I love soy milk – it took some time for me to get there, but I truly enjoy drinking and using soy milk. I wouldn’t say over regular milk because I just haven’t drank regular milk in a long time – but I really do enjoy eating cereal with soy milk. Unfortunately I’ve realized I like it fairly watery – I’ve watered down my Zen Soy Milk twice now – I’m going to start calling it Jesus Milk because it started out as half a gallon and its’ been extended to almost 3/4 of a gallon…it just keeps getting thicker. I wonder why that is exactly… I wonder if evaporation has anything to do with it although I seriously doubt that…
In other news, I’m vegetarian (pescetarian actually) and have been for over a month. One day after what would have been my 8th year anniversary with the fire department I turned over a completely new leaf – not only do I feel that vegetarianism is a socially and environmentally sensitive way to eat, I ended up seeing a PETA video that absolutely shocked and appalled me – especially now that there is the huge storm of controversy about sick beef from “downer cattle” in California that was going into school lunches (the cattle had to be pushed with forklifts onto the kill floor) and the outbreak of a suspicious neurological syndrome that was linked to the compressed air brain removal system in a Minnesota pork processing plant – I feel like its’ a healthier way to eat, and in that way its’ more socially conscious – if I’m not sick, I’m not tying up valuable medical resources that can go to those who need them. And lastly, albeit possibly the most important thing – while I don’t find eating meat wrong per se, I do find profiting from their torture absolutely abhorrent. After seeing that video I was reminded of the treacherous Middle Passage, where African slaves were piled on top of one another, barely given enough to eat, in the dark, nausea and excrement going everywhere, being beaten into submission , chained and shackled, wasting away in a fucking boat. I would like to think of those years as the Dark Ages in humanity – but apparently we haven’t quite made the transition to the “Light Ages”. I’d rather eat tofu and seafood (pretty hard to torture a fish right?) than a cow or pig that never quite got to see enough sunlight, was forced to eat, injected with hormones and antibiotics, never exercised, had a huge infection or sore right before it was slaughtered. I’d rather eat vegetables that I can wash than animals that seem contaminated for some reason. I won’t eat meat unless I know the animal it comes from, unless I know how it was slaughtered and how it was butchered. I won’t eat meat unless I know it had a natural diet – one that consisted of grasses, not wheat so that it would “fatten” up. I need to know that the money I spend on meat isn’t going to torture animals and make slave owners rich. It may seem extreme for me to say it that way, but it seems extreme the way I see it…That said, I do agree, meat is delicious…but my conscience isn’t worth a steak, much less a tough and greasy hamburger…
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