Special Diets

     Though I am not vegetarian I like vegetables and vegetarian recipe books because as someone who keeps kosher it makes it easier than using a cookbook for those with no specific diet. I was recently reading a cookbook that included information about being vegetarian or vegan and specifically what they should do when going to a restaurant that is not specifically vegetarian or vegan. It was very eye opening as individual who knows people who keep kosher most of the time but "eat dairy out" . There was a list of treif restaurant chains and  lists of  how they make their more vegetarian items. Often potato french fries are treated which beef tallow or made with meat fat. Even if the oil is vegetable oil they often use the same vegetable oil with meat dishes. They may fry eggs on the same griddle as meat  at the same time just a few inches away. Many pies and cakes contain lard. I would say that even if a person thinks that they are "just" eating dairy out they are "just " eating out fleishig as well because even the dairy stuff gets cooked with fleishig and might even have fleishig in it. I would say that if someone ate dairy "out" at a vegetarian restaurant they would know that it was just dairy but not necessarily kosher dairy. If one opts to eat non- kosher dairy  out don't delude one's self into thinking its "just" dairy. It probably is "just" meat as well.
     

veggie pride parade

i was in union square today which was the end of the line for the veggie pride parade. what is the veggie pride parade you ask? its a parade where everyone dresses up like vegetables or bloody people to celebrate their devotion to the vegan philosophy.

being a non-vegan , meat eating, vegetable lover i took pamphlets and magazines that had some nice pareve recipes.

over the loud speaker people were lecturing the small crowd of people about the evils of dairy and beef.

i missed the annual village halloween parade this year due to rainy weather, so it was fun to see the gruesome costumes today. it adds a whole new dimension to see people dressed as (literally) bloody nurses, doctors and corpses in day light.

some of the vegan propaganda stated that the difference between vegetarianism and veganism is that vegetarianism is a diet and veganism is a philosophy. due to the animal rights aspect of both isms i would say that both qualify as religions. veganism as the ultra-orthodox version . vegetarianism is the conservadox version.