My Facebook friend S'thabiso gives this topic a little bit of a different spin as she addresses: 5 questions you ask guaranteed to break the peace with any 'black' vegetarian If you have prior to reading this asked any of the below please kindly proceed to the nearest tree and hug it tightly and ask Zeus to advocate on your behalf for mother nature to forgive you - repeat this three times whiles doing a [...]
I was always taught to show love to animals, dogs, cats, cows, pigs, horses, etc. But never was I really challenged to think about the meat that was lying in front of me to eat. Meat was different than those cute animals we would see in someone’s yard or pasture. Or at least I thought. I made the decision to switch to being a vegetarian 12 years ago. Being born and raised in Texas it [...]
Growing up I was never the world’s greatest lover of animals. I liked dogs because they were fun and horses because well... Zorro, but most of the rest of the animal kingdom tended to inspire fear more than awe. I remember as a kid going to the Cape Town museum and having nightmares of blue whales eating me. Later I developed a slightly irrational fear of birds and monkeys… So it was quite a surprise [...]
I quite like animals. Not in a crazy, dress them up like humans and pretend they’re people kinda way, but I do like them. (Having said that, I definitely officiated at least one wedding between my dogs as a child.) But animals are great, and despite loving them [and praying that my dogs would go to heaven], I had no problem eating them. Only certain animals of course, like pigs and cows and chickens and [...]
i have a lot of good friends who are vegetarians. They are not a bunch of weirdos or hippies [as some non-vegetarians might presume] and for the most part if you met them as part of a group of people, you probably wouldn't be able to pick them out as vegetarians. They are normal people. Normal people who have made a very specific choice. i am not a vegetarian [at the time of writing this]. [...]
As you all know by now, Pearls Before Swine is my favourite comic strip and if you ever have some time to enrich, you can take a look at a whole bunch of the cartoons i have shared over here. And usually he is just random or clever or biting cynically silly fun, but every now and then he draws a strip which makes you stop and go, "Wo!" and maybe even think for a [...]
so one of my favourite funny people in life is a guy called Jack Handey who used to write one liners that were used on SNL such as: 'I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.' [Jack Handey] or: 'Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. [...]
so the beautiful val and i decided that we would join the rest of the planet (well, those doing it) and move meat-free thursdays to meat-free mondays and would like to invite you to do the same... why you ask? well a bunch of reasons - one is being aware of the impact that meat-eating has to the planet and that if everyone just took one day off eating it, the positive impact it would [...]
so last year sometime the beautiful Valerie and myself decided to take a day out of the week and make it meat-free - and so we chose a Thursday for reasons i can't remember [no that doesn't mean on Thursdays we run down the streets giving away packs of bacon to people altho i can't see how they wouldn't appreciate it - the people i mean, not the bacons] and we encouraged people in our [...]