Conventional wisdom is deeply rooted in falsehoods
In the land of the blind, the removal of eyes restores normality. H.G. Wells saw through that proverbial “one-eyed man is king” business in his short story “The Country of the Blind.”
Warning: This article may offend non-vegan sensibilities. We suggest you click the back-arrow now. Yours truly, The Green Italicizers.
Meat is the stuff of conventional wisdom, it’s something ingested multiple times a day — from womb to tomb. Consumers’ personal worth is measured in direct relation to the amount they consume. Animal flesh, cookies and stolen from a calf milk, factory-farm-fresh eggs — just another addiction.
The process begins at conception and ends at death. Addicted babies suffer painful withdrawal when denied the substances that feed meat-molecule craving. Meat-addicted doctors remind their pregnant patients to stop smoking, avoid secondhand smoke, maintain a healthy diet, remember that you are eating for two during pregnancy.
Meat, milk and ova — there’s the ticket. Here’s a barker for you:
“Get your calcium, get your protein, get your strength from ova, milk and meat. Amusement park and state fair visitors delight in the craven horror of fair food and freak shows. It’s a family lifestyle for family folks, folks.”
No. It’s a diet recognized as essential by the medical community, your friends and relations, bright advertisements in waiting-room magazines, 24/7 on TV — you are hungry, you are very very hungry, go to the refrigerator and pantry. Our product is not there? Go to the supermarket for a food desert dessert.
Trillions of dollars and billions of jobs depend upon maintaining “the way it’s always been.” Meat, dairy, egg — do they appear on the Nutrition Facts label? Yes, along long walls, along long aisles. Human nature is natural, Bill.
Omnibus Food Bills subsidize junk food. Subsidies divert money from healthy fare to junk-ridden fast food. Those subsidies keep crappy edibles affordable for those at the bottom of the food-industrial-complex food chain, any way you slice it. Slice it thin. Pile it high. Double cheese, please.
Consumers of vegan products bring less to the GNP. Meaty fare makes for tons of profits and meaty bottom lines. Each consumer devotes a lifetime of service to those death industries. Wealth-management partners measure future income by the units successfully brought to slaughter. We get away with it, Mr. Bill. We get away with it.
70 billion units per annum (a mix of quadrupeds, bipeds and swimmers in schools) processed from fur to marrow to roe.
Meat is what makes a holiday memorable. It’s what’s for dinner. If it’s been done for thousands of years it must be a grand truth and a holy sacrament. Believe!
Pass the butchering art down over many centuries until it’s accepted as societal norm and cultural treasure. Think dominion over animals, being created as a model of deity. We’re number one. USAUSAUSA (fine sausages).
Hot dog! Meat is life.
Thanks for reading.
billziegler1947 
Excellent words again!! Couldn’t agree more. I wish everyone would just stand back and really think about it, but that’s obviously asking too much.
I always enjoy your posts so much. Thank you for keeping on going!!
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Thank you so very kindly for your continuing readership and the encouragement to write more. As you know, readers own the direction in which my writing travels. This blog is gradually turning into a book, so I have decided to take a leap onto the html tab in the WordPress editor. Apparently it’s the only way to cross-reference and to write internal “jump” links, so I plan to create a page that can serve as a table of contents or index.
Here’s hoping it doesn’t tangle in the process 🙂
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Your blog really is quite special, you have a very unique voice and energy to your words. What you plan sounds great, good luck with that !! I wouldn’t know where to start! Didn’t even know it had an editor!! I still fumble with the basic stuff!! But it sounds good, I hope you manage it!! There are plenty of your posts I still look forward to reading, so it would be good if it all works out.
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