Karl B

I wrote the below post on 01/05/2009 and didn’t post it, assuming that I would give up on the vege thing. Now that it has been ~10 months since I started I thought I’d post this for people who were wondering why I did it.

As a side note I haven’t slipped much, I started with removing all meat but fish, then after ~3 months removed that as well. Also while I was in New Zealand Jan/Feb 2010 I ate fish because it was being caught and cooked the same day, and who can say no to flounder for breakfast?

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So, I’ve decided to try out being a vegetarian.

“What! When, where, how, why!?” you may ask.

My answer is this; I’m not doing it for the purported health benefits, nor have I suddenly decided that slaughtering tasty animals for their flesh is wrong, no, I’m doing it because I’m curious.

The thought came to me one day, and I’m not exactly sure what sparked it, but I decided to go through what I had eaten this week.

Okay, cereal or porridge with fruit and yoghurt for breakfast. Check! Vege safe!

Lunch: Salad with meat. Salad sans meat. Chedder, chutney and greens roll. BLT sandwich. Check! Okay not quite Vege safe 50/50 there, but very easy to fix.

Dinner, hrm, this might be bad: Salmon with a mushroom sauce on pasta. Spaghetti bolognese. Bangers, a bit of mash, with broccoli  and butternut squash. Portabella mushrooms on toast with sliced tomato and rocket. Yeahhhhh, hrm we can work on that.

I’ll let you know how I go.

Well, the G20 sumit wasn’t as big a deal for me as I would have liked it to be, not that I was trying to comit suicide by protester or anything, but I was not in the office close to the action.

To explain; in my previous post I mentioned that we were asked to work in a different office, away from the exchange, and wear casual clothing. Unfortunately due to the fact that I’m a contractor at work I don’t have a photo ID so I wasn’t allowed in the main building due to security and had to go to another one.

Anyway, on to the photos. There was a protest march which passed by one of the other work offices where I was and I’ve also shamelessly stolen pictures off twitter/twitpic. Oh there was another token turn out on the next day at the main office which I have photos of.

NB: Sorry, I realise I over hyped this!

I’m not sure why anyone would be, but if one of the 137 registered subscribers I just deleted was legit, sorry about that. Could you re-register now that I have CAPTCHA installed. I was just getting sick of spam registrations and decided to start with a clean slate.

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