People have been brainwashed by marketing and corporate America in general to believe that food in stores is sanitary and safe, while homemade anything is dirty, unsafe and to be suspected. It is hard to change that. I have given people eggs and had them ask me if they can be eaten. I have a sharp, sarcastic tongue, so I have been known to say, "No, actually, the eggs you get in the stores have been specially treated with a secret method that is known only to the people who have the recipe for Coca Cola, so I am just giving them to you as decoration. Don't eat them!"
It is not their fault. They are the victims of several generations of carpet bombing market. They have been told that food only comes from a store their entire lives, and when they come across someone who challenges that belief, they may react badly.
Yeah I dont actually agree. When was the last time you actually saw advertising aimed at making us believe processed food was better than natural? Rather big corporations say natural is best, push how great and important it is to eat natural and then try and convince us that they, somehow in a way that defies all reason, fit within that natural category
To be perfectly honest I think Corporate America is less to blame and Disney should be held accountable
Fast forward to the age of TV and Movies and suddenly the same bunnies and chickens and cows and sheeps are living talking animals with personalities and feelings. We have grown up crying when they are hurt, feeling angry at the evil humans who want to eat or kill them and awarding them human emotions and thoughts. And then you go up to someone who has grown up with that and say "Im going to chop this chickens head off and eat it" and wonder why you get that reaction LOL
Suddenly without them even probably realising they are doing it, they have put you in the same class as the bad farmer in "Chicken Run" who killed those poor little chickens that didnt keep laying. its so much easier to eat meat when you have distanced yourself from the reality that it came from the killing of an animal when you pick up a polystyrene tray than when confrounted by a dead chicken staring at you accusingly with those lifeless eyes. Just like smokers turn off the little voice saying its bad for them, we turn off the little voice saying you are eating a dead animal killed just so you could have chicken-pot-pie. So yeah you get surprised and shocked reactions because you have made them suddenly think about something they try so hard not to think about. Doesnt make them stupid or idiotic or any of the other things through this thread. It just makes them normal people brainwashed by a lifetime of Disney movies.
So yeah, my thought is less big business and more Good old Walt Disney has a lot to answer for
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