Food Sources

Here's an interesting article about the emotions involved in urban chicken farming. I feel like someday I'd love to raise chickens for eggs, but I'm not sure I could ever actually kill my own. I think if I did I would become a vegetarian...

This summer I've been trying an experiment of cooking one vegetarian dinner meal per week - I refer to myself as a "meatatarian" (preferring to eat meat over veggies), so this even once-a-week attempt is a big thing for me. My reasoning for trying this is that vegetarian meals have a significantly smaller impact on the environment - less land use, less water use, and less CO_2 production - not to mention that it's good for the health to reduce the fat intake (especially since I don't exercise).

So far I did Quorn Chik'n Cutlets Parasean last week, and yesterday I did Morning Star Vegan Grillers Burgers. It does appear to be more costly than an omnivore diet b/c I've been getting meat substitutes - if I were not focusing on doing so, I expect it would be cheaper than an omnivore diet. My opinion two weeks in is that it's interesting experience so far, and I can certainly put up with it for one meal a week for the duration of the summer, but I'm afraid I miss my meat too much to do it more than that. I expect come Fall I'll revert to my more normal dietary practice, but maybe once a month I'll be able to do a veggie meal. That may not be a huge improvement upon my old diet, but any little bit helps.