Cucumber salad for breakfast. Going on a month long vegetarian diet with Hao. Apparently, it's more "healthier" says the doc.This whole vegan diet talk began when I made Hao and Xiao watch The Cove (Oscar winner for sure) with me. It's basically a documentary about the lucrative dolphin capturing and killing business going on in a small town in Japan. About 23,000 dolphins are captured each year to be sold to Sea Worlds and aquariums. The dolphins that don't get selected and bought are slaughtered for their meat. The meat is then disguised as high quality whale meat and sold at markets in Japan. This wouldn't be much of a problem except dolphin meat often contains high level of mercury; and mercury is poisonous, and the Japanese government has allowed all this to happen. The fishermen explain that they need to slaughter these dolphins because they are eating up all the fish and world's fish population is decreasing at a drastic rate. At this rate, it's estimated that the fish market will crash in 40 years due to lack of supply. To make a long story short, I told Hao I would do my part and eat less seafood. Being the discordant guy that he is, Hao says why don't you also eat less meat and help the bovine population.
Foolish or not, I'm hoping this vegan diet will at least help me see just how hard it is to be vegan in this meat-infested world.
Deborah C: and vegetable protein isnt that good
Deborah C: high cholesterol
Deborah C: and youll get manboobs
Deborah C: from tofu
Deborah C: i read it in menshealth
A good article about the decline of fish in the world.
