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[ageofscience]

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 (

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[allscrapedup]

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 parentheses reminds me of your love of the ampersand (he has tattoos of parentheses on the backs of his arms). Anyway, just a passing thought!

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[ageofscience]

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!

Anyway.

I wish I had some helpful advice for you about the zine, but I'm terrible at organizing things and have lost almost all faith in collective activities. It's a debate that a lot of people could surely contribute a lot to, but the difficulty, as with any project, lies in finding people who are committed.

Having said all that, I really hope you are able to decide on a course of action and pursue this, becuase I think it could be really beneficial for a lot of people.

Don't blush! Everything I said was true. However, I must disagree with your contention that I am articulate. My lack of oratory skills and limited vocabulary are two things that I really wish I could change about myself. I was much more eloquent before I started taking French immersion. Now everything just comes out in a jumble of non-sequiturs and semi-coherent paragraphs!

Phew, that was long again!