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? Why are we allowing such a vast assault on animals to take place right under our noses? Certainly not to ensure good nutrition. Animal foods are the chief destroyers of health. No, we allow this to happen wantonly. We kill them and eat them mainly to titillate our tastebuds … and because we think we will experience painful withdrawals if we don’t. We get hooked, unable to stop eating animal products (and the many items using them in their ingredients). These meals and snacks, comprising meats, cheeses, eggs and fats, not only implicate the consumer in animal slavery but are the main cause of our ill health. But still we continue what we are used to doing because we don’t think we have enough willpower to alter the habit. Neither logic nor ill health, guilty conscience, environmental impact of animal farming, the chance to feed a new plant diet to the starving millions - nothing will convince us to stop. We act like junkies ruled by a self destructive habit.