Well, this is kinda funny but I’m sick. Sore throat & cough.
Could it be because of the CHICKEN sandwich I ate this past Saturday? Possibly, though there is no way to tell for sure. I’m reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and it’s educating to say the least, though overwhelmingly at times. I’m still torn and I still am not comfortable calling myself a vegetarian, but I’m working my way towards just that. And I’m also not comfortable telling myself that I will never, EVER eat a cheeseburger at one of our family BBQs ever, EVER again. But I’m working my way towards just that.
It’s hard. I’ve been eating meat my entire life and up until a few years ago I didn’t really see anything wrong with it. Something changed though, when I started realized — slowly at first — that I was eating something that used to roam the earth. Or more realistically, sitting on its own shit in a too-small crate next to thousands of other miserable chickens.
I can’t help being a sentamentalist. The very first book I remember reading was Charlotte’s Web. The very first movie I fell in love with was The Wizard of Oz. (I’ve always wondered why a dog couldn’t talk when a lion could.) I tend to humanize all the pets I’ve ever had. For me, it’s easy to imagine chicken on my plate as a chicken. My argument for my vegetarianism doesn’t stem from my love of animals alone though. (Although I do think that reason is valid enough.) And honestly I don’t have enough energy to get into it all right now, but it’s a discussion I think more of us need to be having. Especially the treatment of our factory farmed animals.
ANYWAY. I’m going to nurse myself back to health with plenty of (veggie) soup and tea and rest and plenty of staying away from the chicken. More fun food posts later in the week…
In the meantime, enjoy this video from our boy.
Add some dill to your veggie soup, and that will help facilitate the clearing of your mucus membranes in the throat and sinus cavities. And I applaud you for not calling yourself vegetarian (or “almost vegetarian”) when you still consume chicken or cheeseburgers – as a vegan that’s one of my hugest pet peeves when someone calls themselves as such, while eating a chicken sandwich or something. And recognizing the steps you are taking towards relinquishing the hold society has ingrained into our brains from birth is a huge step to standing up against the horrific environment that is factory farming.
Thanks for the tip, Sara! I’m not a huge dill fan, but I will give it a go if it helps…