As my friends and family have been asking, yes, my blood pressure is now back in the normal range after yesterday's little post
We spent yesterday at the lake, nature does a body good I say. While there, hubby and I had a long detailed discussion about the TIME article, the books I have been reading, our health, the world...you know light fluffy stuff like that.
He has agreed that a change is needed...with a few conditions.
First a little background about me and mine.
I have been a full time vegetarian since my first son was born (23 years ago). Before that I had dabbled in vegetarianism on and off since grade school.
Note: you may think what kind of parents let their grade schooler decide to become vegetarian? Well we are members of a church that being vegetarian is the norm so it didn't freak my parents out like it would have many parents.
It began when I came home from school to see my favorite cow, that I fed daily over the neighbor's fence, was hanging upside down from a butcher's truck. I was hysterical...who could do such a thing? My dad asked what all the fuss was about, he wanted to know where in the world I thought my hamburger came from. This was my first realization that the food on my plate was actually from an animal...a living breathing animal. I was so sad, sad for the cow, and sad that I had eaten his relatives.
Anyway skip forward some years and I have just given birth to my first, I look at this tiny human and want what is the best in the world for him. I know in my heart that for me feeding him meat will not be an option. So all of my kids were raised this way. Unfortunately back then I didn't realize that the veggies I was so lovingly feeding my kids were sprayed with who knows what chemicals.
Yet another Note: During all this my hubby has not been vegetarian. I still cooked meat for him all these years. He eats our vegetarian dishes without complaint. I cooked him meat once in a while...usually without complaint.
When my second litter came along, vegetarian was a given, but now so was organic. I had come to read and learn about what our foods are subjected to. What our land and waterways are being subjected to with all of our fertilizers...and don't even get me started on growth hormones and antibiotics!
So here we are today...
I am up in arms over factory farms, manure pollution, genetic manipulation, animal welfare, cancer rates, heart disease, our government, obesity, big business...
All the while my sweet ever patient husband realizes that is is not in my personality to learn of these things and not to do something about them. He knows change is coming....
Well, he is right...
Note...again: I want you all to know that I don't make these decisions lightly and after MUCH research, in this case almost a year of research, reading and searching for facts, talking, digesting, and praying.
I have decided to go vegan.
Most might think that this is rather radical, but for me it is just the next logical step in my personal evolution.
Am I going to become the food police? No. Will freak out if I eat something with an egg in it? Nadda. Will I try to convert my friends and family? Nope. Will I try to convert you? Again no.
I am just letting you know for the sake of keeping it real around here on the funny farm...just another little tweak in my unconventional life.
Oh yeah...I mentioned that my hubby had conditions to all of this.
I am not to starve him to death...his exact words.
Yes sweet hubby I will always have food, good healthy, homemade, homegrown, food around for you to eat, you will not starve. I do not guarantee though that I won't try to slip a little tofu in now and then!
And no I'm not asking you to give up your ice cream...
There are some lines a smart wife knows not to cross!!!
So there you have it...me.
The crazy vegan woman with the camel.
Gizmo by the way has been vegan his whole life...
He has always been more evolved than me!
Yes I am a highly evolved, ultra sophisticated creature...please try to remember this would you?
Yes Gizmo...I will try to keep this in mind.
While we are talking...if you are so sophisticated, why do you poop everywhere, and never clean up after yourself?
Because you will.
There are some days that I wonder who runs this show...
It is obviously not you.
Shush...I wasn't asking you.
