When you have no prejudices...
Things can seem really different when you forget your prejudices and just judge things on their evident merits.
For example, The Bible Letter petitions Walmart to stop distributing the Holy Bible due to its hate speech and incitement to violence against women, homosexuals, and even Walmart employees. Sounds funny at first, but maybe it's not.
For a totally different example, it should be obvious that cats are carnivores, not made for eating grains, and yet we cat lovers persist in feeding them what are essentially breakfast cereals dipped in meat juice, and then wondering why an increasing number of them contract diabetes. (In Ontario, a majority of complaints to the Veterinary association are regarding vets and feline diabetes) The disconnect is promoted by vets, and vet researchers, who are more than 90% funded by pet food companies. Interesting, eh? In the US, NPR (National Public Radio) just called my pet diabetes wiki "very important". Maybe that's why.
There's a form of cognitive dissonance, I suppose, that keeps people thinking what they've always thought, even in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary.
For example, The Bible Letter petitions Walmart to stop distributing the Holy Bible due to its hate speech and incitement to violence against women, homosexuals, and even Walmart employees. Sounds funny at first, but maybe it's not.
For a totally different example, it should be obvious that cats are carnivores, not made for eating grains, and yet we cat lovers persist in feeding them what are essentially breakfast cereals dipped in meat juice, and then wondering why an increasing number of them contract diabetes. (In Ontario, a majority of complaints to the Veterinary association are regarding vets and feline diabetes) The disconnect is promoted by vets, and vet researchers, who are more than 90% funded by pet food companies. Interesting, eh? In the US, NPR (National Public Radio) just called my pet diabetes wiki "very important". Maybe that's why.
There's a form of cognitive dissonance, I suppose, that keeps people thinking what they've always thought, even in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary.
1 Comments on "When you have no prejudices...":
What is true for cats is also true for humans, though perhaps to a lesser extent. Until the invention of agriculture, we didn’t eat grains either, and our bodies haven’t evolved since then in any significant way. The “Paleolithic diet” is based on this. As with pet-food companies, human-food companies influence what we eat via tactics such as pressure on the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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