Fortunately for me I grew up where Hip-Hop was fresh, raw, original and most importantly...conscious. There were groups like Gangstar and Brand Nubians, to name a few, that stirred my awareness to pork, lard, and other dietary ills that I never gave much thought to. KRS-ONE was solely responsible for arousing my consciousness to the deathly manufacturing of beef and offered a more holistic alternative to the way my friends and I were eating. Public Enemy would wisely drop names in their songs to dare you to do your research. How else was I going to know who Assata Shakur was, otherwise known as Joanna Chesimard? Or Geronimo Pratt, Nelson Mandela (before he was internationally known), The Last Poets, Frantz Fannon, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Che Guevera, the MOVE. These weren't people that I was able to go to my school library and check out a book on. Back then the public school system thought it was better for inner city kids to learn that Reaganomics was a good thing. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad published a small, narrow book called "How to Eat to Live", that I read from cover to cover. This book, for me, was revolutionary. It marked a turning point in my life, and not by just what I fed my body but what I fed my mind as well. By this time I was what people now refer to as a pescatarian, a person that abstains from eating all meat except for fish. That has worked for me up until about five years ago. I started back consuming chicken and turkey in order to convenience family and friends at times when they would prepare meals for me. As of today, March 1, 2012, no more. Thanks to Annette Larkins I've had it with chicken and Turkey for good. Who is Annette Larkins? I'm glad you ask...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Annette Larkins
Since 16 years old I haven't eaten a morsel of pork. For about the next 5 years I was "off and on" with the beef thing until I decided that too had to go. I haven't been able yet to fully rid myself of chicken or turkey though. And seafood....forget about it, I can't even imagine my life without fish. I still have stark images of my uncles coming through my grandmother's front door lugging a garbage can full of fresh, live crabs just waiting to be steamed and served.
Fortunately for me I grew up where Hip-Hop was fresh, raw, original and most importantly...conscious. There were groups like Gangstar and Brand Nubians, to name a few, that stirred my awareness to pork, lard, and other dietary ills that I never gave much thought to. KRS-ONE was solely responsible for arousing my consciousness to the deathly manufacturing of beef and offered a more holistic alternative to the way my friends and I were eating. Public Enemy would wisely drop names in their songs to dare you to do your research. How else was I going to know who Assata Shakur was, otherwise known as Joanna Chesimard? Or Geronimo Pratt, Nelson Mandela (before he was internationally known), The Last Poets, Frantz Fannon, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Che Guevera, the MOVE. These weren't people that I was able to go to my school library and check out a book on. Back then the public school system thought it was better for inner city kids to learn that Reaganomics was a good thing. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad published a small, narrow book called "How to Eat to Live", that I read from cover to cover. This book, for me, was revolutionary. It marked a turning point in my life, and not by just what I fed my body but what I fed my mind as well. By this time I was what people now refer to as a pescatarian, a person that abstains from eating all meat except for fish. That has worked for me up until about five years ago. I started back consuming chicken and turkey in order to convenience family and friends at times when they would prepare meals for me. As of today, March 1, 2012, no more. Thanks to Annette Larkins I've had it with chicken and Turkey for good. Who is Annette Larkins? I'm glad you ask...
Fortunately for me I grew up where Hip-Hop was fresh, raw, original and most importantly...conscious. There were groups like Gangstar and Brand Nubians, to name a few, that stirred my awareness to pork, lard, and other dietary ills that I never gave much thought to. KRS-ONE was solely responsible for arousing my consciousness to the deathly manufacturing of beef and offered a more holistic alternative to the way my friends and I were eating. Public Enemy would wisely drop names in their songs to dare you to do your research. How else was I going to know who Assata Shakur was, otherwise known as Joanna Chesimard? Or Geronimo Pratt, Nelson Mandela (before he was internationally known), The Last Poets, Frantz Fannon, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Che Guevera, the MOVE. These weren't people that I was able to go to my school library and check out a book on. Back then the public school system thought it was better for inner city kids to learn that Reaganomics was a good thing. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad published a small, narrow book called "How to Eat to Live", that I read from cover to cover. This book, for me, was revolutionary. It marked a turning point in my life, and not by just what I fed my body but what I fed my mind as well. By this time I was what people now refer to as a pescatarian, a person that abstains from eating all meat except for fish. That has worked for me up until about five years ago. I started back consuming chicken and turkey in order to convenience family and friends at times when they would prepare meals for me. As of today, March 1, 2012, no more. Thanks to Annette Larkins I've had it with chicken and Turkey for good. Who is Annette Larkins? I'm glad you ask...
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