Algae, Spirulina ,Seaweed caution. (Interesting article)

http://www.waterandlife.us/algae.htm

I have noticed that most people - especially vegetarians or vegans (which completely I am) - do not have a correct understanding or knowledge of the micro-animal family in which algae and all the so-called "sea-weeds" belong! - So believing them to be vegetable matter, do eat them!

To call algae, kelp, nori, spirulina (sometimes spelled: spiralina), carrageenan or any "sea-weed" a "vegetable" is biological folly or simple ignorance of marine life fact! All so-called algae or seaweeds are made up of primitive animal cells called protists and are cyano-bacteria or flagellates - tiny animal cells!

They do exist as single cell organisms, as in the "algae", or as cooperating individuals in multi-celled (labor-organized) colonies, as in kelp, nori and all the other larger and complex "sea-weeds". (misnomer)

As with all other animals, these are oxygen consumers (not providers), so they will markedly deplete water of oxygen available to fish and all other sea life when excess blood, body fluids, decomposing animal tissues and animal wastes allow their "blossom" or "bloom" to occur in, and thus choking, a river, lake or sea!

Their "plant-like" structuring permits any colony of these organisms to take advantage of the water's layered current differentials - hence a continuously renewing food supply is provided to all individuals. But of equal survival value to the organism is its additional incorporating of chloroplast-like organelles. These chloroplast-like organelles in these submerged organisms rarely receive any appreciable sunlight for energy conversion value, but do really serve by its exhibiting of plant-like colors to camouflage the organisms as a plants - thus avoiding being devoured by fish and all sea mammals - all of which are obligate carnivores!

It is important for you to understand that all algae and sea-weeds also are obligate carnivores - filter-feeding upon bacteria, viruses, amoebas, and all decomposing animal fluids, tissues and waste! - They also pick, accumulate and concentrate all the toxins of man, industry, livestock, game, and runoff in the rivers and oceans. That waste is their food and its collection into themselves is their function. -- Do you want it to be yours?

Also you need to understand that as a small animal organism the algae (all sea-weeds) produce in their life chemical processes the base hormones - that is, the steroids extant to all animal life! These steroids (hormones) stimulate or manipulate all animal life processes - including yours! The common supplemental ingestion of algae and sea-weed facilitates the factual reason and explanation as to why several Olympic participants were recently tested positive for steroids, even when they and their trainers were certain and certified that no illicit steroids had been given to them! What they and you don't know - will hurt you!

Also know, as an associate to key marine disease biologists, we track and identify the viruses first in the algeas, then fish and sea mammals early in the year so as to permit the prediction of what strains of influenza, RSV, etc will passed through the marine-life-scavenging birds, then literally be flown to the game and livestock - and finally through those animal's (packaged and sold) fluids and tissues to your infant and you! Our identification of the pathogens earlier in the algae and marine life is how the vaccines are predetermined, formulated, cultured and prepared. But this year the birds confused by strange weather have tricked us a little with their changed travels and different mixing of migratory routes. So the vaccine producers must now reformulate! It is this unforeseen viral mixing/mutation and migratory delay that is the vaccine preparation problem, not a "shortage!"

So if you want to avoid viral (and mycobacterial) contact, heavy metals and halides (like mercury, fluoride, etc), steroids, antigenic reactions (autoimmune triggers), the consumption of animal tissues, chemical pollutants, agricultural and industrial runoff and nature's waste; then you must leave the algaes (all sea weeds) to do their divinely designed function -- to filter nature's and your waters -- while you do your divinely designed function -- to protect and preserve it! -- and your own life through it!

You don't eat your water filter! That is not smart at all!
The Algaes (all seaweeds) are Nature's water filters! So don't be fooled into purchasing and putting them and the filthy and hazardous filtrates they have consumed into you or anyone else you love!

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Permalink Reply by Dutchie on September 14, 2010 at 11:28pm

This is new to me. Always thought that seaweeds were plants. Have been eating 5 tablets of spirulina daily since a few weeks to stop muscle cramps (which seems to work). According to the label, my spirulina is grown in clean water, so I am not too concerned about pollution. However, as a vegan, eating this life form is something I have to think about.

Permalink Reply by Robbie Belmonte on September 14, 2010 at 11:32pm

Excellent post

Permalink Reply by Kristie on September 15, 2010 at 1:42am

This article packs some punchy information, thanks for sharing!

Permalink Reply by Anastasia/Champagne Mango on September 15, 2010 at 2:46am

...Aha.

Permalink Reply by Tarah @ 40 Below Fruity on September 15, 2010 at 3:17am

Great article! Thanks for sharing.

Permalink Reply by Eva on September 15, 2010 at 7:31pm

wow. Never thought about it like this. Got heaps of nori sheets leftover from making (vege) sushi to bring to potlucks. Well, I might just give it away to someone who wants it :-)

Permalink Reply by MADO on September 15, 2010 at 7:51pm

Plants are beings. They know when you are going to hurt them. Spirit beings. So whats left to eat if you value life?

Permalink Reply by Karmyn on September 15, 2010 at 8:43pm

Plants are beings. They know when you are going to hurt them.

EXACTLY! Has anyone here ever seen the documentary "The Secret Life Of Plants?" If not I HIGHLY recommend you watch it:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4753736638977368381#

I watched it a few weeks ago and was AMAZED. Plants are very aware even to the point where a cabbage plant freaked out when it saw a scientist rip another cabbage plant to shreds. The plant was okay when other scientists walked in the room again but freaked out again when it saw the scientist that hurt the other plant.

There was another plant that had one of its leaves hooked up to a polygraph machine and the scientist had the THOUGHT of lighting the leaf on fire and the plant freaked out (you can see it on the polygraph).

The scientist decided to conduct an experiment where he recorded live shrimp being dropped in boiling water to their deaths. Whenever a shrimp would fall into the boiling water the plant would freak out. He even conducted the test with him far away from his lab because he was afraid of somehow influencing the results. He had the shrimp fall into the boiling water randomly and he videotaped the whole thing and without fail the plant would freak out each time the shrimp fell to its death.

It made me realize that vegans are no more ethical than animal eaters. We're killing living things just like animal eaters ...

I used to be one of those "smug" vegans who thought I was all that for not harming animals but then my animal eating friends would make the "killing the plant' argument and I would respond by saying that plants don't feel things like animals do.

Boy was I WRONG. Especially since this documentary was made in 1979 (I believe) which is the same year I was born.

I'm surprised I didn't learn about this until recently ...

So maybe instead of being vegan for "ethical" reasons (because let's face it we're no more "ethical" than animal eaters) let's be vegan for HEALTH reasons.

And let's be RAW VEGANS for OPTIMAL HEALTH.

Permalink Reply by Jacob on September 15, 2010 at 10:27pm

Exactly what the hunters from the primal tribes do. We should bless everthing we do.

With other words: Do not "try", DO! To a 100%. And do it with happiness and gratefulness.

If you don't have the "happiness", do are doing something you don't really want to do and have resistance against it. Accept that you're having resistance to it and do it anyway. Because resistance CREATES more and stronger resistance. Just DO!

Permalink Reply by Kimberry on February 9, 2012 at 5:32am

+1 to blessing everything we do. <3 I love that.

Permalink Reply by Jacob on September 15, 2010 at 10:16pm

Now there, you must admit that the ethical aspect of veganism have been bringing a very large number of young people into the vegan-thinking, and they got fire in heart to ponder about not to eat musclefibers.

Tho, on another side, mainstream veganism today, provide (maybe) an unhealthier lifestyle that people ate before their lifechange.

You can actually laugh at veganism, like this:

Fanatism isn't a good thing in any aspect, this OPs thread just proved it. True, we shouldn't really be eating things growing from the sea anyway.. right? ;)

Don't scare the newbies that's just here for the health and performance by using ethical shouts here and there. They might turn around and call us bananas...

It's really cruel for aliens to breed us humans at their planet, treat us badly with horrible conditions, see our brothers and sisters die before us in the line, die quickly, frozen for a year, be heated at 300 degrees celcius and eaten up by the aliens on a fancy plate. This, my friends, is a thing the western people could do better on. Slowly, but still changing something for the better.

Permalink Reply by Jelle on January 12, 2012 at 7:27am