It’s what’s for dinner
Rojie asks:
Do you prefer chicken, beef, or seafood? Or are you vegan or vegetarian?
A question and a bonus question!
I prefer chicken, beef, and seafood, but only in their living form, not on a dinner plate.
And at this point I’m neither a vegetarian nor a vegan.
Vegetarianism stopped making sense to me a long time ago when I learned about lacto-vegetarians, ovo-vegetarians, and lacto-ovo vegetarians. To me, in my dull black and white world, you either ate animals or you didn’t. And not eating animals meant no milk, no cheese, no eggs. But that’s just me.
Veganism was good, the rules were pretty clear cut, but it was just a label for me that meant I didn’t eat any animals, including milk, eggs, cheese. Or fish (sorry pescatarians). But I became put off by people who made it a political statement and who shamed other people for their personal diet choices. Shaming – without giving exact examples so I don’t inadvertently shame anyone – by using certain words, or body language, or images. Maybe it’s my dull black and white world again, but I don’t buy into the moral superiority of one way being the only way, and I don’t see any good coming from any form of shaming others, even if one thinks their cause is just.
Having said all that, I still won’t buy products tested on animals and I still don’t think humans are superior to animals, or any other creature sharing the planet, and I still think it would be a good idea for grocery stores to put small 10-inch color monitors above their meat cases, spaced maybe every five feet or so, and run loops of animals at the slaughterhouse. Meet your meat, you know? There’s nothing wrong with being a wise consumer.
So what’s my answer to the second question?
I don’t really have a label. If my diet is anything, it’s Whole Food Plant Based. That’s a broad term and it pretty much explains everything. And I’m not focused on 100% compliance or perfection as much as I used to be. I’m more interested in the nutrition and nutritional science in food so maybe I’m a nutritionarian?
I like to try and follow as best I can this advice:
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants – Michael Pollan
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