Going Veg?
I’m considering going vegetarian.
Well, I’m more than considering it. I could write a novel about how and why but it’s not because of the animals. I do love animals but I’m not convinced that a strawberry doesn’t cry out in pain when it’s picked. We just can’t hear it and it doesn’t have eyes and a nose we can relate to and project human emotions onto. How do we know a pig’s highest goal in life isn’t to go to slaughter and end up on our breakfast plate? Really now?
Anyway, this is all about health. Heart disease is a serious concern for me and I am looking for any way to keep myself from dying young. I also spend a lot of time worrying about looking old and I can’t help but notice that every damn time I look at some celebrity that is 20+ years older than me and think, “Gosh they look fantastic, what do they do to keep themselves looking so great?” I find out they are a vegetarian/vegan. So I’m going to give this a try.
So I’ve spend a bunch of time reading websites and I bought a couple of cookbooks. This shouldn’t be too hard for me. I’m not that crazy about meat anyway. The problem is I don’t trust a lot of the info. So much of it is emotionally driven rather than fact based. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on health matters but when you take meat out of the equation there is a lot I don’t know. I do know a few places where I need to do some research.
I know there is a lot of controversy surrounding soy.
I know that natural is better and this is what concerns me about all the substitutes, especially the vegan stuff. Butter is pretty natural, something that was never meant to be butter but has been all mangled up to kind of resemble it kind of creeps me out.
I know I need to learn a lot about the fat content regarding fruit.
I know I need to read up about all the varieties of beans.
I know I need to settle this matter, once and for all, about whether or not cooking veggies in their skins makes any difference.
So I’ve got a lot of research to do but I figure I’ll get it at some point. I’ve got a basic idea because I’ve spent a lot of time trying to eat healthy my whole life. And my parents were health nuts to the extreme. It’s probably in my blood. Unfortunately so is heart disease and diabetes. 