I got some really terrible news yesterday.
My niece informed me that she was just hired for her first part-time job (besides babysitting) and it was at that evil fast food restaurant that has Ronald for their mascot. You know the one... the one with those big arches. The one that a guy recently made a documentary about eating there for thirty days.
I love my niece and I know it's her life but I felt like part of me has died. Here she is, working for (and supporting) the big corporate machine that provides really unhealthy food to millions of people all over the world. This corporation stands for everything that I hate in the world and it tears me apart that she took the job. I just want to cry.
However, instead, I want to be proactive. I cannot do anything to change her mind and I cannot change the way I feel about the whole thing but I can do something positive for myself. I am going to try, as of today, to switch to a vegetarian diet. It would be difficult for me to become vegan right now but I will try a ovo-lacto-vegetarian diet. I know that I will feel better physically but it will also help my mental state.
I have this really funky book written by Yoji Bhajan of Kundalini yoga fame and it is entitled The Golden Temple Vegetarian Cookbook and so I have been reading up on it all. I start today and I know that I will do my best to stick to it. When I falter, I will think of my niece.
Note: If any of you out there have any great recipes that you would like to share, please feel free to comment or if you want, let me know and I will pass on my email address to you.
My niece informed me that she was just hired for her first part-time job (besides babysitting) and it was at that evil fast food restaurant that has Ronald for their mascot. You know the one... the one with those big arches. The one that a guy recently made a documentary about eating there for thirty days.
I love my niece and I know it's her life but I felt like part of me has died. Here she is, working for (and supporting) the big corporate machine that provides really unhealthy food to millions of people all over the world. This corporation stands for everything that I hate in the world and it tears me apart that she took the job. I just want to cry.
However, instead, I want to be proactive. I cannot do anything to change her mind and I cannot change the way I feel about the whole thing but I can do something positive for myself. I am going to try, as of today, to switch to a vegetarian diet. It would be difficult for me to become vegan right now but I will try a ovo-lacto-vegetarian diet. I know that I will feel better physically but it will also help my mental state.
I have this really funky book written by Yoji Bhajan of Kundalini yoga fame and it is entitled The Golden Temple Vegetarian Cookbook and so I have been reading up on it all. I start today and I know that I will do my best to stick to it. When I falter, I will think of my niece.
Note: If any of you out there have any great recipes that you would like to share, please feel free to comment or if you want, let me know and I will pass on my email address to you.
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