{"id":800,"date":"2015-03-04T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2015-03-04T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:08:08","slug":"what-i-am-like-diet-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"What I Am (Like Diet Wise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the happiest like moments I&#8217;ve experienced in the past few weeks was watching Real Time With Bill Maher. Maher had David Duchovny on. Duchovny has a new book called &#8220;Holy Cow&#8221; that he was talking about. Apparently it&#8217;s like a children&#8217;s book that brings up some very important questions. One of which is the way we raise our meat.<\/p>\n<p>Duchovny said that he&#8217;s not a vegetarian but more a lazy vegetarian. Bill Maher questioned what that was and asked if it was when there&#8217;s nothing else on the menu, if he eats meat. Duchovny said it&#8217;s more like if he goes over someone&#8217;s house and if they were having meat, he wouldn&#8217;t turn it down since the animal has already been killed and you don&#8217;t want to waste it.<\/p>\n<p>That has been my predicament all along. What do I do? Hearing that both Maher and Duchovny did consume meat when in certain situations, I felt a whole lot better about everything. It was probably one of the best moments of my life knowing that others face the same challenges with meat that I do. It was so relieving.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot be called a &#8220;vegetarian&#8221; since I do eat meat occasionally (when it&#8217;s going to be wasted anyway) and since I eat shrimp, eggs, and fish.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"Houston Chronicle - Take On Vegetarianism With Baby Steps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/health\/article\/Take-on-vegetarianism-with-baby-steps-6106393.php\" target=\"_blank\">one article I read<\/a>, I&#8217;m more of a flexitarian where as I tend to not eat meat but don&#8217;t rule it out completely. But I&#8217;m also somewhat of a lacto-ovo vegetarian where I won&#8217;t eat meat but do eat dairy and eggs&#8230; then I also eat fish which makes me more of a pescatarian. But I guess if I had to pick title, I&#8217;d say &#8220;lazy vegetarian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to know what I am. I just hope what I&#8217;m doing makes a difference to the environment and saves innocent animals lives. It&#8217;s also been very good for me health wise. I used to get bad stomach aches at least once a week. Now it&#8217;s almost never.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking about becoming a vegetarian (or whatever word you&#8217;d choose to use), do it like I did&#8230; I did it slowly, over the course of like a year. Apparently this movement is gaining momentum. There are now <a title=\"The Raw Food - 16 Million People In The US Are Now Vegan Or Vegetarian\" href=\"http:\/\/news.therawfoodworld.com\/16-million-people-us-now-vegan-vegetarian\/\" target=\"_blank\">16 million vegetarians<\/a>. That&#8217;s AMAZING to me.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway&#8230; Thanks Bill Maher and David Duchovny for making me feel less alone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the happiest like moments I&#8217;ve experienced in the past few weeks was watching Real Time With Bill Maher. Maher had David Duchovny on. Duchovny has a new book called &#8220;Holy Cow&#8221; that he was talking about. Apparently it&#8217;s like a children&#8217;s book that brings up some very important questions. 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