Crap // Shit

I made this in response to my overindulgence and love for Salt and Vinegar chips. They give me a huge headache, and it's not worth it! No matter how delicious they are.

Vegucated

I just finished watching Vegucated and I have to admit: I cried. A bit. I would have even more if I forced myself to watch the horrible parts of factory farming, but I turned my head away because I couldn't bare the suffering of these animals who did nothing to deserve the pain and death they went through. Unfortunately I looked at one of the wrong times and saw someone putting an electric bolt into a pigs head who ended up squirming around on the floor. I lost it there and had to go grab the tissues.

I'm just so surprised that more people don't know about the treatment of animals and what the animals have to go through before they end up on someone's plate. I want to help make a difference and help people become more educated, but it is hard to do when I bring up the subject and they declare, "Oh, I couldn't live without cheese." Uhm. Yes. I am fairly positive that it won't kill you if you give up cheese. In fact, it will probably make you live longer if you do.

I am lucky enough to have Bob's Red Mill near my house and had a very lovely lunch there with my mom. I had a delicious veggie sandwich with Daiya cheese. It was DELICIOUS. I convinced my mom to try a bite and she said she couldn't really tell the difference between the Daiya cheese and regular cheese. :)

Purpose

I wanted to create this blog to share my process of learning about where our food comes from, why meat, dairy, and eggs should not be consumed, the mask over people's eyes of the commercialization of these products and why they are "good" for us, among other reasons.

Last year, 2012, I saw Food Inc. for the first time which helped push me to go vegetarian. Growing up, I ate a lot of vegetarian food, however my parents would BBQ steak and chicken over the summers. It wasn't too hard of a process for me to give up meat like it might be for others. I went completely vegetarian on January 1st, 2012 and have been ever since. I watched Forks over Knives in early February of this year which illustrated the importance of giving up dairy and eggs as well.

Lately I have been inspired by a Ted Talk for doing 30 day challenges and the combination of writing down what I eat every day, taking pictures of what I eat, creating a documentary, and challenging the public to learn where their food really comes from and what they are consuming.

This blog is dedicated to my process of better eating.