One of the beautiful things about having my own personal blog is I can write about whatevertheheck I want. Since I have other outlets of creativity and expression, this personal blog is more for me, and I’m truly not concerned about how many people read this (tell your friends!1).

So for this reason, here I can talk about touchy subjects, or “political” issues. One that is prominent in my life, is the state of our meals these days. I may get more into this topic in another post, but for now, let’s just say I’m not a big fan of the McDonaldizing of our planet. How ironic since I just talked about how I would steal ketchup and napkins from McDonalds, right? Well, that was many years ago. Read on

I’m against several things here: the mistreatment of animals for our consumption, the hormones used to create fatter, faster-growing animals for the sake of profit, and the insane misconception that we all need 86753876 grams of protein and 287623876 grams of fat in our diet every day to be “healthy”.

I’ve only recently really been made aware of all of this, but I think I’m now interested in taking things to the next step.

About 2 years ago I really started getting anti-processed foods and hormones in food. Then, while doing more research, I started to realize just what is actually put into the food that we consider basic nourishment. It’s really frightening. So from that point I stopped eating “as much” red meat, and only ate “organic” or “free-range” meat. Well, thats one of the biggest consumer jokes of our time. In about 5-10 years from now, we’ll look back at this free range and organic craze and laugh at how stupid we were.

For a year I raised my own chickens and slaughtered those chickens for my consumption. I don’t have much more to say about this other than killing an animal in any regard is no fun. And it certainly didn’t make me want to eat it later.

The fact is, the creation of animals and the slaughter of those animals for the sole purpose of providing this delusionary onslaught of protein that we’re all supposed to consume daily, is not only ruining our collective health, but it has made our healthcare system completely defunct, it is destroying our environment and use of land, and creating a generation of obese children.

Sure this is a lot to take in, and sounds a bit paranoid or conspiricy theorist, I understand that. But that’s kinda the point. We’re raised to identify Ronald McDonald over the current president. Or think that milk really does a body good. Guess what. Calcium is a mineral that comes from the grass that cows eat, not somewhere magically inside of them.

So in a natural progression, I’ve gone from 2 Big Macs a day to no red meat and only ‘organic’, to vegetarian, and now I’m looking veganism right in the eye. The only thing stopping me from giving up all animal products? Cheese. Hey, I never said I was perfect

But the point here is even if I never did give up cheese, or leather shoes, or wool sweaters, or anything crazy like that, I’m making steps in the right direction. Doing something is better than doing nothing.

If you’re interested in learning more about anything I’ve mentioned here, check out this video, and the podcast Food For Thought. Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is militant about what she believes in, and I love her for it.