Comments on: links for 2006-01-10 http://www.vegblog.org/archive/2006/01/09/links-for-2006-01-10/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Danielle http://www.vegblog.org/archive/2006/01/09/links-for-2006-01-10/#comment-2194 Danielle Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:49:26 +0000 http://new.vegblog.org/2006/01/09/links-for-2006-01-10/#comment-2194 Regarding the article on the smell of cooking meat, it's the seasonings you smell, not necessarily the flesh being cooked. What REALlY smells vile is cooking fish, no matter what they put on it; with fish, you can smell the flesh cooking, and it nauseates me. I also hate the smell of fast food emanating from a bag in someone's hand or wafting through the office. My theory with long-term vegetarians not being repulsed by the smell of cooking meat is that we are societally trained to think it smells good, but our logical minds think, yeah, it smells good, but unfortunately, that's a dead, mutilated animal cooking. Responding to cooking smells is only human; choosing not to eat the food that is being cooked because it involves exploitation is what makes us vegan. I'm lucky that there are pizza joints in my area that don't charge extra to use the Follow Your Heart. Regarding the article on the smell of cooking meat, it’s the seasonings you smell, not necessarily the flesh being cooked. What REALlY smells vile is cooking fish, no matter what they put on it; with fish, you can smell the flesh cooking, and it nauseates me. I also hate the smell of fast food emanating from a bag in someone’s hand or wafting through the office.

My theory with long-term vegetarians not being repulsed by the smell of cooking meat is that we are societally trained to think it smells good, but our logical minds think, yeah, it smells good, but unfortunately, that’s a dead, mutilated animal cooking. Responding to cooking smells is only human; choosing not to eat the food that is being cooked because it involves exploitation is what makes us vegan.

I’m lucky that there are pizza joints in my area that don’t charge extra to use the Follow Your Heart.

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