a chronology of stupidity: 25 June 2013

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

I think the last piece of chicken I ate

Was around early April, after feeling dizzy

A minor health scare and watching a bunch of health related movies

On Netflix on juicing and healthy eating

I came across Vegucated, and that made it

Since early April I am vegetarian

I would like to say that I am a 100% vegan

Meaning NO animal products

Yet, I had some yogurt at home and some parmesan cheese

I had to “finish”, and a couple of times I have come across

Food that has cheese crumbs (a spinach salad from Bread and Cie)

With nuts and some goat cheese; and I had some pizza at work,

The vegetarian kind, but had cheese, so I would say

I am 80% vegan these days?

Looking forward to be 100% vegan…

Some friends have asked me for how long I would eat a vegan diet

I am planning to do it for the rest of my life!

Health is one issue, YET never filling sick has stopped me

From eating another piece of chocolate or a cake

No señor!! But with veganism the force that is driving me

Is much stronger, I am not doing only for health reasons

I am doing it ‘because I know what it takes to get meat,

Beef, pork, and chicken to your table,

I know all the suffering, the killing, the slaughtering

The pain, and the insanity that is killing an animal

Just to get it on your plate…

The very first days I quit eating chicken (which by the way

Are the most abused animals ever!!!) Whenever I craved

A piece of chicken I only had to remember what I read on

All the pain, suffering and anger inflicted not only to the chickens

But to the humans working on the slaughter houses!

Anyway I started writing this doc days ago and then

I got side tracked but the bottom line is:

The healthy side of the vegan diet

has been just a wonderful "side effect";

my real motivation is to NOT contribute to

the torture of animals who are killed in

the industrialized farming factory system

which is out of control and lacks compassion mainly in the US!