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Murder most fowl
Published: 10/31/2011 2:04 PM
Last Modified: 10/31/2011 2:04 PM


Future chicken tenders.

I'm toying with the idea of becoming a vegetarian.

By "toying," I mean I've thought about very briefly -- like, nano-level brief -- while eating meat. Most recently, it was while having a steak Sunday night at Lubbock's parents' house. Seriously, they raise their own cattle and, blah, blah, blah have some FABULOUS steaks.

But it's the "blah, blah, blah" that's given me pause lately. I haven't seriously debated going meatless since 1999 or 2000, when PETA sent me some fur-lined panties and a card of Jesus slitting a cow's throat (perhaps not on the same day, as I think one was for Christmas, the other for Easter).

Until I met Lub, I was only having steak twice a year. Love it, and I'd miss it, but I figured I could live without red meat. It's chicken and fish I'd have a big problem nixing from my diet.

To be honest, I plug my ears and go "la-la-la-la-la" when people start talking about how cows are slaughtered and chickens are ... Strangled? They wring their necks, don't they?

It would seem so much more humane, relatively speaking, if they could slip each cow or chicken a mickey so they'd just nod off and wake up in that big farm house in the sky. Still, the animal rights groups would argue it's murder, so I reckon that wouldn't really polish my karma.

Originally, this sentence began, "I'm thinking of swearing off all meat now through Thanksgiving," but that won't happen. I can swear off red meat, and I might be able to nix the chicken; but I can't go without fish at least twice a week. Or can I? Have you ever attempted a vegetarian diet?

If you have an AWESOME, tasty recipe for a vegetarian dish, please share -- I'm happy to try it while I contemplate a life change.

Peace, love and fowl play ... XOXO

P.S.: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!


Reader Comments 1 Total
stacey4gop (last year)
You could just eat desserts until Thanksgiving......heehee I have veggie recipes on my blog, What's Cookin, check it out! I went to Adventist Schools and their veggie food is to die for! Just sayin....
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