Misinforming the public

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The dangers of an omnivorous diet are well enough known by the food producers. That's why essential information is suppressed and why people are swamped with ‘misinformation’. The Animal Industry's only interest is to make money from producing and selling foods which aren’t necessarily good for health (mind-body-spirit, etc). They have no idea what level of responsibility they have!

We must assume they are either stupid or besotted with making money, otherwise it's difficult to imagine what it is driving them. What can allow them to do what they do? But that's another story. For whatever reasons they have to be as they are, it's probably all about perception. As sentient beings humans sometimes get the impression that feel very strong. They know they're on the winning side. And it's because they're are so well established that no one can touch them. The Animal Industries, their advertising companies employ legions of psychologists. And it's down to them, with all their 'advertising wisdom', to guarantee products, that will make for a thriving animal industry. Naturally, there can't be space for sentiment. They do what they do despite causing deterioration in human health and worsening the state of animal welfare.

You’d think, by now, that we humans would have wised up. With such advances made in food technology, we should have embraced the potential of real food which is also cruelty-free. By now we should be demanding healthy food, 'proper food', but the animal business is so persuasive that nothing ever changes for the better. Mass-taste and mass-sense-stimulation calls for mass production to respond to mass demand. And it must be low cost.

With sophisticated scientific ingenuity, including the psychologists and chemists, they make foods addictively tasty and socially 'acceptable'.

Wealthy people identify themselves by the rich foods they eat, and the aspiring classes emulate them. The poorest people eat the cheapest foods available, which are mainly plant-based foods, but whenever circumstances improve for them, they increase the animal protein content of their diet. That unfortunately brings them closer to a whole range of deadly, diet-related diseases common amongst wealthier people.

But for all their faults, the great food producing industries who exploit animals, the "evil industries", don't do as much misinforming as we do to ourselves. For the benefit of our own comforts we employ lots of lying. We fool ourselves royally, specifically in regard to what we put in our mouths. Oh! how we are driven off-course by the power of taste sensation and prospects of stomach filling!!

It's like the sex drive when it's so strong it leads you into a situation which restricts your freedom, more than you ever wanted or imagined. Same with food, and the lifelong assault on our bodily systems, the chemical side, the physical energy side, but also the evolved side. That huge sophisticated being we each have inside us, in choosing to misinform itself leads inevitably towards trouble. And it comes out in many ways. If not in obesity then in callousness or, worse, indifference. And when the three year old child asks about the killing, there's nothing can be said, unless we choose to misinform them.