Addiction

Let us say that millions of people realise what they do when they eat animals and yet have decided to continue. Why don’t they stop?. Perhaps because in our society there is no strong voice, or at least no media promoted voice, to spell out unmistakably what is happening to the animals we eat. IT’S A COMPREHENSIVE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. So the obvious question is why are we allowing such a vast assault on animals to take place right under our noses and not looking into it? Most people will probably think that because animal foods are essential to ensure good nutrition that we can’t address their killing without killing ourselves. But as soon as the untruth of this is exposed, as soon as it is accepted that animal foods are the chief destroyers of health, then there’s really nowhere else to retreat to. And we have to accept that humans kill all these animals and eat them mainly to titillate tastebuds and for the convenience of it being so available. But an even more powerful reason might be that we think we will experience painful withdrawals if we stop eating it. We get hooked on animal products and all the many items containing them. The many different meals and snacks, comprising meats, cheeses, eggs and animal fats continue to be eaten because we don’t think we have enough willpower to avoid using them. Neither logic nor ill health, guilty conscience, environmental impact of animal farming or the chance to feed a new plant diet to the starving millions, will convince us to stop. There isn’t enough altruism to fuel such an unselfish concern for the food animals. We act like junkies who are knowingly ruled by a self destructive habit.