Card said
There's something deeply disconcerting about the philosophy behind the obsessively healthy lifestyle. Being healthy and a desire to be healthy are extremely beneficial things, but it seems like they occupy themselves so much with this lifestyle. Some people exercise constantly, never treat themselves, and just keep filling their lifestyle, so that they can fill out or empty their frames. I understand that "healthy lifestyle" varies from person to person, but I can't wrap my head around people who want to fill their lives and schedules with anything for any reason. I can understand necessity, but I've heard of people who have worked themselves into unhappiness, so that they can be healthier (and therefore happier, which is the irony). Life should be enjoyed and savored, and if that means dying weaker and faster, I'm okay with that. It reaches a threshold where I'd rather live the way I want to and die the way I don't rather than the reverse. "Carpe diem" isn't just YOLO for not stupid people; it's very different, actually. "Carpe" also means to chew slowly and savor. If you're spending your whole life trying to improve your life, what's left to enjoy the new quality? It's like spending your whole life building your PC. When do you get to use it? Those are some very loose and poorly worded statements that I threw together, pay them no heed.
The term for this is
Orthorexia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
Like anorexia, except unhealthily obsessed with health. I rather like eating healthy, but I don't let it consume my life. After a few years of eating healthy, it becomes second nature.
Beatrix said
lol I saw a video that would put PETA to shame. They choose their words very carefully to engage our emotions... Pathos if you will, to get people to switch to a vegan diet. Now, Mike and I are wanting to have a farm with pigs, chickens, cows, goats, and even a water system that gives nutrients to the fish and the fish water gives nutrients to the plants, but the land animals and the fowl will die with some sense of mercy. The fish will suffocate anyways. Would we sell the meat and the eggs? Hell yeah. Some people would eath that shit up.Although, I think buffalo would be a better choice than cows, as they grow quickly and big like a cow with hormone injections and steroids, but I want milk for the household for many, many things.
That's such a boss idea. Make it happen. I'd love to own a few chickens to get fresh eggs, since I eat a crapload of eggs, but I doubts my chickens would like living in NYC.
And yeah, there's a big market for raw/unpasteurized dairy too if you guys get cows. I get my milk delivered to my apartment from upstate/rural New York every few Wednesdays since it's illegal to sell in NY groceries.