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For the most part, it hasn’t affected it much. There have been a couple of situations—a trip to a bar to watch the game last Sunday, or a group outing to Steak & Shake, for example—that I’ve either had to think hard about going to, or decide to ditch altogether. I get some of the typical yank-my-crank style humor from my friends, but that’s largely died down after the first few days. My wife has actually been very happy with it due to the fact that she loves salad, soup, and avocados, and we’ve been eating a lot more of all three of those recently.
The Vegan Experience, Day 13: The Halfway Mark | Serious Eats
I’ve been following J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s “The Vegan Experience” series closely, as it mirrors my own experience changing my diet. Whatever your eating persuasion, do go read his writing. It’s a really thoughtful, even-handed and honest look at nutrition, eating habits and the morale of eating regimens. Usually, I skip the reader comments, but the ones for “The Vegan Experience” have been worth reading for informational value.
Bonus: meticulously (and nerdily) tested vegan recipes that’s worth having in your arsenal, whatever your eating regimen might be.
Posted on January 30, 2012 with 3 notes
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Florida prisons serve meals with 50 percent soy and 50 percent poultry three times a day, a mixture that costs half as much as using beef and pork, the Department of Corrections says. The cost per meal: $1.70 a day for each inmate. Florida prisons first began serving soy-based meals in 2009.
As an inmate at the Lake Correctional Institution, near Orlando, Mr. Harris, a former paralegal, has few culinary choices. He can eat 100 grams of soy protein a day, use his own money to buy food at the commissary or eat a vegan diet, he said in the lawsuit, which was filed in state court in Tallahassee and which The Orlando Sentinel reported on this week.
Soy Diet Is Cruel and Unusual, Florida Inmate Claims - NYTimes.com
Soylent Green, it’s being served in Florida already! Why not have vegetable gardens and chicken coops in prison yards and have the prisoners grow their own food? Maybe prisoners can pay their so-called debt to society by operating a sustainable, DIY foodway system that decreases taxpayer burden? If shelter dogs are being used to socialize convicted criminals, why not chickens and goats?
Posted on November 24, 2011 with 2 notes
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The chiropractor, Matt Rabin, told Zabriskie he had the highest sensitivity to food on the team. Another blood test showed Zabriskie had the highest inflammation of his muscles.
During last year’s Tour de France, Zabriskie turned down the red meat being passed around the dinner table because he thought it required too much energy to digest. In the late summer of last year, he began phasing out all meat from his diet and by October, he had also cut out dairy.
After nine months on the diet, Zabriskie says he’s feeling better than ever. He has had some of the best results of his career and says he feels more focused.
Unfortunately, Dave Zabriskie crashed out of the Tour de France, but this WSJ piece on his diet is like a book falling open to the exact page I needed. Like DZ, I have food sensitivities and inflammation, which aggravates an injury. He went on a mostly plant-based diet with salmon twice a week; I’m on a gluten/dairy-free diet (and avoiding soy and corn) with salmon twice a week.
It’s encouraging not only to know someone feels better, but to see it in DZ’s stellar season so far. He’s won a handful of time trial stages at prominent races as well as the US Time Trial Championship. Until he crashed, he was making the whole field suffer with his relentless pace-making. I’m at a point where vigorous exercise may or may not be off the table for life, but reading this piece makes me more hopeful than not that changes I’ve made to my routine may add up to something.
An unrelated footnote to this is the definition of the term “vegan.” WSJ uses and asterisk and “(Almost)” to denote Zabriskie isn’t 100% vegan. The vegetarian/vegan credo is “nothing with a face” and eating fish, even in tiniest quantities wouldn’t qualify as vegan semantically. While I can’t even comprehend the undertaking of riding a Grand Tour on a mostly vegan diet, I can relate to the annoyance of having to explain your weird diet to people, who think they are dietitians with sage advice. So I understand why it’s easier to say one is vegan than to provide a litany of things on your no list.
For more about endurance sports and veganism, also check the NY Times piece on Scott Jurek, a for reals 100% vegan and an ultramarathon runner.
Posted on July 13, 2011 with 4 notes
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Vegan Black Metal Chef. You’re so fucking awesome I’d almost be your vegan minion, but my heart belongs to animal fat.
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