Chocolate

My enemy, my nemesis, my kryptonite, is no longer a struggle for me now. Now that I have found out about the cocoa growing business. Sixty percent of the cocoa beans for chocolate are grown in Ivory Coast. I have just found out that they use slave labor to harvest this crop. By slave labor I mean children as well as adults working from morning to evening, for little pay in horrendously bad conditions---slavery. I was watching MSNBC when I found out this fact. I am not one for getting all my facts from the Internet, but let's face it, it is more assessable when you trying to make a quick point. With that being stated here is an article that explains the chocolate slave labor. I know this article is dated, but it gives a small overview of a big problem. So I'm done with chocolate at this time. And I'm not about to search the world for fair trade chocolate. If I so happen to see it fine, but I'm not going to go searching for it. Now I am vegan, so far so good!!;)

Back from Break

I took an end of the year break from posting on this blog (like I have a fan base or something), but any way I am starting a 10 day vegetable and fruit fast inspired by a group on face book (that never wrote me back, mind you). Went to the Walmart and bought about $30.00 worth of veggies and fruits. Got home and pulled out the old Jack LaLanne juicer. I haven't used this juicer in a while. I cut up my vegetables and fruit and then turn on the juicer. Fail. It would not turn on. Now I was saying to myself, is it not working because  I had not used it in awhile. So then I start  to get mad because I paid a pretty penny for this juicer. So I reconstruct the the thing, fail again. So then I reconstruct it once more after reading the directions ( I hate reading directions) and it starts to work. I juice my fruit and veggies and end up with.

Looks tasty huh? It was enough to fill 2 3/4 16.9 oz. water bottles Well it is not the best taste in the world, but it tastes okay, I can deal with this for 10 days. This drink did not take long to start cleansing my body, if you know what I mean. It did not even take 20 minutes for it to start cleansing.The only thing I don't enjoy about this process is cleaning up the waste. But other than that I think I can hang with this for ten days. Whadayathink?