Well, now that I have your attention…<\/p>\n
Here’s why. I was talking with Joe the other day about Agedashi Tofu, which I love, and he pointed out it was usually made with bonito, some sort of fish product. I ordered some this evening sans bonito, and some vegetable tempura udon besides. Of course, the udon broth also had bonito (as do many miso soups). Having basically been told that much of my favorite japanese food was not merely not vegan but not vegetarianism, I started thinking about why I’m vegan.<\/p>\n
The environmental reason is all well and good. But I don’t kid myself to think that I’m making a huge impact by lowering my own ecological foot print. In fact, by living smaller on the land, I’m increasing the delicacy of the situation to a trivial degree. If everyone were to follow my example into veganism (just pretend), and some sudden food production crisis arrived, we wouldn’t have as much waste to trim to preserve our collective diet. This also brings up the point that no one I know has really gone vegetarian, let alone vegan, in my wake except If I were to drop it, I’d probably drop it all, at least, as an identity. I’m not sure how much I’d change my diet. I don’t really like most meat. Or at least, I didn’t the last time I really had any. Fish, being cold blooded, aquatic, and not the brightest critters, trigger neither my environmental concerns nor my compassion to any great degree, and I’ve had them in tasty ways in the distant past. Maybe I’d eat just like I do now, but have pizza sometimes, or lassi, or japanese food, and shut the fuck up about being vegan. <\/p>\n Maybe. *shrug* I’ll probably take a few months to ponder it before making any hasty moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, now that I have your attention… Here’s why. I was talking with Joe the other day about Agedashi Tofu, which I love, and he pointed out it was usually made with bonito, some sort of fish product. I ordered some this evening sans bonito, and some vegetable tempura udon besides. Of course, the udon … Continue reading “scu possibly abandoning veganism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}