StopTheCarnivore!

My name is Brad, I am an overweight meat eater.  last night I watched a short video (HERE) and my resulting epiphany has caused me to swear off meat & dairy to the best of my abilities for personal and moral reasons.  check out my daily digest to see what I’m eating, how I am coping and find out if I can succeed at all.  thanks for looking, Brad.

DAY ONE:

"It’s not a health issue, it’s a moral issue"

So, after digging around in my refrigerator, I discovered almost everything inside contained some form of animal products.

I didn’t realize just how difficult this might be.  I mean, I love salads, but probably not what YOU think of as a salad…  I cover mine with creamy blue cheese dressing, shredded cheese, crumbled hard boiled eggs and bacon bits, deep fried croutons… you get the picture, this is going to be tough.

But it’s okay, I have burritos and chimmychangas in the freezer….

unfortunately, they are filled with meat, cheese, more meat and I think some beans.  So, just what is there to eat?  I could have a bowl of cereal… I mean I have 8 boxes of cereal on the shelf…. but what can I use in place of milk?  Juice?  perhaps, we shall see.

okay, looks like I will be having toast with peanut butter.  no butter, just peanut butter.  not so bad, dunking it in my coffee right now as I type this post.  

But, I certainly can not live off of coffee and toast with peanut butter… or can I? lol

Anyway, it’s day 1 and I have yet to find a steady food source.  I think I will start some rice boiling and cook some Ramen noodles (yes I know, without the neato little animal flavored packets.

____-many hours later-____

Okay. so, I have had 3 pieces of toast with peanut butter, 1 orange, 1 banana, 1 apple, 1 bowl of Ramen noodles mixed with rice and chili beans covered in hot sauce and two handfuls of (oh the irony) animal crackers!

  I also have had two cups of coffee and two glasses of ice tea.

Sure, I know many of you are thinking "that doesn’t sound like a healthy diet at all"  well for me it is.  I am doing this in steps, heck, yesterday I would have had macaroni and shredded cheese with ground hamburger or kielbasa.  So, things will be changing, I am learning as I go along.  everyone I know with the exception of my grandmother are omnivores.

Why am I doing this?  I am not sure.  I’m not quixote-esq, I know my actions will not even prevent one animal from suffering.  There will be no farmer saying, "okay George, let that turkey go, we got one less meat eater out there". I just feel that even if I can do nothing to help, I do not want to be part of the problem.  I may not be able to stop hunger, but that doesn’t mean I need to take someone’s food, I may not be able to eliminate rape, but that doesn’t mean I will turn a blind eye to it and just accept it.

Does this make me sound a little like a bleeding heart hippie?    perhaps, I don’t know what my "label" is, I just know that I do not like to see animals being tortured, their plight is to constantly suffer, they are born to suffer and then die so that I can grind and shred and slice and cube them up and put them onto my damn salad.  I CAN put a stop to at least 1 person who does that…  ME.

I am unhealthy, but please note that I am making these changes not for health, but for morals.  The health will be an added benefit I hope. : )  I am about 100lbs overweight right now.  I don’t look it, but I am.  I think I should be right around 240lbs but I weigh 340lbs right now.

Perhaps along with fulfilling my self decided moral obligations to other living creatures, I will also lose weight and feel better.

stay tuned and we will see….

~Brad

Please comment if you like, I would really like to hear your opinion and if you have some encouragement for me, that would be great, I have not even told my friends or family yet, you, the readers, are the first to know about my life changing decision.