Food Inc

[flusterbunny]

So, I saw a documentary called "Food Inc." due out in theaters soon. It did exactly what I thought it would do - make me hate the fact that I like meat. Even the good and trusty organic farmer made the concept of eating chicken seem horrible

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[del_the_psycho]

I always feel like some kind of monster too when I even just go out of my way to NOT learn these kind of things, just so I can't feel bad when I consume it. :(

[lithera]

*hugs*

It sucks.

[angrylemur]

I don't eat meat, I've been cutting down on dairy, I try to go organic but I can't always afford it because I'm fucking broke and moving soon. The only thing I feel good about eating anymore is salt. (And only the coarse sea salt, because the fine stuff is usually filtered through animal bones. Like white sugar.)

The frustration and crappiness that you're feeling? That feeling is why I hate - HATE - it when people say things like "oh, it's just evolutionary! We're supposed to eat meat! Animals are so TASTY! Mmmm, I looooove meat, LOL! Why should I have to think about where it comes from?"

Once you have felt that frustration and anger and shittiness and need for change, it is hard to not be impatient with people who are not only oblivious to it, but willfully oblivious to it.

[flusterbunny]

No salt for me. Blood pressure.

I think I just hate the idea that refueling has to become a laborious joyless chore instead of a delicious thing to look forward to. I hate the idea that the best food I can be okay with eating is going to be "eh, not bad" at best.

[angrylemur]

I was worried about food becoming a chore, too. Turns out if you like to cook at all it's not so bad. Eating out is a bit of a crapshoot, but recently I found this amazing recipe for vegan chocolate peanut butter pillow cookies that's really easy, and I think if you can have chocolate peanut butter cookies and still be vegan that's a pretty good deal.

I recommend The Post Punk Kitchen. The blog has some good recipes, and people post recipes to the forums a lot. The woman who runs it has some books out, one of which is entirely about vegan cupcakes. 101 Cookbooks is really good, too. All the recipes are veggie and most of them can be made vegan really easily with some substitutions, and they tend to be fairly easy.

That's assuming you're actually considering going vegetarian or vegan. Maybe you aren't. I dunno. I think it's worth giving a try, if your options are either change your eating habits or feel like crap every time you eat.

[flusterbunny]

I am taking baby steps into maybe entertaining the notion of vegetarianism because I am obviously a giant whiny baby about this.

It's not even necessarily about desserts but rather actual satisfying meals that aren't disappointing or merely adequate. First order of business is to see how long I can actually maintain a meatless diet of any kind. Although maybe I'll still eat some fish. I made bacon and eggs myself for the first time last week. Normally, I wouldn't really ever eat bacon, but yummy.com slipped it in for free for some reason, so I feel compelled not to waste the carcass. I still have a lot of meat in my freezer, too. Do I pitch that shit or just eat it, or save in case the world explodes?

Sadly, I don't like to cook. Maybe I'll go have some eggplant parmagiana somewhere just to remind myself that giving up chicken isn't the end of the world.

Dairy is a long way off.

[atrocity]

My reason for going vegetarian is wholly in response to the fuckitry of the industry. Little to do with the ethics involved. Lots to do with the POOR SHITTY STANDARDS and the fact that one utterly cannot commercialize an animal industry and attempt to make profits without cutting corners with pesticides and hormones.

I wish I could drink milk. I miss milk. But milk is basically death for women, considering the estrogen that goes into it alone. It's a recipe for breast cancer.

THE LIST GOES ON.

Vegetables have the capacity to taste FUCKING AMAZING. I am honest about this. Take it from someone who loved meat to death (I miss chicken and turkey) and now honestly has found yumminess enough to go without it.

People just don't know how to prepare vegetables. WHITE PEOPLE don't know how to prepare them. I had to start finishing out East Indian recipes to get into the veggie jive. Jainists know how to eat, yo.

[littledrow]

It's interesting, in some sort of horrible way, that an industry based upon a vital NEED is as corrupt as it is, and that the majority of the USA turns a willingly blind eye to it all.

I would have to alter my lifestyle so drastically were I to go vegan or vegetarian because of my hypoglycemia. Having looked into the possibilities, I can't effin afford it! Same with organic, if you can actually find such a beasty. When I lived in WA there were more choices. Not so much in GA.

The only way to really know what's in your food is to go off the grid and grow your own.

[jeditigger]

Hypoglycemia definitely makes the vegetarian diet more challenging. Easier now with stuff from Trader Joe's but still a chore.

Ando, you're a good guy. Because you care after seeing movies like this. The apathetic masses know about stuff that goes on and shrugs it off because DO NOT DENY THEM THEIR BIG MACS.

[ahumblepen]

NO KIDDING. (re: the hypoglycemia.)