I'm not vegetarian, but I love cooking all-veggie dishes. I find it theraputic in a way. It makes me feel healthy, happy, connected to the earth. I eat a vegetarian meal and feel like I've accomplished something worthwhile. I've got a dehydrator and I've made my own raw fruit roll ups, sprouted and dried my own live-grain cereal, I use agave nectar or stevia, the whole nine. I love baking vegan sweets! Where else can you get yumma delicious stuff that isn't going to kill you?
And, Oh my gosh, for totally selfish reasons, buy grass fed organic locally grown food. I know, saving the planet is awesome, but until you go raw, you don't know what you are missing. Since Michigan has aggravating laws about what people can and cannot eat, (raw milk for example). I purchased a share of my own cow a few years ago (from which I can do whatever I want with as it is considered private property) and I try to get most of my meat and dairy from a local-ish farmer (Find Your Own!) who delivers to our town every two weeks delivering, fresh, raw cream, milk, and grass fed everything else! Your coffee, cereal, and stew will never be the same.
Check out Campaign for Raw Milk if you are interested. Supposedly it cures all sorts of stuff. I can't say, I just like the way it tastes and how it is humanely produced. If you are an omivore, you should be pleased to learn that fat from a grass fed cows is GOOD for you, not like most poor farm animals who are fed defective cereal and junk food from factories that over-sugared or salted, and cardboard slop, which I read about earlier this year in the Wall Street Journal. Ick.
While I don't believe we should have laws to rectify the treatment of animals, I still strongly believe we owe it to them and ourselves to take care of them. Word of mouth, ya'll!
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I love vegetables and love exploring new vegetarian dishes. Earlier this year I went vegetarian for four months, in homage to Buddhism, but found that I need some meat in my diet or I have digestive issues, and become anemic.
ReplyDeleteI went to Kripalu two years ago, and I am dying to get back, because there are so many tasty things to eat there that are veggie or vegan.
I concur. I'm an omnivore and there's just nothing better than grass fed meat! It tastes good, is humane and if you're going to consume an animal, it's an honorable way to do it! Also, I'm similarly perturbed by the meddlesome government regulations that stifle true competition. Huge businesses love agencies like the FDA because they can afford to take the regulatory hit, squeezing out the small local farmers. A great start would be ending agricultural subsidies and federal regulation. Also, raw cream rocks!
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