Until the philosophy regarding human habits in choice of food alters to extract our ideas about the need for killing and eating animals, we are denying the reasonable alternative. It is not only a moral issue regarding the given law not to kill.  It is a case of choice of the most acceptable quality food for our health and longevity. The result of considerable research indicates a diet free of animal flesh and animal fats is most likely to provide the ideal.

But this is only one of the components involved in human nutrition. To extract animal products alone is not sufficient and this action often brings disappointment. A change in thinking is required if we are to make use of what nutritionists are able to demonstrate in theory, that physical health depends upon eating a variety of fresh quality food.

We are left to contemplate the huge range that exists in developed country markets where produce is imported from all over the world. In the countries that follow more traditional lines, even if opportunity for a wider range of foreign foods exists, their choice is often to focus upon the locally grown fresh produce that is free of toxic chemical methods used in modern food production. The quality is therefore good and natural or what we term nowadays ‘organic’.  In some ways poorer economies are better off.

Without doubt the exaggerated use of toxic chemicals in agriculture has contributed to the present plague of cancer – the disease that afflicts perhaps one in four in the developed countries where unfortunately greater economic wealth often allows expenditure on huge quantities of chemical products. These are used in agriculture as well as in medicine and modern pharmaceuticals. We have travelled very far away from the concept of living within natural laws and appreciating our need for co-operation with nature rather than seeking to manipulate.

Until we place controls on manufacture of artificial chemical products through limits or by banning certain ones, there will be no change and the companies will continue to increase their products, their promised range of uses and their profits.

So a diet free of animal products would consist of making balanced choices from the many fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains available. This presents us with a wide and enticing range from which to choose what we eat. And remember, what we eat builds our body and provides energy of various kinds.  To stir our imagination, we can turn to the reminder  - ‘What we eat today walks and talks tomorrow’ that suggests our food also can affect our character too.

While ever our taste buds rule our appetites and we do not have to personally kill the animals we choose to consume it is not likely that we will change until for some reason or other circumstances require it.  But we should all think about it – and most of all those who claim to be animal lovers.  Care for them, but do we have to eat them?

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