Okay, I started this blog because I loved coming up with cool recipes...but than I saw a documentary that changed my life. It was about how farm animals in America are treated. I was absolutely shocked. I didn't know things were so disgustingly horrible...I felt ashamed for having eaten meat my whole life. I couldn't eat it anymore, but I didn't know how to cook without it. I was taught that there should be meat in every meal...
I became vegan for some time (lost tons of weight, FYI) But my family truly missed cheese. Butter we could do without. There are so many other vegan options for that stuff...Milk, well, I never much liked milk other than on my cereal or in my tea. At first I switched to soy milk, but I've found Almond milk is AWESOMENESS. Even if I weren't so animal friendly when it came to my food, I would still only drink Almond milk, especially Almond Chocolate Milk.
As for cheese, I did my research for the most humane dairy and found that there are some companies that give a shit about animals.
Here's the skinny of cheese (cheese is very fattening) Cheese is made with milk. Duh. Milk comes from cows. More specifically, it comes from cows who have just given birth...
Humans obtain cow semen (rape)
Humans force it inside of a female cow (rape)
Humans force that cow to carry a baby (torture...for me at least, pregnancy was torture...)
Humans take the baby away from the new mother (kidnapping)
Humans hook up that cow to a machine for hours at a time to steal that milk. (slavery and torture)
Humans kill cow once it can't have anymore babies for us to take away... (murder)
Basically we're evil...But we get worse. Cheese is made from partially digested milk. We need Rennet, an enzyme in baby cow's stomach that helps them digest mother's milk...To get it, we cut the stomach out of the caffs, dry it up, cut it up and use it to make the cheese we love so much.
But I found Tillamook Cheese Company. Instead of having one great big corporate farm, they get their milk from hundreds of family farms. These farms are under strict orders to treat their cows very well. They work 4 hours at a time at the milkers and are otherwise outside with their babies. They have names, not numbers and best of all, Tillamook uses vegetable rennet, no cow stomach needed...and their cheese tastes the best.
I became vegan for some time (lost tons of weight, FYI) But my family truly missed cheese. Butter we could do without. There are so many other vegan options for that stuff...Milk, well, I never much liked milk other than on my cereal or in my tea. At first I switched to soy milk, but I've found Almond milk is AWESOMENESS. Even if I weren't so animal friendly when it came to my food, I would still only drink Almond milk, especially Almond Chocolate Milk.
As for cheese, I did my research for the most humane dairy and found that there are some companies that give a shit about animals.
Here's the skinny of cheese (cheese is very fattening) Cheese is made with milk. Duh. Milk comes from cows. More specifically, it comes from cows who have just given birth...
Humans obtain cow semen (rape)
Humans force it inside of a female cow (rape)
Humans force that cow to carry a baby (torture...for me at least, pregnancy was torture...)
Humans take the baby away from the new mother (kidnapping)
Humans hook up that cow to a machine for hours at a time to steal that milk. (slavery and torture)
Humans kill cow once it can't have anymore babies for us to take away... (murder)
Basically we're evil...But we get worse. Cheese is made from partially digested milk. We need Rennet, an enzyme in baby cow's stomach that helps them digest mother's milk...To get it, we cut the stomach out of the caffs, dry it up, cut it up and use it to make the cheese we love so much.
But I found Tillamook Cheese Company. Instead of having one great big corporate farm, they get their milk from hundreds of family farms. These farms are under strict orders to treat their cows very well. They work 4 hours at a time at the milkers and are otherwise outside with their babies. They have names, not numbers and best of all, Tillamook uses vegetable rennet, no cow stomach needed...and their cheese tastes the best.
Tillamook isn't perfect by any means, (they still rape their cows for baby and milk making purposes) , but it's a step in the right direction. This is the cheese I'll feed my family until fake cheese steps up their game.
Like I said, I didn't know how to cook without meat for some time, but I'm really getting the hang of this no-meat thing...hang enough to make some cool recipes. Heck yeah... From now on the recipes I'll be posting will be vegetarian in nature. Hold onto your butts.
My first recipe will be Tofu 'Egg' Sandwiches....with a twist, or course. ^_^
