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.  They aren’t necessarily cheap but they're affordable, and there’s a great variety to choose from.  Best of all, you can eat them straight from the fridge or they don’t need much preparation.  That’s a big selling point.

Supply follows demand and demand responds to supply.  To clinch matters, certain ingredients like milk or egg products are subsidised, which makes them useful and economic to food producers.  Animal by-products, especially milk and eggs, are used to 'cream-ify', enrich and bulk out foods, making them taste rich and substantial.  Overall, they’re cheap enough for everyone to buy, especially since they’re mass produced for mass consumption.

         

What’s so attractive about animal-based foods is that, at primary level, they provide us with an instant sensation.  In savoury foods it’s the blood or saltiness and in non-savoury there’s sugars and flavourings, all of which make our foods taste delicious.  This is food we crave.

         

Despite the strengthening anti-meat drive in our society, our love affair with animal foods has never really diminished, mainly because more animal by-products are used in popular food items than even meat.  So, even with the absence of meat, in foods eaten by so called 'vegetarians', there are still cheeses, creams and egg additives.  These additives hook people. Every form of exotic cheese, for instance, has been developed (over centuries), to titillate the palate.  I've often heard said, "Oh, I could never give up my cheese".

The food manufacturers have used every device imaginable to lure us.  And we buy.  The more sold, the easier it is to create ever more variations to maintain people’s interest.  Popular products, eaten from early childhood and advertised constantly, strengthen our eating habits which are then reinforced by social pressures.  People may be stunned to hear the true story of the dairy industry, but then they forget and go back to their old ways - a process that sometimes takes only a few seconds.

         

Drip by drip, these are the foods that imprint and strengthen in our minds and slowly poison our bodies.  “I’m not going to change.  No way will I give up cheese, omelettes, cream-on-everything and my favourite chocolates.  NO way!”