Guess who’s here?
… it’s my old cat Ophelia! I’ve rehomed her about a million times, but she always finds her way back to me.
Thankfully*, this time it’s just temporary. Her owner is in the hospital recovering from emergency surgery so Ophie is staying with us until she can go home.
*Thankfully for Ophie. She hates kids and dogs and other cats so she isn’t very happy here.
I forgot I was planning on making smoothies this morning until after I’d already eaten cereal for breakfast, so I made these for Sym and Taylor. Strawberries & raspberries from the farmer’s market, local honey and vanilla yogurt.
… or more accurately What I’ve Been Eating and Reading and Why I’ve Been Eating What I’ve Been Eating Because of What I’ve Been Reading. That would be too long though.
right, top to bottom: cheese, tomatoes, lettuce & black bean humous sandwich; goat cheese mini-frittatas with salad; Mangled Eggs at the Templeton (eggs, brie and veggie bacon on a croissant) with rosemary potatoes; left: poutine with vegetarian gravy
So all of these meals have something in common: NO MEAT. Why? Because last week I read Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and omggggg I am so grossed out now. I read the part about chicken processing while I was at the salon getting my hair done and I seriously almost barfed in the shampoo sink.
It also made me feel really sad and guilty. The cruelty and abuse is just… ugh. I can’t even explain it. I know that the food industry in Canada isn’t quite as terrible as it is in the US, but it’s definitely not good. I even feel bad about the eggs in my fridge, and I bought them for $6 a dozen at the farmer’s market from an organic biodynamic free range family farm, but is that good enough? IS IT? I feel like I’m one step away from being these people:
I mentioned reading this book in a general discussion forum and these are the replies I got
if it wasn’t for bacon, i swear…
I feel like once a year I’ll read a book about the ethics and environmental problems caused by eating meat and then 6 months later I’ll crave bacon.
i read that and saw food inc which made me very concious of what i eat. i still eat meat but not lots of it and i try to know where it came from
reading that book convinced me to be a vegetarian.
I definitely ate some bacon from Taylor’s bacon poutine last Thursday, without even thinking because I ALWAYS eat bacon from his poutine. Should I stop doing that? Will I stop doing that? I don’t even know. I’m loathe to say “Oh I’m a vegetarian now!” because I mean WHO KNOWS how this bacon thing is going to play out, but right now I’m too grossed out to even consider eating meat.
a full list of all this year’s books can always be found here, and as always, book links are usually to Amazon, and clicking on them might earn me a nickel.