Being the change we want to see in the world really can be as simple as one small action! This year my act of green pledges are to cut bacon (and any other form of pork) out of my grocery bill and to boycott Walmart.

What small act can you do to make the world a greener place? There are lots of quick and easy things you can do to improve your environmental footprint.

I encourage you to make your own pledge to act green and leave it in the comments, or make your own video with the hashtag #ActofGreen so I can add it to the playlist! Be a part of what the world needs, and make change today! Happy #EarthDay Everyone!

P.S. Earth Day is really every day, so please still take the challenge and make your own #ActofGreen pledge, even if you're watching this after/before April 22nd!

Excellent news: I tried my pork pie recipe with ground pork to see if it would work and it works perfectly. This means that for the convenience fee of like 30-40 extra cents per pound I can stop having to schedule 3-5 hour periods where I do nothing but carve like 15 pounds of meat down into 1 cm cubes, which I loathe doing and don't really have space for.

I also noticed there is such a rise on here to “dunk on vegans/vegetarians” by talking about how unapologetically they will not stop eating meat and how it is the most natural humans can be since it’s what our ancestors did while ignoring the insane environmental impacts it produces and abuse the workers go through

right? idk if there's been a rise because it's bad for ever but people saying it's "natural" is such a particularly weird argument? like that's a reactionary argument when it comes to anything, but also like our ancestors weren't polluting the shit out of our planet so that's already a lost cause.

but also i mean although previous human diets varied hugely depending on the place and time, it's categorically NOT natural to be eating daily red meat? we evolved to be omnivores and it's so frustrating when people use their popsci idea of 'cavemen' to just make random assumptions. hunter-gatherer groups today, and most likely paleolithic people too, mostly ate plant-based food & when they ate meat it's mostly small lean game (and seafood in coastal regions). also it's so entitled to call our diets 'natural' when they're literally only supported by exploiting other parts of the world. if everyone ate as much meat as the average USAmerican, the world would only support 2.5 billion people. it takes almost 100x as much land to produce a gram of protein from beef vs. a gram of pea. look at this shit!!! why are we still having this conversation?? eat whatever you want, i'm not asking for your personal reasons why you must eat beef every day or whatever but please at least stop sticking your head in the sand and acting like this is just hippie nonsense or something like...grow up 😭

I'm not even going to get into the human impact because I just find that distressing to even look into enough to get some figures but I''m well aware & that makes it even more disturbing when meat advocates assume they have some kind of humanitarian position because by rejecting the animal r1ghts argument (which i also have issues with although it annoys me that i have to say that) that means you must automatically care about humans more i guess? when the reality is both often go hand-in-hand and most companies that mistreat their animals mistreat their workers too. and if you want to talk about 'natural' then it's definitely not 'natural' for a human being to spend 40 hours a week slaughtering animals on an industrial scale, that much is obvious from the extremely high rates of mental health issues in abattoir workers as well as the fact that globally the majority of religions/cultures have specific cultural practises around slaughtering animals :)

I am so very relieved that I was able to get food because this is a like, dinners for the rest of the month amount of food.

Booping badges achieved, theme changed, I need to sleep

I caved and got more pork belly. Under a cut for raw meat

considering how shitty my knives are, I did not do too bad at skinning this and!

it’s all ready for a sleep in the fridge until roasting tomorrow. 

Guy: Friends? Yeah, we’ll be friends when you stop ordering pork sausage on the pizza.

its so wild that the older i get the more most kinds of meat actually make me feel sort of ill unless theyre prepared in certain ways. like ground beef and sausage makes me want to fucking die and i hate steak 90% of the time

Pray ya boi can get SNAP benefits...

I wanna be able to afford going pescatarian.

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i will tense and think im having stomach pains every time i eat barbecue for the rest of my life huh

massive downside of my main f/os either being unable/unwilling to rly eat or being from verses that aren't compatible with my food culture (swars for example) is i can't make them eat my tradish foods. i love em even if my diet makes some difficult to achieve anymore T_T

i hadn't submitted the walmart order yet because mom's been wanting a pot roast, but the cheapest pot roasts are like 20$ and i figured she wouldn't want to spend that on one, and i was right.

tfw no pot roast

No bc Jon makes me SO SAD like idk man the fact that it isn’t even just someone who looks like his dad but technically WAS his dad that did all that to him like imagine him having a nightmare or smth and Clark goes to help him out cause obviously and Jon gets MORE scared bc the person he’s looking at isn’t his dad who’d die before hurting him, but his captor of YEARS back in his room

I hate when I have a meme in my head that's perfect for what I'm feeling and it takes me ages to find the right words to describe it to google but once i find it it isn't exactly the way I remembered it and it just doesn't convey the same emotion.

Anyway I was really excited to cook tea tonight but it doesn't taste the way I imagined it would and now I'm in a bad mood

Kind of a random hill to die on rn but "You'd eat this thing you hate if you got hungry enough" does not set a reasonable expectation of what "hungry enough" means for people with food problems.

Like, are we talking "stomach grumbling" hungry enough, or "can't stand up" hungry enough? Cause personally, I can make myself eat a bit of a pork chop if I'm barfy and shaking and can't see straight anymore, but if it's down to "black out for three days and wake up angry and confused" or "willingly swallow prosciutto", I'm having sleep for dinner. And I know this from experience.

People without food problems don't seem to understand this and it drives me insane. "Hungry enough" is for shit like chewing drywall because the alternative is death or cannibalism.

If I say I can't eat something, It means I can't eat it. It Is Not Edible To Me. It's not even appetizing. It literally does not register as food. You might as well hand me a rubber duck.

And it's frustrating!! Trust me, I wish I wasn't like this, too!! This isn't a choice!! I know it can be rude!! It's embarassing!! It's complicated and annoying and irrational!! That doesn't fix the problem!!

I just wish people didn't treat this sort of thing as "being picky" or lacking willpower or basic manners or something. I can't make myself eat certain foods the way you probably couldn't cut your own fingers off. Does that make sense? It's not just food. Fuck