I have been contacted about a screening of Earthlings that will be hosted at MTSU on April 14th.  It will begin at 7pm and will be held in the KUC Theater.   Free vegan desserts and drinks will be served and admission is free as well.  There will also be a Q&A session after the screening.

It seems it is finally happening!  Trader Joe’s will be opening a location by Thanksgiving this year at the old Wild Oats location in Green Hills!

From tennessean.com:

Trader Joe’s, a grocery chain some Nashvillians have long clamored for, is set to open a Green Hills location by Thanksgiving of this year.

The store will be at 3909 Hillsboro Pike and measure 14,000 square feet, said spokeswoman Alison Mochizuke. That’s in line with the California-based company’s average store size of approximately 10,000- to 15,000-square feet.

The address is the former Wild Oats location.

Maybe they can get the wine issue straight by that time.   I’m thinking this might hurt Whole Foods a little bit, they already have issues with my reusable TJ cooler bags.

A day earlier and I would not have believed it.

I was at a friends house last night and had dinner.  I had brought my usual vegan dishes that I carry to events like this, vegan macaroni and cheeze and a veggie tofu casserole.  Both were great and everything was going well then the usual discussion of veganism began.  I went along with it for awhile then I decided to give in a play devil’s advocate.  Discussion of the evolution of a diet came up.  Talk of what proteins are more complete.  Hormones that may actually benefit the human body from those given to  animals.  Factory farming and how there is possibly a cover-up on the outside from those attcking it.  How plant may actually be sentient beings after-all, that was a lengthy one involving plant dissection and the playing of the hidden track off of Tool’s “Undertow”.

It all went downhill (somewhat) from there.  My friend had made barbecue wings, small sirloin steaks and baked beans.  I crumbled.  I have no idea what happened, I had a bite of a steak on a dare and it fell apart after that.  I flet a little sick at first but slowly the queasiness subsided and I began to enjoy the foods I had lost over the years.  Cold hot dogs, another rare steak, a piece of warm gouda, buttermilk…oh yes the buttermilk.  I went as far as to have my old favorite this morning for breakfast, pork brains in runny scrambled eggs.   The memories hit me when the smell wafted in the morning air.

Now I am sitting here the morning after full of regret, I think.  I am so confused but the onle thing I know is that I am not vegan any longer.  I don’t even think I am vegetarian.

I have been running this absolute hogwash of a diet for years and now I am through.  It’s over.  Finished, just in a matter of seconds.

What this site will become is yet to be known, but it can’t be a vegan or vegetarian site without one to run it.