Identity is everything these days. There may be many lines to read between here!

Before we begin, I decided that a half was a better idea. I’ll let the beer work though my system. Even more importantly, I don’t want to be stuck in a room with other people when I really need the loo.

I’m not a vegan. Although I do think it is a good idea. Or do I think being vegeratian is a good idea. Or do I think being an ethical omnivore is a good idea? I like butter and think it is much better that eating a buttery spread made in a factory, opposed to butter made from factory farmed milk. So, what I do is buy what looks like it hasnt been. I do this because butter is best. The same goes for cheese. And I don’t want tp give these up.

I think I should be vegitarian. For the most part I am, except for the odd chicken, and recovered meat in tins of soup. What I’m not going to do is beat myself up about this. And when I visit someone who serves me meat, I will eat it and say than you, because on the whole I’ve reduced my meat consumption.

The problem with eating meat is that animals have character. Looking at a few photos of my startlings will show you that. There’s a word for giving animals human characteristics, which I can’t recall at the moment, but that doesn’t matter. We use it in a way to say that we are projecting human feelings and characterstics on to animals where they don’t exist. But they do and some day everyone will realise that.

It does feel better identifying as vegan. I’m not, but it feels better. These days, you can identify as something eventhough you’re not. I won’t be upset or offended if someone calls me out for being a fake, or making a mockery of the whole identification thing that we have these days. All I can say is try it. I feel better about the world already.

Avoiding the news and staying away from Twitter has given me a bit of freedom again. I can write about what’s floating around in my head. Documenting the news was never what I was planning to to. I have a sense of freedom again. I’m even wathing the word count!