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No Meat – Aug 27

Ez0r — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:17:29 +0000

It’s the middle of the week at burning man. There’s beef jerky everywhere but I don’t really crave it. Maybe due to the lack of smell. I’m eating well thanks to the RV and the delicious Indian cuisine I grabbed from the local trader joes. Eating their spicy punjab choley I find it easy to be a vegetarian.

I’m still thinking about the upcoming months and what to give up for the upcoming ones. Next on the list is going to give up all forms of deception. I think one of these months I’m going to give up procrastination but, ironically, I’m going to put that one off for a little while

No Meat – Aug 24

Ez0r — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:16:50 +0000

Being a vegetarian isn’t that hard… That is until everyone I’m traveling to burning man with gets a breakfast dish with some form of delicious smelling pork. The driver, got an extra side of bacon and wolfed that down too. Very hard to say no to but I did. Definitely the most temptation so far. I continue telling myself that the plate of bacon I’ll have in a week is going to taste that much better now. Helps a little but that smell is almost too sweet to pass up.

Another definite increase in suck factor

No Meat – Aug 18

Ez0r — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:10:59 +0000

I’m not sure what I’m going to give up for the remaining months but I’m pretty sure I know what next month is going to be: lying. Lying, though, is only one form of deception so the way that I’m going to word it is to give up all forms of deceit including white lies, leaving out parts of the truth in order to give another impression and, of course, straight out non-truths. I do wonder though if I should make it retroactive. Should I HAVE to be truthful about EVERYTHING I’ve ever done? I’ve definitely told a few white lies in my day and even a few bold face, whopping lies but I seriously think it will be detrimental to my safety and well being if I make this one retroactive. We’ll see about that aspect of it.

No Meat – Aug 15

Ez0r — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:08:33 +0000

My roommate is having a BBQ and it smells amazing. There are chicken legs and sausage and I’m cranky that I can’t eat anything. I’m going to go to the grocery store to get some beer and veggies to grill up. I get some asparagus, some zuccini, some corn and shitake mushrooms. I put some balsamic vinegar on the mushrooms and throw them on the Q. I do the same with the asparagus and zuccini. The mushrooms turn out pretty good and I wonder how healthy it is to eat almost a pound of them in one sitting… I eat some asparagus and zuccini which are good but probably only because I was famished. There is another BBQ on the 17th and I’m hoping it gets easier to turn down tasty foodicles.

Definite suck factor points now!

No Meat – Aug 10

Ez0r — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:07:04 +0000

Why would I be more gassy w/o meat than with meat? I would think that the opposite would be true. And it’s not normal gas. It’s nuclear. Sorry friends!

No Meat – Aug 9

Ez0r — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:05:51 +0000

LA is a city that really cares about vegetarians. Las Vegas? Not so much. I’m at the Hard Rock Cafe and there are only 2 dishes that don’t have meat: the nachos and the quesadillas. I wonder how many nachos and quesadillas I will eat this month…

No Meat – Aug 5

Ez0r — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:56:49 +0000

Unlike last month, my dreams aren’t filled with euphoric scenes of me eating every kind of meat imaginable. I don’t think that I’ll dream about eating a burger at all this month.

I find that though I’m available to drink or do other things I find myself not really craving intoxication. I’m still really enjoying my normal thoughts and riding the small manageable waves of life instead of the large life altering waves induced by exotic substances.

No Meat – Initial thoughts

Ez0r — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:25:22 +0000

Initial thoughts: no sweat, I don’t eat that much meat anyways

I’ve never been a full vegetarian before and if left to my own devices my diet is usually about 80% veggies and 20% meat. I tend to eat meat when only when it’s more convenient or if I have a monster craving for some skunky taco truck tacos. Don’t get me wrong, I love dirty tacos al pastor that are hot enough to melt a hole through your digestive track but I’ve seen some of the peta videos on meat and am generally grossed out by the whole meat industry. It would be one thing if all the meat we ate was raised on a farm but as it is the meat we eat come from animals who live in squalor, are fed ‘food’ that they would never eat in nature and are so sick and pumped full of hormones that it really makes me wonder if we should be having such a meat centric diet. My heart tells me this, try not to eat very much meat but if you do, eat meat from a good source and even if it’s not from a good source, enjoy it; something had to die for your sustenance. To sum up my beliefs on meat in one word I would call it this: lazytarian.

This month, I will convert from a lazytarian to a full vegetarian who sometimes partakes in seafood (also known as a pescetarian). I suppose I could give up that too but a little bit of shrimp here and there doesn’t really count anyways right?