Black As My Soul: Very Veg-Friendly

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September 26, 2003

Very Veg-Friendly

I'm very veg friendly, understand.

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I know the arguments for going meatless, both from a personal health perspective and from a global resource perspective. If you have any questions check out or rent or read Diet for a New America. There is a clear agenda, but I think you'll look at what we do to ourselves a little differently. There are other medical aguments as well. And don't get me started on the Atkins diet (alas, my poor kidneys—I knew them well).

In point of fact, most of my meals are meatless now. Look at your nutrition labels. Protein is everywhere. And calcium in not created inside cows.

I know how to eat tofu, and that you don't eat it plain like Spam or Velveeta. I even buy 99% of my groceries at a coop that specializes in organic products. And don't gimme crap about organic meaning "made from carbon." At this point the term has been codified into national law. To be certified, by the FDA no less, you must do and must not do certain things. Companies that behave in this fashion get my money. Period. Healthy products are far more plentiful and tasty now and I buy fewer and fewer items from conventional grocers. I've never eaten better in my life, save for when my parents grew all of their own vegetables. Organically.

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But yeah, some times I want a piece of grilled flesh to go with a baked potato slathered in butter and sour cream— and a cold brew.

And I love it.

;)

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