Essential for life?

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Despite our great gains as humans, with a long list of brilliant discoveries and advances, we’ve nonetheless succumbed to a central piece of misinformation - that animals are essential to our survival. We’ve meekly accepted that we need to eat them to stay healthy. If this isn’t true, and obviously I don’t think it is, then the whole human race has invested heavily in one carefully constructed fiction.
Set against this, vegans are emphasising that plant-foods are perfect for humans to thrive on. Nutrition ‘experts’, in the employ of the Animal Industry and therefore of opposite belief, advise customers to “eat meat or you’ll die”. Few people feel confident enough to risk their own physical well being, let alone the lives of their kids, to find out if this is true or not.
But instinctively there’s something profoundly dodgy about animal food, something about the fact that we never see the animals we eat ... they being always hidden away. We only get to see them dead, as meat. And that would suit most of us if only because it’s the end ‘product’ we’re interested in, not its provenance ... unless its product-quality is involved. We don’t want to be concerned with the animal we’re proposing to eat.
At some stage in our adult life we consciously enter into a Mephistophelian contract - we trade compassion for lifestyle . According to this contract we may enjoy our food just as long as we publically recognise that vegans are wrong about the safety of plant foods, and extend this to suggest that such people as vegans are conspiring to kill us by imposing their plant-based diet on us. It can then be assumed that vegans want to spoil people’s enjoyment of their food because they are spoilers.