Hey!

Just a quick note today as I am on my way out the door to Pangea! Two things:

1. How is the 9-A-Day Challenge going for you?? Here is my tally from yesterday:

• 1 banana in my morning smoothie (some of you have asked for smoothie recipes – I’ll do a post on this soon!)
• 1/2 serving swiss chard in my smoothie
• 2 cups of salad for lunch
• 1 smallish tomato in my sandwich
• 1 apple snack
• 2 serving veggies in my Lotus dinner

So that’s 7 1/2 servings – I didn’t make it!!

IRREGARDLESS (heh heh don’t worry I KNOW that is incorrect I just think it’s funny   ), I think I did pretty well. It’s too bad the two homemade peanut butter cookies I inhaled after dinner don’t count as veggies! Anywho, today is a new day. I’m off to a good start with four servings under my belt (literally) before noon.

2. There’s a vegan myth I’d like to dispel, and that is that VEGANS ARE PERFECT.
It’s just not true.
While it might seem that way because often times you’ll hear vegans ranting about the injustices that are happening to animals,
it might SOUND like we are on the high horse, so to speak.
Or like vegans are saying “your food isn’t good enough for me!”

The myth that vegans are perfect – or THINK they are perfect – couldn’t be further from the truth.
Heck, I just realized yesterday that my Morningstar Farms veggie bacon and sausage contains egg whites!
I’ve been railing against the egg industry and here I am eating eggs! Am I a hypocrite? Or just lame because I didn’t read the ingredients?
And YES I have leather shoes that I bought when I wasn’t thinking about what happens to cows in order to make those shoes.
Should I get rid of them? I haven’t. Is that “bad?” I don’t know.

So my point is, we’re not perfect.
And trying to “catch” a vegan being imperfect really doesn’t change anything anyway – the animals are still suffering. The environment is still being damaged. Our meat, dairy, and eggs are still killing us.

As Collen Patrick-Goudreau says,

Just because you can’t do everything, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do anything.
DO SOMETHING.