Indoctrinating kids

1720: 

Food choosing is a dilemma. There’s too much promotion of unhealthy-but-attractive food and too little authoritative promotion of whole foods and plant-based foods. Of course, without the mega money resources of such as the Animal Industries, the cruelty-free industry can’t make their products look attractive enough to kids. And it’s kids who make the loudest demands (hopefully as agents of future change). Children, unlike adults, have fewer material pleasure-freedoms to distract them. (No gambling, booze, sex or cars, etc). So food, certain food, guarantees taste-pleasure. In childrens' lives 'food' figures large. Therefore, kids make strenuous demands to get what they want. It's kids' rights, as explained on TV by the advert-messaging, aimed directly at young people.

That old familiar boast by the Church - “Give us the child for the first seven years and we have him for life” - also applies to diet. Imprint it young and they won't stray away from what they’re used to. If you raise children on meat, they’ll expect it at every meal.

If this is true (that it has certain addictive qualities) it simply emphasises how impressionable kids are and how, left to their own devices, they'd simply follow their senses: eat what they like the taste of and trust what they're given to eat. [This brings up the idea of free-choice and trust in the foods we find the most delicious to taste.]

Kids live in a world of people who themselves inhabit and support The Animal Industry. Each branch of this exploitative industry help to poison the masses and keeping the hospitals in business. Children are at most risk, if only because they have that many more years of life to wade through. They're at risk of being conditioned during those years where they were effectively powerless, to control what went into their bodies. For twenty-odd years they'll be subject to food that has been chosen, but not by them.

The onus here is on the parent, to mould the habits their kids will carry with them beyond the age of seven, particularly in guiding the eating habits of their children. Ideally, the parent wants to foster a balanced mentality in their child. Ideally, they want to be sure of priorities. Personally, I've never been a parent so I know nothing about keeping control of 'upbringing' a child. I wonder if some parents let their parents' rights get nibbled away too much for fear of losing favour. I suppose no one wants someone they love to not favour them back. But, parentally-speaking, how strong has a principle got to be, to persuade kids?