PETA

Lately I've been spending a lot of time on the PETA website, there's a ton of information on there, and it's a good place to go to remind me why I'm doing this. This is especially important during this holiday season with all the turkey eating.

There's also a ton of embeddable videos and games, I've scattered them around this page a bit, as you see. I've been specifically anti-mcdonalds lately, they say they're all about being a family friendly place, but they refuse to switch to a more modern and humane way of killing the chickens. In their defense however, I want to say that they have a charity called Ronald McDonald House, which my family stayed in when my younger sister had a liver transplant. Though there are activists that wouldn't care about that, I think that no one is just plain evil, especially the thousands of people that make up the McDonald's corporation.

I've embedded a game called The New Superchick sisters, the old one was for KFC. Someday I plan to run in there screaming, "THE CHICKENS ARE COMING FOR REVENGE!!! RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!".

In which I will run before they identify me.

New Likers

I finally have two more people liking my page! On facebook, I mean. I'm so excited!!!!

I also want to say something about Progresso soup. I know it's a weird favorite food, but now it's mine. Especially the lentil one. They have a lot of vegan ones, a lot of ovo-lacto ones two.

I also make an awesome soup I call creme de la creme de la yum yum. (I've been cooking since I was eight and made this soon after. Don't judge.)

It's just some veggie broth (I used cheap bouillon, there's actually no meat in most of them) then milk, then potatoes, then let that boil as you chop up carrots, throw them in and while that's cooking add garlic, sea salt, and Italian seasoning. (basil, oregano, parsley, sage etc. all sold in one convenient little bottle. These seasonings taste good on almost anything from tofu to pasta to this soup.) Wait about five minutes, and serve immediately. This is all about guesstimating, so try it until you get it right. I always just raid the spice cabinet while the carrots are cooking and add what seems perfect.

I also found a little bit of disturbing news when I read Big Secrets, it's a book about all the secrets of the world, from Micky D's secret Big Mac sauce to what's in Chanel No. 5.

Anyway, the print on money's made from gelatin! Boiled animal ears, hooves, and fat! GROSS! Of course it's an old book and could be wrong now but still!!!!! What the ____?!?!?!?!?!??!? That's just wrong.

Sincerely,

Me.

Types of Vegetarians:

Being a vegetarian is all about choice and principle. I'm choosing to do this because the thought of eating dead animal flesh is really gross. (Also I'm sure you're happy to hear, I've officially given up fish. And shrimp. I liked shrimp.)
The choices are usually in one of these categories:

Vegan: No meat, of course, of any kind, and no animal bi-products. That includes no wearing or owning leather, no eggs, no dairy, and a little known one, no jell-o. Jell-o is made of gelatin, which is basically crystallized animal fat. Ew, right?

Lacto-Vegetarian: Nothing above, but you can drink milk and eat cheese and cheese cake and ranch dressing and certain yogurts, and ice cream. Part of the reason some people are vegan is that some dairies, even organic ones, still use male dairy calf babies for veal. For more information, just Google it. You could've just Googled this, but then again you might have.

Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian: Eggs and milk, still NO MEAT! AT ALL! Thus the term, VEGEtarian. Egg laying hens are often kept in tiny cages with bad conditions. You have to choose eggs carefully, there are cage free, and vegetarian raised, though how do they control that if they're cage free? Any ideas? This isn't a problem for me because my family owns chickens and so do many of our close personal friends. So this is my choice.

Also, this category is only sort of a vegetarian; Pescetarian: No red meat, and maybe no poultry. Fish and/or shellfish is allowed.

I hope this was at least a little bit helpful,

Sincerely,

Me.

Fake Meat

My favorite fake meat is Morning Star, they have a good variety and awesome taste; also they're easier to find than most brands, which have to be bought at overpriced health food stores.
There are a number of brands out there, I think Quorn is my least favorite, it is very very particular in how it has to be cooked, though if done right isn't completely gross.
Gimme Lean is the vegan Jimmy Dean, (fake sausage meat, not formed) it makes really awesome ground beef replacement, and can be cooked many ways while still looking realistic.
Tofu Pups are also particular about how they're cooked, grill them and they are both disgusting looking and tasting.
I've had these awesome vegan hot dogs before, but I can't remember the brand, sorry.
Boca makes vegan burgers, I'm having one for dinner in a few hours, so I don't know how they taste yet. I've made homemade veggie burgers before, they taste really good if you have the right recipe, form them thin, and fry them, not grill.
This is the extent of my experience with fake meat, sorry if it's not very helpful.
One last tidbit, Google is a vegetarian's best friend.

Sincerely,
Me.

Welcome!!!

Hey! This is a potentially awesome new blog, sort of an archive of recipes and advice, also sort of a journal for me (and you too if you comment, you know) documenting daily arguments with carnivores. (Being a know it all I have to correct myself, a carnivore eats strictly meat, where-as an omnivore has pickles on their burger made of dead cow flesh. Putrid.)
I'm an ovo-lacto vegatarian, meaning I eat chicken fetuses and dairy products. I also eat seafood, which I will stop eating as soon as my conscience hits me hard enough. I don't like that I like to eat fish.
The whole point of that is that probably a lot of my recipes include cheese, which I love. Vegan fake cheese is available though, and isn't much more expensive. I don't really like eggs but they are in a lot of food, I like to have my cake and eat it too.

Sincerely,
Me.