assigned entry # 5 pink slime

I've seen pictures roaming around the internet about the pink slime. I never knew exactly what it was but now i can totally see the issue. The fact that the FDA approved this for use in schools is honestly quite sickening. The video states that these are the parts of the animal that are used for dog food. Really? Dog food is now okay to feed to our children? or ourselves? I saw a picture of the McDonald's version of the pink slime they use to make their chicken nuggets. It literally just looked like pink toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube in that obscure shape of a chicken nugget. It was gut wrenching. I used to love those chicken nuggets. I used to eat at places like McDonald's all the time. As I got older the food started taking more of toll on me. When i was in high school i could eat 2 big macs and large friend and still have room for some chicken nuggets. If i tried that now i would probably fall into a coma for a month.I understand that it's part of getting older but the change in food regulations has to play part in this too. Had I seen the pink slime making my chicken nuggets i probably would have boycotted those places a long time ago.

Assigned entry #4 food inc.

Overall the food inc. video was very informative. It kind of made me weary of what I'm actually eating. My family is from Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Bulgaria to be specific). Though we haven't seemed to e very religious lately, we are Eastern Orthodox. When my dad was alive we would celebrate Christmas and Easter every year by getting a lamb for a feast. Now I don't mean we went to to the store and bought a rack of lamb or a leg of lamb. We would literally go to my dad's friends house, pick out a live lamb, take it home and my dad and my uncle would"prepare" it for dinner the day before Easter. As a child I was sad at first because my pet lamb that I'd get every year would always "run away" or "jump the fence" but as I grew older. I'd help them. I eventually became kind of numb to the whole process.It was tradition and it had to do with Jesus being the "Lamb of God". Once my dad passed away and my uncle moved back to Bulgaria it only took a few years for us to settle the tradition down. Lamb has just been too hard to find lately. Honestly the lamb you can buy at the store or a butcher shop somewhere doesn't even compare to the fresh, untainted, naturally raised lamb we would have every year. Even though it may seem cruel to some people. We were never mean or malicious to the animal. They would have a good week prior to their end. they roamed my back yard, ate our grass for us. There was no mistreatment of the animal unlike the images of the animals in the video. The chickens being to large to walk. The cows being moved by fork lifts. Not to mention the actual living conditions of the animals. Stuffed into cages and pens with no room to move. up to there bellies in their own shit. We wonder why people get infections from food and this really answers it.

WTF do I do?

Alright, as I mentioned in my previous entries, I got married and divorced a few years ago.In that time I've been very "stand-offish" when it comes to getting emotionally attached to girls. I kinda gave myself a set of standards and have been sticking to them to avoid getting screwed over or hurt again. Yes, ladies I said hurt. Guys do tend to get emotionally attached to you even if it doesn't always seem like it. Anyways. Last month I spent almost my entire birthday week with a girl I've known for awhile. We've always had a good chemistry, but she was dating this other guy for a year or so up until last August. So the break up was pretty fresh still when we started spending more time together. I knew this going in. What I wasn't counting on was how awesome this girl was. I knew she was fun from us being friends but the more time we spent together the more I started to develop these strange emotions that I haven't felt in forever. I've more or less come to face the reality that we are dating. Nothing has been made official. I don't introduce her as my girlfriend nor does she introduce me as her boyfriend. However we do call each other "babe" all the time. We text and snap chat almost all day everyday (aside from the fact our sleep schedules are a bit different). We have way too many inside jokes together. We've started including ourselves in each others plans automatically.She's going out of town this weekend and I can honestly say I will miss her. It kind of pains me to say that. We've talked about the fact that we both obviously have feelings for each other but given how our last relationships have gone we are both kind of nervous to get involved in anything too serious. At the moment we are just enjoying each others company and continuing to have these goofy inside jokes and laugh all the time. I've spent my life telling myself i need to find something i like and hold on to it. So it is hard for me to not want to hang on to this girl because in all honesty I haven't had any desire to hold onto any other ones that I've met in recent years. However understanding that she's just now going through the "screw relationships" phase that i was in for the last two years, I don't want to put any pressure on her to do anything she's not ready to do. Even though I care about this girl and don't want to lose her, I feel like both of us would kind of panic if we got involved in anything serious. So with that being said i don't know what to do. Any advice? anyone?