alicia looks very plain without her makeup on. she must be eating bags of sugar to still have a chubby look and being a plant murderer.
I've never met a vegetarian who ate healthy. Ever. And seeing as how my job is part nutritional counselor, that's a lot of people.
Let's see... I have very limited feelings on animal rights... I don't believe that vegetarianism affects the environment... Hooray! I'm not a hypocrite! Gimme a steak!
My point exactly. Most vegetarians I know don't eat meat, but they eat tons of other garbage and their fat stores increase due to lack of protein.
Actually I never considered that. But, if vegetarians come off as defensive it is often because when you tell people that you don't eat meat, virtually EVERYONE wants to give you reasons why you're an idiot. I had a total stranger get ANGRY with me for not eating meat when all I did was order a veggie sandwich at Subway. I had people who where grossly overweight tell me that I was being unhealthy. I had people tell me that I was destroying the economy and that I probably was going to be anemic. I had religious people preach to me that God put cows on the earth for us to eat. I was asked, God only knows how many times, how I got protein in my diet. My relatives continued to pass meat to me at the dinner table and jokingly tell stories about slaughterhouses because they thought it was funny. I never ONCE told anyone they had to bend for me. If I got something that had meat in it, I ate around it. If I went to a dinner with very little for me to eat, I ate what I could and apologized for my not eating meat. I patiently explained to people that I got plenty of protein and was very careful about what I ate. When I had friends over, I made meat dishes for them so they didn't have to eat anything they didn't feel comfortable with. I bent over BACKWARD to make it easier on those who weren't vegetarians and I was still ridiculed for being difficult. It got really, REALLY tiresome.
The United States imports roughly 200 million pounds of beef from Central America every year. Aside from the fuel used in transport, grazing land is needed for all of these animals. Where does all that land come from in a densely forested region? The answer: from clear-cutting forests and rainforest A Smithsonian study estimates that the necessity for more grazing land means that every minute of every day, a land area equivalent to seven football fields is destroyed in the Amazon basin(1). For each hamburger that originated from animals raised on rainforest land, approximately 55 square feet of forest have been destroyed. And its not just the rainforest. In the United States, more than 260 million acres of forest have been clear-cut for animal agriculture (2). With increased per capita meat consumption, and an ever growing population, we can only expect to see more deforestation in the future. http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/forestclearcut.htm
My best friend is a Captain in the Marines and has been a vegetarian all his life...runs marathons and the like. Just saying you can be healthy and vegetarian or healthy and a meat eater. And judgemental jackasses come from both categories too. Why should it matter as long as the other side isn't forcing you to eat like them...nothing wrong pining for your own side since everybody does that about everything...just as long as you don't cross the line.
Sheesh. If people have trouble accepting that you don't eat meat, it doesn't bode well for our differences in politics, religion, sex, and race. Don't even get me started on sports teams. BTW, I just saw an episode of Wife Swap (I think that's the name), and there's this family that believes that everything God put on Earth is healthy for us. They live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, no big deal. But they don't shower, don't clean their house at all (they believe all the bacteria is good for us), brush their teeth w/ some homemade butter concoction, AND...get ready...they eat their meat RAW. Now I've had beef sashimi from a nice cut of meat. Here, they store raw beef for months and eat that as a snack. They eat raw chicken breast w/ minimum seasoning, just like you see in the grocery store except cut up in bite size pieces. It was crazy just watching them eat their dinner. And the whole family (kids included) kept going on and on how it's so healthy and that God wouldn't put it here on earth if it weren't good for us. I don't know how they made that leap, because as of the taping of the show they had only done this since a year before.
It was always surprising to me when I would be chastised by people I barely knew for my eating habits. I kept thinking, "Why the hell do you care what I eat? I don't care that you eat your weight in gravy and fried Twinkies, why should you care that I like vegetables and - GASP - tofu."
FORGET Silverstone naked....I wanna see Balke baring it all, that would be monumental !!! BALKE BARES ALL !!!!! DD
