Before continuing, I emphasize that some of the most dedicated, kindest, most intelligent and open-minded people I have ever dealt with are some of the veterinarians, medical doctors, nurses and vet techs I have met with over the years, but they are in the minority.  Some of these professionals purchase tens of thousands of pounds of our Evolution Diet Pet Foods every year.  These same people convince their clients to use Evolution Diet Pet Foods exclusively.  Some of the longest living and healthiest pets in the US and Canada are on Evolution Diet.  I find it unfortunate, that I have not found these people to be typical of the veterinary and medical industries not just because I want to make money:  It is because I know that products like Evolution Diet help stop desrction of our health, water, air and planet.  Vegetarian Foods also reduce fossil fuel requirements to about one quarter the amount required for meat, poultry and fish production and processing.   

A DAY IN MY LIFE 

It was a cool, wet and dark October Morning in Toronto at about 1:00 AM in 2004.  I pulled my father's car into the Sunnybrook Hospital Parking lot ramp near the front Emergency Entrance and stopped next to a concrete parking wall. I turned off the engine and looked at my pretty twenty-three year old neice Angela and said, "I don't think he made it."  I was preparing myself for the worst.  

Angela was crying "They're doing all they can to resusitate him, aren't they?"

Tears had welled up in my eyes.  "It looks like a Dog and Pony Show to me.  The doctors told me that they did not think he was a good candidate for resusitation.  The On Call Doctor told me he did not want to resusitate him.  He said that Dad would not make it, but I promised Dad I would have it done. It was the last thing he asked me to do.  The doctor told me that Dad has so many forms of organ failure...his heart especially:  He has little chance of making it.  Just the way they put him on that table in the resusitation room tells me it's over.  That had him lying in a fully recombant position even though he has pneumonia.  With all that fluid in his lungs, how can he even breath or be resusitated in a fully recumbant position.  I don't think they were really giving him a chance to make it." 

Angela jutted her head forward and cocked it to the left, looking straight into my eyes, "You think that they would just let him die and make it look like they were going to help him?"

"I think they do this kind of thing every day in hospitals throughout the US and Canada." 

Flashback to 6 months earlier in April of '04.  I knocked on the door to my my Dad's Apartment at 22 Shallmar Blvd., Sutie 613.  He had lived there for 27 years.  The wooden floors had come up in places and it certainly needed a paint job.  The building was nice, but his old 2 bedroom apartment definity required a redecorating job.  "Dad, it's so good to see you!  Why haven't you been calling me back?  I've left so many messages for you over the past few weeks.  See...I even brought my cute wife and the dogs to see you."  I rushed over to his side and gave him a big hug and a kiss on the side of his face.  I had to bend down because he was in a wheel chair.

"How are you son?  Lynn...you're still putting up with this guy?  You look beautiful Lynn.  Look at the dogs.  Come here Winnie.  Get them a treat from the refrigerator.  What do they like?  I've got crackers and cheese.  Give them some crackers and cheese.  I hope they don't crap or pee on the floor.

Winnie was our 15 year old, 40 lb female English Bulldog.  She liked to snort and jog around my Dad's Apartment after she gave him a big kiss and doggy hug.  The other dog we brought was our 8 year old, overweight Minature Dachshund named Rusty Scupper.  We thought they were ideal dogs for the trip, because we could hide them in our suitcases if we had to sneek them into a hotel that did not allow dogs. Rusty also went right up to my Dad and gave him a big Doggy Hug and a kiss.

"Get those dogs treats son.  Lynn, would you like a shot of booze.  That must of been a terrible trip...that's a thousand miles from St. Paul to Toronto.  Did you ever put shocks in that old van?"  

I said, "Not yet Dad."

He glared at me, "Are you crazy...You drive all that way in that old van with no shocks.  Your backs must be killing you.  You better get a nice hotel room with a comfortable bed.  Here's five hundred bucks."  He pulled five fresh one hundred dollar bills out of his pants pocket and said, "Here! Take this...Get a nice place and enjoy yourselves.  Take another five hundred and get some shocks in that thing."

"Keep the money Dad!  We don't need it.  We make enough money.  Keep the money for yourself.  Here are those vitamins and herbs I promised to bring you."  I opened my suitcase and pulled out ten fresh, large bottles of different vitamins and botanicals.  I carefully lined them up on his buffet.  "Do you want to take some of these now Dad?"

Lynn smiled as she spoke, "I'll take the money...You can be my Dad anytime.  My Dad never offers me money like that.  You better take those vitamins Paul.  I want to keep you around. 

"You've got a cute girl there son.  You better hang on to her.  I'm amazed she's stayed with you this long.  What do you see in this guy anyway?"

I said, "I hope you are going to change your diet.  This might be your last chance Dad.  I really mean it Dad.  I don't think you are going to make it next time.  You've got to change your diet for real this time.  I can tell by the way you have been forgetting things that you are in trouble...and you haven't been answering my pahone calls.  You just got out of the hospital for heart failure.  Don't you know that everytime you eat meat, poultry, fish or dairy products that you progressively block all of your arteries.  It's very serious because the most important arteries that are being blocked are in your heart and brain.  Dad you've got to stop eating that stuff...you've had five heart attacks and it's animal fat and animal cholesterol that have caused each one.  I don't want you to die.  That's why we came to visit you.  Lynn and I want you to change your diet now.  You've got to stop blocking your arteries with animal fat and cholesterol."    

Dad looked up at me, "Did you bring the will?  Before we fill out yhr will, scratch my back will ya"?  I've got some kind of itch.  

"I've got the will and we can fill it out and I'll message your neck and back and scratch your back...How's that Dad?"

"That's my boy!  Keep working on my back.  Come here Winnie...Let me have some of those crackers to give her and what's that dog's name?"  My dad fed the dogs crackers and cheese while I rubbed his neck, back and shoulders.  "That George Bush is no good...why don't they throw that guy out of office?  Killing all those poor Iraqis and stealing all the Tax Payers' Money.  What is the matter with that guy and Cheney?"

"You just can't throw Bush out Dad.  He either has to be impeached or elected out of office."

Flash forward to that cool, wet, dark October Morning. My niece and I entered the special resusitation room and looked at my Dad's still warm, but lifeless body.  He still had a large ortho-pharyngeal tube poking out of his motionless mouth.  He looked so still.  It was so unlike him. He was a man that lived life to the fullest.  If he would have only taken meat, poultry and fish out of his diet when I had spoken to him six months earlier.  I knew that he would still be here.  Animal fat and cholesterol are what progressively killed his organs by blocking his arteries. 

Flash back twenty-five years earlier.  I was in college for my physician's training in the Cadaver Dissection Lab where we would routinely disect dead human bodies.  The large room was lined with bright stainless steel tables with big black locking wheels at all four corners.  Each table had a dead corpse of man or woman that was was initially covered in a blue sheet.  Each cadaver was assigned a group of students.  As we proceeded to dissect the different parts of the bodies, the cover would gradually be moved downward.  I would stand by a table with a surgical mask (sometimes on and sometimes off depending on the amount of odor or spraying body fluids), gloves and a scalpal.  Along with a group of other students, we would work together cutting, separating and identifying different parts of the anatomy.  The stench from the decaying flesh mixed with formaldehyde was enough to almost make me vomit, but I somehow held it in.  In addition to the smell of formaldehyde and rotting tissue, there was the horrific grey to black appearance of the flesh as they decayed.  I knew the chemicals in used were highly cancer producing.  No wonder I disliked dissection lab so much.  To my amazement, some of my student cohorts would actually eat their lunch in that lab at break time.    

One day we were dissecting a 52 year old man's chest.  I was not prepared for the shocking information I was going to see for the first time in my life on that day.  This subject was particularely interesting because he had died from a heart attack.  When we pulled the blue drape away from his upper torso, he had obvious dark spots about a one to two inche in diameter all over his neck, arms and upper body.  We were told that these spots were due to the nitroglycerine medication that he was on prior to his death.  

Our group was not only performing a dissection, but in a very real sense, an autopsy.  We were going to examine the blood vessels that had been blocked and caused this man's heart to stop permanently.  I was assigned to examine the various arteries that bring blood to the heart and those in the heart itself.  Our group started by cutting through the rib cage on both sides. The three other people I was working with cut through the front of the rib cage to remove the breast plate structure that protects the heart and longs. 

Then I carefully started to look cut and look at the lumen or internal aspects of the major arteries that fed the the heart.  What I was about to see left a lasting impresion on me for the rest of my life.  As I cut open the arteries, I found long clots of yellow fatty tissue that looked like the chicken and turkey fat that I used to see when I sat down to dinner with my Mom and Dad most every Friday Night for much of my childhood and adolescent years. 

My mother used to get a lot of chicken and turkey for our family to eat as my sister and I were growing up.  She bought a lot of poultry and fish, because they were suppossed to be much lower in fat and cholesterol than beef and healthier then other meats.  I stood almost frozen looking at the open arteries and the poultry and fish fat that blocked his blood vessels.  As I carefully cut open the blood vessels, I uncovered what appeared to be a web of fatty material that was intertwined.  I thought to myself, 'This is what is in my chest now and everytime I eat meat, poultry or fish the blockage in the arteries that feed my heart are blocking more.'  This was a man that could have still been alive on the day we were dissecting him if he had not eaten meat, poultry or fish in his regular diet.  Here poultry fat and fish fat were the cause of this man's death.  Ironically, some thirty years later, poultry and fish fat would be the major cause of death in my father's heart and brain.  About eight years before my father died, my mother also died of heart disease and stroke due to blocked arteries. 

I thought to myself, 'Wouldn't it be better to be a vegetarian and avoid this kind of heart disease and live longer with a higher quality of life?'

Again:  A full 85% or more of Americans and Canadians die with Blocked Artery Disease of the Heart and Brain and various Cancers all brought on by the consumption of Meat, Poultry and Fish.  Why isn't the Public being informed about the damaging fats and other toxic substances in these foods?  We are always told that our genes determine what illnesses we will kive and die with.  The reason doctors tell us this instead of telling us to change our diests is so that we will be dependent on their drug and surgical therapies.  Of course the drug Industry wants us to believe that genes in our DNA are the main proginators of disease so that they can sell us more of their drugs through their network of doctors and pharmicists.  Who do you think is paying for all those Drug commercials on TV and Radio.  We are.

The biggest part of the answer is greed:  The other part of the answer is effective advertising or what I call "brainwashing" the public.  Almost everytime you turn on TV, you see another McDonald's, Burger King, Arby's, Wendy's or Drug Company Commercial.  Radio is not much different except that you hear the commercial.  Television and Radio are very powerful influences that easily manipulate most human minds:  Except for people like myself.  

Going back to my dissection group, I was able to analyze tissue samples including the fatty material and heart tissue with microscopic studies.  We were able to look at both healthy and diseased heart and brain tissue from our various dissected subjects.  Under the microscope, further evidence of how the arteries themselves had died prior to the heart's death.  The arteries in this man's body were so scarred from being inflamed and plugged or plaqued with animal fat and cholesterol, that it was a wonder that any oxygen could get through them to the heart.  This means that no matter how many red blood cells this guy had (the red blood cells are the specific cells that carry oxygen to all the organs in the body), he could never have enough oxygen delivered to his heart to live. 

The veterinary and medical industries as a whole offer some the best emergency services for diagnosis and treatment of obstructions of kidneys, bladder, digestive tract and airways, broken bones, penetrating Wounds, all acute infections and acute heart disease, but I can objectively say that is about all they are best at.  If you are treating any form of long term disease, I strongly recommend you look to Doctors of Naturopathy or Medical Doctors and Veterinarians that have a substantial background and experience using high doses of vitamins, botanicals and nutraceuticals together with diet and drugs.  You will find that they are few and far between. 

Perhaps the reason this government has refused to license the use of nutritional procedures is because there would be such a huge outcry from the public or the wealthy politicians that have interests in the production of Vitamins, Herbs and Nutraceuticals.  Whether it is because Supplement Company Owners have made huge contributions to politicians or because politicians own or have Interests in these natural treatment companies, I am sure there is a "Money Trail" somewhere.  At any rate this is one of the only good things that legislators (politicians) have done for the US and Canada, so I applaud this effort even if corruption is involved.  Keeping food supplements and vegetarian - vegan diets out of the control of medical doctors and veterinarians is imperative.  Imagine the FDA and the drug companies being able to license the use of vegetables, veggie burgers, vitamins and herbs.  I am exaggerating the issue of vegetarian diets and food Items, but your ability to treat yourself with effective herbal medicine is truly being challenged at this very moment.  Again, up until this time at least, it has been decided for whatever reason not to license these "Free" effective treatments so because they are "Free" and "Effective" the popular media does the next best thing:  It never mentions them at all!

The condition of the media in this country has a lot to do with your health care and your perception of health care providers.  I know that this next statement will make you feel very uncomfortable, but the truth is that many doctors and veterinarians do not want you or your loved ones to be well, unless that health is under their control.  This is a very controversial statement to say the least.  Please consider it for a moment.  If all people and all pets were naturally healthy, would the drug, medical and veterinary industries make money?   It is possible then that they are telling you and your pets to eat things that they know will not provide good health.  How many MDs and Veterinarians have told you about the tremendous Health Advantages of a Vegetarian Diet?  Even Dr. Richard Pitcairn, DVM, PhD, talks about the many advantages of a Vegetarian Diet in his book, The Natural Care Of Dogs and Cats. 

In Oct. 2004, a front page headline and article that played throughout the United States read something like this, "Thirty Percent of Patients That Die Under a Doctors Care, Die As A Result Of Doctor Error." Of course, this article referred to Allopathic or Drug-Surgery Medical Doctors that practice in the United States. Most of the Human Medical Practitioners in this country are Allopathic, but so are Veterinarians.  All the Drugs used by Allopathic Veterinary and Medical Practitioners can produce damaging side effects.  In virtually all instances Long Term Drugs do not cure any form of long term disease:  In fact their continued use actually increases the risk of more disease.