The Food War

Day 15

Sorry my posts have not been up to date recently...  I have had a few family matters to take care of and not enough time to do every thing that I would like to because of it, but I am back now! 

I have spent most of my morning searching for vegan recipes. It has been a journey, let me tell you! Most of these recipes call for foods that I have never even heard of, or they have you use SO MANY ingredients just to make ONE substitute ingredient. It makes me wonder: Is it worth the trouble? 

I have to look at it from the environmentalist angle, just like vegans look at the meat industry. If I have to buy 10 ingredients to make fake cheese that all have separate packaging, then why don't I just go out and buy a package of cheese that originally came from a cow, and then was packaged in ONE plastic container...Should I spend $30 on 10 separate ingredients to get 3oz of fake cheese that has made such a huge carbon footprint to get here that I might as well have just bought the cow?  Also, I have heard (and I will research this further) that soy is not actually all that good for you... Most of the vegan community relies on soy for cheese substitutes, meat substitutes, milk substitutes, and egg substitutes... 

Think about it... I understand that the treatment of animals on feedlots is horrible, but at the same time you have to look at the other side of the coin too. There are farms out there where people treat their animals as humanely as possible and then YES they kill them for food, but at least they lived a good life first!

I am still looking into the Vegan/Vegetarian lifestyle, don't get me wrong. I have to say that there are defiantly pros and cons to both sides of the food war.... I guess we will see what side I land on, or if it will be somewhere in the middle... 

When I was in middle school I did an experiment with flowers. I planted them from the same seed packet at the same time on the same day with the same amount of soil from the same bag and let them sprout. After they had sprouted I put them in separate rooms that had the same amount of daylight exposure and played classical music in one room and rock music in the other... The flowers in the room with classical music actually grew bigger, faster and towards the speakers. The flowers in the room with the rock music grew away from the speakers and did not grow nearly as big... My point? It is obvious that plants are living creatures too, and we eat them anyways. If we had qualms about eating anything that could possibly have life in it, then all we would eat would be rocks and dirt!