Popular poisons

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Animal foods are popular even though they’re harmful to health. Because people like the taste of them and because they’re easy to find, people love them.  No, they aren’t necessarily cheap but there’s a great variety to choose from ... and best of all you can eat them straight from the fridge or at least, they don’t need much preparation. That’s a big selling point.

Supply follows demand and demand responds to supply. To  clinch the matter, certain ingredients like milk or egg products are subsidised.  And these ingredients cream-ify, enrich and bulk out foods, making them taste rich and substantial ... and they’re cheap enough for everyone to buy, so they’re mass produced for mass consumption.

What is particularly good about animal foods is that they provide us with an instant sensation.  In savoury foods it’s the blood or saltiness, and in non-savoury there’s sugar plus other flavourings, making food taste delicious.  Animal foods seduce.  This is food we crave.

         

Our love affair with animal foods has never really diminished (despite the recent strong vegetarian drive in our society) mainly because more animal by-products are used in popular food items than even meat.  So, even with the absence of meat, for so called vegetarians, there are still cheeses, creams and egg additives.  They’re the ones which keep us hooked.  Every form of exotic cheese, for instance, has been developed (over centuries), to titillate the palate.  

The food manufacturers have used every device imaginable to lure us.  And we respond by buying.  The more sold, the easier to create ever more variations on a theme.  These foods will always maintain people’s interest.  Popular products (eaten from early childhood, advertised constantly throughout our life, with family pressure reinforcing eating habits) become as important to our daily life as fresh air.  And as pleasurable.  People can’t contemplate life without them, since these products are present at just about every meal.  A omnivore friend of mine says the omnivore hears what we say, is stunned, then forgets everything they’ve heard; they quickly go back to their old ways.

         

Drip by drip these are the foods that imprint on our minds and slowly poison our bodies.

“And unless a million vegans appear on my doorstep, to persuade me otherwise, I’m not going to change ... well, not on this matter anyway.  No way will I give up cheese, omelettes, cream-on-everything and my favourite chocolates.  NO way!”