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As an American expat, who has lived in the Philippines since 2007, married to a Filipina and raising three Fil-Am children, I am, of course, concerned about developments that may endanger my family. Several years ago, I was granted permanent residency. 

Adapting to the Philippines

My children are all enrolled in and attend a Philippine school not far from our home. They have adapted well to the school and have been welcomed by the staff and students.  They have made friends there and in our neighborhood. Bridging the gap between native Filipinos and Fil-Ams requires empathy, open dialogue, and a willingness to learn from each other. Both groups share a common heritage, and acknowledging their distinct experiences can lead to a more harmonious relationship.

My wife and I have friends here, Filipinos and Americans. She also has a sister and nieces who live near us. So, we are basically settled in and comfortable here.

We live in a house about 2.5 hours SW of Manila. We are all Vegans now. See how we live as Vegans. My oldest daughter does some baking and has taken some cookies to school for classmates. Recently she participated in an entrepreneurial event on campus. She set up a vending table and sold cookies and drinks to students and staff. She sold out of "cashew chocolate chip" and "red velvet cookies"! See some of her cookies near the bottom of the page.

Now we are concerned about recent developments in the waters of our country of residence.

Water Cannon Attack April 30, 2024

Should we stay or should we go?

We are thinking about buying another car. Should it be new or secondhand? Under the circumstances I think it will be a used car. It is still too early to make a decision about moving.

As a Vegan and an animal activist I write about veganism and hand out PETA leaflets. Many Filipinos have never heard of PETA and many don't even know what "Vegan" means.

This week I graduated from a local seminary with a Bachelor of Theology degree. I had completed three years of schooling in the USA years ago. Having a lot of spare time, I decided to apply to enroll here, in country, to complete my degree. Fortunately, I was accepted as a student and attended all classes on campus. I am now the first person in my family to have earned a college degree! My wife is next to get a diploma. The children are planning to keep advancing through school. Summer break is coming and that should be fun.

 I am now serving as pastor at an online "church." The Internet website "Church for Christian Vegans" and the Facebook Meta group, which is open to the public, Genesis 1:29 Church for Christian Vegans.

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Pig Farms Philippines

Pigs in the Philippines

Pig Farms and Chicken Farms in the Philippines - They Stink
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If you do decide to live in a rural area, I suggest you do a Google Earth search of the surrounding area and look for pig farms and chicken farms (poultry farms). For each farm you will see rows of long tin roofed buildings. The pig farms will have several ponds nearby. We signed our lease not knowing much about the area.
Turns out there were about 25 pig farms and chicken farms within about 1 to 3 miles of our apartment.
On many occasions the odor was very strong. We would close the windows and turn on the air conditioner, but that did not totally eliminate the foul odor. It was especially annoying at evening dinner time.

After having been diagnosed by a Pulmonologist as having bacteria in a lung, I did some online research to see if the wind carried any dangerous bacteria from the farms. In fact, I discovered that the air could carry dangerous bacteria and other contaminants quite a distance from pig farms. My daughter and I both had several unexplained illnesses while living there. Needless to say, we did not renew our lease after learning of the danger of living near the farms. I plan to add a screen shot of the farms that were in our area. See an article about hazards of living near pig farms.

Check proximity to pig farms like this. Use Google Earth to search.

HEALTH WARNING: Here is an excerpt from an article "Another Something Foul In The Air Above Pig Farms,"

"...University of North Carolina School of Public Health researcher Steve Wing authored a paper in which he outlined respiratory disease rates in rural neighborhoods within two miles of hog farms. He found the number of people who, over six months, reported 12 or more incidents of upper respiratory problems (runny nose, coughing, headaches, mucous membrane irritation, and sore throat) almost doubled near hog farms when compared to the control group. “It’s really bad,” says Wing. “Thirty to forty thousand head of livestock is like a city of 50,000 people without a waste treatment plant.” In another review, conducted in 2002, University of Iowa found very high rates of illness, especially respiratory illness, in factory hog farm hands. Nearly 70 percent of these farm employees complain of acute bronchitis and 25 percent complain of chronic (lasting two or more years) bronchitis. These diseases are just a small sample of ailments that also include asthma, depression, and fatigue. Wing says a complex mixture of pollutants such as hydrogen sulfide gas, dust, and live airborne viruses and bacteria cause these symptoms."

Update Oct. 2014: Here is an excerpt from an article at Mercola.com, 

"As reported by Frontline, researchers have found that 

people living close to confined animal feeding 

operations (CAFOs) also suffer drug-resistant 

infections at much higher rates than others, again 

suggesting that antibiotic-resistant bacteria originate 

from large-scale agriculture."

Look for chicken farms like this.

Pig meat is BAD

Selena Jackson

September 17, 2021 · 

13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK

1) A pig is a real garbage gut. It will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals.

2) The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison.

3) When eating beef or venison, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat so what little toxins are in the meat are slowly put into our system and can be filtered by the liver. But when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time.

4) Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.

5) Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons.

6) Farmers will often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because the pigs will eat the snakes, and if bitten they will not be harmed by the venom.

7) When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animal's flesh. In a few days the swine flesh is full of worms.

Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs will be killed.

9) Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef. A 3 oz T bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork chop contains 18 grams of fat. A 3 oz beef rib has 11.1 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork spare rib has 23.2 grams of fat.

10) Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomachs. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing its food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the swine's one stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh.

11) The swine carries about 30 diseases which can be easily passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcass (Leviticus 11:8).

12) The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism.

13) The pig is so poisonous and filthy, that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat.

-Courtesy BRScience

Read my article Foods to Avoid in the Philippines.

Check out Vegetarian In The Philippines. It reveals the dangers of eating pork.

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