Hell’s Kitchen
“Where’s The Beef?”
That’s the question that Chef Gordon Ramsay was asking his chefs this week on Hell’s Kitchen. As a 44 year vegetarian I found it quite interesting to see these professional chefs all stumped by Chef Ramsay’s use of soy product rather than dead flesh; Chicken, Beef and Sausage. If you missed it, click HERE.
Over the years I have witnessed an enormous change in the reactions I get when saying that I don’t eat meat. They have gone from, “Oh my God, what do you eat?” to “I wish that I could do that.” I cannot begin to tell you how many times I hear, “I tried that once.” When I hear that I say, “Just do it; trying doesn’t cut it.”
The benefits of a meat free diet are many. Besides never getting sick and having clog free arteries, I wake up every day with a boundless degee of energy that lasts well into the night.
And, adopting a vegetarian diet is the single most important thing you can do to reduce your personal impact on the environment. It is the fastest path to reducing global warming with no negative impacts. Raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined. Most of these gases come from animal manure! Now that Stinks!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I saw that show. While I am certain that Chef Ramsay had no intention of promoting vegetarianism, that’s exactly what he did. We do not need to eat an animal; that’s a proven fact, and to discover that food tastes just as good (even better) without doing so should help a lot of people make the decision to stop it.
I’m sure that there are people out there that are compassionate enough that they would never kill an animal, yet have tolerated this senseless and shameless industry out of sheer ignorance. We are no longer cave people, nor is this the wild west. It’s time to be civilized and healthy.