Back on topic, having a vegan girlfriend means...
she is doing all the cooking!
I love to cook but I don't know if I have enough talent to make a variety of vegan meals. I can make oatmeal, hummus, a few different salads, butternut squash soup, bruschetta, that's about it. It would get boring real quick.
On a previous comment, cow meat would be very similar to buffalo meat nutritionally if the cows ate what the buffalo ate. Most cattle ranching happens on a feed lot where cows stand around in their own piss and sh!t and eat corn, which is a food that their stomachs are not designed to digest. Eating the corn causes the cattle to not be at the peak of their health, not to mention the fact that they spend all their days standing around in their own piss and sh!t. The combo of crowded, stressful conditions as well as standing around in their own piss and sh!t causes higher rates of illness, which is why they are fed antibiotics. Bison are more often on a ranch, where they eat grasses, like they are supposed to. The grass is a more healthy and natural diet, the bison are not subjected to crowded conditions either. Less illness, less antibiotics. Grass fed beef, from whatever animal, is often leaner, but also has more of the "good" fats, similar to what wild salmon are known for. Wild salmon eat fish that eat blue-green algae, which is where the good fatty acids are coming from. (Similar fatty acids are found in grass.) Incidentally, eating farm-raised salmon, often deceptively marketed as, "Atlantic Salmon" does not provide the same health benefits as eating wild salmon. The farm raised fish are fed pellets, which are composed of whatever-the-cheapest-most-economical-product-available-is. Think dog food. From China.
In short, you are what you eat, and what you eat is what it eats. Most Americans are in some way or another a product of corn.
All that being said, I love me a good American STEAK. Mmmmmm.
If anyone has actually found this comment remotely interesting, and watches as much food-porn as I do, then I would suggest reading, "
The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. Good book, not preachy or anything, just interesting.
