Being Somewhat Vegan
Thoughts on gainful diet hacking. First! Some food for thought:
Base current diet around the four food groups: fruit, veggies, grains, and legumes.
If humans mindlessly consume milk, why not also pig milk? Suck ’em dry before carving them up. Pancetta in a pig cream sauce with pig noodles (blend pig into slurry, form into noodles). And why stop at pig milk? I’m sure someone can milk a Kangaroo, and there’s lots of those. What would the dairy industry do? Fight the fluid “that’s for baby pigs, unlike milk”, or embrace it?
Baby cow food surprisingly easy to eliminate from my diet. Needless saturated fat, and a strong correlation to diseases I'd rather not suffer. Can get plenty of calcium from veggies and legumes.
Like triple certified coffee? Try triple certified beef!
- Sun grown in a clear cut field.
- Natural corn and antibiotic diet.
- Shipped thousands of miles before consumption.
I’m sure everyone will warm to this, given time. The resulting CO2 certainly has nothing better to do.
Eliminated red meat a while ago: hard to digest, fattening. Other meats more difficult to give up, as need a fair amount of protein due to excerise, and love occasional sushi. Meat consumption now somewhere in the zero to four ounce per week range? Meat spikes in an otherwise mostly vegan diet produce interesting reactions I need to study more.
For B12 and whatnot, take supplements. Wish vitamin makers would use less than +100,000% of the recommended allowances, as the excess just goes down the drain. Some food makers now offer fortified soy, rice, and ceral products that never top 40%. Prefer to get vitamins directly from natural foods, though on-the-job stress and limited foraging time can scuttle that goal.
Avoiding oxolate rich foods, like spinach. Plenty of other veggies out there that lack vitamin and mineral binding support.
Mostly vegan diet gives me more energy (biking again after giving that up for a few years, taken up rock climbing), and appears to grant better tolerance for cold weather. Downside: trouble sitting still for long periods of time. Especially when getting my hair cut.
Seattle great for vegetarians: plenty of suitable restaurants and food sources.