My friend Susannah Harris recently started a blog about her love of eggs. I love eggs too. Not only for their gooey, sunshiny middles, but for their easy to cook and eat nutritional sphere like deliciousness. (Did that sentence make sense?) I’ll let Susannah go on about the greatness of eggs here for now: http://sashayoubitch.blogspot.com/
I, unfortunately, am teaching a grade 12 class called Food and Nutrition. Since this is not part of my teachable, I’ve had to do a lot of research for every lesson. Luckily for me, the unit that I had to teach was on vegetarianism. Even though I am aware of the evils of the food industry and the abuse of animals, I still did extra research to make sure I was giving my students facts not just rants.
This research has led me to question my own morals and values. I call myself a vegetarian, but enjoy a delicious Egg Marlow Muffin on various mornings. Furthermore, I have difficulty saying no to sushi. It is much easier to avoid a food when you don’t like it in the first place; like all meats for me, I’ve never been a fan. As a child, cereal, spaghetti and peanut butter sandwiches were my staples. Sushi and eggs, though? LOVE ‘EM! Sadly, I don’t love antibiotics being in my food. I also don’t love fish farms, or that we’ve taken from the ocean more than 90% of the big fish and that more than half of the coral reefs have disappeared. But I do love delicious Sake Sashimi.
Through my additional research for my grade 12 class I have decided that I have to point the finger at myself more. How can I expect the world to change when I agree to sushi dinners with friends, without knowing if the fish has been approved by sustainable fisheries organizations?
Anyways that being said, for the last few weeks I’ve decided to drop eggs and fish (again). Do you know how hard it is to stop eating eggs!!!??? So hard! I constantly forget that you need eggs to make cookies, scones and all other amazingly delicious snacks. In the past I have bought free range eggs or organic eggs. Until I discovered that there is no legal definition to free range, and that even antibiotic free chickens have antibiotics in them. Yum. Not.
Anyways, why not dairy you ask? I’m working on it. One step at a time.
I was literally in the market today wondering if there was a legal definition of free range.. Fuck you food industry! I am so sick of this!