2017 Lent diet

Last year 2016, during Lent,
we used the lovely short course of "40 Days in the Word". (Rick Warren)

This year 2017, Lent,
the church here only suggested us to do 40 good things.

Though I do not eat meat from 4 legged animals & 2 legged animal,


I love good seafood, fresh fishes 🐟...


So,  I decided to stop eating fish.
And I also attended a VegFest for the first time.
:) 

Lots of interesting things there.
Like a parallel universe.

I am not a vegan yet.
(It will take a very high IQ,
a deep deep love of animals,
a very very compassionate heart,
lots of resources, support, determination, strong will power ...
to be a vegan.)
 
This period,
my meals will be a variations and rota of vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan.

confession of my diet about Seafood

I am learning to be
 & aspired to be a
 vegetarian, vegan,
raw vegan.

Not quite yet.☺
🍣🍤🐟🍥🍢🍌

I still love chocolate, cakes, seafood.

With all I have read about the problems with modern mass-produced meat,

it is easy to ditch flesh/meat
 with 4 legged animals which have
heart, brains, eyes, mouth, ears;
emotions, feelings,
mother-offspring-ties
& games/poultry/fowl.

I am saving myself from anti-biotics, growth hormones,
GMO & accumulated pesticides herbicides, toxins, & cruelty.

Ocassionally I also read about water pollution, too.

So, for the time being, I am trying to choose seafood
which are

not farmed,
not from Pacific Ocean,
not from known polluted rivers & deltas (eg, Vietnam, PRC China).
not frozen if possible,
not defrozed if possible.
not huge size fishes 
    which are higher up in food chain
not crayfish and those 
    which feed near polluted rubbish/debris. 
not turtoise or turtle types. 

For health.  

Not expensive.
Cheaper than getting fish & chips
when I buy relatively  fresh ones
and boil at home,
serve with noodle, etc.

Of course, when I eat out,
 there is not control over
 the sources or types of seafood
 in the shops or restaurants.

Not sure when I can get over
 this Pescetarianism stage.


I know that the 
evolve stages/levels
 more or less like this:

carni vore

omni vore

flexi tarian

Pesce tarian

ocasional vege tarian (twice a month / once a week etc etc)

vege tarian

vegan , and herbi vore

fruit arian

Liquid arian (juice, water)

super long term fasting / Breath arian

Basically I would like to respect the original design of the
design director as listed in the blue print
Genesis 1:29

(I do feel uneasy buying or eating seedless produce.
 There is no long term study on the effect of eating food with the
reproductive gene shut-down, that includes some GMO )

Fish lemon sole

Lemon sole

I usually remove all those "paper" bag and wrapings,
just boil the piece of fish...

Today I served
half with the butter,
half with a bit of corrianda,
soy sauce, e.v. olive oil, sesame oil.

I am trying to choose as careful as I can.
This is not farmed.
Not from PRC or Vietnam or Pacific ocean.
Line-caught.

Do the management or
people in catering or
food production/retail
know about
endocrine disruptive chemicals?

FISH.....

I love seafood, especially authentic Japanese sashimi, etc.
 For cooked ones, eels, cods, trouts, haddocks,mackerels, salmons,
fresh baby mussels, fresh oysters, crabs, crayfish, prawns, etc.

For British fish & chips,
I remove the outer batter, which only served as a protective layer for cooking and preserving the juiciness of the fish from the oil. 

Just eat the white fish.

Like many people, I have been eating red meat for  a few decades. 

Not easy to switch to vegetarian or vegan over night. 

But I have decided to gradually change my diet. 

I want to live longer healthy life.

Ever heard of "semi-vegetarian"?
LOL
Pescetarian eat also seafood.
Pollotarian eats also game/poultry.
Pollo-pescetarian also eat seafood and poultry, that is mostly white meat.
Not vegetarian but maybe transitional steps? 

First I had tried my best to stop eating the flesh of four-legged animals.

Especially those which eyes, face, expressions, emotions, brain and heart, even tears.

I can reduce game/poultry (chicken) to almost once a week.

p.s.
Have you watched the extremely popular lecture by Gary Yourofsky on Youtube?
xxxx thousands people watched that already. 
Many people start considering changing diet because of that.