So Thanksgiving break is fast approaching, and I honestly cannot not wait.......... for it to be over. I like spending time with my family and whatnot, but they drive me insane, and I really don't like being around them for long periods of time, save my brother. But I have to go home, I have no other choice. Not only would my family chew me out for the rest of my natural life (yeah, they'd haunt me as ghosts), but my dorms are closing. So I'm going home. But I plan on spending as much time with my brother as humanly possible, even if I'm forced to have a headache from him pounding on suitcases pretending they're drums, and even if he has to kill me half a million times on James Bond video games. I love my brother, and I need to spend more time with him.
But there are some things I still want to do at home. Like have Thanksgiving at my grandparent's house. It's always been our tradition, and really it would be a shame to break it seeing as this is my first year away from home, and I'm still in the adjustment period (not really, but there's no better way to say it). That, and it gives me an excuse to see my grandma, something I really don't look forward to seeing as my grandma is a racist bitch. I know she's family and I should love her faults as well as the rest of her, but really all her faults do is make me want to tear my hair out and jump off a really tall building.
Also I have to spend time with my dad otherwise he'll go all psycho on me and guilt trip me until I cry. I'm serious, he's done that before. But I'm looking forward to the video games. I love me some video games. And that's all I can think to write.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Veganism 101
So... veganism. It's great. A lot of people are curious about it, and want to know more, but others view vegans as 'freaks', or sometimes, stupid, deprived, idiotic, and sometimes even..... egotistical. Do vegans think they're superior to omnivores? Well... it really depends on the vegan.
Some vegans do believe they are superior and will spout off all the good things that come from being vegan, and how much better it is than being an 'omni' and how awesome it is. Some of that is to persuade others to be vegan, but still others are doing it just to feel superior. Like the fact, "It's impossible to be a fat vegan." Veganism is a healthy choice, and it is indeed impossible to be a fat vegan, but that's because we don't eat as many fatty foods as omni's, such as... steak, chicken, pork, milk, cheese, eggs...
But some vegans actually are in it for the love of the animals, and not to feel superior, and most of those types of vegans don't. Factory farms are horrid things that torture animals before killing them and selling them in grocery stores. Such as chickens. In a factory farm, a chicken will lay one egg every 48 hours. That is not healthy. And when a chicken stops producing eggs, it's killed and sold in stores. And the meat isn't tough, because the chicken isn't old. And when the eggs are actually allowed to be fertilized, the ones that turn out to be roosters are thrown in dumpsters, half of the time still alive.
Really a vegan's mission is to convert omnis to veganism. They give out information, and literature, they recommend books, and movies, and will tell others about their choices, and the benefits, also how many animals they save on average just by not consuming animals and animal by-products.
So just to clear the air, some vegans do think they are superior to omnis, but those kinds of vegans are only a minority, and are vegan for health reasons. Most vegans genuinely love animals, and that is why they don't consume them, or their by-products. Not only are vegans not fat, but most of them are nice, energetic, funny people; normal, just like any omni.
Some vegans do believe they are superior and will spout off all the good things that come from being vegan, and how much better it is than being an 'omni' and how awesome it is. Some of that is to persuade others to be vegan, but still others are doing it just to feel superior. Like the fact, "It's impossible to be a fat vegan." Veganism is a healthy choice, and it is indeed impossible to be a fat vegan, but that's because we don't eat as many fatty foods as omni's, such as... steak, chicken, pork, milk, cheese, eggs...
But some vegans actually are in it for the love of the animals, and not to feel superior, and most of those types of vegans don't. Factory farms are horrid things that torture animals before killing them and selling them in grocery stores. Such as chickens. In a factory farm, a chicken will lay one egg every 48 hours. That is not healthy. And when a chicken stops producing eggs, it's killed and sold in stores. And the meat isn't tough, because the chicken isn't old. And when the eggs are actually allowed to be fertilized, the ones that turn out to be roosters are thrown in dumpsters, half of the time still alive.
Really a vegan's mission is to convert omnis to veganism. They give out information, and literature, they recommend books, and movies, and will tell others about their choices, and the benefits, also how many animals they save on average just by not consuming animals and animal by-products.
So just to clear the air, some vegans do think they are superior to omnis, but those kinds of vegans are only a minority, and are vegan for health reasons. Most vegans genuinely love animals, and that is why they don't consume them, or their by-products. Not only are vegans not fat, but most of them are nice, energetic, funny people; normal, just like any omni.
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