Happy Belated Valentine's Day!

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Sooooo, on Friday I watched Dollhouse! Pretty much all I have to say is that if anyone but Joss Whedon was writing this, I would be so, so skeeved out. As it is, and judging from interviews I've read, I trust that this feeling of skeeved-out-ness was intentional. (If that turns out not to be the case this is like the worst show ever.) Also, pretty

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I stopped eating beef and pork a few years ago in an effort to be more healthy. Beef was easy--I didn't grow up eating beef, so I don't really miss it--but pork was so, so hard. I started eating pork again last year and my life is now happier for it, mostly because I can eat dim sum again.

I think not eating meat because "meat is murder" is, quite frankly, stupid. There are many reasons to not eat meat: health reasons, environmental reasons, socio-economic reasons. I'm appalled at how people have become so disconnected from their food, though. So many of my friends won't eat a chicken because its head is still on the plate, or they won't eat offal, or they're horrified when I buy a live fish at the Chinese grocery store. Maybe, if you can't handle the fact that your food used to be alive, you shouldn't eat it.

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My mom is a nutritionist and uses the Canada Food Guide as a Bible, so I grew up with the firmly entrenched belief that less meat does not automatically equal better health. I think if cows could all be kept in happy conditions in a way that didn't waste soooo much farmland and cause so much enviromental damage, I would be okay with beef. But as is, there's just so many good reasons not to eat it.

I won't eat most organ meat, but that's a taste thing - I've tried offal and just couldn't stomach (hah) it. I think it's a waste not to use it in some way. And I totally agree with you that people need awareness about where their food comes from.

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lol, in college I knew so many vegans that were malnourished in some way, mainly because they just ate lots of pasta. Less meat certainly doesn't automatically equal better health, but eating less meat--and fewer refined carbs--meant that I also ate more vegetables. Also, I'm pretty sure North Americans in general eat too much meat. Or maybe just USAians. Maybe ya'll in Canada eat better.

Hey, not eating offal can totally be a personal choice. I don't diss people that don't like mushrooms--if they've actually tried mushrooms. But a lot of my friends go EEEEWWW at just the idea of eating chicken gizzards. I must say, though, that when it comes to offal, I buy only organic, non-antibiotic, free-range, etc. I don't even want to think about what's gone through the liver of a non free-range chicken.