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Jan 14, 2005 01:37

Currently I am baking the most delicious coconut/oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies. Dietarily this was a horrible idea. While delicious, the cookies are are laden with wheat flour and sugar and I can't help but rationalize eating the ones that get broken when I take them off the pan. This cleanse has me convinced that wheat and sugar are basically ( ( Read more... )

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OK this is actually LONG allscrapedup January 14 2005, 06:30:13 UTC

I don't want to write out a huge rant (because it's the morning and I'm sleepy) but I just wanted to say recently I am so confused by the concept of veganism and that it is definitely not as important to me as it once was. Probably for a few reasons, including ( ... )

Re: OK this is actually LONG ageofscience January 14 2005, 13:01:51 UTC

I wanted to respond to your comments this morning because they gave me such a warm and fuzzy feeling and understood feeling when I woke up. I really appreciate all your insight on this! But the duty of going to class called... you know how it is ( ... )

Re: OK this is actually LONG allscrapedup January 16 2005, 09:35:56 UTC

Another point of contention that my old roommate Anneka ended up having a huge argument with one of her friends was the whole issue of this guy being of the essentialist idea that "everyone in the world should be, or should strive to be vegan." Which I can kind of understand if you are an extreme animal rights activist, but it is such a cultural imperialist/ethnocentric way of thinking that I find really hard to justify even with the animal rights thing. But I find all "rights" in general to be extremely problematic (heh, the word!) and difficult to define/justify in the first place ( ... )

heh. allscrapedup January 16 2005, 09:38:09 UTC

I also realize that you posted stuff in this, but wasn't sure if you ended up checking back after it spiralled out of control! xoxo.

Re: heh. ageofscience January 16 2005, 21:01:02 UTC

I don't recall reading it any more after I posted. There are definitely some interesting thoughts that I can't remember seeing ( ... )

Re: heh. allscrapedup January 17 2005, 16:18:33 UTC

I agree! I agree!

Heh.

Seriously though, I hear where you're coming from. I "became" vegan around 18 or so, and it really influenced me to think about food beyond the supermarket shelves. However, it was limited in that it only taught me to think about certain areas of food production/consumption, the ones relating to animals.

I really want to get this zine underway, but I find it's pretty difficult to get people to actually write things for it, even if they are interested in the topic. I have to re-examine my strategies for recruitment, I think, and advertise more. However, I'm not sure yet if I want it to be completely open (i.e. write what you eat and why you eat it) or more focused and specific. We'll see.

Also, thanks for the compliments. You make me blush Pam! I aspire to be as eloquent as yourself.

Unrelated, I keep thinking that you and my ex-partner Jonah (butserious would be good LJ buddies, or at least you would have interesting arguments (he was one of the ones arguing on my sxegrownups thread I sent you). His love of ( ... )

Re: heh. ageofscience January 17 2005, 21:08:53 UTC

On your recommendation I will add this Jonah fellow. In re-reading that sxegrownups thread, I noticed that he mentioned the politics of identity and difference extensively, and that was my whole impetus for positing this whole thing in the first place! You strike me as a good judge of character and and his tattoos sound delightful. Also, a whole bunch of my favourite people are those I met by virtue of someone saying "you should read so and so's livejournal. I think you should be friends!". In fact, if memory serves, the reason I know you is because Brandy told me we should be friends ( ... )

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