no supplements, Raw-Vegan._

Can anyone do that?

_And, even if you were 100% Raw-Vegan – 80 10 10 Vegans could say you ate too many nuts – while Natural Hygienist Vegans could say that you did not eat enough nuts._

Does that leave anyone out?

No.

You are all sinners waiting to be condemned.

# **REFUTING VEGAN ANTI-MILK PROPAGANDA**

SAVING ANIMALS 1000 AT A TIME

The average Australian Animal-Eater eats more than 1000 animals in a life-time.

If you drank 4 litres of milk per week for 80 years then you would have drunk 16,000 litres of milk.

So, it only takes 1 Australian Dairy Cow, 2 to 3 years in a Dairy, to provide you with 16,000 litres of milk.

A life-time supply of milk.

But, unfortunately, and partly because of Vegan Anti-Milk Propaganda, most Ex-Vegans, go back to eating more than 1000 animals.

Instead of drinking milk from just 1.

**Propaganda 1: Cow's milk is high in saturated fat and cholesterol, and so is unhealthy.**

If this is a concern for you then you could drink skim-milk and eat non-fat yoghurt.

But.

According to a meta-analyses, of 400,000 people, those who drank the most milk, including full-fat milk, had:

13% lower overall death rates;

8% less IHD [ischaemic heart disease];

21% fewer strokes;

15% less diabetes;

than people who consumed the least:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2950929/

**Propaganda 2: Casein, a milk protein, causes cancer.**

Human breast-milk contains 5% casein.

And, in a meta-analyses of 1,063,471 women, the women who consumed the most dairy, got 15% less breast cancer:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21442197

But.

Pro Rat-Vivisection Vegans use T Colin Campbell's Rat-Vivisection, in which Rats, bred to be susceptible to cancer, on a diet of 5% casein, did not get cancer, anyway.

And, his one small study of 6500 people, in rural China, 'The China Study', in which no-one was identified as a Vegan, to 'prove' casein causes cancer.

**Propaganda 3: Many people are lactose [milk-sugar] intolerant.**

People, who are lactose intolerant, can eat yoghurt; hard, matured cheeses; or, drink lactose-free milk.

Many people are gluten-intolerant.

Should all Vegans stop eating wheat?

Some people are walnuts intolerant.

Should all Vegans stop eating walnuts?

When walnuts are 6% to 8% omega-3.

Higher than any Fish or Fish oil.

**Propaganda 4: There are no essential nutrients in dairy you cannot get in a Vegan Diet.**

That is not my experience, based on my being a Vegetarian since 1971, including 18 of those years as a Vegan.

And, it is not the experience of many Vegans, I meet, who are unhealthy, or on supplements, or both.

Even on injections.

Or, the Ex-Vegans I meet, who even with all sorts of supplements, became so sick, that they stopped being Vegans.

Sadly, most returned to eating 1000 Animals, instead of drinking milk from just 1 Cow.

**Propaganda 5: Many people in other countries do not use dairy products.**

Almost all eat Fish or other Animals.

While most Vegans are on supplements, as well as cheating, because their Vegan Diets are intrinsically deficient.

Most 'Vegans' and even 'Vegetarians' cheat by Animal-Eating.

In, "What do vegetarians in the United States eat?", 64% of self-defined US Vegetarians could not go 2 days without eating Animals.

"There were 334 individuals 6 y of age and older who identified themselves as vegetarians. Of these, 120 reported no meat, and 214 reported some meat (≥ 10 g meat, fish, or poultry) on either or both recall days."

From: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/626S.long

And, in "Perceptions and practices of self-defined current vegetarian, former vegetarian, and nonvegetarian women."

"Of 90 current vegetarians, 51 and 14 reported occasional use of fish or chicken respectively."

From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11902368?dopt=Abstract

**Propaganda 6: Dairy is not natural. Cow 's milk is for Calves.**

But, soy 'milk', made from soy isolates, with added inorganic calcium and vitamin B12, is 'natural'?

And, is for people?

People have been drinking Animal milk, as adults, for 1000s of years, in Europe, India, Mongolia, Africa, ...

At least 11,000 years in the Middle East.

Abraham gave his adult guests milk to drink 4000 years ago. [Genesis 18:8.]

3000 years ago, Moses was promised, by his Deity, a land, 'flowing with milk'.

While today, some anti-milk Creationists, think they know better than their Deity.

**Is evolution natural?**

Adult milk-digesting mutant genes.

If you believe that evolution, or even just natural selection, is natural, then it is natural for 80% of modern Europeans to drink Cow's milk as adults.

Because, in Europe, a mutation occurred about 7500 years ago, that enables adults to digest milk just like babies, right throughout their entire adult lives.

Similar mutations occurred and rapidly spread in India, North Africa, Mongolia. And, in the Middle East.

**Europeans co-evolved with Cow 's milk.**

80% of modern Europeans, 90% of Irish and English people, 98% in parts of Finland, now have that mutation.

These adult milk-digesting mutant genes rapidly spread, from originally about 1 in a million people, then, to about 30% of all people on earth, now.

Which shows what a huge health and evolutionary advantage, it has been to have had these genes. And, to use them.

Even while competing against people, who were eating Animals, Fish, and eggs, the milk-drinkers still dominated.

So, if you believe evolution is natural, then it is natural, and healthy, to drink milk as an adult. Mahatma Gandhi did.

**Propaganda 7: Why drink Cow 's milk and not some other Animal's milk?**

Cows produce far more milk, than other Animals, so you need far fewer Animals.

My European ancestors co-evolved with drinking Cow's milk as adults.

People, with adverse effects from Cow's milk, can usually eat yoghurt or cheese, or drink A2 Cow's milk; or other Animal's milks, such as Goat's milk, successfully.

**Propaganda 8: Bacteria and viruses in unpasteurised milk can cause illnesses in people who drink it.**

That is why almost everyone in Australia drinks pasteurised milk.

**Propaganda 9: Animals do not drink milk as adults.**

This is the logic of a vivisector.

Different species are different.

As Anti-Vivisectionists rightfully keep telling us.

And, most Animals, I know, readily drink milk, and eat cheese, given the chance.

There are no natural Vegan Primates.

Our closest evolutionary cousins, Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Baboons, ... hunt and eat, other species of Monkeys and Gazelles, as well as Insects, and so get Animal protein, fats, and vitamin B12.

A Gorilla's natural diet can contain about 2% to 3% Insects, such as Termites and Ants, which are high in Animal protein, and often high in vitamin B12.

Gorillas, can eat 100 grams of Animal protein, and 10 μg or more, of Animal Vitamin B12 per day.

More than most Animal-Eating humans.

And, I would have to drink 3 litres of Cow's milk per day, to get that.

Or, 1.2 litres, on a per kg body-weight.

Meta-analyses, of people, that's us, show that people, with the highest dairy consumption have a 13% lower all-cause death rate.

The Consumption of Milk and Dairy Foods and the Incidence of Vascular Disease and Diabetes: An Overview of the Evidence

"Meta-analyses suggest a reduction in risk in the subjects with the highest dairy consumption relative to those with the lowest intake: 0.87 (0.77, 0.98) for all-cause deaths, 0.92 (0.80, 0.99) for ischaemic heart disease, 0.79 (0.68, 0.91) for stroke and 0.85 (0.75, 0.96) for incident diabetes."

From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2950929/

**My Experience.**

If I did not drink milk, I would have to eat eggs, or Fish, or other Animals, to be healthy.

I have permanently damaged teeth, from my 18 years as a Vegan, to prove it.

As a mostly cooked-food Animal-Eater, and then as a Vegetarian, even with a high fruit diet, I had beautiful teeth.

Also, when I returned to milk-drinking, my athletic times improved 10% in 6 weeks. My energy, recovery, and consistency, even more so.

Cuts and scratches healed much faster.

8 years later, and 8 years older, I still feel so much better, fitter and healthier.

**"You didn 't do it right."**

There are 5 times as many Ex-Vegans and Ex Vegetarians, back eating Animals, as current Vegans and Vegetarians.

According to a 2014 Faunalytics Survey: https://faunalytics.org/how-many-former-vegetarians-and-vegans-are-there/

People, who claim to have been Vegans, for all of 2 months to 5 years, tell me I should have done this or that.

I say, I did.

[I was a Vegan for 18 years.]

Tell them why that did not work.

And, to come back in another 15 years, and tell me.

[If they are still Vegans.]

It would be far better, for the Animals, to teach people to be healthy Vegetarians.

As I do.

Than to set people up for failure as Vegans.

As Vegans Propagandists do.

**Propaganda 10: Green House Gasses. Dairy-Cattle produce a lot of methane.**

Rice alone produces 15-20% of the annual methane [half as much as all Animal-Agriculture; and, more than Dairy-Cattle, Sheep, Poultry, combined].

See: Methane emissions from rice paddies July 1997, 49: 119-127, doi:10.1023/A:1009702223478

And: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a0701e/A0701E.pdf.

[Livestock's Long Shadow.]

**Propaganda 11: It takes 1000 litres of water to produce 1 litre of milk.**

More selective quoting.

The Water Footprint, for fruit is 962 litres per kg.

1020 litres per litre [kg] of milk.

1644 per kg of cereals [grains].

4055 per kg of pulses [peas and beans].

9063 litres per kg of nuts.

Table 6, page 29, UNESCO-IHE [Institute for Water Education] Report 48, Vol 1: Main Report; December 2010.

**Propaganda 12: You can replace Cow's milk with plant-based 'milks' such as soy 'milk', almond 'milk', oat 'milk', rice 'milk'.**

These 'milks' are just very processed, very expensive, more environmentally damaging, ways of buying soy beans, almonds, oats and rice, with added water and packaging.

And, at a higher price.

Why not eat almonds the natural way.

Cheaper and unprocessed.

Oats and rice contain starch that needs to be digested in your mouth.

Not, drunk down without you chewing and insalivating.

Drinking starch foods, without digesting the starch in your mouth, can lead to abdominal pain, bloating, flatulence, nausea, and diarrhoea.

So why not eat dry rolled-oats, and chew, insalivate and properly digest the starch, instead of drinking the more processed and more expensive oat 'milk'?

Also, by eating processed foods, you cannot tell the freshness or quality of the ingredients.

The soy beans, almonds, oats and rice, could be very stale and very poor quality.

If they were raw you could tell.

But, not after they have been processed.

**Propaganda 13: Butter is a dairy product so choose margarine.**

Is hydrogenated margarine natural?

I would choose avocados, cold-pressed vegetable oil, or peanut butter, instead.

**Propaganda 14: Consuming dairy products does not guarantee healthy bones.**

No food guarantees healthy bones.

You need to do weight-bearing exercise to have strong bones.

As, the astronauts in weightlessness soon found out.

**Propaganda 15: Milk can be contaminated with drugs, fed to Dairy-Cows, as well as with pesticides and herbicides that contaminated the Cow 's feed.**

As the Organic-Food, hypocritical Vegans eat, can be contaminated by being fertilised with Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms, and Blood and Bone.

This faecal contamination of Organic-Food has led to outbreaks of diseases.

Leading to sick people, and some deaths, from parasites and bacterial poisoning.

Some Organic growers have used Pig faeces with lethal effect.

Just do an internet search for: deaths from eating Organic-Food.

**In Australian Dairy Farming 2013.**

1: The use of BST and steroidal hormones is not permitted.

2: Milk from Cows, treated with antibiotics, cannot be used for Human Consumption, until the end of the required withholding period.

3: Cows are primarily pasture fed.

A tactic of some Anti-Milk Propagandists, is to condemn the use of milk in all countries, for what happens in some other countries, where there is less regulation, supervision, and enforcement.

**Propaganda 16: Milk is frequently modified in different ways.**

Nutrients such as iron can be added.

Lactose can be removed.

Thank you for telling people that, they can have iron-fortified and lactose-free milk, if they want to.

[ _Personally, I do not._ ]

But, why make that a criticism, when you recommend the adding of nutrients, such as vitamin B12, and inorganic calcium, to soy 'milks'?

**Propaganda 17: Dairy products are devoid of fibre and almost completely devoid of iron.**

Is any one food a complete food?

My diet is based on raw fruit – I get plenty of fibre and iron already.

**Propaganda 18: Dairy products can block the absorption of iron and other important nutrients.**

So can things such as phytic acid and oxalic acid in plant foods.

Which is why calcium in milk is more digestible than in many vegetables.

**Propaganda 19: Most of the calcium in milk is not absorbed.**

About 30% of the calcium in milk is absorbed.

Which is about the average absorption of calcium, for all foods, in general.

When Anti-Milk Propagandists say, most of the calcium in milk is not absorbed, they are being misleading and deceptive.

**Propaganda 20: Drinking milk causes bones to lose calcium [osteoporosis].**

So how do the young of all mammals and marsupials – Calves, Lambs, Foals, Pups, Elephants, Gorillas, Kangaroos, ... as well as Human Babies, grow strong bones on a diet that is almost 100% milk?

How did I grow 6' tall with strong bones, and beautiful teeth, on a pasteurised milk-based diet?

And, wreck my teeth on a Vegan Diet?

**Correlation is not proof of causation.**

Vegan Propagandists say that countries, where dairy is consumed the most, have some of the highest rates of osteoporosis and hip fractures in the world.

These countries also tend to be richer countries where people live longer and do less physical work.

[ _Ideal conditions for osteoporosis._ ]

And, also tend to be further from the equator.

So people get less sunshine and so less vitamin D.

Milk-drinkers have 5% more calcium in their bones than Vegans.

And, if you compare people within the same country, as in the Oxford EPIC Study – Vegans have 30% more bone fractures than Vegetarians, Fish-Eaters and Animal-Eaters.

See: www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v61/n12/full/1602659a.html

**Propaganda 21: Humane considerations. Drinking milk is cruel to Cows and Calves.**

If you drank, 4 litres of milk per week for 80 years, you would drink 16,000 litres.

The average Australian Dairy Cow, produces 5,500 litres of milk per year.

So, by giving up milk you might save 1 Cow, 3 years in a dairy.

With hormonally-induced lactation, Cows can produce milk, without having Calves or pregnancies.

[And, you can breed 90% female Calves by sex-sorted semen.]

By becoming a milk-drinking Vegetarian you can save 1000 or more Animals.

By becoming a Vegan, you might save 1 more Animal.

Unless you eat Organic-Food, fertilised with Blood and Bone, macerated day-old Chickens, sprayed with Fish-Emulsion, ... as most 'Vegans' do – and so kill far more than 1 Animal, while financially supporting Abattoirs and Factory-Farms.

**Most Ex-Vegans go back to Animal-Eating because of ill-health from Vegan Diets.**

_Whereas, without all that Vegan Anti-Milk Propaganda, they might have become healthy Vegetarians._

_And, still saved the lives of 1000 Animals._

_Instead of failing to save 1001._

### **If You Cannot Digest Milk.**

If you cannot digest milk, then you can still probably digest yoghurt and the older matured cheeses.

If you cannot produce your own lactase, then you could add lactase to milk, as amylase is added to flour.

If you do not want too much animal fat then you could drink low-fat milk.

If you cannot digest Cow's milk then you could try Goat's milk.

If you cannot digest A1 Cow's milk you could try A2 Cow's milk.

If you are concerned about modern, feed-lot, processed milk – you could buy free-range, grass-fed milk.

Most of Australia's Dairy-Cattle are free-range, grass-fed.

# **SAVING ANIMALS 1000 AT A TIME**

_Which Diet Causes The Least Harm To The Fewest Animals?_

People argue about the healthiest diets.

But, what of the most humane diets.

I choose my diet based on:

1: _Living The Healthiest;_

2: _Using Animals The Least;_

3: _Enjoyment Of Eating;_

4: _Living The Longest._

The average Australian animal-eater, eats more than 1000 animals, in a life-time.

So, you could save 1000 animals, even if you stayed an Animal-Eater.

Simply, by eating larger animals, instead of smaller animals.

I have been a Vegetarian, since 1971, because I like animals.

I was a Vegan for 18 years.

But, after damaging my teeth, common with Vegan Diets, I returned to drinking Cow's milk.

Because, I found that by drinking Cow's milk, I needed the fewest animals.

While keeping healthy.

_One average Australian Dairy-Cow, can supply you with a lifetime of milk, in just 1 to 3 years._

If you are concerned, about the lack of quality of modern mass-produced milk, then you could buy Biodynamic Milk.

Biodynamic Agriculture does not exploit animals as much as Organic Agriculture does.

_But, unfortunately, and partly because of Vegan anti-milk propaganda, most Ex-Vegans go back to eating more than 1000 animals, instead of drinking milk from just 1 Cow._

**How Many Animals Do Different Diets Kill?**

**And.**

**How Much Suffering Do Different Diets Cause?**

Fortunately, the more humanely animals are treated, the more natural their lives, the healthier the animal foods are.

Ocean-caught Fish are natural animals living natural lives.

Genuinely free-range Chickens are happier, [ _be sure the Chickens are genuinely free-range – and_ _not just crowded into a diet yard_ ], and their eggs are healthier to eat, than Factory-Farmed.

Free-range grass-fed, with some supplemental food, milk and other dairy products, are healthier to drink and eat, than feed-lot grain-fed dairy.

And, meta-analyses indicate that people who consume the most pastured milk, yoghurt or cheese; fruit; green leafy vegetables; and ocean-caught Fish; are the healthiest, longest-lived people.

**STANDARD PRODUCE**

Animals needed for an 80 Year Life-Time Supply.

The differences, between the groups, are so great, so I did not spend a lot of time on exact figures.

**Vegan Diet.**

More animals are killed than for Cow's milk.

Animals are killed by ploughing, protecting growing crops, harvesting, and during storage.

If you eat Organic-Food, fertilised with Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms, Blood and Bone, and sprayed with Fish-Emulsion, it could be more than for milk, eggs, and beef, combined.

**Cow 's Milk.**

2 to 4 litres per week.

Yoghurt or hard, matured cheeses, if lactose intolerant.

1 Cow, 1 to 3 years in a dairy, for 8,000 to 16,000 litres.

Cows produce much more milk than Goats, so you need far fewer animals, for Cow's milk than for Goat's milk.

No Calves are needed if you use hormonally induced lactation.

**Eggs**.

6 free-range eggs per week.

40 to 80 Hens, and male Chicks.

0 if you have rescued pet Hens.

The number of male Chicks can be reduced by sex-sorting eggs, by infra-red imaging, before incubation.

**Fish**.

500 grams per week.

Variable.

A 125 g tin of Sardines can contain 12 Fish.

But, you could eat larger Fish who eat smaller Fish.

NOTE: Fish-eaters tend to be the healthiest, longest-lived Animal-Eaters. Big Fish eat little Fish. So by eating big ocean-caught Fish, not Factory-Farmed Fish, you could save more Fish than you eat.

**ORGANIC PRODUCE**

Organic Produce is Fertilised with:

1: _Blood and Bone;_

2: _Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms;_

3: _Macerated [ground-up alive] day-old Chicks from Factory-Farms;_

4: _Cattle dung from Cattle Feed-Lots;_

5: _Dairy waste;_

6: _Sprayed with Fish-Emulsion._

Genuine Vegans, would never eat Organic-Produce, because they would be financing Factory-Farming.

Indeed, anyone concerned about animals would never eat commercial Organic-Produce.

Because, the number of animals that Vegans would abuse by eating Organic Produce, would be considerably greater than if they drank milk, and ate beef, combined.

Vegans, who do not care about animals, tell me that they eat Organic-Food, because they do not want chemicals in their food.

As if all the chemicals fed to Chickens on Factory-Farms, only come out in the meat and eggs, and not in the dung.

Vegans should eat Veganic, Standard, or even Biodynamic Produce.

# **VEGANIC GARDENING versus ORGANIC GARDENING**

VEGANIC FERTILISERS

DO NOT INVOLVE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Veganic Fertilisers are made from plants, rocks, and synthetically.

Such as:

1: plant mulch;

2: rock phosphate;

3: synthetic urea.

And, natural manure from pets and natural free-range worms [not worm farms], as well as birds and wildlife visiting your garden.

ORGANIC FERTILISERS

CAN INVOLVE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Organic Fertilisers are made from:

1: Blood and Bone;

2: Fish-Emulsion;

3: Macerated [ground up alive] day old Chickens;

4: Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms;

5: Cattle manure from Feed-Lots;

6: Dairy waste.

### **The Lazy Person 's Guide To Flower, Herb, Fruit, Nut, Vegetable Gardening**

_Exotics Without Watering_

For the 12 months, July 2010 to June 2011, I used 3,000 litres of water.

8.2 litres of water per day.

For everything.

For inside and outside my house.

Including, washing, drinking, cooking, ...

And, for my pot plants.

And, for my indoor and outdoor exotic gardens.

Target 155 would have been 56,000 litres per year – not 3000 litres.

**CHOOSING PLANTS**

You can grow plants that:

1: are pretty or nicely scented;

2: produce food that is expensive to buy or hard to keep fresh;

3: look after themselves;

a: do not need watering;

b: do not need feeding;

c: outgrow the weeds;

d: are disease and pest-proof or resistant.

Many plants have one or two of these characteristics.

Some, once established, like Almonds, Apricots, Other Fruit Trees, Currents, Figs, Loquats, Raspberries and Roses have all three.

Some trees that drop their leaves in the winter, like Apricots and Plums, can be planted close to your house. They can provide shade during the summer and let the sun shine through in the winter.

Scented plants, like Lavender, can be planted under clothes lines so your clothes brush against them as they dry. And, outside windows so the scent blows into your house.

And, a pretty herb garden can be planted so that you can see it through your kitchen window.

**EASY FLOWER GARDENING**

Millions of flowering plants live well without human help.

Indeed, millions of plants live so well that people call them weeds.

For flowers grow bulbs, tubers, corms, rhizomes and succulents.

A combination of Dahlias, Tree Dahlias, Jonquils, Daffodils, Freesias, Dutch and Bearded Irises, and Liliums, can provide flowers most of the year.

Agapanthus, Alliums, Crocus, Gladioli, Grape Hyacinths, Lily-Of-The-Valley, Scilla [Bluebells], Snowflakes, and Tulips, can also look after themselves without watering.

In warm climates dormant Tulip bulbs might need refrigerating, each year, to keep them flowering.

Other flowers that look after themselves include: Azaleas, Cannas, Carnations, Daisies, Dianthus, Fuchias, Gazanias, Geraniums, Gerberas, Pansies, Pineapple Sage, Portulaca, Rhododendrons, Roses.

**FLOWERS YOU CAN EAT**

Flowers you can eat include Broccoli and Cauliflower.

As well as, Dandelion, Nasturtiums, Pumpkin Flowers, Roses, Violets.

Bergamot, Curry Plant, Rosemary, Sage, Oregano, Thyme are pretty flowering herbs you can eat.

**EASY FOOD GROWING**

Vegetables such as Broad Beans, Snow Peas, Jerusalem Artichokes, Potatoes, ...

And, fruits such as Cape Gooseberry, Tomatoes, Pumpkins and Zucchini, grow easily.

For green vegetables you can grow Carrot Tops, Chicory, Mint, Turnips.

And, Nasturtiums, Parsley, Parsnips and Rocket, which all self-seed easily.

Plant Broad Bean seeds in the autumn.

No need to water them – just let the rains water them in.

Rhubarb and Asparagus are easy to grow perennials.

So are many herbs such as: Aloe Vera, Curry Plant, Mint, Parsley, Rosemary, Sage, Stevia, and Thyme.

Stevia leaves are a very sweet sugar substitute.

**FRUIT**

For fruit plant Raspberries.

For fruit and nuts plant the trees that grow easily.

In my area that includes, Almonds, Apples, Apricots, Cherries, Figs, Feijoas, Loquats, Plums, Roses, Tamarillos.

A combination of Apples, Feijoas, Figs, Loquats, Raspberries and Tamarillos, can provide fruit all year.

In warm areas Oranges and Mandarins can provide fruit all year.

In cooler areas so can Lemons.

Meyer Lemons are relatively sweet.

**HERBS**

Many herbs grow easily.

Plant Chives and Mints in damp parts of your garden.

Lemon Grass and Parsley in moderate areas.

Curry Plant, Marjoram, Oregano, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme in dryer areas.

**EDIBLE WEEDS**

Edible weeds like Anise, Chickweed, Clover, Dandelion, Dock, Milk Thistle, Three Cornered Garlic, Pig Face, Prickly Lettuce, Purslane And Seaweed can have far more vitamins, minerals and other nutrients – and pest and disease resistance – than cultivated Lettuce.

**WEED AND FEED**

Weeding is not the most popular pastime in a garden.

So I think of weeding as mulch collecting on a sunny day.

Just toss the weeds, with their roots and soil still on, into large garden pots, finish off with a layer of soil and then plant herbs in the pots.

Or, put potatoes on the ground, near a fruit tree, and cover them with weeds.

As the potato bushes grow you can add more weeds but do not smother all of the new growth.

And, tomato bushes grow well if planted on the edge of a weed pile.

**BREEDING PLANTS**

Many herbs grow easily from cuttings.

Just pinch off a few inches of growing tip.

Pull off all but a few pairs of the leaves.

Then plant directly, in a wet season, or keep watered in a garden pot until established.

Other plants, that grow easily from cuttings, include Azaleas, Bay Trees, Currents, Curry Plant, Dahlias, Tree Dahlias, Geraniums, Feijoas, Figs, Fuchias, Mints, Oregano, Pelargoniums, Rosemary, Sage, Tamarillos, Thyme, Tomatoes.

**IF YOU LIKE FLOWERS BUT DO NOT ENJOY GARDENING**

Just plant the easiest plants.

And, forget about it.

Bulbs, succulents, herbs and flowers that like dry conditions.

Shrubs like camellias.

Some fruit and nut trees.

And, ground covers to provide dense shade to crowd out weeds.

**KEEPING VEGETABLES FRESH – THE FRUIT SHOP GARDEN**

For an instant vegetable garden go to a market or fruit shop.

Buy any healthy, disease free plants that still have their roots on.

Herbs, Carrots, Parsnips, Onions, Swedes, Turnips, Beetroot.

Take them home and plant them in your garden or in large pots.

Take off most of their leaves, to balance their loss of finer roots, and water them in.

This is also a way of buying vegetables and keeping them fresh.

### **Indoor Gardening.**

Indoor plants can make you feel good just by looking at them.

Indoor plants can be decorative, scented and functional.

Indoor plants can oxygenate and clean the indoor air of toxins.

Dry and deodorise a damp house and air.

Flowers, such as Boronia, can beautifully scent your home.

And, you can grow sprouts, seedlings and fungi to eat.

**HOW MANY PLANTS**

The more the better – light and space are the only limits.

**POSITION FOR SUNSHINE**

Plants need light so put plants on sunny windowsills.

Or, where the sun will shine directly onto them for some time each day.

**PLANTS THAT LIKE SHADE**

Choose plants that grow easily, in shade, and that you find pretty.

That can look after themselves when you go on holidays.

Some plants, such as mints and wandering dew, grow well in shade.

**SUCCULENTS ARE EASY**

**TO GROW AND LOOK AFTER**

Succulents, "Cacti Without Prickles", like Aloe Vera and other Aloes, Echeverias, Hawothias, Mesembryanthemums, Sedums and Sempervivums – grow easily indoors on a sunny windowsill or where direct sunlight comes in.

Most succulents are perennials that can live in the one pot for years and need little watering and feeding.

Many succulents, like Aloes and Hawothias, are disease, parasite, and Rat and Mouse, proof or resistant.

**PREVENTING DISEASES**

Buy healthy, disease resistant plants from reliable suppliers.

And, quarantine new plants, by keeping them in a separate room, until you are sure that they do not have diseases, insects or parasites.

**TREATING DISEASES**

Move diseased plants so they cannot pass the disease on to other plants.

Stainless steel pots can be sterilised by boiling water in them.

Plastic pots can be washed.

**WATERING AND FEEDING WHILE ON HOLIDAYS**

Succulents do not need much watering or feeding.

I do not water, or feed, mine at all during the three winter months.

And, in summer, after a heavy watering, succulents can look after themselves for up to a month or so.

**FEEDING**

Indoor plants are more likely to get diseases and to die from overfeeding than underfeeding.

If you are using garden soil, in your pots, changing the soil in the pots for fresh garden soil, once per year, could be enough feeding.

And you can mix in long life food, like mulch, compost, weeds or seaweed, with the salt washed off.

**WATERING**

If using tap water you can filter it to help prevent salt build-up.

If you use the filtered water, to rinse fruit juice bottles with first, then it can feed the plants too.

**SALT BUILD UP**

Salt can build up on the surface soil in pots.

This can be prevented by using filtered water.

If salt builds up, remove the salted soil and replace it with fresh soil.

Or, you can submerge the pot in a bucket of water, or bath, to dissolve the salt away.

**WEEDING**

Weeding can be done by hand while you are admiring your plants.

**BREEDING**

When a pot of succulents gets too crowded you can twist out the largest shoots or some side shoots.

Leave the wounds to dry out and then plant them in new pots.

**POTTING**

If you do not like potting then have slow growing plants.

Some succulents, like Hawothias and some Aloes, are slow growing and can live in the one pot for years.

I have had some slow growing, miniature succulents in the same 15 to 30 cm pots for 5 to 10 years.

**POTTING MIXTURES**

I never buy potting mixtures.

I just put enough soil in the pot to cover the holes.

Then I add weeds, with the soil still on the roots, from my outdoor garden.

This feeds the pot plants.

Then another layer of soil.

And, then the plant.

When re-potting I do the same.

**CLEANING THE INDOOR AIR**

Pot plants can keep indoor air fresh and clean by reducing toxins such as benzine, formaldehyde, ... and so on.

And, by releasing the oxygen from carbon dioxide.

**BEDROOMS**

Many succulents release oxygen at night and so are good to grow on bedroom windowsills.

**SCENTED PLANTS**

If scented plants, like Boronia, are placed in a pot by a window the scent can be blown throughout your house.

**DECORATION – INDOOR FLOWERS ALL YEAR**

While succulents are pretty enough without flowers – they are even prettier with flowers.

Most Aloes flower in winter but some flower in spring and summer.

Some Echeverias and Sedums flower in autumn.

And, Portulaca Grandiflora, an annual, is covered with different coloured flowers in summer.

**ALOE VERA**

Aloe Vera is very easy to grow as a house-plant.

The gel, in the leaves, is very good to smear on your skin for cuts, scalds and burns including sunburn.

**PLANTING INDOOR-PLANTS OUT IN YOUR GARDEN**

If your house overflows with plants then some can be planted out, in late spring or summer, directly in your garden or in 30 to 50 cm pots.

If they are not frost tolerant plants then put the pots under the sunny side of trees.

Boronia can be planted outside a window so the scent blows in.

# **POULTRY AS PETS**

_"Poultry As Pets Hens, Ducks, Bantams, Muscovies, Free-Ranging In Your Garden"_

The following information, is my personal opinion based on my personal experience, which includes my having had Poultry as pets, including Hens, Bantams, Ducks and Muscovies.

Pet Poultry, free-Poultry, free-ranging in your garden.

I wrote this, because most books on Backyard Poultry, that I have seen, are about exploiting, caging and killing Poultry.

Mine is not about teaching people to keep Poultry in cages and coops.

Often, under worse conditions, than some commercial Poultry.

Not about teaching people to kill and eat their pets.

But for people who love their Poultry as pets.

Who enjoy Poultry free-ranging in their gardens.

Not locked up in cages or coops.

**POULTRY – FREE-RANGING IN YOUR GARDEN**

**HENS AND BANTAMS**

If you have a back yard, of at least 2000 square feet, 200 m2, you have enough space 2 Hens or Bantams free-ranging in your back yard.

But, ask the gardener in your family first.

Bantams are smaller and less destructive than Hens.

Hens and Bantams only need water to drink.

But Ducks and Muscovies are water-fowl.

And, so they need a pond to be happy.

Roosters do not lay eggs.

Roosters just make a lot of noise, very early in the morning, that can be very annoying for your neighbours.

### **Poultry-Proof Plants For A Poultry-Proof Garden.**

Many plants are Poultry-proof.

**FRUIT AND NUT TREES**

In my area, almonds, apples, apricots, cherries, figs, feijoas, loquats, plums and tamarillos, grow very easily.

And, once established, are Poultry-proof.

Indeed, my Hens used to sleep in one of my fig trees.

And a combination of apples, feijoas, figs, loquats, raspberries and tamarillos can provide fruit all year.

In warm areas oranges and mandarins can provide fruit all year.

**HERBS**

And, a pretty herb garden can be planted so that you can see it through your kitchen window.

**FLOWERS**

Flowers such as tree dahlias, jonquils, daffodils, agapanthus, gladioli, roses.

Rhubarb and asparagus are easy to grow perennials.

So are many herbs such as Aloe Vera and mints.

**EASY PLANTS**

Just plant the easiest plants.

And, forget about it.

Bulbs, succulents, herbs and flowers that like dry conditions.

Mints in damp parts of your garden.

Some fruit or nut trees.

And, some shrubs like camellias.

**TREES AND SHRUBS FOR PERCHING**

My Hens slept in one of my fig trees during the summer.

During the winter, when my fig trees had lost their leaves, my Hens slept in my camellia bush.

**DO YOU REALLY WANT POULTRY?**

Hens can live 9 years.

Ducks for 20 years.

Will you want to look after your Poultry 10 years from now?

Or, even 6 months from now?

If not then buy a cuddly toy and a computer for entertainment.

_My Hens, Bantams, Ducks and Muscovies had free access to all of my garden._

_They were never caged._

If you are just going to keep your Hens locked-up in a cage or small run in your garden.

You may as well buy genuine free-range eggs.

But, check that they are genuine free-range eggs.

**HOW MANY?**

At least two for company for each other.

**WHAT TYPE?**

If you want beauty then choose Poultry you like the look of.

If you want a lot of eggs:

Choose egg-laying rescue Hens.

Not the meat-hens.

Or pure-bred egg-laying breeds.

Such as White Leghorn, Black Australorp or Rhode Island Red Hens.

**FULL SIZE OR BANTAMS?**

If you want eggs then full size egg-laying breeds.

Otherwise Bantams.

So that your yard looks 4 times bigger to them.

**COST OF FOOD**

If you have a large grassed yard, of at least 100 m2 per Hen, then all you might need to give them could be 50 to 100 grams of seeds, such as wheat, rye, rice, lentils, per day.

And, any of your leftover food.

**LOOKING AFTER POULTRY AS PETS**

**POULTRY NEED FOOD, WATER, SHELTER, SPACE, COMPANY, ...**

Hens are generally easier to look after than Ducks.

Hens live about 9 years and Ducks about 20 years.

If you want birds for pets then you could get yourself a couple of Hens or Bantams.

And let them loose in your back yard.

Rather than lock some poor canary or budgerigar up in some little cage.

**EGGS**

If you want pure bred birds for eggs then buy top quality White Leghorn, Black Australorp, Rhode Island Red Hens or Khaki Campbell Ducks.

Or, provide a good home for rescued battery Hens.

They can lay 300 eggs per year when they are young.

And, fewer but larger eggs as they get older.

**NOISE**

Roosters do not lay eggs.

Just make a lot of noise.

Enough to wake you, and your neighbours, at dawn.

**SPACE**

At least 100 m² per Hen or Duck.

Bantams at least 25 m².

In addition to this, Ducks need a pond, with at least 2 m² of surface area of water per Duck, some of which needs to be at least 50 cm feet deep, so that they can swim underwater and so wash themselves.

**SHADE**

Shrubs and trees can provide cool shade.

Make sure that there is shade all day.

Shady shrubs on both the east and west sides of your yard.

And, some areas of sunshine.

**SLEEPING**

Hens and Bantams sleep at night.

They like to perch in a tree or a shrub or in a shed.

Hens and Bantams do not mind being locked up all night, in a shed, since all that they do is sleep.

So if you have to lock your Poultry up at night, to protect them from foxes or other predators, then have Hens or Bantams.

Ducks feed at night, as well as in the daytime, and so they do not like to be locked up at night.

Hens and Bantams like to perch.

Ducks will either sleep on the ground or floating on the water.

In my suburban backyard, my Ducks slept under shrubs during the day, and on their pond at night.

My Hens slept in a fig tree in summer; a camellia bush in winter.

My Bantams on a windowsill.

They were never locked up.

**SHELTER**

Shrubs, trees and fences can provide sufficient shelter from wind and sun and rain for Ducks.

Ducks do not mind being out in a normal amount of rain, but Hens and Bantams need a shed, or large, very dense shrubs, for shelter from heavy rains that last all day.

**COMPANY**

Birds naturally live in flocks.

Except when they were sitting on nests of eggs my Ducks and Hens and Bantams were always together.

They slept together; they ate together; walked around together; and, the Ducks bathed together.

And, whenever one of them got separated she called out to the others and they called back to her so they could get back together.

Always have at least 2 Hens or 2 Bantams or 2 Ducks for company.

Preferably get them together, or at the same time, to prevent possible fights over territory.

**WATER**

Hens and Bantams are descended from jungle fowl and only need water to drink.

To bathe, Hens and Bantams have dust baths in dry garden soil.

However, Ducks are water fowl.

Ducks need water to eat with and swim and wash themselves in.

Ducks naturally live in lakes and rivers and are adapted to those conditions.

So Ducks need, shade and water, as well as sunshine.

**DUCK PONDS**

Ducks need a pond to wash themselves in.

But not a muddy, overstocked area, that will eventually lead to the ruining of the water proofing of their feathers.

You can dig a hole in clay and it can be waterproof without lining it.

Ponds in sandy soil need lining.

**FOOD AND FEEDING**

_Hens do not have any teeth and so Hens need some grit in their diet to grind their food._

**FOOD**

Poultry eat green leaves, fruit, seeds, flowers, insects, ...

Indeed, anything that they can get down.

I even saw one of my Hens catch and eat a mouse.

You can also give them anything that you eat and leftover food.

You can feed eggs and egg shells to Ducks but do not feed eggs, or egg shells, to Hens as they might learn to become egg eaters.

Hens have sharper beaks than Ducks and so can break up and eat harder food than Ducks.

In a large grassed garden, or yard, of at least 100 square metres per bird, Poultry will eat plants and insects in the yard, and all that you will need to give them is some seed.

About 50 to 100 grams of seeds per Hen or Duck every day.

Adult Hens and Ducks will eat wheat, rice, oats, rye, ...

But, Chickens and Ducklings find these seeds too big to get down.

I raised my Ducklings on mixed canary and mixed budgerigar seed.

In a saucer of water to make it easier for the Ducklings to suck up the seeds.

Plus whatever else they ate in my large, grassed garden.

As well as rice, I fed my Ducks bread and lettuce leaves and, when available, tomatoes, watermelon, figs and other soft fruits.

Ducklings particularly like to suck up the seeds from broken up tomatoes.

**FEEDING**

If you have allowed 100 square metres per Hen, or Duck, they can get all of the green food and insects that they need.

Otherwise, they will need extra green food.

In addition to this, all Poultry need concentrated foods like oats, wheat, rice, rye or other seeds.

Rice can be left out for Ducks, all of the time, by putting it in a stainless steel or ceramic bowl of water.

The Ducks can eat the rice under water but other birds, rats and mice will not be able to.

For Hens and Bantams, eating a lot of green food and insects in a large, grassed garden, hand feed as much wheat, or other seed, as they will eat twice per day.

About 50 to 100 grams per bird per day.

Ducks will share one pile of food.

But, scatter the food that you give to Hens, and Bantams, so the bossy ones cannot stop the others from eating.

### **Adopting Or Buying Poultry As Pets**

If you have the time and the space.  
Then Poultry can make good pets.  
Hens are easier to look after than Ducks.  
And, some breeds lay a lot of eggs too.

 **EGGS FROM HENS RESCUED FROM FACTORY-FARMS**

Do you love eggs.  
But, never buy them.  
Because, you do like the way commercial Hens are treated.

If you like Hens as pets, and have the space, and the time to look after them.  
Then you could adopt 2 egg-laying Hens rescued from factory farms.

You could have Poultry as pets.

My Hens lived in my large suburban back yard and were never locked up.

And, I kept them until they died of old age.  
[Hens live about 9 years.]

 **POULTRY FOR ADOPTION FROM ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANISATIONS**

Unfortunately, these are often roosters, who make a lot of noise, and never lay eggs.

 **POULTRY FOR EGGS**

If you want a lot of eggs then choose Hens who were bred to lay eggs.  
Poultry, who are bred for meat, produce far fewer eggs.

 **BUYING POULTRY**

If you are buying Poultry then buy from proper breeders – like Poultry Show Breeders.

Do not buy from markets.  
They can be wormy and diseased.  
And, the sellers can be dishonest.

Can you tell a Drake from a Duck?  
I have seen drakes being sold as Ducks at one of Melbourne's oldest and biggest markets.

When I asked the seller if they were Ducks that would lay eggs.  
He said, yes.  
Even though it was obvious, to anyone who knew Poultry, that they were drakes who were never going to lay eggs.

 **PURE-BRED SHOW POULTRY**

If you want pure-bred Show Poultry then go to a Poultry Show.

Or, contact an organisation such as:

Poultry Stud Breeders and Exhibitors Victoria (PSBEV):  
www.psbev.com.au

The Poultry Stud Breeders and Exhibitors Victoria (PSBEV) represents 43 affiliated clubs and societies across the state.

Or, a similar organisation, in your state or country.

# **BIRD GARDENS – AVIARIES WITHOUT WALLS**

_Friendships are based on kindness and consideration – not cages and subjugation._

Rather than keeping birds, as prisoners, in cages, you can make a virtual aviary with real birds.

VIRTUAL AVIARIES

The simplest way to have lots of different birds, in your garden, is to put birdbaths, or ponds, outside your windows.

And, then watch the free birds through your windows.

Put some dirt and water plants in the ponds.

To make the ponds shallow so the birds can climb out without drowning.

And, some prickly shrubs nearby for the birds to groom and dry themselves.

And, maybe even make their nests.

Safe from cats.

Then, through your windows, you can watch and hear a variety of birds singing, drinking, bathing, splashing, drying and grooming, feeding and perhaps nesting.

Through my lounge and kitchen windows I often see rosellas, honey eaters, wrens, doves, blackbirds, ...

Sometimes thrushes, cockatoos, kookaburras, ravens, ...

When the grass has gone to seed I see finches eating the grass seeds and drinking the water.

And, I hear the free birds singing happily all day long.

FOOD

You can also plant some nectar producing plants, fruit or nut trees, seed producing grasses and dandelion near the pond or birdbath.

These can attract nectar, fruit and seed eating birds.

Pineapple sage, fuchsias and rosemary flower and produce nectar throughout the winter.

Peach trees have beautiful pink blossom during the winter.

Most grasses produce seed.

And, if you do not use insecticides in your garden, you can also attract insect eating birds.

MAKING A BIRDBATH

Almost anything, that is not toxic and holds water, can be turned into a birdbath.

I have used 30 cm plastic garden planters, a 75 cm square enamel baby bath and an adult bath.

I fill them with soil, to make them shallow, and plants, so the birds can climb out and not drown.

SAFETY!!!

DO NOT LET BIRDS AND MOTHS DROWN IN YOUR BIRDBATHS

Birds only need shallow water to drink and bathe in.

Birds can bathe in a puddle.

But, if your birdbath has steep sides, birds and moths can drown.

Unless, you fill the birdbath up with soil and plants, so the birds and moths can climb out.

BEES

If you have some very shallow water then bees can have a drink as well as fertilise your plants.

A flat rock, gently sloping into the water, can be a good ramp for Bees.

FROGS

If you do not have Fish in your ponds Frogs can breed in them.

KEEPING THE WATER CLEAN

Plants, like water grasses and mints, can keep water clean by using up excess nutrients.

If the water is becoming stagnant change it for fresh water.

Smaller birdbaths can dry up, in hot weather, so I add water to them.

However, I have had some of my bird baths for years without changing or adding any water.

I have used a human bath, filled with dirt and plants, so the birds do not drown in it, as a birdbath in my garden for 12 years.

The plants keep the water clean.

The rain keeps filling the bath.

The frogs keep breeding.

SIMPLICITY

Having a pond and birdbaths, to look at through your windows, is better for you, as well as the birds.

No cage means that you will not have to clean the cage.

And, you can go on holidays and the pond and birds and plants can look after themselves.

EXTRA FEEDING FOR VISITING WILDLIFE BIRDS

I do not feed the wildlife birds regularly.

I throw leftover food outside my kitchen window in the morning, for wildlife birds, or evening, for possums.

But, water alone will attract most birds, since most birds need water to bathe in as well as to drink.

And, in the summer, wildlife birds need extra water more than extra food.

# **FISH HAVE FEELINGS TOO!**

_Do Fish have brains and central nervous systems so as not to feel?_

A VIRTUAL AQUARIUM

I walked into a computer shop and noticed what I thought was an aquarium with Fish and plants in it.

It looked so realistic that if I had been in an aquarium shop I could have thought that it really was a real aquarium.

SETTING UP A VIRTUAL AQUARIUM

Rather than keeping Fish as prisoners in aquariums one can have a fish screen saver.

The computer screen can be mounted on a wall, or in a cabinet, to make it look like an aquarium.

A VIRTUAL AVIARY WITH VIRTUAL BIRDS

Similarly, one could have a bird screen saver with the birds singing.

Or, if you have an old cage, you could put lifelike ceramic or resin birds in it.

And, add other things like a nest with ceramic eggs.

And, since you do not have to feed and water artificial birds, you can go on holidays and the artificial birds can look after themselves.

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE BIRDS OR FISH

You could make a bigger aviary or pond for them.

And, your fish pond can double as a birdbath.

MAKING A POND

If you live in an area with heavy clay you can dig a little dam.

When I had Ducks I dug a pond, in clay, about 5 metres by 5 metres and about 50 cm deep, for them.

In heavy clay it was waterproof.

If you have sandy or rocky soil, and not clay, you will need to line the pond to make it waterproof.

Or, buy a prefabricated pond.

MOSQUITOES

Fish eat mosquito larvae and so can stop mosquitoes breeding.

Unfortunately, Fish also eat Tadpoles.

# **HOW TO BE YOUR DOG 'S BEST FRIEND**

_The Tao Of Dog Trainers._

THE WORST DOG TRAINERS

The worst dog trainers are the abusive bullies.

Projecting their own bullying, abusive behaviour and attitudes onto dogs.

Using abusive, threatening body-language, guttural sounds, hitting, kicking, poking, jerking leads, choker-chains, head-halters, shock-collars, ... and all manner of punishments and abuse.

Using intimidation to subjugate dogs.

Are feared, hated.

By dogs.

THE WELL-MEANING DOG TRAINERS

Then there are the well-meaning who use treats and rewards to bribe dogs.

Although far better, and far saner, than the abusive bullies.

They still regard dogs as objects to be conditioned.

Are liked.

By dogs.

THE BEST DOG TRAINERS

But, the best, do not train dogs at all.

The best form supportive friendships with dogs.

Teach and learn from dogs with kindness, playing, affection and support.

As one friend to another.

As one intelligent being to another.

Love.

And.

Are loved.

By dogs.

### **Abusive Professional Dog Trainers.**

In Australia, all you need to become a professional dog trainer, is a Year 10 Education or less, and a willingness to work for low pay.

Which could explain why too many professional dog trainers combine low intelligence, a bullying "shut-up-and-do-what-you-are-told" attitude, with very little understanding of dog behaviour.

And, not just in Australia.

I did an internet search for "dog training".

And, this ignorance came up on the first page:

DOG TRAINING - Canine Advice, Tips and Tutorials | Cesar ...

Cesar Millan

A dog's mother begins puppy training from birth. She training puppies to wait for food; she controls when they play and how far they travel. When dog training ...

The Basics - Dog Walk Etiquette Part 1 - Discipline - Dog Training

"A dog's mother begins puppy training from birth. She training puppies to wait for food; she controls when they play and how far they travel."

Such ignorance!!!

I have had four generations of Beagles.

I have had Beagles from the cradle to the grave.

English Hunting Beagles.

Who ate dinner with me.

Slept on my bed at night.

And, never once, did I see a mother, "training puppies to wait for food".

The pups did what they liked – while their mothers fed and cleaned up after them.

The pups woke when they felt like it.

Drank as much milk from their mothers as they felt like.

Played for as long as they liked.

Before going back to sleep again.

When they felt like it.

While their mothers fed and cleaned up after them.

[Sound familiar to any of you human mothers out there?]

As the pups teeth get bigger, pups start to nip their mother, while drinking her milk.

One day, when her pups were drinking from one of my Beagles, one of her pups nipped her.

She told the pup off.

Her pup went straight back to drinking from her.

Nipped her a second time.

While telling that pup off again a different pup nipped her.

So, then, the "she controls" mother, ran off, to get away from them.

Dogs are not control-freaks.

But, unfortunately, too many dog trainers are.

### **Teaching Your Dogs With Kindness.**

_As one friend to another._

My kindness approach works.

Because dogs do like to please those who are kind to them.

I got my Beagles over any fears with back rubs and soothing words.

House-trained my Beagles in 2 days.  
And the effect lasted a life-time.

I taught my Beagles to cross roads.  
So well.  
With affection.  
That we used to walk off-lead all the time.  
All around the inner suburbs of Melbourne.

For nearly 20 years and more than 10,000 hours.

[My adult Beagles were always off-lead. Regarding leads as an indignity. Suitable only for pups on L-Plates.]

[NOTE: _It can take as long as 6 months, of almost daily walks, crossing main roads at least a 1000 times, starting on-lead, to teach a dog to do this safely_.]

And.  
If we got separated.  
They invariably got home before I did.  
Safely.

None of my Beagles ever got injured on the roads.

Beagles are extremely intelligent.  
And, so very easy to teach.

So long as you relate to Beagles as one intelligent friend to another.  
And, do not try to dominate, and operant-condition, them as dog-trainers do.

I bought my first Beagle when she was an adult.

I then bred her daughter, grand-daughter.  
And, my last Beagle was her great-grand-daughter.

My Beagles liked walking through Studley Park.  
And, along the Yarra River.

Using their considerable Beagle beauty.  
And, big brown, wide-eyes Beagle charm.  
To get themselves invitations to BBQs.  
And, sometimes for me too.

Occasionally, we would become separated in Studley Park.

Usually they would just sit and bay.  
So I could find them.

If that did not work then they just went home.

Safely crossing Studley Park Road, even in peak hour, to get home before me.

[NOTE: _It can take as long as 6 months, of almost daily walks, crossing main roads at least a 1000 times, starting on-lead, to teach a dog to do this safely_.]

KING ALEXANDER'S LOVE OF BUCEPHALAS

King Alexander loved Bucephalas.

Showing Bucephalas kindness and consideration.  
Never using whips, spurs or even stirrups.

With kindness and consideration.  
King Alexander turned Bucephalas, a horse afraid of his own shadow, into his courageous warhorse.  
Who he led his winning, shock and awe, cavalry charges on.

And.  
Bucephalas loved King Alexander.

Bucking off everybody else who tried to get on.  
[Except for his personal groom.]

After 16 years of friendship.  
During the battle against King Porus.  
Bucephalas was speared in the neck and flanks.

And.  
King Alexander grieving over Bucephalas.  
As with a human friend.

Founded a city, Bucephalia, Love Of Bucephalas, in his honour.  
[King Alexander also founded another city, Peritas, in honour of his dog.]

Yes.  
Real men do not bully animals.

And.

Yes.  
Real men do love their animal friends.  
As they would a human friend.

### **Dogs Like To Please**

_Indeed, Most Dogs I Know, Make A Point Of It_

Dogs like to please people who they like.

Dogs, I have had friendships with, have very rarely, if ever, done anything that they knew I did not like.

LEADERSHIP

NOT SUBJUGATION

IF YOU WOULD LEAD OTHERS

FIRST LEAD YOURSELF

First lead yourself.

Then lead your dog.

Do not reject or punish your dog.

Lead your dog with kindness, affection and support.

NEVER REJECT OR PUNISH

YOUR DOG

Friends teach and lead with kindness and affection.

And, a dog who knows that you are a friend will please you.

And, a dog who has confidence in you will follow your lead.

VISUAL CONVERSATIONS

If dogs have confidence in you they will ask you.

One day when I was walking along with my dogs there was a sudden thunderstorm.

One of the loudest cracks of thunder I have ever heard came across the top of us.

My youngest looked around at me as if to say:

"What was that?"

I looked at her as if to say:

"What was what?"

And, we both walked on.

And, for the rest of her life, she ignored thunderstorms, fireworks and any other sudden, loud noise.

TEACHING DOGS TO BE BRAVE

First form a friendship with your dog through affection, praise and play.

So your dog becomes confident in your kindness and leadership.

That you are a leader that your dog can rely on.

DOGS' FEARS

Always take dogs' fears seriously and be supportive with soothing words and back rubs.

Gently introduce your dogs to traffic, loud noise and anything else that might be frightening, as early as possible.

So your dog regards these things as normal, harmless parts of life.

You can even do that simply, by carrying pups, around while gently rubbing their withers.

OVERCOMING DOGS' FEARS

Do not reject or otherwise punish your dog when your dog most needs your support.

If your dog is nervous, or afraid, of thunderstorms, vacuum cleaners, cars backfiring, fireworks or anything else then reassure your dog.

Never reject or punish your dog.

Give your dogs soothing words and back rubs, and they will gradually realise that, since you do not fear these things, there is no reason for them to fear them.

PUPS AND DOGS LEARN THROUGH COPYING AND PLAY

Pups and dogs naturally learn through playing with and copying people and dogs.

Through playing with their litter-mates, the pups naturally learn to fight, hunt, mouth not bite their own, ...

In other words, to become well-socialise members of the canine community.

Through copying, they pick up your, and each others, good and bad, attitudes, likes, dislikes, fears, apprehensions, habits and behaviours.

Such as when my Beagle looked around at me to ask about the thunderstorm.

### **Formal Education.**

_If You Would Lead Others – First Lead Yourself_

Formal education of your dogs should only start after you and your dogs have formed a friendship by affection, praise and playing together.

Formal education is for your dog to live safely in human society.

Not for people to bully dogs.

FOUR BASIC THINGS

I taught my dogs 4 basic things:

1: to come when I called them;

2: to go outside and dung;

3: how to cross roads without getting run over;

4: to mouth and not to nip or bite.

My dogs learned a lot of other things, informally from me, and I learned a lot from them.

But, these are three basic things that I think are essential.

### **Teaching Your Dogs To Come When You Call.**

I taught my dogs to come when I called them by playing with them.

With games like hide-and-seek; tug-of-war with an old rag; chasing and fetching a ball, too large for the dog to swallow; or, just chasing and catching you; dogs learn to come to you.

And, when you call your dog make sure that it is worth coming.

If your dog thinks that it is going to go for a walk or have dinner or play a game or, at least, get a back rub and praise your dog is likely to come.

And, form a habit of coming to you.

If your dog thinks that it is going to get bullied, shouted at, assaulted or even just put on a lead and ignored then why would your dog come?

Also, when you call your dogs, walk or run off in a different direction.

Why should your dogs come to you when you are just standing there or coming to them?

### **How Not To Call Your Dog – When Your Words Contradict Your Actions.**

You call your dog while you just stand or sit there.

Your dog looks at you but does not come.

Why?

Because your dog thinks that you are just doing a check-in call.

You then walk towards, instead of away from, your dog.

And, your dog walks away from, instead of towards, you.

Why?

Because your dog thinks that, you mean to go in the direction, that you are going.

You then run after, instead of away from, your dog.

And, your dog runs away from, instead of towards, you.

Why?

Because your dog thinks that you mean to go in the direction that you are going – but faster.

Or, because your dog thinks that you have invited your dog to play chasey.

And?

Some people might then get angry, frustrated, think their dog is unmanageable, ...

When, all along, their dog was doing exactly, what their dog thought, they were telling them to do.

When, all along, just calling their dog once, making sure that their dog had heard them, and then walking off in another direction, could have solved everything.

And, show your dogs consideration.

By not nagging your dogs.

And, by not calling your dogs, when your dogs are really enjoying themselves.

If you really must go, when they do not want to, then go over to them, and guide them away.

### **Walking Your Dogs On-Lead And Off-Lead.**

Lead aggression.

Or, just inviting the other dog to play.

Do not pull your dog away.

Unless.

Your dog really is being aggressive.

### **House-Training Your Dogs In 2 Days.**

I house-trained my Beagles in two days and the effect lasted a life time.

Set aside two days when you can stay home.

Like a weekend.

On the first day close the doors, to most rooms in your house, and then let your dog in the house in the morning.

Leave the back door open so your dog can walk in and out whenever he or she wants to.

Keep your dog in the same room as you so you can watch him or her.

Whenever your dog starts sniffing around, like it is going to do something, take your dog out into the back garden.

Then stand by the back door until he or she has done it.

As soon as your dog has done it, had a sniff and walks off – call your dog back into the house.

This is teaching your dog that they are not being banished.

Just asked to leave the house to do it.

And, then they can come straight back inside the house.

On the first night let your dog sleep outside as usual.

The second day is similar to the first, except that I found my dogs would walk outside and do it without me to tell them.

From that second night I left the back door open and let my dogs sleep on my bed.

And, for the rest of their lives they never did anything inside the house.

### **House-Training In An Apartment.**

I house-trained my Beagles in 2 days, and the effect lasted as lifetime.

But, I did have a back yard for them to go to.

If I lived in an apartment then I would probably put a litter box next to the toilet.

Whenever she looked like doing something, I would put her there.

Wait until she has done it, and moves off, then praise her.

And call her back into the lounge room.

Just be consistent.

So she gets into a good habit.

### **How I Taught My Beagles To Cross Roads Without Getting Run Over.**

I lived in the inner-suburbs of Melbourne.

Australia's second largest city.

My adult Beagles were always off-lead.

My adult Beagles regarded leads as an indignity.

Suitable only for pups on L-Plates.

[NOTE: _It can take as long as 6 months, of almost daily walks, crossing main roads at least a 1000 times, starting on-lead, to teach a dog to do this safely._ ]

After I had formed a friendship with my dogs, by playing with them, I started walking my dogs on a lead.

I used a proper collar and not a silly head-halter or choker-chain as incompetent dog trainers do.

[ _If a dog pulled excessively then, for the comfort of the dog, I would use a comfortable chest-harness, with the lead attached to the back of the harness, so the dog pulls with their chest, and not with their neck._ ]

I started walking in quiet parks, and along quiet side streets, and gradually built up to noisy main roads.

At any hint of nervousness I gave them reassuring words and back rubs.

If they were frightened I picked them up, gave them soothing words, rubbed and carried them.

[I always let my dogs walk in front of me so I could see them.]

At every road intersection, and every other time I wanted to cross a road, I always stopped.

Then before crossing I said, "crossover", to my dogs.

Similarly, I started walking my dogs off the lead in quiet parks, then quiet streets, and finally noisy main roads.

[ _I usually just let my dogs walk wherever they wanted to – which for them – was usually straight to the BBQ sites along the Yarra River – where they would use their Beagle beauty and charm to get themselves invited to BBQs. I am a Vegetarian and they used to get so many sausages, and on a good day, T-Bone steaks, that I did not have to buy them any meat._ ]

And, eventually they learned when it was safe to cross roads.

Indeed, when we became separated they invariably got home before I did and safely crossed busy, main roads to do it.

After all, guide dogs often lead blind people across busy, main roads.

### **Teaching To Mouth And Not To Nip Or Bite.**

Some nice dogs bite simply because they never learned to mouth.

Pups learn this naturally by playing with their brothers and sisters.

But, now pups are taken away form their brothers and sisters when they are far too young, and so might not have learned naturally.

You can teach your pup to mouth, by putting your hand in and out of your pup's mouth, while petting or playing with your pup.

Whenever, your pup grabs too hard.

Stop.

Open your pup's mouth.

Take your hand out.

And, then go back to petting or playing again.

### **Enjoy Your Dogs.**

Enjoy your dogs, play with your dogs, go walking with your dogs.

Really get to know your dogs.

Let your dogs have dinner with you.

Let your dogs supervise in the kitchen while you prepare dinner.

And.

Sleep on your bed at night.

If not – why get a dog?

### **Dogs Like To Please People Who They Are Friends With.**

My Great Dane neighbour, used to call me over to her place to give her a back rub, whenever she saw me.

And, whenever she got out, she would invite me to go for a walk with her.

On two occasions, I showed her woman friend, my back garden.

I grow food in my back garden.

I did not want her dog to dung or urinate there.

So she tied her dog's lead to my clothesline at the side of my house.

While she looked at my back garden.

Sometime later, her Great Dane got out and came over to my place, looking for me.

Great Dane found me in my back garden.

Came running up to me in my back garden.

Gave me a quick hello.

But, as I went to give her a rub on her shoulder.

She ran off down to my clothesline.

Then jumped up and down.

_"Woof."_

_"Woof."_

_"Woof."_

Calling me to come to her.

I had not taught her to do that.

Indeed.

I had not even thought of teaching her to do that.

But, she knew, that even though we were friends, that for some reason, unbeknown to her, I did not want her in my back garden.

And.

That was good enough for her.

### **Dogs Howling When You Are Not Home.**

Always say goodbye to your dogs before you go out without them.

Do not sneak out and leave them wondering what happened to you.

Sometimes, when my neighbour went out, and left her Great Dane home alone, her Great Dane would start howling.

All, I had to do was to call out to her Great Dane, wave, and say, "I'm staying home too."

And her Great Dane would stop howling until she came home.

### **Do You Really Want A Dog?**

Dogs need a lot of looking after.

Including almost daily walks.

And, not just today and next year.

Will you want to look after that cute puppy, now a big, old dog, 10, 15, maybe 20 years from now?

Or, even 6 months from now?

If not then buy a cuddly toy and a computer for entertainment.

Or, make friends with friends' and neighbours' dogs.

HOW MANY DOGS?

At least two for company, for each other, when you are not there.

WHAT TYPE OF DOG?

Choose a healthy breed of dog that is suited to you and your environment.

If you are a city couch potato then do not get a cattle dog!

If you have young children get a strong, patient dog like a Labrador.

Short haired dogs are easier to look after than long haired breeds.

And, avoid breeds with defects.

WHAT SIZE DOG?

Will you be able to manage a large, strong dog who wants to bolt across a highway after a cat?

Then get a smaller dog.

I do not recommend dogs who you cannot pick up and carry.

In emergencies you might need to pick them up and carry them.

Smaller dogs are also cheaper to feed.

COST

Will you be able to afford to feed a Great Dane if you lose your job?

And, pay vets' fees for injuries?

### **Will You Let Your Dog Behave Like A Dog?**

If you do not want an animal who behaves like a dog do not get a dog.

When I listened to radio programs, on dogs, a common question from the listeners was, _"How do I stop my dog from behaving like a dog?"_

My answer would have been, _"If you do not want a dog to behave like a dog then why did you get a dog?"_

If you do not want an animal to run up to you, jump all over you and lick your face whenever you come home – do not get a dog.

If you are not prepared to greet your dog with love and kisses, every time you come home – do not get a dog.

Get yourself a goldfish screen saver, for your computer, or something else more suitable for your personality.

WILL THE DOG

REALLY WANT YOU?

If you are adopting or buying a dog then spend some time with the dog and find out.

If one dog does not want you then try another.

If no dog wants you then do not force yourself on a dog – clean up your act.

### **Introducing Yourself To Dogs.**

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

ARE VERY IMPORTANT

People often ask me why their dogs like me so much.

Even, dogs who do not like people in general or men in particular.

It is because I understand dogs' social and cultural values.

I introduce myself correctly.

I let the dog make the first moves.

I do not invade the dog's space.

I do not force myself on a dog.

I wait until I am invited.

And, since I act like a socially fit member of the canine community, I am usually accepted as such.

### **Normal Dogs.**

Getting to know a dog is like getting to know a person.

Dogs have cultural and social systems.

If you behave like a sensible, socially fit member of the community you are far more likely to be liked and accepted.

If you behave like a bully, and force yourself on dogs, you are far more likely to be rejected or barely tolerated.

And, emotional abuse can be as bad as, or worse than, physical abuse.

When you first meet a normal dog say something like hello and stop.

Relax and talk soothingly.

Like good girl or good boy.

Let the dog come to you.

Let the dog make the first moves.

Follow the dog's lead.

Do not invade the dog's space.

Wait until you are invited.

Hold out the back of your hand, at the dog's nose height, for the dog to sniff.

Let the dog sniff around you and, when the dog relaxes, gently rub the dog on the side of its shoulder.

If the dog relaxes, and licks you, or leans in against you and stands on your foot, then the dog likes you.

### **Over-Friendly Dogs.**

If an over-friendly dog comes running up to you, and wants to jump all over you, that can be fun.

Unless the dog is wet, muddy or smelly, or you have your best clothes on.

Then, to protect yourself, and so as not to offend the dog – as the dog jumps towards you, step sideways to your right and gently hold the dog's left forearm with your left hand – this will slightly unbalance the dog – and, as the dog comes down on all four feet, use your right hand to rub the dog's upper back and so relax and settle the dog.

RELAXING DOGS

Rubbing the withers relaxes dogs and horses and people – and, probably, mammals and marsupials in general.

Rubbing the withers can relax and settle down over excited or frightened or angry animals and people.

So long as – you are not the one they are frightened of or angry with!

VISITING PEOPLE

Wait at the gate or door until the dog has finished sniffing you and relaxes.

Then when the dog invites you in, by walking into the house, you can follow the dog in.

If you are going to sit down then sit anywhere the host says except where the dog usually sits or lies down.

That is the dog's spot and you need the invitation of the dog to be there.

LEARNING FROM

AND TEACHING YOUR DOG

I have learned a lot from dogs, horses and other animals, including some people, and maybe they have learned from me.

INFORMAL EDUCATION

Most education is informal and comes from spending time with and playing with your dogs.

And, by letting your dogs use their brains.

After all feral dogs know how to look after themselves.

### **My Approach To Managing Savage Dogs**

I avoid savage dogs if I can.

If I cannot avoid a savage dog then I keep facing the dog.

I talk soothingly.

And maintain a friendly, not bullying, eye contact while quietly backing away.

I have never been bitten by a dog while I had friendly eye contact.

When the dog charges I keep still.

And, keep a friendly, not bullying, eye contact and soothing words.

When the dog stops charging I continue to back away.

Until I get out of what the dog regards as its territory.

And, then I keep out!

### **Dog Fights – When Neither Dog Is Savage**

If two well-socialised dogs get into a fight the best thing to do is to leave them to it.

These fights are quick, noisy confrontations.

In which one soon either runs off or gets knocked down.

It is a theatrical display.

Neither dog tries to bite the other.

And, the more courageous one usually wins.

For example:

Dogs regard their house, yard, and the footpath and road in front of their house, as their territory.

That is why dogs bark at you when you walk past their house.

So just acknowledge that you are just passing through.

One time, one my Beagles had a discussion on the topic, with a German Shepard.

And, translating into human language, their conversation went something like this:

German Shepard: "Get off my footpath."

My Beagle: "Your footpath! This footpath is public property and I am quite entitled to use it."

Then came a frank and loud exchange of views.

Until the German Shepard ran off around into its back yard.

With my Beagle in hot pursuit.

I thought, a border dispute was one thing, but going deep into the other's territory was another.

I could not hear anything.

So I just waited.

A minute or so later.

My Beagle happily trotted out and continued on with her walk.

After that, whenever we walked past that house, the German Shepard would just sit there, and not say a word.

A few times later they actually greeted each other.

Politely.

This is how 2 sane, well-socialised dogs, settle their differences.

If only people only had the sense to keep out of it.

While their dogs settled their differences.

But, this does not apply, when one of the dogs is a savage dog.

### **How To Start A Dog Fight.**

A woman neighbour told me that her dog was getting onto a lot of fights.

She asked me to go for a walk with her son and dog and find out why.

Every time a dog approached her son got nervous and pulled his dog away.

So the other dog attacked.

I told him that the reason the dogs were attacking was because, when the other dogs walked up to his dog to introduce themselves, he was pulling his dog away and so the other dogs felt offended.

I told him to relax.

Keep his dog on a loose lead.

And, not to pull his dog away.

Just let the dogs do what they liked.

He, of course, still tensed-up as each dog approached.

But.

For the rest of the walk there were no more confrontations.

Of course, there will always be some confrontations between dogs.

But.

After that, he continued to do as I said, and, his dog did not get into many fights.

### **RSPCA Victoria: no adoption fee for older dogs.**

"Whether it's having a Sunday sleep in or frolic in the park, senior animals have years of love, life and devotion to give to very lucky owners."

"Senior pets have many advantages making them the perfect family pet.  
Seniors have developed their own character, are house trained, need less exercise, less excitable and are often a good match for homes with existing pets."

"RSPCA vet clinics also support the care of our seniors.  
Senior pets adopted from the RSPCA receive a 25% discount on consultation fees at the RSPCA's Burwood East and Peninsula vet clinics for the entire life of the pet!"

Abridged from: www.rspcavic.org/adoption/adopt-a-senior-pet/

### **Beagles For Adoption At The RSPCA.**

I have had 4 generations of Beagles.

Beagles are usually very intelligent, playful, robust and healthy.

Beagles are very easy to teach, if you appeal to their intelligence, and do not try to dominate them.

You can find available Beagles at: http://www.rspcavic.org

### **Buying A Dog.**

There are so many really good dogs, even pure-bred dogs, available for adoption, that I see no reason to buy a dog.

Unless, you want a pure-bred, pedigreed dog, for breeding or showing.

In which case, you can go to dog shows of the breeds, that you are interested in.

And, meet and get to know people there.

Before buying a dog.

If you have never bought a dog before then I suggest that you buy an adult.

They are past the nappy stage.

And, you are not both new learners.

I bought my first dog when she was 5 years old.

She was a pure-bred show Beagle.

Of English Hunting Beagle descent.

She was my first dog and the only dog I ever bought.

### **Do Not Buy From Pet Shops Or Puppy Mills [Factory-Farms For Dogs].**

You could be financially supporting the abuse of dogs.

For more information on buying a puppy you can Download "The RSPCA's Smart Puppy Buyers Guide".

### **Choosing A Dog Or A Pup.**

I have met some very beautiful pups and dogs who were adopted from animal welfare societies.

And, there are plenty of nice, beautiful dogs to be adopted.

So.

Do not choose a dog, or a breed, with problems.

If it is your first dog.

Or, you have, or are going to have babies or young children.

Yes.

I know.

There are those who say that the breed does not matter.

But.

Are you really going to bet your baby's face on that?

PUP OR DOG

I would choose a dog.

Or, an older pup of at least 5 months old.

Pups might be cute.

But.

So are older pups of 5 to 6 months old.

And.

Dogs are past the nappy stage.

And, even at 5 to 6 months old, you can house-train a dog in 2 days.

DE-SEXED

SHORT HAIR

Short hair dogs are far easier to look after.

INTELLIGENT

I would choose a very intelligent, physically robust dog.

Alright, then, I would choose another Beagle.

IF YOU DO NOT LIKE BARKING DOGS

Basenjis do not bark.

But they can still make a noise.

Basenjis also like to climb.

As I found out.

When I picked up a Basengi.

She did not have any of the apprehension some dogs have of being lifted up.

She ran straight up my chest.

Looked me in the face while sniffing my nose.

Then stood with her front feet on my shoulder to look around and take in the view.

LOOK IN THE DOG'S EYES

Do you see happiness?

Fear, anxiety, wariness, ...

Or, worse still, real aggression.

Animal Welfare Groups such as the RSPCA check dogs for aggression before approving them for adoption.

But, still check.

By looking in their eyes yourself.

CHOOSING A DOG TRAINER

I always taught my dogs myself.

And, as you might have realised by now.

I have a very low opinion of most dog trainers.

But, if you think that you need a dog trainer.

Then.

Do not choose:

1: An Abuser who uses:

dominance,

guttural sounds,

chocker-chains,

head-halters,

shock-collars,

or any other abuse;

2: An Ignorant Bully who says things like:

do not let your dog run up to greet you when you come home,

walk ahead of you,

be higher than you,

sleep on your bed,

or any other ignorance;

3: A Mental-Case for Treatment:

who has serious unresolved childhood abuse issues which they are acting out onto dogs.

_A high proportion of the dog-trainers I have met fit into all 3 categories._

Formal education of your dogs should only start after you and your dogs have formed a friendship first by affection, praise and play.

INTRODUCING A SECOND DOG

Let the dogs meet on neutral ground.

To see if they will form a friendship.

And, to see if your current dog will welcome the new dog.

# **FRIENDSHIPS WITH VERSUS BREAKING OF ANIMALS**

_My approach to animals, is to relate to animals, as one intelligent being, to another intelligent being._

_As one understanding friend to another._

_I do not try to dominate, control, or subjugate animals._

_I do not make dogs do silly control-freaky things like, "heel"._

_And, that is why I could teach my Beagles, whatever they needed to know, but could not work out for themselves, like crossing roads safely, so easily._

### **Horses.**

_"Don Loudon used to insist that his horses were easy for him to handle because they remembered him from the earliest days of their lives as a figure of superior size and strength._

_He could have added that he was unfailingly gentle with foals and that they accepted him as a trusted friend as well as a superior._

_Later, when he mounted a horse born and raised on his ranch and became the first rider it had ever carried, he provoked none of the bucking, squealing and associated hullabaloo so familiar to viewers of cowboy movies._

_Instead, the horse would turn its head in astonishment to see what in the world its friend was doing up there."_

From 'THE BODY LANGUAGE OF HORSES' by Bonnie Ledbetter and Tom Ainslie.

So much for 'breaking' a horse.

PRINCE ALEXANDER

AND BUCEPHALAS

According to Plutarch when, the 12 years old, Prince Alexander met Bucephalas:

_"He [Bucephalas] would neither allow anybody to mount him, nor obey any of Philip 's attendants, but reared and plunged against them all, so that the king in a rage bade them take him away for an utterly wild and unbroken brute."_

_"But Alexander, who was by, cried out, 'What a fine horse that is which they are spoiling! The clumsy cowards, they can't handle him.'."_

Prince Alexander had noticed that Bucephalas was afraid of his own shadow.

So Prince Alexander turned Bucephalas to face the sun.

Coaxed Bucephalas.

Quietly slipped off his cloak.

Before mounting Bucephalas.

Feeling the bit gently with the reins,

Prince Alexander restrained him,

without whipping or hurting him,

until Bucephalas was settled.

When Bucephalas was ready Prince Alexander let him go.

So Prince Alexander introduced himself to Bucephalas correctly;

showed consideration by removing what was frightening Bucephalas;

reassured and did not frighten, abuse, whip, hurt or intimidate Bucephalas;

and, then waited until Bucephalas was settled and ready before letting Bucephalas go.

So much for 'breaking' a horse.

### **Donkeys.**

JESUS AND THE DONKEY – THE OVERLOOKED MIRACLE

I am very impressed with the way Jesus rode that donkey into Jerusalem.

_"Go to the village there ahead of you; as you go in, you will find a colt tied up that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here."_

Luke 19:30.

_"And, they took the colt to Jesus. Then they threw their cloaks over the animal and helped Jesus get on."_

_"As he rode on, people spread their cloaks on the road." "The large crowd of his disciples began to thank God and praise him in loud voices."_

Luke 19:35-37.

Jesus rode without a saddle or stirrups – a donkey colt who had never been ridden before – through a large noisy crowd – as people spread their cloaks, [and branches: Matthew 21:8], on the road.

Now – I am impressed – and, so much for 'breaking' a donkey.

WHERE WAS JESUS GOING?

Jesus went into the Temple in Jerusalem and drove, the sacrificial animals and the people who were selling the sacrificial animals, out of the Temple.

Luke 19:45-46.

JESUS PUT AN END

TO ANIMAL SACRIFICE

The only time Jesus is recorded, in the Gospels, as having become physically violent was when he threw the people, who were selling sacrificial animals, out of the Temple.

John 2:13-16.

No wonder Jesus had the donkey on side.

They were on a mission.

Jesus cared.

And, when you care?

Animals know it.

### **Koalas.**

I saw a Koala, in the Brisbane Ranges, who had been bitten by a dog or a fox.

I walked to the front of the Koala so he could see me.

I noticed he was relaxed.

So I let him sniff the back of my hand – to introduce myself.

I had never picked up a Koala.

So I looked at the Koala and thought about it.

Koalas have claws like talons – so I went to my car and got a sheet.

I wound each end of the sheet, loosely a few times, around each of my hands and forearms.

I then gently picked up and gently held the Koala.

Like picking up and holding a baby – almost sideways on its back.

As I was driving to a park ranger's office the Koala slowly sat upright and held onto me like a child.

When I walked into the ranger's office a ranger looked at me and nonchalantly said, "that is about the only way you could carry it".

Another time, on a very cold morning in the Grampians, I found a very cold Koala sitting on a road.

I thought that if I left him there he would get run over.

I let the Koala sniff the back of by hand – to introduce myself.

Then I wrapped each end, of a bath sheet, loosely around each of my hands and forearms.

Before picking the Koala up and taking him to a ranger's office.

When I got there the ranger jumped back in fear – he was not at all relaxed like the other ranger had been – he told me his partner had been badly clawed by a Koala.

He was shaking with fear.

He tried to sneak up behind the Koala and grab him from behind.

While I was still holding him!

I thought, if he grabbed the Koala from behind, the Koala could stick his claws into me just to hang onto me – no wonder his partner got carved up – frightened people should not handle animals.

### **Leadership.**

Show care and consideration.

Relaxed confidence.

Know what you are doing.

Be a leader who they can follow.

If you are on side with a horse or a donkey or a Koala or a child then they can be on side with you.

But, if you bully and subjugate them – if you are not on their side – why should they be on your side?

### **Why Abusive Dog And Horse Training Methods Are So Common**

When people talk about people who they do not know, you can often learn a lot more about the people talking, than the people they are talking about.

Because, when people talk about what they do not know, they often project themselves, onto what they do not know.

Similarly, people project themselves onto animals.

Bullying abusive people, teach, bullying abusive methods.

And, unfortunately, these nastier people, are often the most driven to make converts.

### **Bullying, Abusive Behaviour By Dog And Horse Trainers.**

_Teaching The Teachers._

This is far from a complete list.

It is only 12 of the many silly and bullying things I have heard some dog or horse trainers say.

ABUSE 1: Never Let Your Dogs Walk Ahead Or Through A Doorway Before You;

ABUSE 2: Never Let Your Dogs Be Physically Higher Than You;

ABUSE 3: Never Let Your Dogs Go To Your Door With You To Greet People;

ABUSE 4: Never Let Your Dogs Eat Dinner With You;

ABUSE 5: Be The Alpha Male;

ABUSE 6: Use Guttural Sounds;

ABUSE 7: Use Fear;

ABUSE 8: Use Rejection;

ABUSE 9: Use Advance And Retreat;

ABUSE 10: Use Intimidation;

ABUSE 11: Catch A Horse;

ABUSE 12: Horses See Us As Predators.

When family groups, are out walking, the children invariably run ahead of the adults.

If you let your children and dogs go ahead of you, as children and dogs naturally do, then you can see them and what is happening.

Stallions lead from behind.

This way the stallion can see everybody else and everything that is happening in and to the herd.

And, so the stallion has the information to manage the herd.

As well as protect their rear.

So, keep your dogs in front of you where you can see them.

My dogs not only ate dinner with me – they went to the kitchen and supervised while I cooked it.

Being the alpha male, or boss dog and boss dog does whatever he or she likes, appeals to bullies.

They say that the first thing to do is to show the dog, or horse, that you are the boss.

This is because they are bullies and not leaders.

Dogs want to belong – to be a well accepted part of a community – they do not want to take over.

Bullies say that dogs want to take over – when the poor dogs are only trying to defend themselves against the bullies – until the poor dogs are subjugated by the bullies.

Guttural sounds are not the sounds of a friend.

Guttural sounds are threats.

Bullies tell people to abuse their dogs by using guttural sounds.

Dogs do not use guttural sounds on their friends.

Bullies use fear.

Some are copying, and acting out, the way their parents abused them and have not recovered from.

Others just enjoy cruelty – it makes inadequate, nobodies feel oh so smug and superior.

I knew an Alsatian who was just like a Labrador puppy to me.

She would climb onto my lap, snuggle up to me and lick my face.

I had a Great Dane neighbour who used to call me over to give her a back rub whenever she saw me.

Whenever she got out she invited me to go for a walk with her.

And, a Labrador neighbour who used to visit me often until the hole in her fence was fixed.

I like dogs and dogs like me.

Rejection is not a friendly act.

And, rejection only hurts in as much as you care about someone.

Rejection is a human behaviour and not a canine behaviour.

And, rejection as a weapon is a favourite among women.

Many women use rejection to abuse their boyfriends, husbands and children – so doing it to dogs and horses comes easily to them.

Rejection is very destructive of relationships, since the perfect defence against the pain of rejection, is not to care any more.

And, that is the end of any worthwhile relationship.

Many people leave.

But, other people stay in increasingly abusive relationships and no longer care.

Dogs and horses cannot leave.

And, some horse breakers, or "horse whisperers" using so called "natural horsemanship", even begin their "relationships" with horses with such destructive abuse.

A dog trainer told me that her dog hid under a table during thunderstorms.

I told her about a female vet who said on radio, "Do not reward your dog for being frightened."

Dog trainer said, "That's right."

I asked her, "How would you like your boyfriend to treat you that way if you were frightened?"

She guiltily giggled.

I hope she changed her ways.

But, probably she is still taking money to teach people an abusive method – of rejecting dogs when they most need support – that she knows does not work anyway.

I have gotten dogs over fears with back rubs and kind words.

If they became apprehensive about heavy traffic, or anything else, I would pick them up.

And carry them, while rubbing their withers and talking soothingly to them, until they relaxed.

Often, after 2 or 3 occasions, they lost all fear of such situations.

Horses do not advance and retreat when greeting each other in a friendly way.

They walk slowly and directly up to each other while looking at each other in the eyes.

When I say hello to a horse, who I have never met before, the horse walks slowly but directly towards me, while looking at me.

And, stops in front of me.

So where does advance and retreat come from?

Predators who are unsure advance and retreat.

Predators advance for the kill, retreat when they fear retaliation and then advance for the kill.

Small predators, of larger animals, advance and retreat until they wear the larger animal down.

Bullies advance and retreat to unnerve and break a horse – it is not the act of a friend.

The first thing many bullies, including horse-whisperers, do, when they see a horse, is to use intimidating body language, to abuse the horse, until the horse "chooses" to be subjugated.

Then, these bullies try to justify their abusive behaviour by saying that animals behave that way.

But, why do they copy abusive, bullying behaviour by animals?

And, not the altruistic friendships between animals?

People say call a dog but catch a horse.

You might call a friend but catching is something predators do.

Catching horses is one more example of the predatory mentality of animal trainers.

It is not friendship.

Call a horse – if the horse does not come – clean up your act – do not impose yourself on the horse.

Horses only see you as a predator if you act like one!

Or, smell like one.

People who eat animals smell like predators.

Horses do not see me, or smell me, as a predator.

Horses see bullies as predators because bullies act like predators.

WHILE REAL MEN LEAD WITH GENTLENESS AND CONSIDERATION

King Alexander conquered half of the known world – by the time he was 28 years old – without whips, spurs, or even stirrups – on a stallion – Bucephalas.

According to Plutarch when, the 12 years old, Prince Alexander first met Bucephalas:

_"He [Bucephalas] would neither allow anybody to mount him, nor obey any of Philip 's attendants, bu_ _t reared and plunged against them all, so that the king in a rage bade them take him away for an utterly wild and unbroken brute."_

_"But Alexander, who was by, cried out, 'What a fine horse that is which they are spoiling! The clumsy cowards, they can't handle him.'."_

So Prince Alexander introduced himself to Bucephalas correctly;

showed consideration by removing what was frightening Bucephalas;

reassured and did not frighten, abuse, whip, hurt or intimidate Bucephalas;

and, then waited until Bucephalas was settled and ready before letting Bucephalas go.

So much for 'breaking' a horse.

And.

So much for kindness and consideration 'does not work' on frightened or savage animals.

That the 'clumsy cowards' of dominance dog training would tell you.

XENOPHON

Xenophon was a high ranking officer in the Spartan cavalry.

Xenophon was a courageous warrior – not a "clumsy coward".

As Xenophon wrote "The Art Of Horsemanship", in about 360 BC.

[It is the oldest book on horses, in any language, still in existence.]

_"When your horse shies at an object and is unwilling to go up to it, he should to be shown that there is nothing fearful in it, least of all to a courageous horse like him; but if this fails, touch the object yourself that seems so dreadful to him, and lead him up to it with gentleness."_

_"Compulsion and blows inspire only the more fear; for when horses are at all hurt at such a time, they think that what they shied at is the cause of the hurt."_

Xenophon: Chapter VI, The Art Of Horsemanship, as translated by M. H. Morgan PhD, 1894.

# **FEEDING PUPS AND DOGS NATURALLY**

NOTE: _My dogs were Beagles._

_Strong, intelligent, robust hounds, who were bred to hunt._

_Who still had their natural instincts._

_Some of the toy breeds might not be able chew up, eat and digest whole carcasses._

DRINKING WATER SHOULD ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE

Have dog bowls of fresh water out all of the time.

If you change the water, at least every second day, that will also stop mosquitoes from breeding in the bowls.

But.

My Beagles liked to drink out of my fish ponds.

And.

Since the water was good enough, for my Fish to live and breed in, the water was good enough for my Beagles to drink.

On very hot days, one of my Beagles used to like to lie in one of the ponds, to keep cool.

[NOTE: Swimming pools might not be a suitable source, of drinking water, as they are chlorinated.]

JUNK FOODS FOR DOGS

TINNED AND DRIED PACKAGED FOODS ARE JUNK FOODS FOR DOGS

I think that tinned and dried packaged foods are junk foods for dogs.

And, cause a lot of diseases among dogs.

Just as junk food for humans causes a lot of diseases among humans.

I never bought junk food for my dogs.

But, some dogs raised on, junk canned and dried food, might refuse to eat healthy, raw, natural food.

Just like children who have been raised on junk food.

Or, they might just need time to adapt.

THE NATURAL DIET FOR PUPS AND DOGS

Dogs and pups naturally eat raw, unprocessed whole-foods.

Like whole carcasses of small animals.

[NOTE: Not the expensive, processed raw junk food on sale today.]

ADULT DOGS

Dogs are natural scavengers.

They will naturally eat the whole carcass of small animals like rabbits, possums, ...

Fur, bones, offal, gut contents and all.

When dogs have finished eating a carcass there is nothing left.

By eating the whole carcass, not just the flesh, dogs get a balanced, whole-food diet.

And, by eating the gut contents, they get predigested vegetable matter in their diet.

My Beagles also nibbled on the more succulent grasses.

Ate blackberries straight off the blackberry bushes.

Ate eggs that my pet Hens laid.

And, of course, scavenged around BBQ sites.

And, as well as this, I gave my Beagles fresh road-kill.

Dogs and pups naturally eat all their food raw and unprocessed.

Although dogs, have been living with people long enough, to have become adapted to some cooked food.

And, European dogs, like European people, have probably become adapted to dairy products.

I know my Beagles, who were of English descent, loved milk, cheese, yoghurt and ice-cream.

There should be no need to deliberately cook food for dogs.

But, that does not mean, that you cannot give them cooked food.

PUPS

Pups naturally start off by drinking their mother's, or another bitch's, milk.

Within minutes of having been born.

After a few weeks, pups start eating food, that their mother regurgitates, as well as still drinking her milk.

The mother regurgitates when, her pups run up to her, and lick her in the corner of her mouth.

This regurgitated, partially digested food, mixed with the mother's digestive juices, is perfect food for pups.

And, that is why pups often want to lick you in the corner of your mouth.

After a few more weeks, the pups start taking some of the mother's food off her.

As she is eating it.

And, so are eating adult food as well still drinking her milk.

WEANING

As the pups' teeth grow, and they start to bite while drinking her milk, and so they get weaned.

And, eventually, she stops regurgitating for her pups.

And, so the pups are now on an adult diet.

Eating whatever their mother eats.

RAISING PUPS

So, when I bred pups, I only fed the mother.

And, the mother fed her pups.

On her milk and regurgitations.

Until they went onto an adult diet just like her.

I did not feed the pups bought baby food.

And, they were much better for it.

ADULT DIET FOR DOGS

Raw.

Unprocessed.

Whole-food.

I never bought tinned or dried packaged food for my dogs.

If I bought food, for them, I bought scraps from a butchers shop.

That is meat scrapes, bones, offal.

As well as sheep necks, lamb shanks, ...

I also had pet Hens.

And so, I let my dogs help themselves, to all the eggs they wanted.

Which they took out of the nests and ate raw.

I shared my own food with them.

They liked to eat cheese.

Pancakes, I made for myself, from wholemeal flour and eggs.

And, anything else I made for myself.

[They used to lie on the kitchen floor, and supervise, while I cooked it. ]

On any food that I had.

My Beagles got first refusal.

My Hens second.

Very little food is wasted if you have dogs and Hens.

Because between the two of them they will eat almost anything.

My Beagles also ate some fruit.

Apricots, grapes, ...

Blackberries straight off the bushes.

[Probably by copying me.]

They would eat almost anything that they saw me eating.

Whenever they saw me eating something new, I would give them a bit, and they often ate it.

### **Raw Food – Healthy Fast Food For Animals**

Animals naturally eat their food raw.  
And, unprocessed.  
And, Pottenger's feeding trials, on 8 generations of cats,   
showed that the cats, who were fed their food raw,   
were far healthier than the cats, who were fed the same food cooked.

You can give your dogs raw milk and raw egg yolks.  
But, raw egg whites can cause vitamin deficiencies.

I also gave my dogs raw meat, raw bones and raw road kill.

POTTENGER'S CATS

On October 9th. 1945 Francis M. Pottenger read before the Second Annual Seminar for the Study and Practice of Dental Medicine an article titled – "The effect of heat processed foods and metabolized vitamin D milk on the dentofacial structures of experimental animals."

The article was published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, August, 1946.

Pottenger wrote that "one group of cats was fed a diet of two-thirds raw meat, one-third raw milk, and cod-liver oil. The second group was a fed a diet of two-thirds cooked meat, one-third raw milk, and cod-liver oil."

Over a ten year period 900 cats were studied and the results were:

"The cats receiving raw meat and raw milk reproduced in homogeneity from one generation to the next. Abortion was uncommon, litters averaged five, and their mothers nursed their young in a normal manner. The cats in these pens had good resistance to vermin, infections, and parasites."

And, that:

"Cooked-meat-fed cats were irritable. Vermin and intestinal parasites abounded. Skin lesions and allergies were frequent, being progressively worse from one generation to the next. Diarrhea, followed by pneumonia, took a heavy toll of the kittens. Cardiac lesions, some ascertained clinically during life, were frequent. Hyperopia and myopia, thyroid disease, nephritis, hepatitis, paralysis, meningitis, cystitis, arthritis, and many other degenerative lesions familiar in human medicine were observed."

Pottenger points out that similar results have occurred with rats, pigeons, monkeys and "primitive" people who suddenly changed to a "civilized" diet.

BUT FOOD NEEDS TO BE COOKED

So-called "foods", such as soy beans, red kidney beans and broad beans, that have to be cooked, to destroy or leach out poisons, are "foods" I can well do without.  
Soy, broad beans and chick peas can be toxic even if cooked.

RAW FOOD

For nearly 40 years I have eaten a diet based on raw food.  
And, I have often eaten only raw food for periods of a few days up to 3 months or more.  
I feel healthier, fitter and cleaner on raw food.  
I have found that eating only raw food is not only healthy but also convenient.   
Raw food saves a lot of time on preparation and washing up.  
Raw food uses far less packaging and fuel and so is better for the environment. I do not even have a refrigerator.

COOKED FOOD IS DEAD

Cooking destroys a lot of the value of food and produces toxins.  
Cooking causes diseases.  
Many vitamins are destroyed, minerals leached out, plant enzymes and hormones destroyed and the plant is killed.  
Roasted nuts and wheat ground up and baked into bread will not grow as the original seed would have.  
Cooked food is dead.

PASTEURISATION

Pasteurisation, the cooking of milk, is a cover for the keeping of diseased animals in unsanitary, unhealthy conditions and then selling the milk to humans to drink.  
It would be better to have healthy Cows than to kill the milk.

RAW EGGS YOLKS AND DAIRY PRODUCTS

You and your dogs can eat raw free range egg yolks and raw dairy products that are fresh and come from healthy animals.   
Only eat the egg yolks raw.   
Raw egg whites can cause a vitamin deficiency.

### **Advantages Of Raw Food.**

EASIER and SAVES TIME and MONEY – far less preparation before and far less cleaning and washing up afterwards.  
And, far less equipment.

EQUIPMENT - many fruits, nuts and vegetables need no equipment.  
Or, a bowl and a nut cracker.

WASHING DISHES – is a lot easier.  
Just wipe clean with a paper towel.  
No soap is needed.  
And, often no dishes are needed.

CONVENIENCE – for fast foods have raw fruit, vegetables and nuts. Raw fruit, vegetables and nuts are also ideal foods when travelling, camping or picnicking.  
Or, during very hot weather.  
Or, when you are busy, tired or just do not feel like cooking.

STORING FOOD – I do not have a refrigerator.   
I use air tight jars for tree nuts, peanuts and other seeds.  
Fruit can be kept in fly, Mouse and Rat proof cupboards.  
Or on high shelves.  
Root vegetables keep fresh, and alive, if replanted in your garden or in large garden plant pots.

THE ENVIRONMENT – far less fuel, packaging and garbage.   
And, no need for a refrigerator.

LEFTOVERS – can be fed to birds, other animals or your plants.

SAFETY IN THE KITCHEN

Kitchens are safer without boiling water and hot oil.  
Many children have been scalded in kitchens.  
And, houses have burned down from fires that started in kitchens.

# **VEGAN PETS – RABBITS INSTEAD OF CATS.**

_If you already have a carnivore – then you could feed it on road-kill._

Rabbits can be just as good as pets as cats.

But, without killing birds and wildlife.

You can adopt Rabbits from groups such as:  
Rabbit Run-Away Orphanage

"VISIT US AT RABBIT RUN-AWAY ORPHANAGE EACH WEEKEND!   
The orphanage is open to the public from 1pm until 4pm on weekends."  
www.rabbitrunaway.org.au/

Also on facebook:   
https://www.facebook.com/rabbitrunaway

You can also adopt rabbits from the RSPCA.

# **FORMING FRIENDSHIPS WITH HORSES**

_Teaching Your Horses With Kindness._

THE ART OF HORSEMANSHIP

_"When your horse shies at an object and is unwilling to go up to it,_

_he should to be shown that there is nothing fearful in it,_

_least of all to a courageous horse like him;_

_but if this fails,_

_touch the object yourself that seems so dreadful to him,_

_and lead him up to it with gentleness."_

_"Compulsion and blows inspire only the more fear;_

_for when horses are at all hurt at such a time,_

_they think that what they shied at is the cause of the hurt."_

Xenophon: Chapter VI,

The Art Of Horsemanship,

as translated by Morris H. Morgan PhD, 1894.

Xenophon was a high-ranking officer in the Spartan Cavalry.

Xenophon wrote, "The Art Of Horsemanship", more than 2300 years ago.

Morris H. Morgan translated it more than 100 years ago.

And, you can see,

from just that one quote,

how much so many people,

including racehorse trainers,

stable staff,

clerks of the course,

jockeys,

barrier attendants,

and people who bet on racehorses,

still have to learn.

### **Noblesse Oblige – Leadership With Horses.**

ARISTOCRATIC NOBLESSE OBLIGE

Noblesse oblige is the custom of some, well-bred English aristocrats that people who belong to a high social class, should behave in a kind and generous way to people of a lower social class.

IF YOU WOULD LEAD OTHERS

FIRST LEAD YOURSELF

Young women are usually the best at looking after racehorses.

Because they really like horses.

And, these young women are true leaders – supportive and considerate.

They relax frightened horses with soothing words and back rubs.

True leaders do not subjugate or even try to be leaders.

True leaders are not insecure bullies acting out their unresolved childhood issues.

True leaders do not use force.

True leaders are supportive, kind and generous.

True leaders radiate a relaxed confidence.

And, their followers are not broken and subjugated.

Their followers have confidence in them.

And, if not, then because their followers like them so much they will help the leader out anyway.

MOUNTEM ROUGHLY

True aristocrats put horses at their ease.

But, bullies feel threatened by horses, afraid of horses, dislike horses, want to subjugate horses and so set up fear and conflicts right from the start.

Mountem Roughly, first greets a horse with body language intimidation – to make the horse feel ill at ease – to abuse and break the horse.

Mountem Roughly goes all over the world preaching to people to abuse horses – to use police interrogation methods to bully and break horses – because he was too much of a coward to stand up to his police officer father.

Even as an old man – the coward Mountem Roughly is still acting out, and passing on, his still unresolved childhood abuse and lack of love – by bullying horses and teaching other people to bully horses.

SUBJUGATORS

Racehorses are better-bred than many stable staff.

Many stable staff, like Mountem Roughly, are from shut-up-and-do-what-you-are-told subcultures.

If a horse asks a question – like is that something to be frightened of – instead of answering the question the handler yanks the horse's mouth, drags the horse, shouts at the horse, hits the horse so the horse becomes frightened or angry.

And, then the incompetent handler blames the horse.

GREETING A HORSE

THE WAY NORMAL HORSES

GREET EACH OTHER

Do you really like horses?

If you do not like horses they will know it and why would you want to be with horses anyway?

Behave like a nice, considerate, relaxed human who likes horses and you can be accepted as such.

Horses communicate mainly by sight – with little sound.

Stand at the other side of the yard fence or stable door and look kindly at the horses eyes.

Say a friendly hello or nicker.

As the horse walks over to you hold out the back of your hand, as if it is a horse's nose, at the nose height of the approaching horse.

The horse will put his or her nose up against your hand and exhale.

GIVE HORSES TIME TO THINK

Always let the horse make the first moves and follow the horse's lead.

This is a matter of consideration for the horse as well as safety for you.

Since by following the horse's lead you are not threatening or imposing yourself on the horse which could make the horse frightened or angry.

So only after the horse exhales down your hand 'nose' should you lean over and exhale down the horse's nose.

Move in a slow, relaxed way.

Not nervously or aggressively.

As the horse can pick up your fear or aggression.

After the exchange of breathes you can then gently rub the horse on the front shoulder while complimenting the horse.

Look at the horse's eyes and say something like;

'I like your freckles',

'Your eyes',

'Your dappled, bay coat'

'I love your shiny, golden chestnut coat'.

Just because horses cannot say the words, does not mean that horses, cannot understand the words.

If horses point to a part of their body, that they cannot reach, then gently rub that part of their body as that is where they want you to.

ENTERING A HORSE'S SPACE

Only enter the horse's yard, or stall, if the horse wants you, and only after the horse invites you in.

SAYING GOODBYE TO HORSES

If someone you were talking to abruptly walked off – without so much as a backwards look – you might feel offended.

So look the horse kindly in the eyes as you rub his or her shoulder and say 'goodbye' – then walk off happily and relaxed and, after a few steps, look back at the horse and smile as people, horses and dogs do – when they are leaving someone who they really like.

SAFETY WITH HORSES

APPROACHING AND GREETING

With a group horses it can be better to greet the stallion first, and then the lead mare, before the others.

Always look at the horse with a friendly eye to eye contact.

And, say hello or nicker.

And, when the horse gets closer hold out the back of your hand like a nose near the horse's nose.

Greet by exchanging breathes.

And, some gentle rubbing on the shoulder or wherever they indicate.

Only offer food after the greeting.

NEVER WALK UP THE BACK OF A HORSE

The horse might get a fright and kick out backwards.

If you really must walk around behind a horse then look the horse in the eye and say hello, or nicker, so the horse knows that it is you who is there.

FEEDING HORSES

Horses are not predators.

Horses do not want to eat you.

But if you mix your fingers in with their food they might bite you by mistake.

So keep you thumb and fingers in when feeding a horse.

With apples – hold your hand flat and put the apple on top.

With hay or grass hold one end with your hand like a fist – this way your thumb is safely kept in.

RIDING: THE GREATEST DANGER

Almost all deaths and most serious injuries of people with horses are due to one reason only – they fell off the horse.

This is not the horse's fault.

BEFORE YOU RIDE A HORSE

Before you learn to ride – learn to fall – because sooner or later you will.

An introductory course in judo could be helpful – it could even save your life.

Do balance exercises.

And, strengthen your overall body, bones and neck muscles, with weight bearing exercises, so you are less likely to break your neck.

PREVENTING FALLS

If you are not an insensitive bully then horses are unlikely to buck you off.

Be considerate – introduce yourself correctly and then wait until you are invited, by the horse, before you get on.

And, know what will frighten a horse and what you can do to prevent and to quickly calm a frightened horse.

### **Teaching Horses To Be Brave**

_"What a fine horse that is which they are spoiling! The clumsy cowards, they can 't handle him."_

Prince Alexander.

KING ALEXANDER

King Alexander conquered half of the known world by the time he was 28 years old.

And, Bucephalas was his brave charger who he led his winning cavalry charges on.

BUCEPHALAS

According to Plutarch when, the then 12 years old, Prince Alexander met Bucephalas:

_"He [Bucephalas] would neither allow anybody to mount him, nor obey any of Philip 's attendants, but reared and plunged against them all, so that the king in a rage bade them take him away for an utterly wild and unbroken brute." _

_"But Alexander, who was by, cried out, 'What a fine horse that is which they are spoiling! The clumsy cowards, they can't handle him.' "_

Prince Alexander had noticed that Bucephalas was afraid of his own shadow so Prince Alexander turned Bucephalas to face the sun.

Coaxed Bucephalas. And, quietly slipped off his cloak before mounting Bucephalas.

Then feeling the bit gently with the reins, he restrained him, without whipping or hurting him, until he settled.

Then, when Bucephalas was ready, Prince Alexander let him go.

PRINCE ALEXANDER

Compare what, the twelve year old Prince Alexander did, with what you can so often see so many people doing at racecourses, and elsewhere, today.

Prince Alexander:

1: introduced himself to Bucephalas correctly;

2: showed consideration;

3: removed what was frightening Bucephalas;

4: reassured Bucephalas;

5: did not frighten Bucephalas;

6: did not abuse, whip, hurt or intimidate Bucephalas;

7: waited until Bucephalas was settled and ready;

8: before letting Bucephalas go.

XENOPHON

Xenophon was a high ranking officer in the Spartan cavalry.

Xenophon wrote "The Art Of Horsemanship", in about 360 BC.

It is the oldest book on horses, in any language, still in existence.

Xenophon wrote about buying, riding and training war horses – but, most applies to any horse.

THE ART OF HORSEMANSHIP

_"When your horse shies at an object and is unwilling to go up to it, he should to be shown that there is nothing fearful in it, least of all to a courageous horse like him; but if this fails, touch the object yourself that seems so dreadful to him, and lead him up to it with gentleness."_

_"Compulsion and blows inspire only the more fear; for when horses are at all hurt at such a time, they think that what they shied at is the cause of the hurt."_

Xenophon: Chapter VI, The Art Of Horsemanship, as translated by Morris H. Morgan PhD, 1894.

LOVE DRIVES OUT FEAR

Xenophon wrote "The Art Of Horsemanship", more than 2300 years ago, and Morris H. Morgan translated it more than 100 years ago.

And, you can see – from just that one quote – how much so many racehorse trainers, stable staff, clerks of the course, jockeys and barrier attendants have to learn.

How few of them today could turn Bucephalas, frightened of his own shadow, into a courageous war horse – leading King Alexander's winning cavalry charges?

Or, even into a horse who could walk into a racecourse mounting yard, or barrier stalls, without fear?

King Alexander and his cavalry rode stallions and charged into enemy armies – something that truly was frightening.

How few of them today could ride over rough ground – without whips, spurs, saddles and stirrups – while fighting on horse back?

Or, even ride a stallion at all?

How few racehorse trainers and staff today are as gentle, kind and understanding of horses' fears as King Alexander and Xenophon?

And, how many are – clumsy cowards spoiling fine horses?

RACECOURSES TODAY

At racecourses today trainers, stable staff, clerks of the course, barrier attendants, and jockeys, often do not:

1: introduce themselves to horses correctly or even at all;

2: show horses consideration;

3: reassure frightened horses;

4: wait until horses are settled and ready before the jockeys get on.

But, they often do:

1: abuse horses;

2: intimidate horses;

3: frighten horses;

4: whip and hurt horses;

5: ignore and neglect horses.

If I trained racehorses I would not employ 90% of the people currently employed with horses at racecourses in Melbourne.

And, I think it is just as bad in the rest of Australia, the United States and many other countries.

TEACHING HORSES TO BE BRAVE

Too many people today are ruining fine horses by abusing, intimidating, whipping, spurring, breaking and subjugating horses.

Yet, more than 2300 years ago, 12 years old Prince Alexander knew what to do – to introduce himself correctly and to reassure and calm an abused, upset horse.

A horse abused and upset by – "clumsy cowards".

And, through consideration and kindness, Prince Alexander taught Bucephalas, a horse afraid of his own shadow, to become his courageous charger – who he led his winning cavalry charges on.

Now, almost every book on horses, I have ever seen, advocates psychological or physical abuse or both of horses. Books that do not advocate either psychological body language intimidation or whips or both are almost non-existent.

Yet, more than 2300 years ago Xenophon, an officer in the Spartan cavalry, showed consideration and kindness, when he wrote to, "touch the object yourself that seems so dreadful to him, and lead him up to it with gentleness. Compulsion and blows inspire only the more fear."

# **ABOUT THE AUTHOR**

If you are a professional publisher,

who would like to publish any of my books,

please email me:

gregdinneen@yahoo.com

I have been a Vegetarian since 1971 because I like animals.

I was a Vegan for 18 of those years, before returning to Cow's milk, because of damage to my teeth.

Something that is very common on Vegan Diets.

I only need 1 Cow, to spend 2 to 3 years in a dairy, to supply me with 16,000 litres of milk, a lifetime supply of milk.

I wrote this book because I want to refute the Vegan Propagandists who are harming people and animals.

Because most people, who try to become Vegans, become Ex-Vegans.

Often due to ill-health caused by their Vegan Diets.

And, then, because Vegan Anti-Milk Propagandists, have taught them that Dairy is as bad as, even worse than, Animal-Eating, most Ex-Vegans become Animal-Eaters again, eating more than 1000 animals instead of drinking milk from 1.

Most Ex-Vegans, because of what Organic-Vegans have done to them, lose their ideals completely, and go back to eating more than 1000 animals.

As well as eating Organic-Food, that has been fertilised with Blood and Bone, Chicken-Dung from Factory-Farms, and sprayed with Fish-Emulsion.

Instead of becoming Lacto-Vegans.

And, drinking milk from just 1 Cow.

I have also included how to be a Veganic Gardener.

How to form intelligent friendships with animals including Dogs, Horses, Poultry – instead of trying to dominate and operant-condition animals.

And, how to relate to wildlife, including Birds and how to rescue Koalas.

I have always been a Veganic Gardener.

I do not use Blood and Bone, macerated day-old Chickens, Fish-Emulsion, Chicken-Dung from factory farms, ... for fertiliser – as Organic Farmers and Gardeners do.

I have had Hens, Bantams, Ducks, Muscovies as pets.

Free-ranging in my suburban back garden.

They were never locked-up.

I no longer have pet Poultry.

But, I made several birdbaths.

And, placed them outside my windows.

So, every day, I have lots of visiting wildlife birds.

To watch.

Some, of whom, make their nests in my garden.

I have also had 4 generations of Beagles.

I bought my first Beagle when she was already 5 years old.

And, then I bred her daughter, granddaughter, and my last was her great-granddaughter.

So I have experience with dogs from the cradle to the grave.

How to get dogs to come when you call.

How to house-train dogs in 2 days.

How to teach dogs to cross roads safely.

And, how to relax dogs, with back-rubs, to get them over any fears.

I write about dogs because too many "dog trainers" are using and teaching abusive methods.

When you can teach your dogs with kindness.

Because.

Dogs like to please.

And.

Indeed, most dogs I know, make a point of it.

So make friends with your dogs first.

By affection, praise and play.

And, then your dogs will want to please you.

For More Information And To Contact The Author

Especially if you are a professional publisher who would like to publish any of my books.

Email: gregdinneen@yahoo.com

You can also Download Free PDFs, of some my pamphlets, from:

https://sites.google.com/site/vegetarianinformationcenter

# **THE VEGETARIAN INFORMATION CENTER**

_The Vegetarian Information Center has been providing free information on Vegetarian, Vegan and related matters since the 1970s._

You can Download, Vegetarian Information Center PDFs, from:

https://sites.google.com/site/vegetarianinformationcenter

# **STARTING A HUMANE, HEALTHY, SUSTAINABLE, COMMERCIAL, MILK, EGGS, AND WOOL, COMPANY**

_Humane, Sustainable, Healthy, Profitable, Animal Products._

_From Animals Who Are Treated As Pets._

If animal-agriculture is not humane, sustainable, healthy, and profitable; then, _"you are just not doing it right"_.

There are billions of Farm-Animals.

And, with increasing wealth and population, world-wide animal-product consumption could double, yet again, over the next 25 years.

So it is important for people, Farm-Animals, and the environment, that healthy animal-products are produced humanely and sustainably.

### **A Humane, Sustainable, Profitable, Milk, Eggs, And Wool, Company**

_From Animals Who Are Treated As Pets._

_I know how to produce,_

_healthy milk, eggs, and wool,_

_humanely, sustainably,_

_and profitably,_

_using current technologies._

_And, as humane technologies,_

_such as using non-invasive infra-red photography,_

_to sex-sort fertile eggs before incubation,_

_improve and become cheaper,_

_the profitability can increase._

_If you are, or know,_

_an investor, a venture capitalist,_

_a dairy-farmer, or an orchardist,_

_who would be interested,_

_could you please email me:_

gregdinneen@yahoo.com

# INDEX

TITLE PAGE

Disclaimer

Disclosure

My Opinion

Acknowledgements

VEGANISM IS BASED ON 2 FALSE ASSUMPTIONS

SAVING ANIMALS 1000 AT A TIME

Cow's Milk-Drinkers Are Happier, Healthier, And Live Longer

THE STEREOTYPICAL VEGAN-PROPAGANDIST

Who Not To Argue With

Who To Argue With

Famous Vegans "Who Did Not Do It Right."

INTELLECTUAL HONESTY

Cyber-Abusers, Cyber-Bullies, And The Just Plain Bitter And Nasty

HOW TO WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH A VEGAN

Now Lay A Guilt-Trip On A Vegan

It Does Not Matter If You Eat Organic-Food

How Will You Know If You Have Won?

Humane To Animals.

Humane Milk.

Social Justice [World Food Supply]

The Environment.

DOING ANIMAL-AGRICULTURE RIGHT

Vegan Farm-Animal Sanctuaries Prove Animal Agriculture Can Be Humane.

Humane Commercial Egg Production.

Eggs Produced Humanely By Poultry Free-Ranging In Orchards.

Humane Commercial Dairy Farms.

Veganic Food – Humanely-Produced Organic-Food

VEGAN PROPAGANDA AND VICTIM-BLAMING

Some Points To Make.

Prove It, Prove It, Always Ask Vegans To Prove What They Say.

Intellectually Lazy Vegan Propagandists.

THE ADA POSITION STATEMENT – 2009

No Evidence For Vegan Babies And Pregnancies.

Soy Infant Formula and Seizures in Children with Autism: A Retrospective Study

THE CHINA STUDY

PLANT BASED DIETS versus VEGAN DIETS

Vegan Diets – From Detox To Deficiency.

A Healthy Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet.

The Long-Term Dangers Of Vegan Diets.

WHAT IS VEGANISM?

Why Do People Become Vegans?

How To Become An Ex-Vegan.

Doing Ex-Veganism Right – How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian.

WHY I WOULD NEVER BE A VEGAN AGAIN

RAW VEGAN ILL-HEALTH – HERBERT SHELTON'S COVER-UP

Herbert Shelton's Cover-Up

FRUITARIANISM – TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING

Eating Fresh Fruit Daily.

PHIL WOLLEN – VEGAN PROPAGANDIST

PHIL WOLLEN: "It takes 50,000 litres of drinking water to produce one kilo of beef."

FACT: It Takes 18 To 540 Litres Of Water To Produce 1 Kg Of Red Meat

FACT: The Water Footprint of milk is less than for grains, beans, nuts.

WHY I WOULD NEVER RAISE A BABY AS A VEGAN

Why You Can Never Do Veganism Right.

REFUTING VEGAN ANTI-MILK PROPAGANDA

If You Cannot Digest Milk.

SAVING ANIMALS 1000 AT A TIME

VEGANIC GARDENING versus ORGANIC GARDENING

The Lazy Person's Guide To Flower, Herb, Fruit, Nut, Vegetable Gardening

Indoor Gardening.

POULTRY AS PETS

Poultry-Proof Plants For A Poultry-Proof Garden.

Adopting Or Buying Poultry As Pets

BIRD GARDENS – AVIARIES WITHOUT WALLS

FISH HAVE FEELINGS TOO!

HOW TO BE YOUR DOG'S BEST FRIEND

Abusive Professional Dog Trainers.

Teaching Your Dogs With Kindness.

Dogs Like To Please

Formal Education.

Teaching Your Dogs To Come When You Call.

How Not To Call Your Dog – When Your Words Contradict Your Actions.

Walking Your Dogs On-Lead And Off-Lead.

House-Training Your Dogs In 2 Days.

House-Training In An Apartment.

How I Taught My Beagles To Cross Roads Without Getting Run Over.

Teaching To Mouth And Not To Nip Or Bite.

Enjoy Your Dogs.

Dogs Like To Please People Who They Are Friends With.

Dogs Howling When You Are Not Home.

Do You Really Want A Dog?

Will You Let Your Dog Behave Like A Dog?

Introducing Yourself To Dogs.

Normal Dogs.

Over-Friendly Dogs.

My Approach To Managing Savage Dogs

Dog Fights – When Neither Dog Is Savage

How To Start A Dog Fight.

RSPCA Victoria: no adoption fee for older dogs.

Beagles For Adoption At The RSPCA.

Buying A Dog.

Do Not Buy From Pet Shops Or Puppy Mills [Factory-Farms For Dogs].

Choosing A Dog Or A Pup.

FRIENDSHIPS WITH VERSUS BREAKING OF ANIMALS

Horses.

Donkeys.

Koalas.

Leadership.

Why Abusive Dog And Horse Training Methods Are So Common

Bullying, Abusive Behaviour By Dog And Horse Trainers.

FEEDING PUPS AND DOGS NATURALLY

Raw Food – Healthy Fast Food For Animals

Advantages Of Raw Food.

VEGAN PETS – RABBITS INSTEAD OF CATS.

FORMING FRIENDSHIPS WITH HORSES

Noblesse Oblige – Leadership With Horses.

Teaching Horses To Be Brave

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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