7-Day Vegetarian Challenge: The Purpose
Most of you would probably think this is bizarre.
But I'm going vegetarian for a week.
It all began with me watching Food Inc. last Saturday night (don't judge my choice of saturday night activity pls). A colleague of mine mentioned that she pursued vegetarianism after having watched the documentary. I, personally have seen much more graphic images than those shown in the movie. But anyways the film talked about how food is being industrialized into mass production to maximize efficiency and the effects because of that process.
After having watched it, I still didn't understand my colleague, why go vegetarian after the film? It didn't gross me out or made me want to become a vegetarian. I don't think that was the film's purpose anyway- the purpose was more like encouraging us to be more conscious of what we eat.
But back to the eating vegetables topic, I get it if some people were to be vegetarian because of religious purposes, but some people do it without. Vegetarianism is a life choice, its part of your lifestyle and everything needs to evolve around it. Your life is harder because you become selective of what you eat. Google tells me that the top reasons for going vegetarian are:
I find #1 hard to believe but we'll see in a week's time how I feel about myself.
#4 kind of make sense but it would take a few millions of us to carry the message to corporations.
I guess what I'm trying to do with this challenge is to try to understand those that are vegetarians, why they're doing it, the struggle and the joy that comes out of it for the week. (to those who judged me earlier this week) Not because of the film or other bs reasons ok? There could be a weight loss side benefit to it as well, but I think not so much if I were to eat the same amount of starch.
I will blog more about these topics for days to come to stay tuned!
But I'm going vegetarian for a week.
It all began with me watching Food Inc. last Saturday night (don't judge my choice of saturday night activity pls). A colleague of mine mentioned that she pursued vegetarianism after having watched the documentary. I, personally have seen much more graphic images than those shown in the movie. But anyways the film talked about how food is being industrialized into mass production to maximize efficiency and the effects because of that process.After having watched it, I still didn't understand my colleague, why go vegetarian after the film? It didn't gross me out or made me want to become a vegetarian. I don't think that was the film's purpose anyway- the purpose was more like encouraging us to be more conscious of what we eat.
But back to the eating vegetables topic, I get it if some people were to be vegetarian because of religious purposes, but some people do it without. Vegetarianism is a life choice, its part of your lifestyle and everything needs to evolve around it. Your life is harder because you become selective of what you eat. Google tells me that the top reasons for going vegetarian are:
- that it's "healthier" vs a meat-diet
- for animal compassion (human compassion is something I apparently lack and passing it on to animals would make this one even harder)
- food preference (I can't imagine those who doesn't like the taste of meat. BECAUSE MEAT TATES GOOOOOOOD)
- making a statement against world hunger and consumerism
I find #1 hard to believe but we'll see in a week's time how I feel about myself.
#4 kind of make sense but it would take a few millions of us to carry the message to corporations.
I guess what I'm trying to do with this challenge is to try to understand those that are vegetarians, why they're doing it, the struggle and the joy that comes out of it for the week. (to those who judged me earlier this week) Not because of the film or other bs reasons ok? There could be a weight loss side benefit to it as well, but I think not so much if I were to eat the same amount of starch.
I will blog more about these topics for days to come to stay tuned!
Hi James,
ReplyDeleteI did a Pescetarian for about a couple years back in Chula. It was a healthy experience.
You might want to check out the humans bodies anatomy regarding food digestion. After all our bodies were designed to be herbivores, intestines length, teeth, stomach acid level, etc.! It will give you another motivation to do it.
Timelay Apeman AKA Time