“IT TASTES GOOD”
Whenever I have a discussion with a meat eater about eating
animals I will bring up facts about how animal eating causes extreme animal
cruelty, global warming, drought, water pollution, and world hunger. I will
also point out how unhealthy it is and the diseases it causes. Nine out of ten
times the animal eater will respond, “But it tastes so good”, as if taste is
more important than vicious animal cruelty, (yes Temple Grandin—meat production
is vicious and cruel. Despite your propaganda, there is nothing humane about
the meat industry.) our planet, and the future of our children. I have been
doing a lot of research lately on the subject of taste, and it seems that
people have been conditioned to like the taste of animal flesh, just like we
have been conditioned to accept the animal cruelty that goes with it.
Remember the first sip of coffee you tasted, the awful
bitterness, that would not go away no matter how much milk or sugar you added.
Remember your first sip of brandy, scotch or beer? If you are a smoker,
remember your first cigarette? Now you
probably drink coffee on a regular basis (I don’t), and love beer or brandy or
scotch. Why? You were conditioned to learn to like the tastes. Everyone drinks
coffee and beer, so you must too. Back when cigarette companies could
advertise, you weren’t cool if you didn’t smoke.
It is the same with eating animal flesh. People have been
conditioned to like the taste. Our tastes are acquired through societies
expectations and advertising. Children,
like my own, who have never tasted animal flesh, find the smell repulsive. Just
looking at it “grosses” them out. They will not even try to eat it. I have not eaten meat in over thirty years,
and even though I grew up in a meat eating family, I too find the smell
repulsive and cannot look at a package of raw flesh. Many studies have been done on this subject
and the conclusions are the same—our tastes are part of our conditioning.
We learn our tastes from traditions. For instance, in Japan
people enjoy eating live baby octopus. Here in America, we would probably vomit
as the wiggly tentacles went down our throats. We learn tastes from comforting
memories, like food our mothers made or food served at family functions.
In addition to being conditioned to the taste of eating meat,
there is also evidence that it may be addictive. Food companies will add ingredients to food to
make it addictive. Chemical additives for food is big business. McDonalds
spends millions every year to keep their customers coming back. Some of the
ingredients added to food is as addictive as nicotine in cigarettes. Many people will suffer withdrawal symptoms
if they do not have their daily coffee.
Dairy products contain casomorphins, which is very addictive.
Casomorphin causes the calf to want to nurse and come back for more. It effects
humans the same way. Studies have shown that human children who are breast fed
are more likely to become vegetarians or vegans.
Corporations will go to great lengths to keep you buying
their product. Pharmaceuticals have a big stake in keeping you eating animals.
80% of the antibiotics they make are sold for use in farmed animals to make
them grow fast and big. Then they make billions more when people contract
diseases like cancer, diabetes, obesity, etc. from eating those animals.
Nasty habits should
never control your life. We have the ultimate weapon to take control of our own
lives. It’s called thinking.
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