1824:
Surely the Western educated
and well-informed person has twigged by now that the decline in people's state
of general health is related to the ready availability of tempting food items
that are disastrous for health. If it's finger-lickin' good you can be sure
that's as good as it gets. Fast foods are conventional animal-based foods
notched up for taste. They've become a daily assault on the body, and represent
today's worst eating habits. Consequently, we are far less healthy and far
fatter than we need to be.
Surely the connection is obvious,
between the large numbers of sick humans and the animal-based foods being eaten.
The meats and dairy-egg products come from unhealthy animals, pumped with
dangerous chemicals and largely fed on unnatural foods. Because the
consequences of our food choices are not immediately evident, our bodies seem
to tolerate chemical abuse over many years. The progressive effect on the body
is slow enough for us not to notice the tell-tale, incremental changes, and
since people become addicted to these foods they don't want to notice. They think
they've 'got away with it'. Throughout childhood and on into adulthood, we
prize our freedom to choose what we eat. We continue eating the same foods for
many decades, until the body starts to show the accumulated effects of those
thousands of meals and snacks we've consumed. But by then it's too late to undo
the damage.
If we realise anything at all,
it is that we've been manipulated, tempted, addicted and numbed to the cruelty
behind our food. It's a case of ethics and health being sacrificed for
free-willed decision making.
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