I don’t want to eat you, cute little piggy with a family, but you taste soooooooo goooooooood.

It’s like a cruel joke. We are put on this planet, we are in charge, we have to care for it but also care for ourselves, so we tend to exploit it. Raping the land for all it’s worth is certainly on the agenda of a certain sect of people, but in general I think most of the population would like to see us take care of the planet while also moving our own lives forward with further luxuries.

It’s because of this conundrum I think the majority of us just don’t think about it. We try to take care of the land around us, we buy sensible cars, we recycle, we don’t want our pollution dumped into rivers or streams. But, we also just sort of turn a blind eye to things that we are doing that is hurting the planet we live on.

Nothing sums this topic up better than the HMB lens BACON VS. TOFU: Which side are you on? It really breaks us down into two camps. Those who suffer through tofu for a better planet, and those who eat bacon and don’t give a crap about the pig or their heart.

Megan Casey is the lensmaster of this which I didn’t even realize until I started this paragraph and was like “I should see who the lensmaster is.” Megan, if you don’t know, is the mother of HMB, it is her brainchild. So I am totally wasting my time promoting her stuff, because she already runs the damn thing! But it’s too late, I’m not deleting what I wrote. The show must go on.

Anyway, Megan breaks down the Bacon Vs Tofu debate to it’s core, which is vegetarian vs carnivore, but she doesn’t stick there, and acknowledges the grey areas that her and I both seem to exist in.

The ethics of eating animals is not lost on me. I do feel bad about it when I think about it. When I see footage of how all this tasty, tasty meat is raised it really bothers me. But I just don’t spend that much time thinking about it, and when I sit down and have a juicy hamburger with bacon on it I get psyched! I mean it’s two different animals in one sandwich, it’s brilliant.

I wish I could become a vegetarian, but it’s a difficult lifestyle to maintain. I’ve only recently gotten healthy and good at eating (seems absurd to say I was bad at eating, but I was, and that’s why I am fat). So maybe someday in the future I can do it. But for now I sure do love some chicken on my salad, or some sausage with my eggs.

BUT! And it’s a big but, and this is where Megan and I see eye to eye…. TOFU IS FREAKING AWESOME! People who hate tofu haven’t had tofu prepared correctly. Tofu is like a flavor sponge, it will taste however you want it to taste. I have tofu a couple times a day now, after years of refusing to eat it. I have gotten good at adding it to a vegetable stir fry and seasoning it just right and damn it’s good.

But, I have absolutely no qualms about cutting up some bacon and putting it in that same stir fry. So I guess I don’t fit into either stereotype. I care about the planet, about the animals… and I eat tofu! But also, I see how these animals are treated and I still eat their tasty, tasty meats. I think most of the world is like this, we think about it but we don’t act. I can see people resenting us for it, but at least we are thinking about it!

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