By Jaime Andrés Cubillos-Ballesteros, April 3rd, 2 thousand 20
The undercover murderer | Thoughts of a shy vegan
In every country impacted by the coronavirus, the data have shown a key element that, because of the seriousness of the spread, remains hidden under the shadow of complicity and silence of governments worldwide.
The coronavirus affects with greater severity people with underlying health conditions. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, to name just a few of the usual chronic diseases that plague public health around the globe.
It has also been shown, without generalizing, that the rate of infection and death toll of the coronavirus is highest among the elderly population.
There is a logic behind the correlation between age and the most common health issues. The longer you have been alive, the greater chance you have already been affected by any of those common illnesses. There are millions of contradictory examples of children with diabetes or cancer, as well as many young adults who suffer one of these illnesses already or who started suffering heart ailments even before they have reached their 30’s.
Would our current eating habits have something to do with the high rates of cancer, diabetes and heart problems, that, unfortunately, are considered common or even hereditary?
If the answer to this question is a big YES, what would be of humanity today and of this tsunami of death that the coronavirus is bringing, if our governments would have really protected our health under the primordial aspect of wellbeing of any species of the planet, what each of them eats?
Note that I said “species of the planet” with a primary intention. How many animals, other than humans and our pets, suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease or cancer? If other animals suffer illnesses not common in their species, we can assume these are linked to our contamination of the planet. It is completely clear that, if we would not have polluted the soil, air and water or engaged in hunting for sport or human consumption, these animals would die of natural causes in their own life cycles.
Each species eats what it has biologically evolved to consume. The evolution of the species may subject them to dietary changes that occur so slowly that it is almost impossible to trace, unless the region in which they live suffers climatic cataclysms that cause them to become extinct or migrate to find a new food source. But we have never seen an elephant eating a tiger nor a shark on a seaweed diet. Biologically, every species evolved to process the kind of food they consume and excrete what they don’t need.
The industrial revolution not only precipitated an economic evolution, but it transformed human nutrition into merely an unnatural process of monetary competition, the nutritional health of the human species came last as a priority that “doctors” even bother to assess, analyze and, much less improve.
First world diseases such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and cancer, are quickly spreading among developing countries, and have allowed this pandemic disease, the coronavirus, to turn us into citizens of fear, socially isolated, doing everything that our governments are telling us to do in order to stop the spread of an indiscriminate virus.
To me, the undercover murderer is not hidden, it is on our plates, just ready to get into our bodies because of our own hands’ free will and the alimentary ignorance which our governments have, silently subjected us for almost a century.