Vegan challenge

Awkward/most unimpressive #1

 Nice fleece #1

Two perfect examples of what I was like as a teenager. (I kind of still see myself as an teenager but my age really doesn't start with a 1 anymore, ah well)  Me and the horses, I probably still had posters with those furry animals on my wall at the time. Or Spice Girls.. or.. Ville Valo. No that was a bit later.

Anyway, I've been thinking a lot a bout food lately. And mostly 2 things: healthy food, and animal/non-animal food. I've been a vegetarian for.. about ten years now I think? For a while I also ate fish, because of health benefits for I was always tired (of course, if eating fish really is healthy is something we could start a discussion about), and then I kept eating it now and then because of the taste.

I started eating oats in the morning, instead of the honey loops with milk I ate every morning. Then I read about all the super foods and how sometimes raw is better than cooked (resulting in eating raw spinach salads), wanting to make stuff myself (hummus, peanut butter, bread), I bought a juicer (not a slow juicer, but still) and stuff like that.
A while ago I even decided to start eating vegan. Which wasn't a great succes. I wanted to buy meat substitutes but everything had milk or eggs in it. I wanted to eat bread but all I had was peanut butter, so all I put on my bread.. was peanut butter. So I quit, never really eating vegan anyway.
I did however, stopped consuming milk. Also, I stopped eating cheese, except when it was 'needed' for dinner... which actually did result in me eating vegan, except for dinner.

Long stoooorrryyyyyyyy!

So. I started reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Saffran Foer. And godfuckmedamnit, what a good read. I would recommend it to anyone.
And then I read all kinds of posts about the vegan challenge of november. At the day the challenge began, nov 1st, I decided to join. (because I wasn't really focused on the vegan thing in my head yet -I decided it on such a whim- I stuffed a cookie and some black licorice in my mouth, failing hard already on the first morning)

There's not really a point to this blog. There is actually almost never a point to my blogs! Mostly I just think "I need to write about this!!!!" and then halfway through I lose interest and forget what I wanted to say.. yeah..

Maybe the point is, that, even though I know I'm probably sounding like an annoying vegetarian, I just can't get my head around so many people still eating soooooo much meat... (probably) never even thinking about what it really is they're eating.. and how that animal lived or died.. Or, if that doesn't matter; how much poop and antibiotics there is in the meat..

And the almost religious belief that we NEED meat and milk and other animal protein to survive, to stay healthy.. 

Like I said before, if I am ever able to influence people because of my music, I most definitely will.

OKAY XOXO
GOSSIP GIRL