A Non-Conformist Writes About Diet And Choice

Meat substitutes are now being sold
by many western food manufacturers
who, whilst controlled by greenwash,
are keen to hold on to their markets.

This time their efforts are serious;
the 'meat' now grows in petri dishes
or rather their large scale equivalent,
after which it is textured and flavoured
until the consumer can't tell the difference
with what it is meant to be compared to.

with white meats the indistinctness
might well be correct; factory chickens
lead lives that are so absurdly short
and horrible that anyone seeing them
would say it was the animal farming
equivalent of the Nazi death camps.

The less the suffering the better it is,
but that still leaves the greenwash problem;
whatever we are told about the virtue
of what we eat we still have to be
propagandised into submission
to make sure that we eat it.

Thinking for ourselves
what to eat is too risky
to be allowed.