I think this is the end of a beautiful friendship.

A friendship with meat, that is. The thing is, I LOVE MEAT!! If I have to give it up, I'm going to hide pictures of it in my bedside drawer and stalk it on Facebook. But I feel like I am learning such disturbing things that I probably heard before, but chose not to hear. Like the way they treat chickens — even the cage free ones! And let me tell you, I love me some eggs. I don't want to give up eggs. But why can't they just not be mean to the chickens? Charge me more! I don't care! Stop being jerks to innocent little creatures! And then I just read in The Week that there's a new health scare with beef, pork, and poultry. Researchers tested meat in grocery stores across the country and 47% of the samples were contaminated with a bacteria that causes staff infection. Ew. But that's not even the worst part. The worst part is more than half of these little bacteria are immune to antibiotics!! It's because farmers feed healthy animals antibiotics to make them bigger and prevent disease in overcrowded pens. And because they're not willing to have smaller animals (less meat to sell = less profit) and NOT smoosh a ton of animals into one little pen (less meat to sell = less profit), we humans suddenly can't fight the disease that comes from their meat in the first place. Ugh! We're so selfish! And I say "we" because the truth of the matter is that I want to keep eating meat and I don't know if I can give it up and it's my demand that makes farmers act this way. (If there are animals in heaven, which I'm pretty sure there will be, I am going to have lots of apologizing to do. Lots and lots.)

On a positive note:

There are so many great resources for eating vegetarian/vegan!! Especially in Seattle — woo! We had lunch at Flying Apron on Friday and I had a delicious salad, pizza, and a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie! It was so good!! And it's all gluten-free, vegan, and organic!!! Awesome.

And also, thanks to No Small Dreams, I am now obsessed with this other blog, My New Roots. The girl who writes it is funny and adorable and her recipes look amazing! I just got the ingredients to make the the black quinoa corn muffins and the mint pea dip. Yummers! Here's to being good to our bodies and also to the world we're in charge of.