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 A soft boiled egg and toast with honey on a breakfast table. A succulent roast for lunch, rounded off by cake and coffee with milk. Sausage and cheese for supper.
Foods like these seem a normal and indispensable part of our modern diet.
We usually buy them ready processed and packaged from the supermarket. Few of us are aware of the consequences of consuming these kinds of mass produced foods, which are lacking in essential nutrients our body needs to thrive.
We aren't just consumers of foods that have been processed to the point of having very little connection to their natural origins, we are also blind to the consequences of our consumption habits on humans, animals and the environment.
Animal products are extolled everywhere in the media. Advertisements claim: "Meat is love" (UK TV ad campaign) and "Milk: nature's wellness drink" (US website: www.whymilk.com). On the other hand, little attention is paid to the fact that the consumption of animal products is a significant contributory factor in numerous modern diseases such as intestinal cancer, heart and vascular disease, to name a few. This connection is yet to make an impact on public consciousness.
Large and influential industries have emerged over the past few decades whose continuation depends on the public ignorance of these facts and who will do anything to keep it this way.
In these times of aggressive globalisation, economic profit and growth are the
highest goals of many companies and governments, who place responsible dealing with our resources and with life itself last on their list. Profit knows no ethical consciousness, only financial and economic gain. People, animals and environment enter the equation only as sources of and tools for profit.
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