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arguchikwent to the PCC early this afternoon. i felt crappy all morning, but i needed to get some stuff at the store so as to prevent myself from starving, and after some hemming and hawing decided to purchase a couple of turkey legs. i roasted them up and just ate part of one. with a little cranberry sauce.
i think my body has needed meat. more than the large amount of fish i ate at maneki on christmas eve. more meat than fish, i mean; not more meat than that quantity of fish.
funny, this is the exact time of year when last i "fell from the wagon" in...2002? 2003? and started eating meat more regularly again (this time i've been mostly veg since june 2005). i don't count thanksgiving, because i eat a little turkey every thanksgiving. to eat land animal meat at other times of the year is out of the ordinary for me, and i only do it when i've been craving it for a few days (which i have in this case, btw).
i don't want to turn completely away from a mostly veg & fish diet or anything, but i think i need to supplement with land animal meat every now and then. i know a dietitian would tell me to go with white poultry meat, but that is soooooo not appetizing to me at all. i've never liked the stuff. i think my body wants iron, actually. and maybe some kind of fat soluble vitamin, or whatever's in cartilage--mainly collagen and calcium, i guess (you'll probably think this is gross, but i always gnaw on the knuckles of chicken and turkey bones). in any case, dark poultry meat--and especially turkey--is what i crave when i crave land animal meat. never beef of any kind (with the exception of the cheeseburgers i craved when i was deep into the marathon training several years ago). sometimes pork, but that's almost always situational, like when i smell bacon or ribs cooking--and then it's more about the sauce or the smoked taste. i almost never give in to that.
i'm not sure how i feel about this. the first time i went veg, as i've mentioned here before, it was a taste thing--the thought of eating meat completely turned my stomach, right after my marriage broke up. since then, my main objections to eating meat have been both pragmatic and ethical. it's not about killing animals for food; it's more about the lives animals have before they are slaughtered, and how they are slaughtered. you know, factory farming practices: instrumentalist, driven by the bottom line and not by humane standards of care and feeding. i think meat raised and slaughtered that way is downright dangerous. maybe that's alarmist of me. at the very least, research supports my contention that such meat has a ridiculously bad nutritional profile. eggs too. it's crazy and interesting, to read comparisons of the nutritutional content (vitamins, the fat profile, etc.) for humanely raised animal food vs. factory farmed animal food. that, high fructose corn syrup, and sedentary yet stressed lifestyles are making us a fat, sick, and depressed people.
yes, i really think so. "it's the food, stupid!" GIGO
i think my body has needed meat. more than the large amount of fish i ate at maneki on christmas eve. more meat than fish, i mean; not more meat than that quantity of fish.
funny, this is the exact time of year when last i "fell from the wagon" in...2002? 2003? and started eating meat more regularly again (this time i've been mostly veg since june 2005). i don't count thanksgiving, because i eat a little turkey every thanksgiving. to eat land animal meat at other times of the year is out of the ordinary for me, and i only do it when i've been craving it for a few days (which i have in this case, btw).
i don't want to turn completely away from a mostly veg & fish diet or anything, but i think i need to supplement with land animal meat every now and then. i know a dietitian would tell me to go with white poultry meat, but that is soooooo not appetizing to me at all. i've never liked the stuff. i think my body wants iron, actually. and maybe some kind of fat soluble vitamin, or whatever's in cartilage--mainly collagen and calcium, i guess (you'll probably think this is gross, but i always gnaw on the knuckles of chicken and turkey bones). in any case, dark poultry meat--and especially turkey--is what i crave when i crave land animal meat. never beef of any kind (with the exception of the cheeseburgers i craved when i was deep into the marathon training several years ago). sometimes pork, but that's almost always situational, like when i smell bacon or ribs cooking--and then it's more about the sauce or the smoked taste. i almost never give in to that.
i'm not sure how i feel about this. the first time i went veg, as i've mentioned here before, it was a taste thing--the thought of eating meat completely turned my stomach, right after my marriage broke up. since then, my main objections to eating meat have been both pragmatic and ethical. it's not about killing animals for food; it's more about the lives animals have before they are slaughtered, and how they are slaughtered. you know, factory farming practices: instrumentalist, driven by the bottom line and not by humane standards of care and feeding. i think meat raised and slaughtered that way is downright dangerous. maybe that's alarmist of me. at the very least, research supports my contention that such meat has a ridiculously bad nutritional profile. eggs too. it's crazy and interesting, to read comparisons of the nutritutional content (vitamins, the fat profile, etc.) for humanely raised animal food vs. factory farmed animal food. that, high fructose corn syrup, and sedentary yet stressed lifestyles are making us a fat, sick, and depressed people.
yes, i really think so. "it's the food, stupid!" GIGO
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Date: 2006-12-27 08:48 pm (UTC)I would go to Trader Joe's and buy a huge box of organic spinach and devour the whole thing, like a bag of chips. No dressing, no nothing... just me and the spinach and my grubby hands.
Yum!
As for humanely-raised meat, I read that Niman Ranch bacon is so much tastier because the pigs are infinitely happier. Apparently when pigs (or any animal, I imagine) get stressed out, they release a hormone which makes the meat taste off. But of course, we've grown accustomed to this flavor because most folks are only exposed to the flesh of stressed animals. I can't wait to try the Niman Ranch bacon.