Essential for life?

Despite our great gains as humans, with a long list of brilliant discoveries and advances etc., we’ve nonetheless succumbed to misinformation. It’s the kind of gobbledegook persuasion we should have instinctively rejected long ago, but the pill has been sugared. The central misinformation that has almost destroyed us is that animals are essential to our survival. We’ve meekly accepted what we’ve been told - that we need to eat them to survive. If this isn’t true (and obviously vegans don’t think it is) then we’ve 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 (employed by the meat trade), in their quite opposite belief, advise customers to “eat meat or you’ll die” … and who amongst us knows enough or feels confident enough to risk their own physical well being, let alone the lives of their kids? We dare not argue with the ‘white coat brigade’ or defy their authority. Even to question the scientists (and their bosses) would seem reckless. These in-house gods have ruled by word alone, instructing us that “food of animals” is like the fresh air we need to exist. It isn’t an arguable subject. For most people the use of this ‘essential life-element’, comprising animal food (and clothing), is a non sequitur. It’s not up for debate.