A link, a progress report, and a dog's butt.

Grrrrrrrr..... our stupid dog ate a bunch of my dad's prized roosters. We'd gotten a new dog (a girl) to calm him down, it sort of worked. Instead of eating the roosters, he chewed up their tie-chords and let them kill each other. He's getting a new home tomorrow, with someone with more land and no chickens.

I found this awesome food blog; http://hellyeahitsvegan.com/, that has a ton of actually good vegan recipes. A lot of them don't even have soy in them, which is awesome because I've found that soy isn't the perfect wonder food that a lot of vegans say it is. Our liver is too weak to process it correctly or something.

My job-getting has progressed slightly; I actually made it to Publix the other day and waited in line for a half hour to find out how to apply. The gum-smacking creature behind the counter pointed to a large computer-like contraption, and told that after I filled out the application on that machine I'd need to get back in line, which had stretched about a mile behind me. With a heavy heart, I headed to the machine. Right at that moment, my ride honked the horn and with a mixture of despair and relief I headed to the car.

Sincerely,
Me.

Resolutions, links, and a pig's butt.

My new years resolutions.:

1) Become a vegan. Full out. No more Cheetos, no more mozzarella, no more microwave omelets. To support this resolution however, I must;
2) Finally get a job!!! I've been asking around, sort of halfheartedly, but I have a new vegan habit to support and another sibling soon to be born which I will hope to convert. I highly doubt it though... I've never converted anyone yet. Except for fifteen minutes, and that doesn't count, she was convinced she was fat and it wasn't the complete lack of exercise that was at fault (btw, she was tiny as shark).
(btw btw, shark is my new online censor. I like to write everything I think, but I try to never spew horse crap all over my actual words)
3) Stop calling my brother a chauvinist pig. It's an insult to pigs, who are scientifically considered smarter than dogs and three year old children. My brother is scientifically considered an idiot.

I hope to think of seven more before the new year, I'll edit them back down to three, it's about all I can manage at one time. If anyone reads this; comment for once! I'm insulted!!!


A website for questions:
http://www.howtodothings.com/health-and-fitness/a3351-how-to-learn-about-vegetarian-nutrition.html
Websites for answers to said questions:
Scroll down to older posts to answer 1
2 and 3 are found athttp://www.nutrition.for-vegans.co.uk/
And there are some other answers at the how to do things website too, I should visit that website more often.

As for the pig's butt, I believe that was listed in my resolutions. If this is confusing, note that I'm running on little sleep.
Good night all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Every waking moment

I just want to say that I hate schedules. They trap my mind and darken my soul. I have a routine, wake up, finish school as fast as possible, blog (and Facebook, and Twitter (follow me, www.twitter.com/giveTHEMheck) and email and watch Hulu, and protest via email at www.peta2.com) and sleep. And some volunteer work in between, my geekiness is helpful.

On a more relevant note, CELEBRATE!!!! NASA has freed the monkeys. It was the first protest email I ever did, and I was so psyched to hear that the radiation experiments that they were planning to do have stopped. I didn't do extensive research, but if the articles I read were correct, they've done similar experiments before, and they've resulted in serious brain damage. This new experiment used more radiation, as in "last time we tested with some radiation, it hurt them badly. If we test with more, it might hurt them worse, but finding out is more important than their lives". That's the impression I got. Anyway, they grounded it so there are a few more alive monkeys out there now.


Arguing with omnivores is soooooooooo annoying!!!! My dad always brings up a scripture. I am a Christian, I believe the Bible is true. He starts with:

Acts 10:9-18 (The Message)

^9-13The next day as the three travelers were approaching the town, Peter went out on the balcony to pray. It was about noon. Peter got hungry and started thinking about lunch. While lunch was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the skies open up. Something that looked like a huge blanket lowered by ropes at its four corners settled on the ground. Every kind of animal and reptile and bird you could think of was on it. Then a voice came: "Go to it, Peter—kill and eat."

¹⁴Peter said, "Oh, no, Lord. I've never so much as tasted food that was not kosher."

¹⁵The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay."

¹⁶This happened three times, and then the blanket was pulled back up into the skies.

And then proceeds to say they ate mostly meat in those times.

I counter with:

Romans 14:2 (The Message)

^2-4For instance, a person who has been around for a while might well be convinced that he can eat anything on the table, while another, with a different background, might assume he should only be a vegetarian and eat accordingly. But since both are guests at Christ's table, wouldn't it be terribly rude if they fell to criticizing what the other ate or didn't eat? God, after all, invited them both to the table. Do you have any business crossing people off the guest list or interfering with God's welcome? If there are corrections to be made or manners to be learned, God can handle that without your help.

And then say that they used to treat animals a lot better than factory farm animals are treated today.

He answers describing the cruel method in which the animals used to be killed, hung upside down and their throat slit, bleeding to death. I describe the cruelty in the factories, graffiti painted on the walls with torn off heads, the chickens made into poop squirt guns, the pig with the leg that was left to rot for two weeks because that's when she would be slaughtered, it wasn't considered worth it. He counters by saying we were given dominion over all the animals. I said that we shouldn't rule like this, ignoring the suffering like Marie Antoinette, look what happened to her?

This goes on for a very long long time and both of us walk away secure in our positions, never changing our minds.

Sincerely,

Me.

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.