Recent content by Galatea

Ohh, I won! Yay, thanks! This was fun -- I loved seeing everyone's great pictures.

Mexico - cebollitas (mm) Cuba - Beny More (musician) Argentina - Perito Moreno glacier & pampas-fed beef Iceland - elves Romania - Carpathian mountains Norway - expensive Morocco - camels Laos - nothin' Philippines - adobo Russia - Pushkin Oman - nothin' Nepal - mountains Palau -...

I haven't really noticed that nerdy guys' preferences are much different from those of non-nerdy guys.

Thank you! I got lucky -- it was snowing very lightly which helped with the lighting and left a powdered sugar-like coating on the statue itself thus improving the color.

The Bronze Horseman in St. Petersburg, Russia (taken March 2009).

Rilke's third poem from his seven phallic poems is kind of awesome and hilarious. (Probably not what you're going for, but I felt compelled to share nonetheless.) Paul Verlaine also wrote a number of erotic poems.

I disagree. I don't think everyone really knows. I certainly didn't know until I decided to become a vegetarian - even when I began, it wasn't for moral reasons. It was simply for health. I didn't even think about what it meant to eat meat until after. It is such a commonly accepted practice...

I can't say I admire hunters more than the average consumer; ignorance is generally better than malicious behavior. I fear anyone who will end a living creatures life for any reason besides minimizing its suffering. Even devout meat eaters feel a twinge in their conscience when they think...

I definitely understand where you're coming from with this. Most menstruating women have to worry about their iron intake quite a bit; I have no idea how close I am to anemia but when it's almost time for my period, I sometimes have what I call "iron crashes". I've actually gotten a good handle...

I wish.. This much is true. I've always been curious what vegan food availability is like in other countries. Here in the US, depending on where you live, there are quite a few yummy vegan convenience foods for sale. Where I live (in Jacksonville, FL), most of the major grocery chains carry...

Not all humans will continue to eat meat. Someone converts to vegetarianism every day, I'm sure (if not more.) In the end, arguing about anything is probably pretty pointless on a discussion board since, very rarely, does it change anyone's mind. Many vegetarians view meat eating (and animal...

From http://www.afpafitness.com/articles/ProteinRequie.htm "The WHO protein figures translate into 56g of protein a day for a (75kg) man, and 48g for a (64kg) woman. The recommendations of the UK Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) are slightly higher, at about 68g a day for...

Hmm.. I like to make fried rice with onions, bell peppers (red and green) and soy sauce. Yum. I could eat avocadoes plain as a meal. Pitas with hummus and a bunch of stirfried vegetables in them.

Meat is, in most cases, unecessary. I voted no.

I'm vegan and was a vegetarian prior to that. So far, I've not encountered any major health problems though I did get somewhat anemic before reading up on iron intake. With any major change in diet, you have to take certain things into account and it sometimes takes time to figure things...