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December 03, 2005
The Universe, Weather, and Food
Here are the topics of interest today:
Uniform granularity. Read that sentence in the imperative. It's like the old joke about "Drink Canada Dry." I don't know, but it seems that if the Universe is too complex to be reduced to an elemental sameness, that would speak against a "designer" concept. Perhaps.
Look outside. Light fog, chilly temperatures, and rain comprise one of my favorite weather packages. Daylight itself looks like it had to be coaxed awake -- no, more like it woke up at the usual time, but can't get around to doing too much.
Think about your food. For a period of some months, the wife and I have been un-vegetarian. It's a long story, because this marks the second time in my life that I've taken to shredding the flesh of docile beasts with the grinding jaws of carnivorism, after being raised with a "healthy" (downright) fear of ingesting dead animals. This time around, parental paranoia about foods that would cause acid reflux flare-ups in our infant led us, through convenience and its vicious allies, to slaver at the butcher's offerings. We feel that the boy's innards are toughening up now, so I say it's time to bring on the soy and the other (better) legumes. Yes, and the dairy -- though I have an analogue about that. Most dairy production is to the meat industry as corporate orange groves are to "managed forest" timber farms. The mission is to find small-farm organic cheeses and such that don't empty the wallet (sorry, Greenlife, but it's kinda hard to shop there as of now). Here's the thing: it's one idea to know what you fed an animal its whole life, and to slaughter that animal for to feed your household; and it's quite another for these stock-pen hormone-injected creatures to be your daily bread. Believe it or not, I can see this from both sides, as I am still a meat-eater (I had a turkey sandwich in between starting this post and now). I'm just in the mode of thinking about my food. How I got there? By realizing that for the past several months, I've been able to eat a different diet only because I have avoided really thinking about it. Some of us are quite naturally comfortable with gnawing around the gristle; others aren't.
Miscellaneous | By joe lance | 12:28 PM