On Being a Vegetarian...
Oct. 6th, 2003 06:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookofmirrorsBeen meaning to make this post for a while, too.
Back in February, I decided to be a vegetarian. I did this for health reasons, and in a bit of a fervor after having read The Living Foods Lifestyle by Brenda Cobb (she's local). Anyway, I was really good with it for a while.
Let me make a few relevant points about this:
***Animals are lovely creatures, and in general, I prefer them not to be killed.
***On an intellectual level that hasn't reached fruition, I truly do believe that there is something to the thought that you shouldn't really eat something you aren't at least WILLING to kill yourself. I've never killed anything really edible (although I'm sure that's debatable in certain cultures).
***I read some research somewhere that fruits/vegetables scream when they're harvested. They used some sort of special equipment, and recorded it. There's also some sort of energy thing going on there. So, as a result, I don't think, in the grand scheme of things, it's any more or less moral to be a vegetarian. It's all life. There's death involved no matter what you do.
***I did it to be healthier. Period.
So, now, we're mostly broke all the time. I can't really afford to be all that picky in a house of meat-eaters. And, bottom line is, I really like the taste of meat. So, I've been maybe 50/50 on it lately.
Then there's the Atkins Diet. Don't get me wrong. I know enough about nutrition to know exactly why it works the way it does, and I do know that it's not necessarily the healthiest way to go about it. But, it works, on sound principles. And, yeah, I could do the same thing by eating a lot of eggs and cheese, but I don't really wanna go there. So, I'm still trying to decide if I wanna do something along those lines.
So, I guess I'm just thinking out loud here. What I really need is more EXERCISE. Bleh.
Back in February, I decided to be a vegetarian. I did this for health reasons, and in a bit of a fervor after having read The Living Foods Lifestyle by Brenda Cobb (she's local). Anyway, I was really good with it for a while.
Let me make a few relevant points about this:
***Animals are lovely creatures, and in general, I prefer them not to be killed.
***On an intellectual level that hasn't reached fruition, I truly do believe that there is something to the thought that you shouldn't really eat something you aren't at least WILLING to kill yourself. I've never killed anything really edible (although I'm sure that's debatable in certain cultures).
***I read some research somewhere that fruits/vegetables scream when they're harvested. They used some sort of special equipment, and recorded it. There's also some sort of energy thing going on there. So, as a result, I don't think, in the grand scheme of things, it's any more or less moral to be a vegetarian. It's all life. There's death involved no matter what you do.
***I did it to be healthier. Period.
So, now, we're mostly broke all the time. I can't really afford to be all that picky in a house of meat-eaters. And, bottom line is, I really like the taste of meat. So, I've been maybe 50/50 on it lately.
Then there's the Atkins Diet. Don't get me wrong. I know enough about nutrition to know exactly why it works the way it does, and I do know that it's not necessarily the healthiest way to go about it. But, it works, on sound principles. And, yeah, I could do the same thing by eating a lot of eggs and cheese, but I don't really wanna go there. So, I'm still trying to decide if I wanna do something along those lines.
So, I guess I'm just thinking out loud here. What I really need is more EXERCISE. Bleh.
