Gaia Dies A Little Every Time You Eat a Hamburger, Eco-Sinner!

I ranted about this long ago. But this issue just won't go away. Hoity-toity, morally superior do-gooders keep badgering, hectoring, lecturing, and generally making pests of themselves because some of us simply refuse to give up eating meat.

There was that New York Times whine.

There was that United Nations finger-pointing.

Now there is a new round of eco-pietistic anti-meat propaganda from Time magazine.

Do meat-opponents seriously think that they can turn meat-lovers into vegetarians (or, worse, vegans) by simply repeating their lectures nonstop until they sermonize us into submission? If they do, they've got another think coming. They clearly have no idea what real meat-lovers are like. THIS meat-lover, for instance, will eat burgers, Mongolian beef, and souvlaki whenever she darn well pleases. I don't care what anybody says. You think that Gaia doesn't like meat? That's because she's never tasted my completely awesome stir-fried beef with snow peas, water chestnuts, and fresh shiitaki mushrooms.

You know what? I've arbitrarily decided to give up reading any more of this anti-carnivore stuff. I have recently found some interesting alternative reading material. Wanna see? You know you want to!

Loud and proud.

There's a website too.

Golly, I feel like running out to a Brazilian or Argentinian restaurant RIGHT NOW just to be rebellious.

Oh, by the way, do you know what one of my favorite salads is? A bed of baby arugula and spring greens with plenty of tomatoes, a splash of good vinaigrette, some black pepper, and . . . thin slices of steak. Aw, YEAH!

(Dinner tonight actually consists of Korean ramen, but that's not the point...)