Do you want to get Radiation Poisoning from your food?

Doug Ford.

The name brings fear to the minds of many people in Ontario.

Doug Ford is the Premier of Ontario, and he is a jerk. A real nasty jerk. He wants to dump nuclear waste in Bruce County, close to the town of Teeswater. The Teeswater River (and the underground aquifer beneath the region) supplies the drinking water to:

• Tens of thousands of people.
• Dairy cows.
• Water for agricultural farming (corn, potatoes, soy beans and more).
• Water for Aquafina bottled water.
• Cattle, pigs, turkeys and chickens. Bruce County is the Beef Capital of North America, but it also produces a lot of other meat products.

If you live Ontario you've eaten food many times from Bruce County. Guaranteed. You've drank the milk. You've eaten the cheese. You've eaten beef, pork, turkey and chicken. You've eaten the corn, the potatoes, the soy products. You've drank Aquafina water.

Even if you are a vegan and don't eat milk and dairy, you should still care where your soy products and other vegetables are grown and where your bottled water comes from.

And that is why you should care.

If you care about what you eat, then you should protect what you eat. Learn more at:

https://www.protectsouthbruce-nodgr.org/

If you care write to Doug Ford. Tweet him. Phone him and leave an angry voicemail.

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How to tell if your Kimchi is Weak

My Korean friends will get this. :)

#1. People only eat 1 piece of your kimchi at a meal. The proper response is eating piece after piece in an effort to try and stop the taste of the previous pieces by drowning it in the taste of a new piece.

#2. Your mother or grandmother tastes your kimchi and then writes you out of their will.

#3. Your mother-in-law complains about how you are not raising your children to be Truly Korean.

#4. Your mother or grandmother sends you a package of their strong kimchi.

#5. Your husband always looks nostalgic when he talks about his mother's kimchi.

#6. Your children don't really understand why they have to have kimchi with every meal and refuse to eat it. "It is mandatory! Now eat your weak punishment!" Children never protest strong kimchi. They already understand it is punishment designed to toughen them up.

#7. White people compliment you on how great your kimchi tastes.




Personal Note

I have been thinking of adding more recipes to this website in the future.

Today for instance I made cornmeal pancakes. They were extremely tasty - and I literally made the recipe up as I went... to prove that I still got it.

You see, I used to make pancakes regularly years ago and would experiment with a variety of different pancake recipes. I eventually got to the point that I could basically make pancakes without any recipe at all and just wing it... and it would still taste good.

However my girlfriend doesn't like it when I do that. She is one of those people who always follows the recipe. She doesn't know how to improvise or make it up as she goes.

Another example, a few days ago I made homemade chocolate ice cream. Normally the recipe calls for heavy cream.

However I know that cream is basically just 25% butter and 75% milk. So I simply made the ice cream using melted butter and milk instead.

And it tastes great.

But don't tell my girlfriend that. She might start worrying about how many calories are in the ice cream...

Now back to the topic of kimchi, I could potentially try making that. However I know from the anecdotal experience of friends that if you don't make your kimchi spicy enough, then you basically just wasted your time.

And unfortunately, many English versions of kimchi recipes reduce the amount of spiciness - which is to say, they ruined the recipe by making it less spicy.

I am therefore looking for a Korean Cooking Class in Toronto - where perhaps I would be able to someday learn how to make Kimchi properly - with the correct amount of spiciness.

If Meat Eaters behaved like Vegans do

I found this to be particularly funny. Having met quite a few vegans who invariably behave like this, it was very amusing to see the opposite as a parody.

If vegans truly wanted to convert people to their diet, they would be better off just being nice to people and stop the whole "holier than thou" approach. Because annoying people just isn't working.

Becoming a Vegan

So I recently decided to become a vegan - partially because I am dating a vegan, but also because I have been veggie-curious for several years now. Not because of ethical reasons, simply because I am getting older and I need to be eating healthier. (According to my research most vegans become vegans because of ethical reasons and that it is a tiny percentage of vegans who do so purely because of health reasons.)

I mean, yes, I like cats. I am very much a cat person, but I really could not care less about chickens, pigs or cows. Does that make me a hypocrite? Maybe. I think I am just practical, and my current decision is based on my health - not the welfare of chickens.

However the problem I am encountering is there isn't a lot of vegan friendly restaurants where I live or near where I work. More than a bit annoying. I had clue that it was so hard to find vegan restaurants in Toronto.

So I tried finding a list of vegan restaurants in Toronto and one of the sites I found was one about real estate, called Vegan Friendly Neighbourhoods in Toronto, which talks about the Vegan Village in Roncesvalles / High Park North.

Vegan Options in the Vegan Village

It is called the Vegan Village because of the sheer number of vegan restaurants, or even raw vegan restaurants like Rawlicious, and also because of the number of vegan / vegetarian grocery stores in the area like The Sweet Potato and others.

So maybe when it comes to finding restaurants I just need to visit the Vegan Village more often.

I have been to Rawlicious before and they have the best smoothies I have ever had at a restaurant. Better even the ones I make at home.

However none of this helps my goal of being able to find vegan food near where I work. I admit there are "a few" places downtown walking distance from where I work, but they are all 10 to 15 minutes away. Which means if I go there then I am spending 20 to 30 minutes walking, and really only have 30-40 minutes to eat and relax. Not much of a lunch break.

There is a cafeteria in my building but they only sell prepackaged salads and apples. That is it.

Vegan Options near the Downtown Core of Toronto

I have heard the sob stories of former vegans and vegetarians who decide to go back to being omnivores just because it is more convenient and practical for them to eat out, eat socially, etc. It apparently has given rise to "Social Omnivores / At Home Vegans", who only eat meat when they're with friends/family/work colleagues, and eat like vegans or vegetarians when they are at home.

Lets call them SOAHVs for short. There might be a more commonly used term for such people, but lets use SOAHVs for now.

I think the issue for SOAHVs is that they tried to go purely vegan or vegetarian, but they couldn't do it properly because there aren't enough restaurants that have vegan/vegetarian options - and not enough purely vegan restaurants for those people who refuse to eat at a place where meat might accidentally touch their food (as if somehow the broccoli becomes just as bad as pork if it just briefly touches the pork). After realizing they are losing an uphill battle against a society that prefers to be omnivores, they give up and decide to go back to being an omnivore whenever they are at any social event, eating out, etc simply because of the convenience.

Although the guy in the comic strip below ordering a porterhouse steak rare seems to have abandoned all hope entirely.