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Bacon!

Chocolate ice cream

Black, no sugar.

Tri-tip is criminally underrated.

No gramlee, you're a moron because you base your decisions on a collection of fairy tales. Of course it's your prerogative to buy or not buy a product; just as it's our choice to point and laugh when you make a fool of yourself in a public forum. You deserve as much respect as someone who claims the world is flat.

Better flavor for Republicans: Breyer's closeted-homo crunch.

Eating no animal products is as silly as eating only animal products.

Religious reasons? Bullshit.
Moral reasons? Fuck you.
Health reasons? See Japan.

Lame bitch, lame diet.

Use cones, f the spoons.

re: Nithya - yes, and the comments would be just as funny. If you decide to live a life of culinary self-deprivation, you deserve to be the object of ridicule.

@geeka - you're oversimplifying the situation and you know it.

"It is well known that some people are able to digest milk while others aren't, and this ability seems to be concentrated in some populations and lacking in others. The usual explanation for this is that in cultures where milk is used regularly, the population has evolved the ability to process it. But, why do some cultures use milk in the first place? A new paper shows that extreme climate conditions are associated with lactose malabsorption (LM), since it may be impossible to maintain cattle at such conditions. More importantly, LM seems to be associated with the presence of several dangerous cattle diseases. Therefore, in those parts of the world where it was not possible to raise cattle safely and efficiently, humans avoided doing so, and hence they did not develop the necessary mechanism for absorbing lactose."

Evolution and Human Behavior
Volume 26, Issue 4 , July 2005, Pages 301-312

Ignoring the easily overcome issue of lactose intolerence, your argument for consuming milk (I like it!) trumps Valefar's asinine "healthy" one. Humans do many things that other animals don't (or can't) - are they all wrong? Anybody who think so is free to turn their computer off, give away all belongings, and wander off in to the woods.

CJ McD,

Do you realize how many people live in poverty? I'm not talking about the US, that's a very small part of the picture - I'm referring to people who make less than $1.25/day. At least one in six people in the world fit that criteria. Of those people, the overwhelming majority are severely undernourished. Millions of children starve to death every year. Do you seriously believe that they can afford to spend more money on food? What's your solution for parts of the world with large populations and very little arable land? We're all aware that this isn't an all-or-nothing philosophy; growing vegetables at home is a good thing if you can do it, and buying foodstuffs (notably fruits and certain vegetables) from local farms at the peak of freshness is an enjoyable luxury, but the ideas you espouse as "world-saving" can't really be applied to most of the planet we live on.

Option 1:
During the whole trip, live in constant fear of unknowingly consuming a tiny amount of delicious and healthy fish, all the while driving companions and hosts crazy with your rude and irritating neurosis.

Option 2:
Stay at home (Japan thanks you.)

Option 3:
Stop being a melodramatic ninny and eat the same crap you enjoy at home - Japan is not on the planet Mars.