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My glands secrete enzymes for digesting both plant and animal food - therefore I feel I should eat both My entire digestive system is typical of an omnivore. Plants are difficult to digest, cows and sheep have several stomachs to ferment it first --- horses have an alimentary canal that is very, very, verry long and even so the food is so poorly digested that other animals eat horse feces --- rabbits and deer eat their own feces because one pass isn't enough to digest the plant matter (I for one is not going to do that) ;) If you eat 100% grass fed beef it's actually better than veggies for the environment. The cows can live on grasslands consuming nothing but what mother nature provides. Conversely: To grow crops on grasslands it takes huge amounts of precious water, cancerous herbicides and artificial fertilizer. In addition to that, according to Cornell University and the Environmental Defense Fund the fertilizer industry emits 100 times more methane than all the cow burps and farts combined. --- When you "finish" the beef on feed lots full of corn, it's the corn farming that hurts the planet, not the cows https://earther.gizmodo.com/just-one-tiny-industry-may-emit-more-methane-than-epa-h-1835376030 Seven essential nutrients humans can't get from plants (1) Vitamin B12 (2) Creatine (3) Carnosine (4) Vitamin D3 (5) Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) - the omega 3 fatty acids you get from plants don't convert to this (6) Heme iron - your digestive system doesn't absorb the iron from plants and (7) Taurine --- you can look these up here https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-get-from-plants?slot_pos=article_1&utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=authoritynutrition&utm_content=2019-11-07&apid=#11 If it weren't for predators, there would be no animal life left on the planet. We wouldn't be here. The herbivores would have eaten us out of house and home. Take the Marine Iguana in the Galapagos for an example. It once ate terrestrial plants. But there were no predators on their island to keep the numbers in check so they ate 100% of the food on the island that they could digest. And when new seedlings sprouted they were immediately eaten. Rather than starving to death, they started eating seaweed. The water is cold, and the iguanas are cold blooded. They ate and then laid in the sun to dry. Pretty soon all the close to shore seaweed had been eaten so the iguanas have to dive deeper and deeper to get food. Then they have to sit in the sun until their body temperatures rise enough to do it again. Those who can't hold their breath long enough and those who are down long enough for their system to get too cold both die, and this controls their numbers. Luckily there are predators in the ocean or all the seaweed would have been eaten by the herbivore fish, but the carnivorous fish keep their numbers in check. But of course there are those who believe the propaganda about veggie diets being healthier, and I suppose for some that might be. After all if one diet book worked for everybody, there would only need to be one diet book. These people are usually not prozeletyzers. Then there are those who are on a well meaning but misguided mission to save the animals. Some of these are the ones who try to diet shame you. Like all religious zealots, they want the entire world to abide by their set of values. I have some vegan friends who don't preach. I'm on a very meat heavy diet (was Atkins and now called Keto). We can meet in restaurants that server both and there is no preaching going on from either side. We both recognize each other for what we truly are, picky eaters. IMO the media propaganda is being spread by the corporate farming industries. They would love to plow up the grasslands to increase their profits. After all, they know the US Government will buy enough of their product to keep the prices up (price supports). The Everglades in Florida is a very poor place to grow sugar cane. I read in the Palm Beach Post that the US government pays them $4 billion of our tax dollars every year to buy enough "surplus" sugar to keep the retail prices for sugar in the US the highest in the world. We need to fight back against the vegan propaganda or there will eventually be no more meat to keep us healty. Insights and incites by Notes

Guatemala Connection - Hubert Laws Great flute player and a nice cut from a very good album.

Fry it. With becan, every day is TGIF!!!

"My Boyfriend's Back" - The Angels

I like Beethoven symphonies the best, especially 3, 4 and 7. #5 has a great first movement but the rest doesn't thrill me (it's still genius but not my cup of tea). For me at this stage in my life, symphonic music starts with Beethoven's 3rd, what I consider the very beginning of the romantic era. But what I love best is Dvorak, Suk, Shostakovitch, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Borodin, Smetana, Amirov, Saint-Sans, Vaughan Williams, Granados, Albeniz, Sarasate, de Falla, Rodrigo, and quite a few others. The more emotional they are, the better I tend to like them. The darker and heavier they are also gain listening points for me. I guess it's the Heavy Metal of the Classical world Like this one: Shostakovitch: Symphony #7, "Lenningrad" / USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgney Svetlanov conductiong

Sounds like decomposing

Lucky Man - E.L.P. I'm feeling like a lucky man today. I make my living doing music and nothing but music.

There is only one way. Put it in a pan and turn the heat on. Microwaving, broiling, and all those other methods are for sissies.

Starship Trooper - Yes

Be afraid -- be very afraid

I heard they prefer virgin vegans.

Wandering Spirit Song - Herbie Hancock

Aged Gouda is always better with becan!

That's just creepy. I know some might find this sexy, and that's OK, but it's a turn-off for me.

Fresh Garbage - Spirit

I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes some classic psychedelic music

A; Sure, just list the tune for those of us who might not have had the pleasure of listening to that album. Also for me who plays albums and doesn't always know the names of the tunes (especially jazz instrumentals) Notes

Don't throw stones!!! - - - - - - - - - Now if a woman is getting dressed at night so that the mirror is reversed and a man sees her, he is a voyeur. If a man is getting dressed at night so the mirror is reversed and a woman sees him, he is an exhibitionist. Either way the man is to blame. That's the law.

I gigged on Christmas. Played music for a bunch of crazy French Canadians at an RV Resort. They danced all night, applauded, told us how much they loved our music, shook our hands, hugged us, gave us that European kiss on each cheek, paid us, and sent us home with food. As in all my gig days, I didn't eat much, and I seldom drink alcohol. I never on gig days. I spent time with my sisters last week knowing that I would be gigging. Some of Leilani's family is coming down from 'up north' today for the weekend (including one from Australia) so that should be fun. And fun is the most important part of life. Insights and incites by Notes

The first symphony on my disk. Different cover but it might even be the same recording, as they put the same recording on different collections. Szell was a great conductor and the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the world's finest. I have a disk with #4 and #7 on the same disc with the King Stephen Overture tacked on the end. It's a Sony Classics Special Edition. Notes

I read a report that when medical students dissect cadavers as part of their training to become surgeons, they always know the people who have tattoos because their lymph glands are black. The lymph nodes are trying to filter the impurities out of the body. I read that this also compromises the ability of the lymph system to do it's proper job. Now whenever I see someone with a lot of tats, I can't help but thinking that they have black lymph nodes. When I was young, my mom refused to let me get a tattoo. "Thanks, mom." By the time I was old enough to choose for myself, I was on the road in a rock band. The music and girls were too much of a distraction for me to even think about ink.

Right now, it's not on UTube, but on my CD player Beethoven Symphonies #4 and #7 - The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting. Great renditions of my two very favorite Beethoven symphonies on one CD. Because life is too short to enjoy only one genre of music.

I celebrate life every day!!! I wake up in the morning and everything else is extra. And for most of my life, there have been splendid extras. On Christmas (yesterday) I was lucky enough to gig for a part of crazy French Canadians at a huge RV Resort. While it was in the 70s (Fahrenheit) here we played songs like Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow for all their friends still in Quebec. The dance floor was full to the end, except for a few of the half-dozen seasonal songs we played (nobody dances to Jingle Bells or Sleigh Ride) but they all sang along. I even learned how to pronounce joyeux Noël. (The French have a very different system of phonics from the US English) ;) At the end of the night they paid us and sent us home with food cooked especially for us. This morning I've got the windows open, it's in the low 70s with a gentle breeze and I'm typing to my friends. Yep. Life is the perfect way to spend the time of day. Insights and incites by Notes

Bonnie Raitt - Runaway Oops! Almost did it again! How about a nice psychedelic classic. The arrangement is quite creative incorporating some of the original Motown "Funk Brothers" figures and interpreting them in a very over-the-top manner. "You Keep Me Hanging On" - Vanilla Fudge

"Sleep When I'm Dead" - The Cure