Advice

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One of the biggest mistakes of our wealthy Western lifestyle is that, in our quest for life-improvement, we’ve let ourselves be seduced by advice from those who push products from the animal food and clothing industry. We give our hard-earned money to Society’s most violent people. From when we first seek to improve ourselves, even as far back as childhood, the seduction starts, leading us to believe that we should seek to improve ourselves and our conditions, and somewhere along the line we fall for the advice of those who tell us they have our best interests at heart. We start to believe their ‘truths’ because we see them as ‘true’ people. We can’t believe they could lie on such a grand scale. Over the years we follow their advice … and we seem to be going along just fine, until, in an eleventh-hour realisation, we see what danger we are in. We’ve let someone else make our decisions for us and have, over the years, lost the ability to choose for ourselves. We’ve effectively let a major part of our life fall into their hands, and by the time we see a crash coming it’s too late to save ourselves. We see that we’ve ‘given-in’, and so we go with the flow. We decide NOT to speak out. The inevitable crash happens. Miraculously we survive and maybe we do learn to change - but a certain amount of damage has already been done. We do make changes but avoid the most difficult changes. Some sort of stability is achieved, and we’re going along just fine until we encounter yet another ‘advisor’, who this time turns out to be a busy-body, interfering vegan.

Surely, once bitten twice shy. How can we be sure the vegan is any different to all those others who tried to lead us astray before? If we’ve lost confidence in our own instincts we won’t be able see what is really facing us.

I think most omnivores, of a certain age, find themselves in this position. They are too cynical, suspicious and habit-ridden to even contemplate making major life-saving changes. They lose control of their decision-making and don’t dare listen to any radical suggestions.