thefrenchcrayon

that's okay, he's actuallynotazoophile!

The audio of most porn I came across makes me simultaneously want to laugh and hide my face in shame. You should compile a 'best of porn', ranked on the tolerability of the voices and dialogues! :) I'm sure I'd not be the only one to cheer you for it.

I love edx -- so many of their courses have helped me completely re-frame my opinions and values by giving me knowledge I couldn't have found in the mess of the Internet otherwise!

About your frustrations, here's my take on it:

Veganism is not this flexible and comfortable happy zone that reductionism is; it's a strict moral compass, and it's completely different to what most people were led to believe through education and culture. We're creatures of habits and traditions. And I think it also makes us underestimate ourselves and our capacity for change. To be veg means to make a commitment, and some people think they don't have it in them anyway ("I feel bad, but I don't think I'd be able to give up...!"). And of course, they couldn't, not when they decide that they couldn't.

But they can. They're just selling themselves short. One year ago, I couldn't have envisioned a meal without meat. I re-framed my thinking a hundred times since then and tried different 'solutions' and ways. And now I just feel very satisfied about it all. I feel happy and in control -- and I imagine that, because of the unfamiliar 'commitment', people who don't try it see it more as a prison and a radical sacrifice than a 'freeing' decision.

Also, lack of information on many issues. For instance: I thought that leather was a by-product of meat, so that it was going to be there anyway. Not that it was produced horribly in Asia, endangering humans, destroying the environment with chemicals, and being insanely cruel to animals...! The more you know and all.

Hi! I think that making nutrition facts as accessible as possible is amazing! Thank you for your work! (Is that a 'thing' of Cornell's School of Agriculture? The online version of Cornell's 'Ethics of Eating' class pushed me to rethink and change my eating habits half a year ago, which I'm now very grateful for. )

The questions that I humbly (but avidly) ask:

1) About "meat defamation" trial and such -- it is my understanding that the meat lobby has a tight grip on the government (hence why we get 'nutritional advice' recommending to eat more animal products than we should) which means that the government could not recommend officially that the population eats less meat without facing some consequences. Never mind cutting subsidies and such.

Do you ever see this changing? How did your role in the trial impact your personal life and where did you see larger repercussions?

2) How do you feel about the claim that getting nutritious food is nowadays a privilege of people with a good enough income, as people under the poverty line don't have the time, money or resources (or knowledge) to get this good alimentation?

3) About the other two questions: do you have ideas about projects that people could put into motion or support to help on those two issues (poverty and meat-lobbying)?

Those were things that were on my mind lately; I'd really be happy to have a brilliant professor's mind help shed some light on them!

Have a nice day!

Thank you, kind lady! Speaking of recommendations, have you read Blindness by Jose Saramago? It's the story of blindness suddenly spreading through a city like an epidemic and all the social chaos ensuing. I've heard much good about it, and it's been in my reading list for quite a while.

How are your book-reading habits like, by the way? Do they have many books in braille? Do you get eBooks or audio books? Are there some books you really want to read but that the only copy is a traditionally printed book and do you ever force your boyfriend to read it out loud to you?

edit: also, also, if I have an inserted link, does your program notify you of this? does it read it as code?