meat is mean

I am a vegetarian as of this week. I can no longer stand the thought of eating the flesh of a once-living creature. I’m not 100% sure yet if I will cut fish out of my diet but as much as I am able to do so, I will choose to not consume any animal product. I am, however, still putting cream in my coffee and eating cheese. So the dairy might be more gradual of a removal from my diet. I’m not sure either if I will still eat eggs or not… I had vanilla almond milk with my cereal last night for the first time. It was actually pretty good. I came across 2 books on the weekend that both described in gory/graphic detail the slaying of animals by humans to provide us with the meat that we eat. I was traumatized by the sheer cruelty: cows being skinned alive and pigs being electrocuted while screeching in pain. It made me feel sick to my stomach. I got really emotional and then decided to do an internet search to find out where our meat comes from. The footage I found of how they kill the animals were so traumatizing I was worried about passing out (http://www.meat.org/). I couldn’t even watch because of the horrific violence. So this is day 4 and so far so good.
I love animals! I just don't love eating them anymore...

be cool, grasshopper...

I'm still smiling.

chain story

(This is for you - you know who you are...)


he flew to the moon, but no one cared.
he thought it might impress her,
but she looked away as he crashed back down to earth.
"ok, so what is the damn deal?!" he exclaimed with a fire upon his voice.
she shrugged, "don't take it personally, but I prefer the sun to the moon."
of curtains pink and white, she was the best dressed, and dressed to block out the sun she was...
however, the sun had stopped shinning and, in 8 minutes it was bound to be dark, the two left to fend off the darkness.
"to continue to be" was the motto and they could not be more ambitious to meet again.
the sun swallowed them up.

the end.