Hello there! Remember me? Yes, I'm back and more to come on that later, I'm still gathering my thoughts on what all I want to summarize about my experience with pregnancy, labor, delivery, and first few weeks of my beautifully awesome child's life! Also will give updates on when my fitness come back will be able to start! I have missed you guys and can't wait to catch up on what you have been doing, I know there should be a few extra Ironmen out there about now!!
So let's start my blogging back not by talking about me (GASP) I know, I know. But I saw this new ad that Chipotle came out with posted and loved it but it does bring up a few questions for me. It brings to light the false sense of security we get from seeing the word "natural" on our products and it tries to fill you with warm and fuzzies, but is Chipotle being a little hypocritical with this ad being that they serve meat in their restaurants? Or is a step in the right direction and baby steps towards a solution? As someone else pointed out they did stop putting bacon in their pinto beans. So maybe we should be happy they are trying. I know I am still in the minority out there being vegetarian. But even for people who eat meat wouldn't it be nice to know that the factory farms' practices that have become common place are being looked at and reexamined both for the consumers safety and the animals humane treatment? Or do most people just not care still? Opinions or just think it's a cool ad? I personally like Chipotle and am happy to have vegetarian options I can count on just not sure they can market this correctly.
So opinions? No? Well then what have you been up to? Did you miss me at all? Can't wait to get back to fitness!!!!
Cautiously Audacious "You can quit and no one will care, but you will always know!"
2 comments:
wow lots of opinions, we don't have a Chipotle here so I am not all that familiar with it. I do agree factory farming and fast food in general is bad and chickens on hormones is bad. When 98% of the US is depending on 2% of the US to produce their food for them they can have a loud voice in how it is produced and they should. However sometimes that loud voice comes from people who have no idea what they are talking about, not neccesarily referring to this commercial just in general. It is easy for things to get blown out of proportion or overblown from HUSA and PETA whose real goals really are to end animal agriculture in the US. As people become more and more removed from the family farm they know less and less about where food comes from and how it gets in the market.
We went to all natural beef production a while back and get more money for it and wow what a headache comes with it in the form of extra documentation and paperwork, but so worth it to know what we are producing is a better product for consumers, the problem usually comes in what happens to them after we sell them.
I can repesct people who are vegetarians and I hope you don't think I am attacking you on this just giving you a bit of opinion since you asked for it. :)
In other news welcome back to blogging :)
Thanks for your opinion! I believe some of the groups you mentioned are extremists and those never help no matter what side of the coin you're on. As for being vegetarian or not I chose to do that for various reasons and everyone has their reasons for both. However, I do believe that the average American eats way more meat than they need to and it's the mass production of that meat that has degraded the product and the environment. That's great news that you went all natural does that mean the same as organic? Yes it's good to be back!
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