I want to be able to trust the meat suppliers in this country but I simply can’t bring myself to. I applaud those who are able to name Shadow and put him down for their Thanksgiving dinner later in the year.<\/span><\/p>\n I miss lamb and rice, curry goat…I miss all the good stuff! But until I get to a point where certain health issues or the environment (or spinach, e. coli paranoia) proves too difficult to keep it up – I guess I’ll have that hamburger.<\/span><\/p>\n But for now, I have enough faith that my experiences these last few years have given me enough confidence that I can manage it. I do hope to live in an area where meat is available to those like me; wanting to relive the days of old and fry up something good. It is then, I’ll tell the stories of my attempts and experiences of living in an meatless world shrouded by meat-eaters and those without regard for us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Have faith in your choices\u00a0and happy nomming!<\/strong> This blog will be here and a personal document space for any future habits during my journey as a ‘meatless.’<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I first made the choice to go meatless, there was an intent that I wouldn’t do it forever. I do very much want a nice hot dog and grilled burger. Let’s be honest, the alternatives can only do so much if your heart’s not in it…no veggie burgers allowed! I want to be able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29,28,52],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86P34-ai","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginalashley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Whatever](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/raginalashley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sheep-275928_1280.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1\")
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