edamame3's Journal
Today I had Buffalo.Oct 27 2008 20:50
Yeah, doesn't seem like a big deal, it's just that 90% of the time I am raw vegan, and I work in a raw vegan restaurant. I feel like I am sort of held to a standard...
The thing is, I don't really have that big of a problem with meat, per se, especially if it is undercooked meat (i.e., with the enzymes intact). I have a problem with factory and farm raised meat. There's a big difference.
The two meats I will eat on occasion are grass fed wild buffalo, and krill fed wild salmon.
Farmed salmon are usually fed grain, and their flesh is dyed with food coloring to give it that 'nice pink' color. Buffalo are not typically raised the same way cows are, therefore the general opinion among bison afficianados is that buffalo 'tastes the way beef used to taste' back in the good ol' days when we didn't inject and genetically modify our food.
As far as energetic issues go where meat is concerned, I have some issues I am working out right now. Meat is death energy, meat is dark, cooked meat putrifies in the system...but, it is that time of year when we greet our dark side(Samhain), when we embrace the darkness and learn from it.
I like to look at meat the way the native Americans looked at meat. You are consuming the animal, and that animal is thereby becoming a part of you. It is respectful to look at the animal that way, and it also makes one picky about the source of their meat (after all, the meat WILL become you, literally!).
I'm preparing to go on a raw vegan fast with a focus on vegetables and fruit (i.e. low protein, not much nuts) before my Reiki attunement this Thursday.
But yeah. The long and the short of it is I ate buffalo today, and that is significant for an otherwise raw vegan person.
I was really not aware there was such a difference between farmed and wild meat...! From now on, I'll be more careful of what kind I choose, for sure ! |
As an update to this post, it is now almost a year later, and I have made the decision to stop supporting the killing of animals entirely. I still believe Salmon and Buffalo are wonderfully healthy, but I can't support letting another animal die when I can easily get the same benefits healthwise they would potentially give me from other sources. Beyond that, I found out that even non-factory farmed, supposedly 'humane' meats are still sent to the factory farms to die, just like every other animal we consume. And I have also been learning about how bad for the environment and biodiversity eating animals is. |
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