4:00 pm - 02/06/2013
Steve-O is just about the last person one imagines caring about what goes into his body. The Jackass star has stapled his balls to his leg countless times, swallowed a condom full of weed and done more drugs than a bus full of Grateful Dead fans in 1978. But in the past few years he's dramatically turned his life around He's been clean since 2008, and he's also a vegan. He even narrated a video for Farm Sanctuary, a group that saves farm animals from the slaughterhouse.
( "I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated."Collapse )
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I didn't want to embed the animal rights video Steve-O narrated for Farm Sanctuary, because it is graphic in a few parts and might be NSFW, but I highly recommend that you watch it by clicking here.
Steve-O Talks Becoming a Vegan to Rolling Stone
Steve-O is just about the last person one imagines caring about what goes into his body. The Jackass star has stapled his balls to his leg countless times, swallowed a condom full of weed and done more drugs than a bus full of Grateful Dead fans in 1978. But in the past few years he's dramatically turned his life around He's been clean since 2008, and he's also a vegan. He even narrated a video for Farm Sanctuary, a group that saves farm animals from the slaughterhouse.
( "I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated."Collapse )
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I didn't want to embed the animal rights video Steve-O narrated for Farm Sanctuary, because it is graphic in a few parts and might be NSFW, but I highly recommend that you watch it by clicking here.
I'm considering adding back in local organic (truly) free range humanely slaughtered chicken a couple times a week, because legumes get old and I need lower carb. I don't have a problem with the abstract idea of limited eating meat, but a problem with the meat industry and the environmental aspects.
Edited at 2013-02-06 11:56 pm (UTC)
Good luck! I've been a vegetarian for 7 years and a vegan for 1. It's so worth it.
I don't buy any animal products, but it's so restricting if you're out or at someones house or something
I'm so sick of people saying it's too hard or "OMG WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR PROTEIN?!?!"... first of all, your diet only needs to be about 10-15% protein, and there are TONS of veggies with protein ( SEE!!! ). Second, it isn't expensive. Meat and dairy used to be the biggest portion of our grocery bill. Of course it's going to be hard at first, but it gets easier, just like any other major lifestyle change you make in your life.
If you want to ensure people butt into your life and your food choices, go vegan.
P R E A C H
This is just my opinion and personal experience, but the vegans and vegetarians I've known talk about what they eat more than anyone I've ever known. The majority of the people I follow on instagram who insist on posting pictures of their food are vegans and vegetarians. These are also the same people that tag EVERY photo with #vegan, whether it's a picture of their food, themselves, their fish, their car, or what the sky looked like that day.
Also, I'm sick of animal rights activists shoving their "save the animals and don't eat meat!" shit in our faces. A tiger would not hestitate to attack you and eat you alive. Look at what happened to that poor little boy who fell over the fence at the zoo. I'm an animal lover mind you, but if I want a cheese burger I'll eat a fucking cheese burger. With fries on the side.
A tiger would not hesitate to attack me and eat me alive because a tiger is a carnivore and eating me is a natural born instinct. Have you ever had the natural instinct to chase down a cow, tackle it, bite into its raw flesh and eat ALL of it's corpse, muscles, tendons, bones, anus, eyeballs, guts and all? No salt, no seasoning, no grill to cook the shit out of it first? I don't think so. And if you did, you'd end up in a hospital because your body would reject it.
You are not an animal lover. You are a dog/cat/horse/bunny/etc lover. If I put a plate of fried Golden Retriever nuggets in front of you, you would look at me like I was scum. If I put a plate of chopped up cow on a bun, you would eat it without a second thought and you would enjoy it without remorse, knowing exactly what it is made of and how it got on your plate. You can't have it both ways.
You are entitled to your own set of moral beliefs just as much as I am. But please do not insult animals by saying you love them while intentionally funding their torture and slaughter and then EATING them with a side of fries. Say what you mean: "I think animals are cute, but their lives are worth less to me than the momentary satisfaction of my tastebuds."
Plus I basically sale shop now due to budget issues. Would I love to continue buying the free-range eggs like I used to? Hell yeah. Are they $5 versus $1 for 'normal' eggs? Hell yeah. =\
Local free-range eggs are cheaper than store-bought. Meat and dairy are more expensive than beans. Dried beans are the epitome of budget foods.
We spend less of our income on food than other countries. We spend more of our income on entertainment and other things. We are hooked on cheap, and government subsidized, food. The government should subsidize fresh vegetables.
And then I have to factor in driving downtown and the cost of gas. I hope to get to the farmer's market more and get more bang for my buck (simply because local produce lasts a helluva lot longer than store-bought) but in the -45 c as of late it's been a lot easier to quickly drive the 1 minute to Superstore than the 30 minutes to the farmer's market. Plus I'm only filling my gas tank enough to get me to work, since prices are at 1.06/9 a liter.
You're correct that beans are cheaper. That's why I've been eating a lot of rice and beans lately. I won't say it's impossible for me to eat totally dairy/meat free, but it would be far more of a pain in the ass than I can handle right now. I get $183 a check, $40 goes to gas (based on prices and how many places I've gone that pay period), $50 generally goes to miscellaneous (pet supplies, etc) and then I'm left with $93 to get me through two weeks. So I end up sale shopping to give myself some variety in what I can eat. Or I spend less than the $93 and leave myself some money to go out and do things.
I actually don't eat a lot of meat anymore because of that. It's rarely on sale. The exception is seafood (a package of mussels is $4, salmon can be as low as $9 for around 5 meals worth). I've been making my chicken last by cutting off the freezer burnt portions.
To be honest, it was a lot nicer to be able to blow my money on all sorts of stuff like free-range eggs or organic hormone-free milk or local beef or $80 just for a week of veggies from the farmer's market.
THANK YOU. It drives me absolutely nuts when Americans complain about how expensive healthy foods are, when they are only "expensive" compared foods where the government has already paid part of the cost. It's not like these people all live in the far north where strawberries are $10 a pint. Other countries end up suffering for american privilege.