This will be my last post here since I'm merging the Abolitionist Raven with my new blog Dissension.
I started Dissension a few months back as both a paper and e-zine. I've now decided to do away with the e-zine and turn it into a blog instead. And since animal rights and veganism is one of my main topics, I don't see a point in having a separate blog just for AR.
If you link to this blog please update your links to Dissension (http://dissension.arbent.net). Thank you!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Guest Blog by Reverence Lily - Resisting Temptation
The following is a post Reverence Lily wrote for her blog and decided not to use. She offered it to me and I thought it was too good not to see the light of day. So without further ado...
As you can see, the name of my blog has changed from The Element of Fun to Cherish Her: A Blog. I felt that the previous name didn't jive with the direction it was going in - which is, while interesting, not all that lighthearted. I'd originally planned for Cherish Her to be my self-owned clothing company... but I don't really have time for that right now, unfortunately. I had great designs, though.
I was pondering over the idea of "resisting temptation" and wondering why we do it - and furthermore, why giving in to temptation is considered bad. It could actually be bad, if you go by, "something that you want to do that you should not" as the definition of temptation. I have mixed feelings on that definition, myself, because while I could definitely see it being something bad, I can also see it being wildly glorified even while considered bad (and even actually harmful) because of its "rebellious" consequences - even if it's actually widely accepted, e.g. the pro-pornography mainstream.
But I was also pondering that phrase's relation to eating disorders. If you've been anywhere near a pro-anorexia (or even sometimes pro-dieting) site, you know the catchphrase, "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." Thus my strong reaction to it in the first post I made: No praise feels as good as healthy tastes!
There are two ways you can take "resisting temptation" as relating to eating disorders: first, if you are actively eating disordered at the moment, you will most likely relate it to your own experience as "needing" to resist food. (I find that even those with BED/COED have this little quirk. It's pretty much ingrained in us all, see last post.) If you are doing well in recovery, or actively resisting an eating disorder, you will take it as meaning that you need to avoid slipping into disordered eating.
Peculiar, that. On the other hand, it's not so peculiar at all - after all, eating disorders really do change your entire worldview and personality. That, in an eating disordered mind, "resisting temptation" would mean resisting food - and all needs, a moral matter rather than a matter of essential mental health - is not surprising in the least to me.
That is because women's needs are a moral matter in at least Western society. While men run into fatphobia occasionally, it's women who see the idea, glaringly reflected on the smooth, flawless stone surface of Patriarchy, that their needs - for food, sex, security (both emotional and physical) and every other kind of need they may have - are not only suspect, they are automatically condemned until proven to serve the needs/desires of anyone but themselves - usually men's needs/desires (as long as they, too, are Patriarchy-approved).
Women see food as a moral matter because how women feed themselves is seen as a moral matter in society. Though expertly documented in The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams around, well, the sexual and sexualized politics of animal flesh, I'll be broader: there are foods that are seen as feminine and there are foods that are seen as masculine and, while the former are largely nourishing and do not cause disease (fruits, vegetables), they are considered "inferior" because of the lack of what I believe to be one of the primary defining characteristics of Western society's neurosis surrounding food: it doesn't cause pain - and as such it doesn't grant the illusion of power to the consumer.
Now, we have all been brought up to believe that, first, having power over someone means possessing the ability to cause them varying degrees of pain (that correlate with varying degrees of the power granted) - rather than, say, possessing the ability to make someone happy or make them laugh.* Women are, also largely, considered to be unfit to wield power - either because they are unfit (see the recent lies and distortions about Hillary's choke-up on TV) or because they would be even worse than men if they had it (see female-dominated S&M pornography).
This, I think, is where feminists decide to part ways with what I see as being a necessary component of an anti-oppression worldview: support and practice of abolitionist animal rights, i.e. veganism. (This also happens because of their unwillingness to make themselves even moreso targets than simply being radical feminists, which I understand but in no way condone.) Because animal flesh is one of the world's largest sources of calories (though not in any way nutrients) and women have historically been barred from it in times of famine so that the men could take it. Nonvegan feminists therefore think - incorrectly - that the way to solve the sexism in this matter is to make animal flesh freely available for women and children. What they do not realize, of course, is that accepting animal flesh, eggs and dairy as a necessary component of a diet means accepting violence as a necessary component of a human's life and accepting the idea that the only way one can live a "good" life is through ruling over another - etc. (You see the further slippery slope, of course - as I personally believe sexism racism et al. began.)
As such - because pain is power and calorie-dense food is (often) pain is power and women cannot wield power i.e. pain i.e. food and women's survival is food is pain is power - women's desires become a moral matter. (Sorry if that didn't make any sense.)
When women wish to refuse to take part in this absurd dictate, they become anorectics. When women wish at once to prove the system wrong and also to drown it out, they become binge eaters (/purgers, perhaps). And the only reason this is at all possible is because we place a moral judgment upon the size of someone's body.
Delving more into the animal rights aspect of Feminism, I think that, because animals are supposed to be as big as possible to be as valuable as possible - and because women, instead of refusing to allow both themselves and animals to be defined in a Patriarchal hierarchy in which they are always the losers, have historically tried to distance themselves from nonhuman animals - women went the other direction in order to attempt achieving equality and made themselves as small as possible. This just so happened to produce a "societal opiate" effect that was rather pleasing to those in power, so it was continued. (Have you ever noticed how the obesity scare tactics revved up right when Bush got into power and we needed to be distracted?)
In order to abolish Patriarchy - what I see as the essential cause of all oppressions - we need to stop pushing each other down in order to raise ourselves up and begin "floating all boats", so to speak.
We need to stop saying, "comparing women to animals is insulting" and start saying "you're a bigot for thinking ill of women and animals." We need to stop trying to free ourselves from our bodies. And, perhaps above all, we need to change "power = pain" into "power = love".
*Side-note: as such, in a Patriarchal world, no matter how much a woman may "make" a man want to have sex with her, he will still have the advantage/privilege of power over her because he not only has the inherent and socially-taught ability to make her feel overwhelming mental and physical pain, but that ability of his, if use, will usually be socially accepted as long as he doesn't leave many visible marks.
As you can see, the name of my blog has changed from The Element of Fun to Cherish Her: A Blog. I felt that the previous name didn't jive with the direction it was going in - which is, while interesting, not all that lighthearted. I'd originally planned for Cherish Her to be my self-owned clothing company... but I don't really have time for that right now, unfortunately. I had great designs, though.
I was pondering over the idea of "resisting temptation" and wondering why we do it - and furthermore, why giving in to temptation is considered bad. It could actually be bad, if you go by, "something that you want to do that you should not" as the definition of temptation. I have mixed feelings on that definition, myself, because while I could definitely see it being something bad, I can also see it being wildly glorified even while considered bad (and even actually harmful) because of its "rebellious" consequences - even if it's actually widely accepted, e.g. the pro-pornography mainstream.
But I was also pondering that phrase's relation to eating disorders. If you've been anywhere near a pro-anorexia (or even sometimes pro-dieting) site, you know the catchphrase, "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." Thus my strong reaction to it in the first post I made: No praise feels as good as healthy tastes!
There are two ways you can take "resisting temptation" as relating to eating disorders: first, if you are actively eating disordered at the moment, you will most likely relate it to your own experience as "needing" to resist food. (I find that even those with BED/COED have this little quirk. It's pretty much ingrained in us all, see last post.) If you are doing well in recovery, or actively resisting an eating disorder, you will take it as meaning that you need to avoid slipping into disordered eating.
Peculiar, that. On the other hand, it's not so peculiar at all - after all, eating disorders really do change your entire worldview and personality. That, in an eating disordered mind, "resisting temptation" would mean resisting food - and all needs, a moral matter rather than a matter of essential mental health - is not surprising in the least to me.
That is because women's needs are a moral matter in at least Western society. While men run into fatphobia occasionally, it's women who see the idea, glaringly reflected on the smooth, flawless stone surface of Patriarchy, that their needs - for food, sex, security (both emotional and physical) and every other kind of need they may have - are not only suspect, they are automatically condemned until proven to serve the needs/desires of anyone but themselves - usually men's needs/desires (as long as they, too, are Patriarchy-approved).
Women see food as a moral matter because how women feed themselves is seen as a moral matter in society. Though expertly documented in The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams around, well, the sexual and sexualized politics of animal flesh, I'll be broader: there are foods that are seen as feminine and there are foods that are seen as masculine and, while the former are largely nourishing and do not cause disease (fruits, vegetables), they are considered "inferior" because of the lack of what I believe to be one of the primary defining characteristics of Western society's neurosis surrounding food: it doesn't cause pain - and as such it doesn't grant the illusion of power to the consumer.
Now, we have all been brought up to believe that, first, having power over someone means possessing the ability to cause them varying degrees of pain (that correlate with varying degrees of the power granted) - rather than, say, possessing the ability to make someone happy or make them laugh.* Women are, also largely, considered to be unfit to wield power - either because they are unfit (see the recent lies and distortions about Hillary's choke-up on TV) or because they would be even worse than men if they had it (see female-dominated S&M pornography).
This, I think, is where feminists decide to part ways with what I see as being a necessary component of an anti-oppression worldview: support and practice of abolitionist animal rights, i.e. veganism. (This also happens because of their unwillingness to make themselves even moreso targets than simply being radical feminists, which I understand but in no way condone.) Because animal flesh is one of the world's largest sources of calories (though not in any way nutrients) and women have historically been barred from it in times of famine so that the men could take it. Nonvegan feminists therefore think - incorrectly - that the way to solve the sexism in this matter is to make animal flesh freely available for women and children. What they do not realize, of course, is that accepting animal flesh, eggs and dairy as a necessary component of a diet means accepting violence as a necessary component of a human's life and accepting the idea that the only way one can live a "good" life is through ruling over another - etc. (You see the further slippery slope, of course - as I personally believe sexism racism et al. began.)
As such - because pain is power and calorie-dense food is (often) pain is power and women cannot wield power i.e. pain i.e. food and women's survival is food is pain is power - women's desires become a moral matter. (Sorry if that didn't make any sense.)
When women wish to refuse to take part in this absurd dictate, they become anorectics. When women wish at once to prove the system wrong and also to drown it out, they become binge eaters (/purgers, perhaps). And the only reason this is at all possible is because we place a moral judgment upon the size of someone's body.
Delving more into the animal rights aspect of Feminism, I think that, because animals are supposed to be as big as possible to be as valuable as possible - and because women, instead of refusing to allow both themselves and animals to be defined in a Patriarchal hierarchy in which they are always the losers, have historically tried to distance themselves from nonhuman animals - women went the other direction in order to attempt achieving equality and made themselves as small as possible. This just so happened to produce a "societal opiate" effect that was rather pleasing to those in power, so it was continued. (Have you ever noticed how the obesity scare tactics revved up right when Bush got into power and we needed to be distracted?)
In order to abolish Patriarchy - what I see as the essential cause of all oppressions - we need to stop pushing each other down in order to raise ourselves up and begin "floating all boats", so to speak.
We need to stop saying, "comparing women to animals is insulting" and start saying "you're a bigot for thinking ill of women and animals." We need to stop trying to free ourselves from our bodies. And, perhaps above all, we need to change "power = pain" into "power = love".
*Side-note: as such, in a Patriarchal world, no matter how much a woman may "make" a man want to have sex with her, he will still have the advantage/privilege of power over her because he not only has the inherent and socially-taught ability to make her feel overwhelming mental and physical pain, but that ability of his, if use, will usually be socially accepted as long as he doesn't leave many visible marks.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Hooked on VwaV
I don't think I've ever made this many recipes out of any cookbook I've ever owned, and I've only had Vegan with a Vengeance for a couple of weeks!!
Yesterday started with the Coconut Pancakes with Pineapple Sauce. They were really good but I prefer the regular pancakes (which I had for breakfast this morning). These were a bit too sweet and rich for my first meal of the day. Maybe a half recipe as a decadent snack or dessert sometime, but definitely not a breakfast food for me.
And for dinner last night we had the Maple Mustard Glazed Potatoes (minus the string beans because we didn't have any). They were amazing!! Sweet and tangy but not overwhelming. However, mine were Agave Mustard Glazed Potatoes since I also didn't have any maple syrup. Still and awesome dish!
And the Mushroom and Sun Dried Tomato Risotto. However, mine wasn't risotto since I didn't have the right kind of rice (I never have all of the correct ingredients to make a recipe but they're so versatile it never matters!!) so I had a pilaf using a mixture of jasmine rice, brown rice and whole wheat orzo. It was really good but a bit too salty. I knew that my veggie broth is a bit saltier than others so I omitted the salt that the recipe called for all together. However, the sun dried tomatoes were pretty salty as well. Next time I'll cut the broth with more water. Other than it being a bit on the salty side, it was really good.
And for desert I tried to make the Crispy Peanut Butter Cookies but they didn't turn out at all. After cooking them for half an hour (the recipe calls for 13 minutes) they were still the same consistency as before they started baking. I thought that this was just another high altitude disaster (I live at 6300 ft and baking is often a nightmare), then I learned that this recipe doesn't turn out for anyone. I wish I had discovered that fact before attempting to make them.
Yesterday started with the Coconut Pancakes with Pineapple Sauce. They were really good but I prefer the regular pancakes (which I had for breakfast this morning). These were a bit too sweet and rich for my first meal of the day. Maybe a half recipe as a decadent snack or dessert sometime, but definitely not a breakfast food for me.
And for dinner last night we had the Maple Mustard Glazed Potatoes (minus the string beans because we didn't have any). They were amazing!! Sweet and tangy but not overwhelming. However, mine were Agave Mustard Glazed Potatoes since I also didn't have any maple syrup. Still and awesome dish!
And the Mushroom and Sun Dried Tomato Risotto. However, mine wasn't risotto since I didn't have the right kind of rice (I never have all of the correct ingredients to make a recipe but they're so versatile it never matters!!) so I had a pilaf using a mixture of jasmine rice, brown rice and whole wheat orzo. It was really good but a bit too salty. I knew that my veggie broth is a bit saltier than others so I omitted the salt that the recipe called for all together. However, the sun dried tomatoes were pretty salty as well. Next time I'll cut the broth with more water. Other than it being a bit on the salty side, it was really good.And for desert I tried to make the Crispy Peanut Butter Cookies but they didn't turn out at all. After cooking them for half an hour (the recipe calls for 13 minutes) they were still the same consistency as before they started baking. I thought that this was just another high altitude disaster (I live at 6300 ft and baking is often a nightmare), then I learned that this recipe doesn't turn out for anyone. I wish I had discovered that fact before attempting to make them.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
How is Mike Huckabee a Front Runner?!?!?!?!
Dig a bit into this guy and you'll find he's a piece of work. I was so surprised when he suddenly became a front runner, I thought for sure people would see him for the fundamentalist psychopath he really is. I guess that southern preacher charm is working. Here's who is really is.
Gay marriage will end civilization as we know it and people with HIV/AIDS need to be removed from the general population.
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."
He pushed for the release of a serial rapist, who immediately raped and killed another woman upon release.
"It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations—from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia." - So according to Huckabee, homosexuality and sadomasochism is the same as pedophilia and necrophilia (and the last two are also publicly endorsed and institutionally supported?!?).
"I think if a doctor knowingly took the life of an unborn child for money, and that's why he was doing it, yeah, I think you would, you would find some way to sanction that doctor...I think you don't punish the woman, first of all, because it's not about ... I consider her a victim, not a criminal." - so all abortion doctors are men and women need to be protected from abortions? Cause, you know, all women are just cute little things who can't make decisions for themselves.
And for all of the hating that he does on abortion and stem cell research, he took money from stem cell and emergency contraception groups.
Bragging about how he used to fry squirrels in a popcorn popper.
He covered for his son when he hung a stray dog from a tree, slit it's throat then stoned it while it died
Gay marriage will end civilization as we know it and people with HIV/AIDS need to be removed from the general population.
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."
He pushed for the release of a serial rapist, who immediately raped and killed another woman upon release.
"It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations—from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia." - So according to Huckabee, homosexuality and sadomasochism is the same as pedophilia and necrophilia (and the last two are also publicly endorsed and institutionally supported?!?).
"I think if a doctor knowingly took the life of an unborn child for money, and that's why he was doing it, yeah, I think you would, you would find some way to sanction that doctor...I think you don't punish the woman, first of all, because it's not about ... I consider her a victim, not a criminal." - so all abortion doctors are men and women need to be protected from abortions? Cause, you know, all women are just cute little things who can't make decisions for themselves.
And for all of the hating that he does on abortion and stem cell research, he took money from stem cell and emergency contraception groups.
Bragging about how he used to fry squirrels in a popcorn popper.
He covered for his son when he hung a stray dog from a tree, slit it's throat then stoned it while it died
More VwaV
I have to say, this is the best cookbook I've ever bought (though I did order Dino's Alternative Vegan today and have a feeling it will be just as good). We've been using it like mad ever since we got it in. We've made pancakes numerous times, though I haven't taken a photo yet (they look like pancakes, not much to see lol).
Fettuccine Alfreda. While it was good, it was my least favorite so far. I prefer a lighter sauce and even thinned it out a bit with some rice milk but it was still really heavy.
Tofu Dill Salad (minus the sammiches) - We've had this a couple of times now, both times on salad. I really want to try it as a sammich but we haven't had any sammich bread and I would also like to get some sweet relish for the sammiches. A really good recipe, though I did almost double the amount of mustard and vegannaise and added chopped pickles. I love it as a salad topping, and no need for dressing at all. Shown here over red leaf lettuce tossed with slivered almonds.
Fettuccine Alfreda. While it was good, it was my least favorite so far. I prefer a lighter sauce and even thinned it out a bit with some rice milk but it was still really heavy.
Tofu Dill Salad (minus the sammiches) - We've had this a couple of times now, both times on salad. I really want to try it as a sammich but we haven't had any sammich bread and I would also like to get some sweet relish for the sammiches. A really good recipe, though I did almost double the amount of mustard and vegannaise and added chopped pickles. I love it as a salad topping, and no need for dressing at all. Shown here over red leaf lettuce tossed with slivered almonds.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff
I made the Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff from Vegan with a Vengeance tonight and it was wonderful! I halved the recipe since there's only two of us and we still had enough for two meals! I also didn't have any wine so I just subbed veggie broth instead and I realized halfway through that I didn't have the wide noodles that I thought but instead had spaghetti type noodles. None of this made any difference, this was stroganoff like I remember!!
Friday, January 4, 2008
Veganism, Anarchy, Environmentalism, Feminism - The Connection
This is an article from the first issue of my new zine, Dissension. I won't generally be posting zine articles but this one says so much about my beliefs in these areas that I thought it was an important one to put online.
I'm vegan for a number of reasons, the main one being that I don't believe animals deserve to be held captive, tortured and/or killed anymore than I believe humans do. Animals are sentient beings who experience fear and feel pain just as real as any human. After all, humans are merely animals.
As a feminist who fights for women's rights, as a bisexual in support of queer rights, as a proponent of civil rights and as an anarchist who doesn't believe in any kind of hierarchy, I feel that supporting animal rights is perfectly in line with my other beliefs.
How can I be against the exploitation and commodification of women if I support the exploitation and commodification of animals? Especially when it's the female animas who are most often tortured. Female egg laying hens have their beaks seared off (even those labeled free range) and are put into tiny cages stacked on top of each other, forced to live in the waste of those above them. Dairy cows are forcefully inseminated at a place that the factory farm workers have "playfully" nicknamed the "rape rack". They give birth, only to have their baby taken away from them to eventually become veal an dare hooked up to machines which cause large and painful sores until her milk slows and the entire process is repeated. When both chickens and cows are considered "used up", meaning they're too old to produce eggs or milk anymore, they're killed. For these reason, among others, I believe that the animal industries are very much a patriarchal institution. This is why, in my opinion, feminism and animal rights go hand in hand.
I'm an environmentalist. I feel that humans have done so much damage to the Earth that at this point, it may be beyond repair. Animal agriculture is one of the largest causes for pollution in the world. *It is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent (more than transportation), and 64% of of anthropogenic ammonia emissions. It is also one of the largest sectoral source of water pollution, contributing to eutrophication, “dead” zones in coastal areas, degradation of coral reefs, human health problems, emergence of antibiotic resistance and many others. The major sources of pollution are from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feedcrops, and sediments from eroded pastures.*
*From Vegan Outreach
I'm an anarchist and don't believe in any kind of hierarchy. How could I say, without hypocrisy, that I don't believe there should be hierarchies among humans but it's just a fact that human animals are above non-human animals? I know that people have their reasons why they believe that animals are inferior to humans but every group who has ever tried to oppress another had their justifications for it. The fact is that animals have ways of communicating with each other, they share relationships and familial bonds, experience grief and fear, and feel pain when they are harmed. Knowing all of these things, I see no proof that non-human animals are lesser beings than human animals.
I'm vegan for a number of reasons, the main one being that I don't believe animals deserve to be held captive, tortured and/or killed anymore than I believe humans do. Animals are sentient beings who experience fear and feel pain just as real as any human. After all, humans are merely animals.
As a feminist who fights for women's rights, as a bisexual in support of queer rights, as a proponent of civil rights and as an anarchist who doesn't believe in any kind of hierarchy, I feel that supporting animal rights is perfectly in line with my other beliefs.
How can I be against the exploitation and commodification of women if I support the exploitation and commodification of animals? Especially when it's the female animas who are most often tortured. Female egg laying hens have their beaks seared off (even those labeled free range) and are put into tiny cages stacked on top of each other, forced to live in the waste of those above them. Dairy cows are forcefully inseminated at a place that the factory farm workers have "playfully" nicknamed the "rape rack". They give birth, only to have their baby taken away from them to eventually become veal an dare hooked up to machines which cause large and painful sores until her milk slows and the entire process is repeated. When both chickens and cows are considered "used up", meaning they're too old to produce eggs or milk anymore, they're killed. For these reason, among others, I believe that the animal industries are very much a patriarchal institution. This is why, in my opinion, feminism and animal rights go hand in hand.
I'm an environmentalist. I feel that humans have done so much damage to the Earth that at this point, it may be beyond repair. Animal agriculture is one of the largest causes for pollution in the world. *It is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent (more than transportation), and 64% of of anthropogenic ammonia emissions. It is also one of the largest sectoral source of water pollution, contributing to eutrophication, “dead” zones in coastal areas, degradation of coral reefs, human health problems, emergence of antibiotic resistance and many others. The major sources of pollution are from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feedcrops, and sediments from eroded pastures.*
*From Vegan Outreach
I'm an anarchist and don't believe in any kind of hierarchy. How could I say, without hypocrisy, that I don't believe there should be hierarchies among humans but it's just a fact that human animals are above non-human animals? I know that people have their reasons why they believe that animals are inferior to humans but every group who has ever tried to oppress another had their justifications for it. The fact is that animals have ways of communicating with each other, they share relationships and familial bonds, experience grief and fear, and feel pain when they are harmed. Knowing all of these things, I see no proof that non-human animals are lesser beings than human animals.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Fuck Middle America!
I got home yesterday from a week vacation visiting my family in the bootheel of Missouri. First, we had the drive there, 1200 miles through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. Seeing nothing but pasture after pasture of cows, knowing that they were destined to become a meal on someone's place. We took food with us so we didn't have to worry about eating on the trip there. However, once we got there and that food started to run out, we started to have major problems. The only grocery stores within a 100 mile radius was either Wal-Mart or Kroger. Obviously, Wal-Mart was out so Kroger it was. They had a handful of organic veggies and other than that it was overly processed, accidentally vegan foods. My body was so craving some good, healthy food by the end of the week and we still had the trip home to make. Over the course of the 2 day drive home, the only places we had to eat were Subways. We ate a total of 3 times in two days and every time it was Subway. I was so glad to be home and eat some nice, organic veggies.
I feel so sorry for vegans who have to live in this situation. No organic veggies, no bulk bins for beans, cereals, etc. You're just stuck with limp conventional veggies and processed name brand foods that just happen to be vegan. My hat's off to you!
I feel so sorry for vegans who have to live in this situation. No organic veggies, no bulk bins for beans, cereals, etc. You're just stuck with limp conventional veggies and processed name brand foods that just happen to be vegan. My hat's off to you!
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