Game meat makes you sick

The broad term "game meat" encompasses the meat of wild animal species (e.g., deer, chamois, roe deer, ibex, wild boar, marmots, brown hares, snow hares, wild rabbits, wild birds, etc.).

For years, authorities have recommended that children, pregnant women, and women trying to conceive avoid consuming meat from game killed with lead ammunition. Game meat is also contaminated with residues of pesticides, herbicides, manure, antibiotics, etc., from the animals' feed.

Touching a dead animal disgusts most people. Eating it, however, is a pleasure for hunters.

Wild boar, roe deer, and red deer, along with offal from farm animals and seafood, are among the foods with the highest lead levels. The primary cause is the lead ammunition . This heavy metal is toxic and accumulates in the body. Based on new data, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment ( BfR ) has reassessed the additional health risks associated with consuming game shot with lead ammunition. The result: Game meat can be heavily contaminated with lead ammunition residue. Since lead intake from other foods is already relatively high, regular consumption of game meat shot with lead ammunition is sufficient to endanger consumer health. "There is an increased risk for consumer groups who eat game weekly, especially in hunters' households," says BfR President Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel. "Unborn children and children up to seven years of age are particularly at risk, as even low lead intake can lead to health problems in these individuals." Therefore, young children, pregnant women, and women planning to become pregnant should avoid eating game shot with lead ammunition whenever possible.

Studies from Switzerland show that game enthusiasts, such as hobby hunters and their families, consume up to 90 portions of game meat per year in these households. The Federal Office for Food Safety considers the situation of hunters and families who eat game meat once or several times a week to be concerning.

The lead shot and lead-containing hunting bullets most commonly used in hunting leave lead fragments in the game meat. The bullets deform or disintegrate upon impact, releasing lead particles and tiny lead splinters that penetrate deep into the meat. They are barely visible there.

High lead contamination of game meat from the ammunition used should therefore be strictly avoided. Generously removing the meat around the bullet wound is not always sufficient to prevent high levels of lead contamination.

Elevated lead concentrations in the human body can damage blood formation, internal organs, and the central nervous system. Lead also accumulates in bones over the long term. In adults, the kidneys are most sensitive to chronic lead exposure, while in children up to seven years old, the nervous system is most affected. Infants and toddlers are particularly vulnerable. Elevated lead levels can lead to irreversible nerve damage, impaired brain function, and reduced intelligence in this age group. The same applies to fetuses. The development of the nervous system is a particularly sensitive phase in the unborn child's development. This can be affected even by a single intake of foods with high lead levels. Therefore, women planning a pregnancy should consume as little lead as possible. During pregnancy, the fetus may be exposed not only to the amount of lead that the expectant mother ingests, primarily through food. The increased bone turnover during pregnancy, combined with insufficient calcium intake, leads to the release of stored lead, thus posing an additional burden for both the fetus and the mother.

He who dies earlier is dead longer

Meat always contains a high proportion of toxins and makes people extremely susceptible to disease. For example, the number of various cancers rises significantly in countries with excessive meat consumption. Breast cancer, the most common cancer in women, prostate cancer in men, and colon cancer have become veritable epidemics, resulting in exploding healthcare costs for the general public. The assumption that humans are omnivores is false. Our bodies do not need meat – too much of it actually makes us sick.

There is one population group that lives longer and develops fewer diseases than others: the indigenous people of the Amazon. Even today, they eat much like our ancestors did thousands of years ago. They mainly consumed vegetables, mushrooms, nuts, and low-sugar fruits. Meat was never a staple of their diet.

Every year, Swiss hunters harvest meat worth around 20 million francs.

This quantity comes from an average of 67,990 deer, chamois, roe deer, and wild boar killed. Game meat is a low-quality food , as studies, doctors, official bodies, and others warn against. Meat consumption is a societal impropriety in times of food abundance. The instincts for hunger and thirst can be satisfied ethically in this age. Essential nutrients can be found elsewhere. Meat always contains a high proportion of toxins and makes one extremely susceptible to physical and mental illnesses. Processed game meat, like cigarettes, asbestos, or arsenic, is carcinogenic, as the World Health Organization (WHO) . 50 grams of meat equals an 18 percent higher risk of cancer. Red meat is said to promote cancer, according to the conclusion of a 22-member expert team from ten countries, which reviewed over 800 studies documenting a link between more than a dozen different types of cancer and meat consumption. Lancet Oncology, " published by the WHO agency, that there is sufficient evidence regarding the link between progesterone and colorectal cancer.

In Canada, it is generally prohibited to sell hunters' game meat in restaurants or shops because it is considered more of a poison than a foodstuff, according to an article in " The Globe and Mail ." The ban is intended to protect wildlife and is also unsafe. Uncontrolled meat can be very dangerous to human health, potentially leading to gastrointestinal parasites. Because wild animals roam freely, they are much more exposed to pathogens such as tuberculosis, Giardia, E. coli, Salmonella, Sarcocystis, and others. Game meat is more often contaminated with dangerous bacteria and germs than commonly believed. Feeding pets game meat, especially raw game meat, is also highly problematic if it comes from a hunter.

The type of hunting method also determines the quality of the meat. Driven hunts produce even lower-quality meat, which is often contaminated with ammunition. Any butcher would go bankrupt if they only sold meat from hunters. Meat hygiene practices among hunters also fall short of normal standards. The game is often left lying around for hours without refrigeration – proper handling according to the usual legal regulations is not evident.

Wild animals live in constant fear because of hunters. Especially when they are actually hunted, they produce vast amounts of toxic hormones, adrenaline, etc., which combine with other existing toxins and waste products in their flesh. Even the ancient Romans knew that when they tortured slaves to death, the slaves developed a specific poison in their saliva that could be used to poison others. Thus, the fear of death becomes embedded in the tissues of wild animals and is ingested by humans.

The same applies, of course, to so-called organic meat from "farm animals," because no animal is willing to die voluntarily for our unhealthy eating habits. Organic animals instinctively sense this when they approach the negative energy of slaughterhouses.

Meat without accompaniments like flavor enhancers, sauces, etc., is practically inedible—a disgusting, blood-soaked mass. A carcass. But the most important thing in dishes made from dead animals is spices—who wants that carrion taste to come through?

Meat is a filler with a very low frequency and not a foodstuff. Accordingly, it also shapes the consciousness of the one who consumes it.

To claim that one must eat meat for its vitamins and nutrients is just as nonsensical as saying that one must go to the North Pole to go on vacation.

75% of game meat consumed in Switzerland comes from abroad, primarily from South Africa, New Zealand, and European countries, which is an unparalleled ecological absurdity. Total consumption in Switzerland averages 4,600 tons per year. There are no uniform price guidelines for domestic game meat. Price fixing is the norm.

The pollution caused by the countless tons of lead and other highly toxic heavy metals in ammunition that hunters leave behind in nature is pure eco-terrorism. Lead is an extremely toxic heavy metal and also a particularly cruel form of hunting. Injured animals suffer not only from their wounds but also from slow poisoning by the ammunition. Hunters are thus poisoning themselves, other people, animals, soil, and groundwater. In some regions, the most frequent cause of death for protected birds is poisoning from carrion contaminated with lead.

If the diet is wrong, medicine is helpless. If the diet is right, medicine is unnecessary.

Just like humans, all vertebrates produce so-called stress hormones during great physical exertion, severe pain, anxiety, and damage to the body.

Especially during moments of mortal fear – which always occurs in animals due to their lack of awareness of the causes and duration of pain, combined with external circumstances – and to the greatest extent during the death throes, these substances accumulate in large quantities. However, as a result of death, they can no longer be broken down and, when consumed, enter the human bloodstream.

These substances are primarily adrenaline, apomorphine, and histamine, which, along with other pharmaceuticals added to the feed, remain in the animal's system, such as growth hormones, hydrocortisone, stilbenes, beta-blockers, antibiotics, estrogens, chemo-vitamins, and many types of tranquilizers. According to the Roche Medical Lexicon, adrenaline (epinephrine) is an adrenal hormone that, in its natural left-handed form, determines the conductivity of the nervous system and thus the overall functionality of the biological organism. Pathologically, it occurs in connection with tumor diseases.

Once in the body, it leads to a sharp increase in blood pressure, contracture of the peripheral blood vessels with all its accompanying symptoms, a pathological increase in cardiac output, and significant changes in normal hormonal and circulatory systems, which is why results from animal experiments are unreliable. All other androgenic hormones have the same effects.

Elevated adrenaline levels cause feminization in adult men, with corresponding physical symptoms, and virilization of the voice, hair growth, and muscles in women. Before puberty, girls develop pseudo-hermaphroditism with amenorrhea and lack of breast development, while boys develop hypogonadism with early stunted growth of the limbs. Apomorphine, identified as a morphine derivative, depresses the respiratory center, stimulates the vomiting center in the brain, and causes extreme muscle weakness, even paralysis.

At high doses, it leads to headaches, vomiting, visual impairment due to constricted pupils, urinary and fecal retention, somnambulism to unconsciousness, irregular and insufficient breathing, circulatory collapse, coma and possibly death due to respiratory paralysis.

Similar effects are known for all morphine-like substances, and histamine, which belongs to the ergotamine group, is a tissue hormone widely distributed throughout the body. In its inactive form, bound to heparin, it is primarily stored in white blood cells, the lungs, skin, gastrointestinal tract, brain, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, and also in the blood. An increased occurrence of histamine is also known in carcinoma tumors and is referred to as "carcinoid syndrome.".

It is also produced in large quantities during tissue damage, radiation injury, burns, and physical exertion, causing all forms of allergies. Normally, it is slowly broken down when the underlying causes are eliminated, but this is usually prevented by death.

In the absence of chemically and physically demonstrable differences in their structural composition, all histamines and ergamines are strictly species- and individual-specific, which is why they frequently cause acute or chronic allergic symptoms in other species. These symptoms range from cardiac arrhythmias, headaches, and elevated blood pressure to skin reactions, circulatory weakness, collapse, and even anaphylactic shock, occasionally resulting in death. This does not mean that such consequences will always manifest in the same clinically recognizable way, as this depends both on the amount of these foreign hormones ingested and on the individual's specific allergic predisposition.

The diverse range of symptoms demonstrates that continuous exposure to such foreign substances leads to toxic effects in the body, even without immediately recognizable acute signs of illness. Whether and when these develop into a diagnosable disease also depends on these individual factors.

Furthermore, it is not known how these adrenalines, morphines and histamines interact with the aforementioned chemical-pharmaceutical feed additives, what interactions they have with them and what metabolic breakdown products are formed with the pharmaceuticals that unnaturally accelerate the growth of the animals – independent of the micro-bacterial and viral contamination of the animal meat.

Such known circumstances of a diet that impairs health demonstrate the human obligation to treat animals in the best possible way, not only for animal welfare reasons.

If one believes it is necessary to slaughter animals for food, then the killing must absolutely be carried out without fear or pain. Otherwise, the animals' meat will contain an above-normal concentration of stress hormones that are harmful and pathogenic to humans, in addition to the chemical and pharmaceutical additives in the feed that are always detectable, explains Dr. Werner Hartinger.

Meat not only stores detectable hormones, traces of medications and feed additives, and contains toxins such as cadaverine, but recent research also proves that it absorbs and carries emotional energies such as joy and sorrow. Recipients of donor organs, in particular, report experiencing and empathizing with the moods and feelings of the organ donor after transplantation. For example, a person who was previously very optimistic and hopeful about the future may subsequently become prone to depression and be plagued by anxieties and worries they had never known before.

There is of course an explanation for this, because every tissue, every cell and every organ, whether it is the heart, the skin, muscles or body fluids such as blood or saliva, is able to store energy.

Thus, after a transplant, the organ recipient can perceive positive or negative energies from the organ donor. This theory also allows for the conclusion that the emotional energies of the wild animal are absorbed by the meat-eater in its flesh and can be transferred to them through consumption – they thereby take on precisely the emotional vibration associated with fear, despair, pain, or resignation that the wild animal experienced in the situation of confrontation with violence before it was killed.

So you're also eating the animal's pain and suffering.

Stage 1: The signs of acute and severe lead poisoning

Taste disturbance, metallic taste
Salivation, nausea, vomiting
Intestinal cramps, severe abdominal pain with constipation, urinary retention
Physical weakness
pale skin
Easier excitability and irritability, depression
Hypothermia, cold sweat
Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
Rapid heartbeat (tachycardia), circulatory collapse

Stage 2: The signs of chronic lead poisoning

Feeling weak, lack of energy, nausea
Fatigue, persistent exhaustion, easy fatigability
Sleep disorder, insomnia
Anxiety, behavioral disturbances, nervousness, confusion, memory impairment, drowsiness, clouded consciousness, epileptic seizures
Loss of appetite, bloating, intestinal colic, constipation
Numbness or tingling in arms and legs
Sensory illusion and perceptual disorder,
dizziness
Tremor
Joint pain
Muscle pain, muscle weakness
High blood pressure, circulatory disorders, chest tightness, tendency to collapse, circulatory failure
Weight loss, underweight
Impotence in men
Menstrual periods cease in women, resulting in infertility

Stage 3: Typical secondary illnesses of severe lead poisoning

Anemia (insufficient production and damage to red blood cells)
Lead colour (grey-yellow discoloration of the skin)
Mild to severe brain damage (lead cephalopathy): mild to severe intellectual disability up to and including senility, learning, concentration, and memory impairment, apathy
Drowsiness, clouded consciousness, irritability
Aggressiveness, hyperactivity, lack of interest in playing and frequent crying in children,
Parkinson-like symptoms
Depression, psychosis, disorientation
Paralysis and sensory disturbances due to the
Damage to the peripheral nervous system
Abdominal pain, intestinal cramps, diarrhea, vomiting
Impaired kidney function, kidney damage, kidney failure, kidney tumor
Fetal damage in pregnant women, increased risk of stillbirth
non-infectious jaundice
Joint degeneration (lead gout), arthritis
Damage to the bone marrow and bones (osteosclerosis, osteonecrosis)
Liver damage
Visual impairments up to and including blindness
Myalgia (muscle pain), muscle weakness, fatigue
Gum damage
duodenal ulcer and bowel cancer