Meat Strike

So I think I'm not going to be eating meat for a while.

I didn't plan on this decision - I like meat. I organise barbeques, I take my steaks medium rare, and my shepherd's pies are legendary*.

But the other night (as of this draft, and who knows how many there will be until I publish this), as I was preparing some food, I noticed something.

And I realised that while eating meat is okay, the meat industry itself is a little... off. And that as a consumer, the least I can do is not encourage it any longer.

Now I'm just a drop in the ocean, but I see a lot of vegetarians around me these days, and together they probably have a fair amount of consumer weight to throw around. Maybe with time, as less people buy meat, the industry will revert from 'industry' to 'actual farms with real living happy animals that ultimately die for our benefit but at least live decent lives'. Or, more realistically, maybe some cynics will notice the untapped market of bleeding heart meat lovers like myself, and will open some nice farm selling ethical meat, for which of course they will rob us blind.

If neither of these happen, I will open such a farm myself, for which I promise not to rob anyone blind. My plan is as follows, and it is airtight:

1. Make huge money
2. ???
3. Meat is ethical again. Do not profit, that wasn't the goal.

This is a nice plan to have for when I want to feel good about myself, and the promise of meat is certainly a way to push myself to finish all the steps. In the meantime, however, there is a tiny flaw: it's going to be a while until everything is fixed, and I need to eat. The second and far more important part of this post is about this issue.

I went through my list of recipes to see which I can salvage, cried (inside) over the ones I'd be putting aside for a while, and then noticed that (unsurprisingly) almost all of the remaining ones contain cheese. This is a problem as I am trying to reduce my cheese intake following the catastrophic binge I went on last semester, when my friend introduced me to a shop with a fine selection of same.

(I am allowed to shop like this because I still have money left over from my soul sucking summer internship)

Pressing on: I do know one vegan (!) curry which I have enjoyed even as a meat eater, but I can't eat the same thing for the next decade or so. Luckily, I really am surrounded by vegetarians, and turned to my dormmate for advice: 

Sadly, it seems the vegetarian lifestyle is not quite as exciting as I'd hoped.

So, yeah. This may be difficult. Recipes in the comments plzkthx.



*As found by a completely unbiased survey of people who know what's good for them.

Owls

Remember this?

I've had an owl thing going this past year.
No good reason.
It started with this:

 A doodle based on some kind of zombie parasite
There's lots of them. None does specifically what is happening in the doodle, but the general idea is there.

After the doodle I just got stuck on owls.

After deciding not to retake a test

 

During a pointless lecture

 Just for fun

One time, pencil, pens, rubber only used for getting rid of pencil after I was done

A Fair Exchange of Services

I've got this conversation thing all figured out

Lately

And it turns out the culprit was something I had actually paid money for

Happy not exams to everyone

Physics

Physicists have too much power and they know it.

Internship

Did a summer internship at a big shiny company

Didn't care for the first project they offered, but a disgusting amount of pressure was placed on me to go there

Realised that any company that spends about half its budget aggressively advertising what a wonderful place it is to work at is probably a really shitty place to work at

Also realised that big shiny companies are generally in love with themselves

Also they're not into paying up on time, like, at all.
As in I'm still waiting to receive money for last day.
Which was in October.

Basically this but without the piles of money:

Overall disappointing experience, 3/10 with points awarded for excellent food and a (much too late) attempt to make things interesting after we complained, would not recommend.

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edit 7/1/2014. Still no money
    Someone calls from the company:
    "Hello, would you like to hear about our student employment programs for 2014?"
    "No, but I'd love to hear about my employment program in 2013"
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