Posted in Animal Rights on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m all for getting the word out, and stopping torturing testing on animals, but this is just not the way to go about it.
“Animal rights extremists target UCLA researcher in arson attack
By Andrew Blankstein
November 29, 2008
The activists had the wrong address, police say. The Palms-area attack destroyed one car and damaged two more, but none [...]
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I was having a conversation with one of my many bosses, and being vegetarian came up. He mentioned that some of his friends were vegan, and he said they had to do quite a bit of planning to be sure they got all the nutrients they needed. So I went online to research this for [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on November 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well. The Thanksgiving weekend could not have gotten off to a worse start. Of all the bad things to happen, we hit a deer driving up the expressway. No one was hurt (at least in our car) and the deer had less then a second of suffering (I believe), but it was pretty awful, and [...]
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So stopped at Barnes & Noble on my way home from work today. I wanted to get some stuff to read for the weekend up in Da U.P., eh? I’m not sure if the lady was really giving me a funny look, or if I just perceived it, but when she asked me if I [...]
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So if you’re wondering what made a crazy gun nut turn vegan, it’s been a pretty quick journey. Here’s what kicked it off.
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/30days/episodeguide.php#
<Click on Episode 3>
We enjoy most of the 30 days shows when we get to catch them, and I got the PETA email telling me to keep an eye out for this one.
So [...]
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Posted in Animal Rights, Gun Rights on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a link to an article on hunting, starts off talking about how dangerous driving on opening day is.
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/11/hunting_contrib.php
Here’s my comment that is currently being held for approval, we’ll see if they accept comments from people with slightly different views than theirs:
I’m sorry, I’m with you on anti-hunting, and I personally do my best to [...]
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Posted in Eating on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One thing we have noticed is that by and large, our families just don’t get it. We tell them why we don’t eat animal products (don’t want to support animal torture) and usually the first thing out of their mouth is “what about fish?” Um, yea, so fish, birds, cows, pigs, animals. It’s not fair [...]
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Posted in Eating on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So part of what I’m hoping to put up here are my meals. Keeping pretty vegan is pretty tough most of the time, esp if you are new to the idea. So I’ll post up the hits and misses of what I am able to gather…
Today was a big hit. I had Black Bean Vegetable [...]
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So with Thanksgiving right around the corner, that means two things: hunting and eating. Both present some big challenges to me and my family.
Hunting is something that I started doing when I was 12, though I never really got into it until last year. I planed a big hunting trip had people flying into Michigan [...]
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