Leave it to the experts

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The flying time from Australia to Europe is three days by propeller-driven aeroplane but just 20 hours by jet. Most long distance journeys go for efficiency, so when we do a long-haul flight today we fly by jet; in the same way plant-based foods are just simply more efficient … and to extend this awkward metaphor a little further, most of us probably think of aircraft technology and ‘flight’ as being far beyond our ken, so we leave it to the experts. They ‘avail us of their services’, always seemingly to our advantage. It’s much the same when it comes to diets and medicines. We leave it to ‘them’ to provide for ‘us’. We trust them to care for us, as a child does with a parent, which leaves us free to pursue pleasure.

But the pleasure we get may be second rate. And we pay heavily, by being recruited into a conspiracy against our best interests, based on ‘what the punter has never known won’t be missed’.

Eventually some people become suspicious, and look around for something truer and deeper.

Omnivores, weakened and seduced by their traditional ‘foods’, conform (in much the same way that farm animals are forced to do); they serve their function of working, earning, spending, suffering from the unhealthy effects of foods they buy, swallowing pharmaceuticals to ease their pains, and then go on to indulge in more anxiety-reducing food stuffs. They continue functioning in the same old self-damaging way, which is not conducive to happiness.