I just noticed that two weeks have passed without an update to the blog. I have been spending much time outside with the plants as well as working. I haven’t been purposefully ignoring the site, I have been working to get a listing of vegetarian and vegan friendly restaurants in the area together for the main site as well as short reviews for each. If anyone wants to help out and has a review of your favorite local restaurant email me and it might get included in the completed listing, with credit given of course.
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Where Have I Been?
June 27th, 2008Sick of Veganism- It’s Over, Painless (Somewhat)
April 1st, 2008I 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.
Fluoride?
September 4th, 2007Fluoride? There has always been debate over municipal water fluoridation and The Tennessean printed an article today about bottled water than seems to have gotten some discussion on the subject. Fluoride is added to water supplies in the US and some believe that should end. How do you feel on the subject?
Return From Reality
July 18th, 2007It has been a month nearly since I have been able to get a chance to write here. I have moved (I never realized how much stuff you can accumulate in 6 years!) and working on the new place keeps me busy. I am sure I have missed a few things in that month as far as news regarding the veggie community, so if needed, bring me up-to-date. I did mention The Veggie Cafe which operates in East Nashville last month and I have not been able to try it yet. If anyone has been there let me know how it is. I know they have a limited menu at the moment which will change once they get a permanent location but any place with veggie offerings in this area is more than welcome.
I’ll try to keep up from now on…
Vegan Podcasts
June 19th, 2007I have spent a couple years listening to podcasts and found a few to be worthwhile and entertaining but most to be not worth the time to download. I have not found any vegan/vegetarian podcasts yet that can hold my interest for more than 2 seconds. Know of any I should try? As long as it is not just two people patting each other on the back for an hour or so, reasonably audible and not by someone sounding like they have a mouth full of slobber (I just described four or five vegan/vegetarian podcasts that are those not worth the time, you know which ones they are.) let me know about it.


