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I have a house all to myself for the first time in months. For the night. I'm locking the doors tonight. My feet are blistered from all the walking at work and from running up and down Bloor St. on Wednesday doing errands, they took it hard after several days of calm with the upper half of my body out with Wisdom teeth extraction recouperation.
Work (I'm working as a camp counselor on the Toronto Islands) is amazingly stressful right now. One coworker, Shannon, is in the midst of a pwoer struggle with our boss, James. I personally think James is a pussy, doesn't do enough to get stuff done, and doesn't realize the full scope of everything. I also think Shannon is whiney, self-centered, and pushy. So I'm playing the "calm, indifferent and lazy David" and really just hope this job coasts to an end in August without incident.
Tomorrow marks the three week mark of my giving up flesh. No chicken, no steak, no fish, no pork, no cold cuts, no yummy pastrami or bacon...ok I should stop that. Actually no, I'm finding it remarkably easy not eating meat. There is a grocery store near-by called Fiesta Farms that has itself a great vegitarian section. My at home meals now consist of the following:
Breakfast of Liberty organic yogurt (I like to change up the flavours), with corn flakes and some kind of fruit over it to correspond with the yogurt flavour (ie., blueberry yogurt means blueberries). With this I have some fair trade organic coffee bought form Moonbean in Kensington, which next time I'm buying a much smaller amount b/c I've had the same one for about a month now and its starting to go stale, I also want an excuse to go to Moonbean.
Lunch is rarely the same, sometimes I get a veggie sub from Subway, sometimes I make up a sandwich. Fiesta has this really good line of jarred soup I think I might use more. Dinner is usually a large salad, sometimes a small salad with a veggieburger.
When I was out with the wisdom teeth a created a great "omlette" (more like glorified scambled eggs) with potatos, onion, green peppers, and some lemon grass seasoning that was just great. As you might have noticed I'm not giving up diary, eggs, bread, etc. Four reasons for going vegitarian are as follows (in roughly order of importance)
1. Health, cuting out mean cuts down a lot of fat, chlesterol, etc. The average North American gets more than enough protein and iron from what they usually eat anyways. Just incase I'm taking a multivitamin meant specifically for vegitarians and eating some type of protein source (tofu, beans, etc) every day. Most modern meat is fed genetically modified feed and contains considerably amounts of hormones.
2. Environment, meat production and especially cattle production causes intense environmental pollution (granted I'm still eating diary).
3. Money, Tofu, beans, veggie burgers are a lot cheaper than their meat counterparts and just as good in my opinion.
4. Most farm animals are treated in unethical, unhealthy manor and also killed in a likewise manor. While I beleive that animals can be ethical eaten by humans and kept in a way that is sactisfactory and many places do there is little way for me to distinguish the difference in the grocery store, let alone in restaurants without paying a lot more for organic, free range meats that reason #3 anull.
I was thinking of returning to Chicago for a bit in August but airfare will cost me upwards of $500 and I don't know the dates people are in town and such, which just blows. So I was thinking of maybe just paying for Eliza's airfare for a visit at her leisure? Get back to me on that.
I'm off.
Work (I'm working as a camp counselor on the Toronto Islands) is amazingly stressful right now. One coworker, Shannon, is in the midst of a pwoer struggle with our boss, James. I personally think James is a pussy, doesn't do enough to get stuff done, and doesn't realize the full scope of everything. I also think Shannon is whiney, self-centered, and pushy. So I'm playing the "calm, indifferent and lazy David" and really just hope this job coasts to an end in August without incident.
Tomorrow marks the three week mark of my giving up flesh. No chicken, no steak, no fish, no pork, no cold cuts, no yummy pastrami or bacon...ok I should stop that. Actually no, I'm finding it remarkably easy not eating meat. There is a grocery store near-by called Fiesta Farms that has itself a great vegitarian section. My at home meals now consist of the following:
Breakfast of Liberty organic yogurt (I like to change up the flavours), with corn flakes and some kind of fruit over it to correspond with the yogurt flavour (ie., blueberry yogurt means blueberries). With this I have some fair trade organic coffee bought form Moonbean in Kensington, which next time I'm buying a much smaller amount b/c I've had the same one for about a month now and its starting to go stale, I also want an excuse to go to Moonbean.
Lunch is rarely the same, sometimes I get a veggie sub from Subway, sometimes I make up a sandwich. Fiesta has this really good line of jarred soup I think I might use more. Dinner is usually a large salad, sometimes a small salad with a veggieburger.
When I was out with the wisdom teeth a created a great "omlette" (more like glorified scambled eggs) with potatos, onion, green peppers, and some lemon grass seasoning that was just great. As you might have noticed I'm not giving up diary, eggs, bread, etc. Four reasons for going vegitarian are as follows (in roughly order of importance)
1. Health, cuting out mean cuts down a lot of fat, chlesterol, etc. The average North American gets more than enough protein and iron from what they usually eat anyways. Just incase I'm taking a multivitamin meant specifically for vegitarians and eating some type of protein source (tofu, beans, etc) every day. Most modern meat is fed genetically modified feed and contains considerably amounts of hormones.
2. Environment, meat production and especially cattle production causes intense environmental pollution (granted I'm still eating diary).
3. Money, Tofu, beans, veggie burgers are a lot cheaper than their meat counterparts and just as good in my opinion.
4. Most farm animals are treated in unethical, unhealthy manor and also killed in a likewise manor. While I beleive that animals can be ethical eaten by humans and kept in a way that is sactisfactory and many places do there is little way for me to distinguish the difference in the grocery store, let alone in restaurants without paying a lot more for organic, free range meats that reason #3 anull.
I was thinking of returning to Chicago for a bit in August but airfare will cost me upwards of $500 and I don't know the dates people are in town and such, which just blows. So I was thinking of maybe just paying for Eliza's airfare for a visit at her leisure? Get back to me on that.
I'm off.