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 1 day by jet. Most long distance journeys go for efficiency,  so when we do a long-haul flight today we fly by jet, and not turbo-prop.  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 ‘the experts’ to provide for us.  We trust them to care for us,  as a child does with a parent,  conveniently leaving us free to pursue pleasure.

But when that pleasure comes in the form of food, the pleasure we get may be second rate, as well as harmful.  We conspire against our best health-interests.  We’re too easily persuaded by the advertisers. Their wealth and ‘success’ is based on the assumption that ‘what the punter has never known won’t be missed’.

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

Die-hard omnivores,  weakened and seduced by their traditional ‘foods’,  choose to conform.  They allow themselves to be led (in much the same way farm animals are forced to do). Most people perform their function of working,  earning,  spending,  suffering from the unhealthy effects of foods they buy,  swallowing pharmaceuticals to ease their pains,  and then die. Or,  they simply go on and on,  indulging in more anxiety-producing foods. They continue functioning in the same old self-damaging way, blindly being led by the ‘experts’.