1923:
Despite our great gains as
humans, with a long list of brilliant discoveries and advances, we’ve
nonetheless succumbed to a central piece of misinformation - that animals are
essential to our survival. We’ve meekly accepted that we need to eat them to
stay healthy. If this isn’t true, and obviously, vegans don’t think it is, then
the whole human race has invested heavily in one carefully constructed fiction.
Set against this, vegans are
emphasising that plant-foods are perfect for humans to thrive on. Nutrition
‘experts’, in the employ of the Animal Industry and therefore of the opposite
belief, advise customers to “eat meat or you’ll die”. Few people feel confident
enough to risk their own physical well being, let alone the lives of their
kids, to find out if this is true or not.
But instinctively there’s something
profoundly dodgy about using animals for food, something about the fact that we
never see the animals we eat, they being always hidden away. We only get to see
them dead, as meat. And that would suit most of us if only because it’s the end
‘product’ we’re interested in, not its provenance, unless its product-quality
is involved. We certainly don’t want to be concerned with the animal we’re
proposing to eat.
At some stage in our adult
life, we consciously enter into a Mephistophelian contract - we trade
compassion for lifestyle . According to this contract, we may enjoy our food
just as long as we publically recognise that vegans are wrong about the safety
of plant foods. This must be extended to suggest that people such as vegans, want
to spoil people’s enjoyment of their food. They are spoilers, and are
conspiring to kill us by imposing their plant-based diet on us.
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