Vegestables and animals

I want to present here my opinion, as an omnivore, on the most common reason why vegetarians do not eat meat -- animals are living, breathing creatures that need to be cared for.

Plants and animals have just about the same uses for man.

For years, animals had been raised for different purposes. Most are cared for as pets while some help in the farm as, for lack of words coming into mind and time for searching in the Internet, beasts of burden. And several others are raised for food -- chickens for their eggs and themselves, cows for their milk and themselves. While a few others are raised to for sports -- horses and dogs for racing, dogs for dog fights, cocks for cock fighting, pigs for fiesta games (where you put oil on the pig and try to catch it inside a muddy arena).

Same can be said for plants, in this case the vegestables. They are raised for various uses - medicine, decorations, and of course as food.

The difference between an animal and a plant is their chance at surviving. Animals can fight back or run away to avoid being eaten or try to be cute so they will be spared. But plants cannot do that. They cannot fight back or run away. While some plants have thorns or poisonous excretions, this can be overcome by a plant eater particularly the inventive man.

If we go by the reason for not eating animals I present earlier, then I can say that it is more cruel to feed on plants for they too are living and breathing (not in the audible manner of course) and because they cannot defend themselves.

Bear with me

Desperate for food?

Be careful where you put them or where you eat them. You might end up like the bear in this video.



Eeeeewww...

Drinking tips: expelling what you ate

I came from a drinking session last night and when I got home, I realized: expelling the foods you ate during a heavy drinking session is not bad at all.

Sure, you will feel terrible for throwing out all the delicious food you just ate. All those sumptuous beer match foods that cost you and your buddies hundreds if not thousands of pesos going to waste is just unacceptable. This, however, has a good site to it. Let us discuss a few subjects in medicine.

I heard that it is our pancreas, and not just our liver, that gets worked up during heavy drinking. A speaker in a television show, a medical doctor, said that our pancreas can process only one type of food at a time. So drinking beer (a malt-based beverage) and eating lots of fatty, oily, and grilled food will make our pancreas work overtime. The doctor said, this increased activity by the gland will cause it to burst come sleeping time, that is if you go to bed shortly after the heavy eating and drinking session. This will result to what we Filipinos refer to as bangugngot or (if I remember it right) acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis.

On the other hand, if the foods and drinks you had during happy hour goes back up and out where it came in to, don't feel sorry. Feel relieved that your pancreas is freed from the torture and you are insured that you get to live another day.

Happy drinking.

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Disclaimer: I did not expel all the food and drinks that my buddies spent hundreds if not thousands on last night. And not even this morning.