I can’t seem to give up poultry just yet – blargh. I should start with my weekly burrito runs. Try to get the vegetarian one instead.
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After two years of not eating pork, I no longer crave it. In fact, thinking about pork makes me kind of ill.
That’s my goal.
I work at a public university. It is far from being the bastion of good eating practices, so my veggie options are mighty limited. I had to settle for a soggy salad with a lump of tuna in it, because I had to take lunch at my desk. Good thing there’s some yogurt.
I’m surprised nobody else has this as a goal!
I’m going to stop eating beef and poultry. I stopped eating pork two years ago and it has made me very happy, but I want to take it a step further.
Why?
1. Global economic / environmental reasons: In order to eat a piece of a cow, someone must grow and cultivate something to feed to that cow, then kill it and bring it to market. Too expensive, way too much overhead. Cows also are some of the largest methane producers in the world.
2. Political purposes: I learned that the government uses our tax dollars to subsidize confined animal feedings. So even if I make my best effort to eat free-roaming animals and the like, it doesn’t matter. Furthermore, if you think you are avoiding cage-fed food when you are going out, you are deluding yourself.
3. On principle, I shouldn’t be eating what I cannot bear to kill myself. I have pulled many a fish out of water, put it on ice, gutted it, and pan fried it. I have no problem doing this. Thus, I can eat fish. If someone asked me to kill a chicken, turkey, or cow – I just wouldn’t be able to. When I purchase food from a store I look at a saran-wrapped piece of meat. It’s a willful suspension of disbelief that this is not a dead animal. Some people are fine with this, I am not.
4. Nightmares about the horrifying screams of cows being led to slaughter.
I know that I should watch out because certain fish contains high levels of mercury. My goal is to stick to a mostly vegetarian diet and only fall back on fish when I have no other option. Perhaps one day I’ll become a full blown veggie. Who knows?
