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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[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.

[angrylemur]

Yeah. Someone pointed out below that dairy (especially milk) is like a recipe for breast cancer for women, so I'm really trying to cut down. It's hard, though. I NEED IT FOR MY COFFEE. And I like macaroni and cheese. I make it with soy cheese now but it's taken some experimenting to get it to acceptable levels of cheesiness.

I would say eat the meat you have. Or if you feel too crappy about that, I'm sure there are soup kitchens or whatever near you that need donations of food.

Giving up chicken is not the end of the world. Honestly, when it comes to food and tasty things, my willpower is pretty close to zero. I fucking love tasty food and will, if allowed, spend most of my money just on good and yummy things to eat. So if I can go vegetarian, then I'm sure you can, too.

[flusterbunny]

Yeah, but you like curry.

[angrylemur]

What, do you have a problem with curry?

You wanna take this outside?

Curry is awesome and wonderful. But there are ways of eating veggies that don't involve spiciness.

(Man, now I want to go to Corner Tandoori for dinner. I cannot afford this. Damn moving soon costing money and shit.)

[flusterbunny]

Curry is nasty.

Although now I'm more concerned with this annoying development that I can no longer see the text as I type it in my comment boxes. What the fudge is this crap?