Recently Heidi got back on track with the whole eating better, healthy, animal rights, hug a tree, hippy train. I applaud her willpower and conviction to it. I especially give her credit for not being a preachy veggiehead who you just want to slap around with a beef stick — thanks for that honey.

One of the byproducts of her going on this stand against evolution is that I get caught up in the whole eating better thing. It’s not a bad thing by any means. I don’t think anyone would argue that I could stand to benefit from a better diet. It just makes me realize a few things. Especially since her new passion (well, rekindled old passion, perhaps) is much farther reaching than just not eating meat. She’s not a vegan, so she still eats cheese, eggs, etc… She steers away from anything that contains animals in the product. I tried to argue the whole eggs are the chicken, thing, but the old chicken before the egg dilemma came up, and I lost interest.

Anyway, to the point! She’s changing out many of our products to comply with these standards. Now, I don’t hate animals. I just happen to think they are quite tasty when dropped into some searing hot peanut oil. I don’t condone animal abuse, or cruel living conditions — even if they are food. So, I guess, I’m on an organic kick. The way I understand it is organic food is treated better and not pumped with hormones, preservatives and other whatnots. I care not to get into it deeper than that.

What I’ve come to discover is, you don’t know what you got till it’s gone!! Like preservatives! What a difference they make! Organic hotdogs have to practically be flash frozen if you want to keep them for more than a nanosecond. My organic half and half spoiled before the due date (which in itself was only a few days off the purchase date). The hot dogs are fine. I mean, we try to steer clear of hot dogs in general. But, we have a three year old, and sometimes you just opt for easy. But, I think I’m going to have to say I like preservatives in my dairy products. Not all modern advances (additives) are bad! I think some preservatives are actually animal based, tho. Which *I* don’t have a problem with. But, a certain redhead I know does… :-P