Protein

 

“The American Way of Life is non-negotiable”.

George H.W. Bush

No pretty pictures today.  I am sitting at my multi use table (I suppose that it is technically a “kitchen table” but it looks out the widow at the courtyard and the blue sky, so it gets used for just about everything) and pondering the way that thing are going and treasuring the idea that I might be able to avoid most of the mess that seems to be heading our way.

Look, maybe I wasn’t cut out to be a Jain.  I am too much of an opportunistic omnivore to ignore meat.  Kill a plant to eat, kill an animal to eat, sorry folks, but it is where you draw the line.  My line is just the other side of primates.  Bushmeat in Africa is barbaric.  Those folks are our cousins.  Everything else is just prey.

So today is a quick discussion of my favored protein sources.  My radically diminished consumption of lamb and beef are not for some ridiculous moral posturing.  They are kept at arm's length  because they are ridiculously “overpriced” in the amount of CO2 that they produce.  They are also ridiculously overpriced in dollar terms as well.  

So I now tend toward pork, tempeh, and TVP.  During the next couple of years, I have a hunch that I will be drifting more and more toward the tempeh and TVP.  Again, this isn’t because of some high-falutin’ moral crusade, it is just the way the cookie crumbles.  

The graphs above are generated by Elon’s pet project.  My only caveat is that the price of tempeh is probably reflected as the overpriced nonsense sold in stores.  I can assure you that if you spend a little time and make it yourself, the cost goes way down

The times are ‘a changin.