5 Reasons Why Vegetarianism is Awesome!

Okay, if you’ve been following along for the last couple of months you know I’ve tried my hand at eating right and detoxing here and there. I’ve tried E-3 (which is live algae if I’m not mistaken), a regimen of Echinacea, probiotics and goldenseal; colonics and even a strikingly short stint in veganism. I’ve been to acupuncture, meditated on my buried feelings of latent childhood feelings of inadequacy which may have been making me sick, and I’ve done ungodly things with garlic that would make Jenna Jameson blush, all in the pursuit of health.

All of these ended horribly, or just ended. None of them granted me with a sense of clean. Now when I say clean I’m imagining a smiling, bald white guy with an earring that hints..San Francisco Bear? In any case all of these efforts fell flat because I wasn’t ready to commit. It just wasn’t my time or they just didn’t work and they led me to the next fad, but I have seen the light. I’ve been saved from a life of toxicity. I’ve become a pseudo-vegetarian.

Now I say pseudo, because I eat fish and dairy, but it’s still vegetarian because I don’t poultry, pork or beef. If it bleeds, it’s safe to say I don’t eat it and it’s gone surprisingly well. I’ve tried, in the past, to kick my addiction to meat, but hearing my mother recount the gruesome details of a PETA video strengthened my resolve and I haven’t touched the stuff for months.

So if you’re thinking about it here are a few reasons why vegetarianism is awesome!

1. You eat better food. Now that I can’t go pick up an extra value meal whenever I’m pressed for time or don’t want to cook (which is often) I’m forced to be creative. I eat delicious salads with sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese, squash and red pepper soups. My meals are infinitely more delicious now than they had been.
2. The Soul as well as the body is clean. I’ve heard that Hare Krishnas believe that the food you eat absorbs the energy from the way it was prepared (I could be wrong). So, if you eat meat you eat the fear and rage of the dying animal the flesh came from. Not so good for the body or spirit.
3. You’re no longer a hypocrite. I always wondered if I would be able to kill a cow to make my steak if grocery stores decided not to present it to me all sterilized in the refrigerated section. I pretty much figured that I couldn’t do it because I would feel for the animal and I like animals. Eating the burger felt like hypocrisy. No such dilemmas anymore.
4. The health benefits are great. I’ve noticed a marked difference in my body. Issues that I had been having in the past have all but disappeared. It’s the best thing I could have done for myself. I really believe that the hormones that had been put into the meat had been throwing off my own and causing all kinds of havoc.
5. It’s better for the environment. One reason vegetables are more expensive than meat is because all the farmland for vegetables is being used for raising cows, or chickens, or whatever, and the land that’s not is being used to grow corn to feed the cows, chickens and whatever. There’s also research that says that the energy put into raising beef and fowl far exceeds the caloric energy that’s being produced.

I may have more reasons to come and I may wean myself from the fish, but we’ll see. Right now I’m feeeeeling good.

Let's see how the family reacts at Thanksgiving.