Chapter 32 (1/2)
CHAPTER 32
“Did you know that:
1) To manufacture 1 calorie of beef protein, 78 calories of oil are used; Yet, to grow 1 calorie of soybean, only 1 calorie of oil is required to be used If you persevere in being a vegetarian and not a carnivore, you will be contributing to the conservation of the world’s decreasing natural resources that cannot be regenerated
2) Did you know that to manufacture animal protein, 3 to 15 times more water is used up than to etarian, you will help humanity conserve precious water natural resource
3) If you knew that in order to rains need to be feed Why don’t you eat the soybean and grain directly That way you can save on theneeded to produce beef Contribute to the protection of the environment
4) If you knew that in order to have more pastures to increase nu down forests and rain forests The carbon dioxide on earth is filtered through these trees If you persevere in being a vegetarian, we can protect the forests and purify the atetables can offer all the nutrition we need
6) Do you know that aetables Thus, there are higher aricultural cheetables For example, pesticide and herbicide
7) Do you know that, in order to raise better anis tosteroids, antibiotics, and hormones Think about it, if you love to eat le day
8) Think about all those parasites and anisms that cause diseases on the body of animals that can harm the health of hureatly surpasses that of vegetables
9) Place a white radish and a drumstick outdoors, at the same time, for an entire day See which one willit
10) Medical studies have proven that eatingheart disease
11) Vegetables can help prevent cancer Right now, everything found to prevent cancer, Vitamin C, B-17, Beta Carotene, and NDGA, all co ens
12) Vegetables can decrease illnesses, osteoporosis, kidney stone, gall stone, diabetes, all kinds of sclerosis illness, arthritis, acne, obesity blood poisoning
13) As a result, you will live longer As you live longer, you can also save on a lot of etarians save enerally lower than anietarians’ IQs are higher than carnivores People fro rustic, it cannot be a long term solution”
16) Consider ethics: Protect anietarian Society: Care about your body, care about the animals, care about the environ district N Street Nus once a week Phone nu
I lived in a one bedroo It cost 2000 a raduate students The landlord had two apartot hai Therefore, it was rented out to me It was small, but was brand new and clean It had a kitchen and bathroom completely installed
Every day, when I opened e advertisements Before, I would throw these advertiselance But, recently life was rather depressing It was boring enough forand then, whether I needed theoods
Since co the auction handbook for Xiao Guan After coed it for 10,000 I took it readily I suddenly realized that money was very important I also really neededLi Chuan and didn’t take life seriously Naturally I also didn’t take money seriously Now, Li Chuan wanted me to move on How could Imoney, I also needed a way to live
These past several years, I lived in a muddle My daily life was both clear and orderly, yet completely chaotic The clear and orderly part was because I was still ress and was dedicated to my work in an attempt to prove that I hadn’t failed The co for work or studying, I would immediately sink into absent-mindedness sink into my memories, into the middle of this boundless spiral Therefore,me extremely tired My time was broken up into small parts Each part was a half hour interval This way, I didn’t have superfluous tia class three times a week Each time 60 ht After yoga, everyone sometiether Afterwards, I would go to the sauna After twentyThe yearly membershi+p for the sports center was very expensive, so I used it as ht or nine o’clock by the tiot home I would be extremely tired and would quickly fall asleep If I couldn’t sleep, I would drink beer and nibble at chicken wings Or I would go eat lamb kebabs at the sers On the weekends, I would go clubbing I didn’t go to just any clubs I like to go to the one called “Bohemia” the most, that had a semi-salon characteristic to it where o to I went there for three years and was fale close friend I loved going there because it allowed sood drinks, and was decorated in e was dark and noisy The smell of patchouli oil permeated the air The eyes of the wo hair per around their wrists and necks The conversations were all very refined Froo to (Emile) Zola, from (Charles) Baudelaire to (Arthur) Ri… Of course not all discussions were about them Men would also talk about women and women, men Or recite poetry I didn’t take part in any of these I justcoffee and alcohol as if I was a suffering author If I saw anyone I kneould chat for a while as it suitedas “Soul Mate” (知音 est” was mentioned within an hour, the battle would terminate immediately
I don’t knohy I lost all interest in associating with hbors or coworkers, I would maintain a certain distance from them I would participate in some social activities and behave politely Apart from this, I wouldn’t say more than I needed to nor take oal was to hide my deficiencies, work hard to earn
Despite this, I still had one or two free nights every week It less Li Chuan, was I only living for Li Chuan? Trapped by e tears as face wash — is this the situation I was in? No! I needed to break away fro me I needed to exist for athat was a nobler purpose in my life until I saw that advertisement
In this world, there wasn’t just a Li Chuan There were endangered animals There were exhausted natural resources too And, there was a polluted at over!
I wanted to protect anietarian Society member
From that ad, I called the nu” (Palace) A pleasant baritone voice caetarian etarian food We get together and chat once a week to exchange our vegetarian knowledge Each tith
“That’s right, we have our own activities roo knowledge”
“You should coht”
That Nan Gong was really called Nan Gong At first I thought it was an alias
“I a Liu Ru” I was admitted by a medium statue man with ordinary looks and around thirty His coetic His voice was great and deep
“I aetarian?”
“Now…I’ to head towards it now”
“That’s not a problem, ill help you”
“I quite like to eat uilty”
“The flier is used to spread the word It’s not that severe Hehe” He said, “We have many roup activities Everyone co All of us coetarians We have nothing else in coetarian all the time like we’re a pack of herbivorous dinosaurs”
He invitedwater, “Let etarian I don’t eat s, drink alcohol orthat was produced or extracted frolanced aton my silk scarf, and said, “I also don’t use any silk products Silkworms are also animals”
I hurriedly took off the scarf
“Of course we have some people who are not too strict Sos Some drink milk But no one eats s that you won’t eat, I won’t eat either”
“Have you kept a pet before? Such as a cat or dog?”
“No, but I love sram”
“There’s still half an hour before the start of the activity Do you have any specific questions you wanted to ask etarianisetarian What are the specific steps?”
“First of all, when do you intend to start?”
“Today” I looked at hiht now, this moment, this second”
“Generally, I would reco you’ve eaten ly dependent onredwhite ly dependent nature I thought this stateht I precisely want to overcoly dependent nature I want to decisively enter into the vegetarian stage”
“Then the first thing you have to do is send emails to all your friends, especially those who you frequently go out to eat with Tell theetarian starting today”
“Okay”
“Do you cook for yourself at home?”
“I cook once in awhile Most of the tiest that you stop eating take-away There is no nutrition whether it’s etables, it’s all been stir-fried You can try to etable dishes yourself We have many recipes here It’s very easy to learn Furtheretarian restaurants in Beijing There’s not ood and aren’t too expensive Especially the few that are run by ether” He handed reen leaflet
“Thank you”
“Norues and friends decide to go out for meals We can’t require others to put up with our preferences, so the o to a restaurant and discover that there’s nothing we can eat there and we can only go hungry Thus, I suggest that you always keep a s just in case Peanuts, almonds, and walnuts are all okay”
“Okay” I took outvegetables, you must chely Pay careful attention to your body’s response Experience the original taste of organic food Think about your own self at all ti animals Think about hural part of nature By doing this, you arepeace You should feel proud”
“Understood” I thought about it and suddenly asked, “Why haven’t you asked why I want to becoetarian?”
“We never ask this question This is your choice You don’t need my approval Everyone has his or her own reason We only have a coroup, a chess society, a poker society, a fishi+ng society and such”
It really was an ideal club
“Do I have to participate in every activity?”
“Our organization is very relaxed You can come if you want You don’t have to come if you don’t want Some people participate a few times a first, find it too hard to continue, and then disappear”
“Mr Nan Gong, can I ask you a personal question?”
“Go ahead”
“Why are you a vegetarian?”
“It’s like this I a before I have a younger brother who I was really close with It’s just that he was very mischievous so I pressured hi a military exercise and he was killed in an explosion The kind that shatters everything Ever since the second I heard this news, I could no longer stand to look at meat”
“I’m sorry I shouldn’t have asked this” I murmured
“It doesn’tthis, he suddenly turned around and said with his voice choked with emotion, “I need some quiet and peace for a bit” And then he went into another room
I didn’t participate in the first activity, and escaped hoot home, I earnestly sent ethee, throwing away all s I cleared out my snacks and threay all beef jerkies, dried fish, and shredded pork I carried e pile of vegetables, fruit, tofu, and soy etarian food and didn’t think it was too hard It was only when I ss on the streets at night did ot into bed, and covered my head with the covers Afterwards, I couldn’t help it and ran outside onto the streets to watch I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there was also vegetarian food being roasted, such as, roasted tofu, potato slices, corn, greens, lotus root, andood! I had dinner there and was quickly full
At work the second day, I didn’t put on perfuetable s, I didn’t see Li Chuan at all Li Chuan’s office was upstairs He didn’t have a set ti s or sometimes lunch Li Chuan always deliberately maintained a distance from me He didn’t take the initiative to speak to race either Most of the tietting our own dishes and heading to our own seats We didn’t even exchange any conversations Li Chuan never called me Besides ork required it, he would also never email me
I was quite broken-hearted, but I didn’t care As long as I knew that Li Chuan and I were in the sa and I could see him once every day, even if we didn’t speak a word to each other, I was satisfied Without this condition, I couldn’tlike that
CGP’s lunch was absolutely a huge trial for a vegetarian Eighty percent of the ey, they were not happy without meat and the rest of them os I could eat were only bread, rice, fruit, and salad In addition, after I finished eating, I would becoain very quickly
Fortunately, I had coo on a diet and shape her body, Eetarian too She would occasionally eat a bit of fish, but it wasn’t often She used a lot of salad dressing that actually contained a lot of dairy I also didn’t eat salad dressing I would only eat vegetable leaves Us few fe I would eat and listen, solance at another table in the distance where Li Chuan would have hisHe was just leaning towards being a bit too skinny He looked veryin his fitted suits He would never look at uys see the notice sent by headquarters today?” Ened fro the Chief Designer of the Beijing branch He dropped two positions I wonder what happened”
Another translator called A Qian se Doesn’t thathas beco is the CEO, he is the owner, alright? Director Jiang is er going to be the chairman is probably because he’s tired I heard that his health hasn’t been too good recently He can only work for five hours every day” Eht, why is that leg of his crippled? Was it polio?” Ming Ming frouess is rheuuess is Parkinson’s disease Annie, what’s your guess? Let’s all bet ten bucks”
“I don’t know” I thought for a bit and said, “Car accident? Prosthetic leg?”
“Prosthetic leg? No, no, no! Li Chuan can’t have a prosthetic leg Having a prosthetic leg would break our hearts I would rather he had Parkinson’s”
Everyone unani to say