The Story of the Face on your Plate and How it got There

I had to write an essay aboutsomething on the Eastern Shore(where I live) for a term paper my Senior Year of High School.

You are welcome to read this, share this with others, but you are NOT allowed to use this for a class(you can use the sources through). This paper, I worked hard on, and is MY work. I would not appreciate it being plagarized.
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The Story of the Face on Your Plate, and How it Got There
  For the past couple of hundred of years, many Americans have enjoyed the ease of going to the store and buying packaged meat. Many don't realize the effort, money and suffering that goes on within such corrupt industries. Many say that they are thankful that they do not have to do the dirty work themselves and kill the animal. They prefer to imagine that slab of dead animal was happy and lived to a right and proper age. They fail to take into account the adverse effect it can have on their health, and the toll it takes on the environment, and even worse, their health. In reality, one may wish to do more research to see exactly what goes on from the companies where they wish to buy their foods from.

   Many people think of the eastern shore namely for chickens, for good reason too. If you happen to travel near Rehobeth, there are more chicken houses than any other structure (Eastern Shore Sanctuary). Around Pocomoke city, you can easily find rows and rows of chicken houses. Sadly, what you will rarely see, unless you enter one of these plain dank buildings, is a chicken (Baltimore Chronicle).

Inside of these desolate buildings, you will see the major cause of pollution to the Bay. That is chickens (Eastern Shore Sanctuary). The reason is so simple that is near stupidity. Maryland legislators have not put the proper laws in place to limit waste disposal, and whenever a company undergoes a pollution violation, the state does not take proper action to ensure they get the fine money (Goodman).

   Chickens contain nitrogen, which is found in everything from chicken manure to feathers (Goodman). Companies have to dispose of these things, and tend to dump them in places where they can easily overflow into streams, creeks, ditches and that flow to the Chesapeake (Kenedy). Altogether, poultry sends more than four times nitrogen than the largest non agricultural source(Price). The EPA is outraged that state regulators allow these slaughterhouses to dump an unlimited amount of nitrogen into the environment (Goodman). The laws are not yet in place, however because Maryland's Political leaders and the poultry industry officials have allied to find loopholes and avoid any loss of business.
They have succeeded in sneakily under minding many of the safeguards in order to ensure that the industry can continue to act without people's scrutiny and live without accountability. The Maryland Department of Agriculture is in on this too, they refuse to make nutrient management plans available to the public, whereas in many other states they are (Kenedy).
   Perdue alone has broken numerous laws, but has rarely been penalized. They have committed at least 175 pollution violations, one of which in 2001 the company was fined $40,000 for releasing toxic silver in the water. This dissolved silver can kill fish eggs, cause skin irritation, and gather in human and water life which can cause organ damage (Factory Farm). But the state has rarely gone through and collected such fines that are obligated for retrieval by the state.
   Why is the state being so lenient? They fear that the industry will go behind the state's back because they are in fear. Despite all the damage dealt to the environment by the poultry industry, the state feels it must work with and be lenient with the industry because the industries feel that the state was a "little heavy-handed". By not enforcing the fines created for violations that could be committed sends a message that businesses can violate the law and force the taxpayers to be burdened with fixing all of the private industries wrongdoings and that is perfectly acceptable (Goodman).
   One could even say that the owners of such companies don't even care about the environment! Perdue's manager for environmental services, John Chlada, once said, "The good lord only gave us three ways to deal with our problem. We can put it out in the air, put it out in the water or put it out on the land. Where do you want me to put it?" (Price).
   The bad news about the poultry industry on the eastern shore only gets worse. Did you know that the chicken you eat has more likely than not been fed antibiotics throughout its life? Not just when or if it got sick either. These disease fighting antidotes are being used as feed additives. Silbergeld, a professor of epidemiology at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine stated, "its like using antibiotics as hair dye. We have this practice of permitting the addition of almost any antibiotic that you can think of to animal feed, for no therapeutic purpose, under the conditions that absolutely favor the rise of resistance". Several reasearchers at John Hopkins are assembling evidence that the industrial farming of chickens and other livestock is cultivating bacteria that medicine will be unable to fight. The Animal Health Institute estimated that 24.6 million pounds of antimicrobials were applied primarily for growth promotion in factory farm animals. Scientists estimate that fifty to eighty percent of all anti-microbials in the United States are used in sub therapeutic dosages rather than what it is meant for, treating only sick people and animals. Because of this, E. coli has become resistant to anti-biotics because the chickens in factory farms are routinely fed them to keep flocks from falling ill. It has been suggested that one way the bacteria could travel from animals to humans was by breathing the air. A survey was held, with scientists running the samples to test, resulting in the discovery that fifty percent of factory farm workers hosted a strain of E. coli that was resistant to the antimicrobial gentamicin.
You can't escape the bacteria by just staying away from chicken houses, either. Just traveling behind a poultry truck can expose you to the antibiotic resistant E. Coli (Date).
   One could believe that Perdue's poultry is handled with care, and compassion, because of the claim on its website that says "individuals handling poultry must be trained in animal husbandry". Compassion over Killing decided to launch an investigation. They sent in an undercover investigator armed with a hidden camera to look for any abuse that could be found in the hanging room of the Perdue slaughterhouse plant in Showell Maryland. The investigator did not receive one moment of animal care training before working with the live birds. What the investigator found would horrify anyone with a love of animals(Compassion Over Killing).
   When the investigator went to Perdue for the first day on the job, he watched presentations and videos. The videos did not focus on animal care but rather worker safety and food contamination.
No more than three seconds of live footage of birds was shown. The next day, the investigator went to work with the live animals. He saw the miserable birds crammed into the miniscule cages, packed wing to wing, no room to stsnd errect or stretch. Over the next two and a half weeks, the investigator saw an employee throw a chicken back down the line to try to clear the entrance of birds when it was backed up. He alo saw an employee kick a chicken violently, and often saw chickens being thrown around the room. Another instance, during a break, he saw a worker slapping a chicken in the face out of boredom when the line stopped. Another instance of recklessness was on his fourth day there. He saw about 50 birds were dumped from an 8 foot height. All the birds fell out, screaming, injured, and some, dead(Compassion Over Killing). He also saw one worker spike a hen onto the conveyor belt as he described a play from a football game(Factory Farm). No one was ever reprimanded for handling the birds aggressively, and often these feathered animals were left unattended on the conveyor belts while their bringers of death relaxed and ate lunch(Compassion Over Killing).
   On the line where the birds were to be hung upside down to have their throats slit by the rotating blade, there were many instances where the hens were left dangling by only one leg because of the speed of the line. Oftentimes, chickens throats don't get cut by the blade and are susposed to be manually killed. The investigator noted that many were ignored and went into the scalding tank fully concious, being scalded alive. Also, during his stay, not one bird was given individualized attention when needed(Compassion Over Killing).
   People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals interveiwed an USDA inspector about her time at Perdue, where PETA learned that abuses are standard at the slaughterhouses, sometimes even before. These poor animals, unable to escape their plight are forced into tiny, crowded cages for the truck ride from the farm to the slaughterhouse. The inspector saw the truck piled high with the carrion of birds that succumbed to the extreme heat and freezing temperatures. She reported that the survivors of the truck rides were often diseased, bruised and battered, more than likely unfit for human consumption. The shackles, like the one at the Showell plant, often had birds so carelessly forced birds into them that many hens wound up with broken legs. The electrical blade was often ineffective, and birds would often avoid the mechanical knife. The same thing tended to happen, birds would still wind up fully concious in the scalding hot defeathering tank(Former USDA). The inspector also saw some workers kicking birds who fell off the line. Live birds could also be thrown into condemned barrels, often suffocating, under the dead birds(Former USDA).
   Perdue had claimed the hens lived in "chicken paridise" when in reality  the company was the one responsible for developing many of the inhumanely cruel methods used in modern poultry factory farming(Frank Perdue). They lived in sheds so over crowded, it often led to cannabalism, and led to disease as well as mass hysteria. These hens were also forced to undergo a pinful debeaking as baby birds(Feder, 32). The USDA vets even showed no interest in animal wellfare, and would even take naps on the job(Former USDA). Newkirk, PETA's founder herself, called a suprivisor to the scene at the Salisbury slaughterhouse, because sufferring chickens had not been euthanized, but instead left to an antagonizing death of heatstroke in exposed crates(Frank Perdue).
   As a result of such monstocities, a consumer, cannot simply trust the company they buy from. He or she should do reasearch before taking out their wallet and checking out at the register. One should make it his or her own responsibility to learn where their food comes from. If someone dosen't, he or she may be directly supporting a cause he or she does not support.
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Works Cited
Compassion Over Killing. "COK Investigation Exposes Chicken Industry Cruelty Undercover Footage of Perdue Slaughter Plant Reveals Routine Abuse."    Compassion Over Killing. 28 Oct 2004. Web. 11 Nov 2009.
Date, Keiger. "Farmacology." Baltimore Chronicle and Sentenial.(2009.)Web. 13 Nov 2009.
"Factory Farm Offender." Farm Sanctuary. 2006. Web. 17 Nov 2009.
Feder, Barnaby. "Pressuring Perdue." The New York Times. 26 Nov 1989: 32. Print.
"Former USDA Inspector Reveals Slaughterhouse Horrors." Goveg.com. n.d. Web. 11 Nov 2009.
Goodman, Peter, "Permitting a Pattern of Pollution." The Wasington Post. 2 Aug 1999: A1. Print.
"The Price of Poultry." Eastern Shore Sanctuary. 4 Jan 2009. Web. 11 Nov 2009.

When the suffering or death of others, stops bothering you, you have effectively lost all of your compassion.

Those of us whom show compassion towards all creatures are not overly compassionate, the rest of the world lacks compassion in general.

REPOST: Interview with a Vegetarian Vampire-wait...WHAT?!

This is a very old interview I did back on August 22 of 2010. I hope you enjoy it!

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This week's post is an interview. An interview with a VERY famous on Wattpad(and her hometown!) author.

You may know her as Canse12, or Abigail Gibbs.

Her novel is about a teenager named Violet Lee, whom is like most other teenagers. She loves to party, hang out with her girlfriends, and other such stuff. All that changes when she's waiting for her friends at Trafalgar Square and she witnesses a bloodbath of sorts. She finds herself sucked(hehe pun) into a world that has refused to progress with the era of technology and seems as if it is trapped into a Victorian time period. Violet Lee is a vegetarian, so you can guess that this raises some interesting  moments in the novel. It is not brought up as much as I would have liked, but that's from a vegan point of view, and not to mention, it would annoy the omni readers and make them want to close the book(or rather [X] button to exit) if it was all preachy. So I can see why wrote it the way she does, in the sections it does go in depth, it could make an omni question themselves, and such as with the dinner scene with the royals, makes them wonder, does a veg*n feel like they are at a dinner full of vampires with all the death on their plates? Anyway, enough of MY opinions, you know why you're here! To read the interview! xD

DISCLAIMER:Both of us are hyper happy crazy writing teenagers whom are oftentimes fueled by caffeine. Not to mention this was done Via email, so It jumps around, and as the interview progressed, I had developed a TON of new questions! :P Also, I put abigail in red text, me in green. :)

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Grace:I've been keeping up with your book so far, and I can definently say I've enjoyed what I've read so far with minimal complaints.

My first question is, "Where did you get the inspiration for Dinner with a Vampire"?

Abigail: Hey! First of all, thank you for asking me to do this. Really very honoured and feel free to quote just about anything I say, most of it is crazy ramblings. =D For instance, my first thought was ‘Oh dear! I’m going to have to grammar check all my answers!’ Then the thought occurred to me that I would need more caffeine... coffee has become a necessity in my life!

Where did I get the inspiration from for “Dinner...”? That’s quite a difficult one, although I suppose by now I really should have an answer. I’m not a huge fan of vampire stories but those I have read I suppose I was a little disappointed by. Many, many vampire novels are based around teenagers and romance, and although I liked the concept, I didn’t feel as though they really captured the life of a modern teenager. I also enjoy period novels, such as Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’. The mannerisms and social rules that society at the time had to abide by fascinate me. I began to wonder if I could combine these elements and it was from these unlikely beginnings that I decided I wanted to write something that could incorporate realistic, modern teenage characters into a world of blood, magic, deceit, prophecy and royalty. So I sat down and began to write what became “Dinner...”

Music also plays a large part in keeping me inspired (I’m a self-confessed music-junkie) and as a lot of fans know, many of the larger, more elaborate scenes in “Dinner...” (including the ball scenes and the trip to London) popped into my head when I was bouncing on my trampoline in the rain with my iPodin. In particular, it’s the trailer music company ‘Two Steps From Hell’ that gets my creative cogs turning. Their music is beyond epic!

Grace:I definitely agree! Music can get creative cogs turning, and it helped me write my own novel too!(through my crazy friends threatening to murder me if i never got writing was inspiration in itself!)

My blog is fairly lighthearted, so don't worry too much about grammar. Just make sure we can understand what you're saying. My grammar isn't epic either. xD (And I love smilies far too much! :D )

Abigail: Like many others of my generation (and pretty much every generation) I read the ‘Twilight’ Saga. I will confess that I was addicted for a long time and it was ‘Twilight’ that introduced me to the idea of romance and relationships between humans and vampires. It wasn’t my first encounter with blood-sucking creatures however. About five years ago at the age of ten, I began reading the ‘Darren Shan’ Saga (which later became the film ‘The Vampire’s Assistant’). It was those books and their depiction of a dark, twisted world that introduced me to the creatures of the night which, with their preference for the dark and ability to slowly age I later came to loosely base ‘my’ vampires on. There was a long gap between reading ‘Darren Shan’ and ‘Twilight’ however, where I vastly lost my interest in anything of the leech kind. I’ll be the first to admit it was ‘Twilight’ that re-kindled this passion.

As to how long I’ve been writing... would it be cliché to say forever? It seems like it. I’ve always enjoyed reading, and naturally, as soon as I learnt to write I was thinking up stories. My first novel as such I began when I was just nine, and it told the story of Canse. (No coincidence that my username on wattpad.com later became Canse12). It followed her and her friend as they explored the Galaxy, travelling from one fantastic planet to another in a spaceship so large it blocked out the sun when it came to land on Earth. I began writing it when I was given my first writing journal (it was a Jacqueline Wilson set, pen included and I begged for it for months!) That was my first story and I wrote a good hundred pages. I still have it under my bed somewhere! Ever since, I’ve never stopped. It’s a part of my life. I would certainly go crazy if I didn’t write things down. I have a wild imagination and everything in my mind is a poem. Sometimes, those poems become stories. As I often say, I’m a poet by nature, storyteller by choice.

Grace:(sorry about the delay, had to fetch my "new" car, lol)

OMFG I LOVED the Cirque du freak series! I wish it had stayed popular through and not have thrown Twilight out the window.

Have you ever read Dracula by Bhram Stoker? That's what I've always based my vampires personally, through a bit more modernized. One of my stories that I was writing on textnovel(like an idiot i deleted my account so it's forever lost) was about vampires and werewolves warring, but Maxillion(the vampire) goes to hunt one night, and finds a girl. She was named Amanda, and while portrayed as a human(was going to be a prostitute), I planned to reveal later that she was half succubus but I got too wrapped up in my current novel(going to be a series).

Anyway back on topic! xD

Personally, I feel starting her off in the novel as a vegan would have made the story a bit more complex, and fascinating in terms of dietary lifestyle and such, and would have made the overall story have worked better in theory. A character opposed to cruelty but still supporting the dairy industry might as well have been an "omnivore" to begin with, but I can see how it could work to introduce others to a veg*n lifestyle. I must ask through, what was your reasoning behind making the main character, Violet Lee, often called "Girly", a vegetarian, specifically? :)

Abigail: (OOO, new car? Awesome! What make? I have to wait another year before I can drive *sigh* It’s okay, I’m on a coffee drinking marathon so I’m here for the duration! I can’t say I’ve read Dracula but I have seen the films lol. I’ve set my heart on reading all the great Victorian novels however, so it’s on the list! Lol, you’re argument about vegans there was really well thought out it left me flailing! And tell me about getting wrapped up in another book... it happened to me with “Dinner...”)

Short answer: I’m a vegetarian. I’m not normally into campaigning my beliefs about the ethical treatment of animals but when I write, it gives me an opportunity to do so without receiving the usual eye roll and exasperated sigh. Perhaps I’ll even convert a few! I suppose it’s also a ‘Know what you write’ situation. I’ve been a vegetarian for ten years and I can’t remember what meat tastes like. Writing about it would be a struggle!

The irony is of course, that in “Dinner...” it’s the human that follows the vegetarian lifestyle rather than the vampires, and it’s from this that the title stemmed. When Violet is faced with the choice of turning to become a vampire or forever being held hostage she experiences an inner conflict – whilst she does not want to kill humans, the idea of killing animals to consume their blood is equally as repulsive to her. It makes for an interesting battle and it’s only when this hurdle is removed that she considers turning as a feasible option.

As to the vegan lifestyle – it’s not one I’m familiar with (for health reasons I can’t follow it). It never really occurred to me to have Violet as a vegan, although in hindsight it would have made more sense as the ethical conflict would have been greater. In the future however, it is something I might consider writing into future books, on and off wattpad.

Grace: It's a dodge stratus. Nothing fancy but it rolls. :)

Not to sound like a total stalker but I noticed on your twitter you tweet via blackberry. You can read Dracula for free on there! :D

But may I ask what health problems cause you to be unable to be a vegan? I've been a vegan for a little while, and have heard many health "excuses" which really have simple workarounds to easily make sure said person can be a healthy vegan. :) [I'm sure many of my readers will groan when they hear your health reasons response, lol]. As for the advocacy thing, I just bought the Animal Advocacy Handbook, if you like, I could try to get you a copy if it's any good, the book claims to be one of those to open up people's minds and not turn you into an eyeroll creator lol.

Anyway, moving on, may I ask why YOU, in particular, are a vegetarian? You said it was a long time ago, but do you remember?

Many people I have spoken to say the book "Charlotte's Web" is what did it for them, was there a particular piece of literature or film that inspired you to eliminate some of the cruelty from your plate? :)

Abigail: *Goes and googles car* XD

Unfortunately it’s nothing interesting... I have a family history of osteoporosis and whilst I can get around that with soya products, it’s a risk I’m going to avoid for the time-being. I also suffer from migraine attacks which we think might be food-triggered (or lack-of food triggered). It’s one of those things where, I quote my doctor ‘When you’ve finished growing [which I think I must have done years ago] then a vegan lifestyle is not out of the question. But for now let’s deal with your vegetarianism and your anaemia.’ As you can see, he doesn’t have much sympathy for the cause!

I became a vegetarian when I was six after I made the connection between the pretty little lambs bouncing around in the field and the lamb on my plate, coated in mint sauce. That was it. I couldn’t touch meat after that. A year later I stopped eating fish, and two years later, after a particularly helpful boy in the class above pointed it out, I stopped eating gelatine – a huge undertaking for an eight year-old. Suddenly, I couldn’t eat sweets. However, I was inspired to keep going by reading Lucy Daniel’s ‘Animal Ark’ books. The series was about a vet surgery and the various animals that the main character, Mandy helped. My mother didn’t think I would keep it up, but ten years later, here I am, still a proud veggie!

Grace: (see the car isn't fancy now is it, lol?)

Hmm... I've actually read from various sites that milk actually leeches calcium from the bones(the protein or something, i forget specifically) which in the end helps to CAUSE osteoporosis. (If you compare the rate of countries that have high dairy consumption to countries with low dairy consumption, the latter tends to have much lower rates of developing the idea. [pcrm.org is a good medical provegan site, all run by doctors]). But that and Anemia you also want to discuss w/a nutritionist. Doctors tend to know less than nutritionists in terms of dietary balance and such. :)

About your migraines through, I used to get CONSTANT migraines myself! D: I just thought thats how life was so I dealt with them growing up. After going vegetarian, most of my problems went away, but the migraines persisted. Of course I was always drinking milk and eating cheese. About two weeks after going vegan, I noticed my headaches were GONE. Something you may wanna try is cutting out dairy for a couple weeks and see what happens, perhaps you too have a mild case of lactose intolerance(thats what I'm guessing it was). Just an idea through.

Anyway, back on topic!

I couldn't help but notice that you said you gave up meat first, then fish. :/ (You may want to note you became a pescetarian first, because I know a TON of veg-heads that also hate the "Do you eat fish"? question. xD I'm sure you hate it too, lol)

Anyway, so you essentially became a vegetarian the same way Violet Lee did? I suppose that would be the easiest way to explain it, one's own story is easier to explain than making on up in things like that. :)

But WOW! Ten years! I am impressed! :) I've been a veg*n for about 14 months, a vegan for ten of them, personally. I hope I don't fall back on my old ways, even through I have no desire for animal products anymore!(You never know, I could be freaking hungry in a hicktown and some douche trying to force me to eat a burger or whatever, i dunno, hence why i always have my own goodies packed lol)

Anyway, I have been on many forums about veganism(and oftentimes vegetarianism) and most of the members that post appear to be from

the USA. I implore, what is it like being a vegetarian in the UK? I don't know if you have been to the "states" but if you have, was it easier overall to eat out as a veg-head than in the UK or harder?(and where did you visit too, hicktowns are always harder, lol)

Abigail: Yes, ten years is a long time! I want to see a nutritionist but at the moment I can’t on free healthcare (not severe enough, age, etc, etc) and it’s just not bad enough to go private. I definitely think that the dairy-free diet is a thing to explore as it was dairy that first triggered my dad’s migraines. (Although now, nothing seems to help =/). I did use my story of how I became veggie for Violet – a lot of people as I’m sure you find too struggle with the concept and explaining about the lambs hits home with a lot of people. Lol, I did go pesc first, although, saying that, I’ve never really eaten fish... it was only fishcakes that I had to sacrifice lol!

What’s it like being veggie in the UK? Well, I haven’t got much to compare it with. I’ve never been to the States and I’ve only ever been abroad once, to Berlin, Germany. I can definitely say that it was hard sticking to a vegetarian diet there. Although more of the produce is fresh and I was treated to bread from the bakery every morning, there was a lot of cold meats, and a vegetarian diet was a little bland. This may have just been unique to the family I stayed with, who, I have to say, ate a lot healthier than we do in the UK!

It’s not particularly hard following a vegetarian diet here. Supermarkets are stocked full of alternative meat products such as soya, tofu and Quorn. Restaurants too provide vegetarian options although I find that at many there’s a limited choice which is frustrating at times. The biggest problems are fast-food restaurants. Perhaps it’s the same the other side of the pond, but places such as McDonalds and KFC barely cater for anyone with special dietary needs. However, I avoid places like those at all costs – I don’t agree with how they treat their animals. All in all, it’s pretty easy being veggie here and it’s improved drastically in recent years. Whilst five years ago I had to check the back of every food product, most now come with the ‘Suitable for Vegetarians’ label.

Grace: That's so cool! I've been stuck in the states, never left em to travel. D: Say, have you ever heard of Happy-cow.net? They are AMAZING. Just go to the site. :P

But yeah, That's awesome about everything being labelled! I am still stuck in label reading mode, And it's pretty sad, I'll read through what seems like a novel long list of ingredients only to find next to it a "Certified vegan" emblem. xD So full of win or fail, i cant seem to choose.

Anyway, two more questions, then I'm done interrogating you(sleepy!).

Are there any good veg-friendly apps for the blackberry that you recommend for any readers?(and if theres any free ones, that i could sneak onto my dad's storm whilst he sleeps? muhahahahaha!) I am personally an Ipod Touch user, never really liked my old blackberry(no wifi and plans FAR too high).

And the last question! Are you planning on making DW/AV a series or publishing a kindle version?

Okay I totally lied. Do you have any questions for me? I'll reply when I wake up, but now I must sleep. *trots off holding a copy of the interview in hand*

Abigail: I’ve never found any apps unfortunately! I’m not a huge app user, so perhaps I’m just not looking hard enough, although, I’ll confess, I’m addicted to ‘MobilePets Online’. It’s really quite cute! I’m told there’s an amazing app for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad though called ‘Animal Free’. It scans lists of ingredients and tells you what’s vegan and what’s not. Particularly helpful for those unpronounceable, non-natural sounding ingredients you’re never sure about.

At the moment, “Dinner...” is going to be a part of a series. Where, when and in what format the following stories will be published in, I can’t tell but one thing’s for sure... there are more vegetarian and vegan characters being created by this writer!

(XD I should probably sleep too... it’s 4am here! I have to be up in four hours... oops.. ah well, it was fun! Thanks once more!! Let me know when you put it up XD Oh wait no... I subscribed XD)

Grace: Okie dokie! :D

And I look forward to reading the upcoming chapters(and books)! :)

And I actually have that app myself! :)

I think a better one would have to be iVegan, because it tells you ingredients that are/aren't veg friendly, companies that do/don't test on animals, conversion things for substituting to make non-veg recipes veg, and something I have no plan to use but which boozes are veg friendly(personally I'm against alcohol but I have no prob w/others drinking it, they're really hilarious when drunk! I'll be a DD any day as long as they pay for my dinner and I can take a video recorder, LOL.

But yes sleep! Lol! It's one of the most important things you can do! :D

Aww dude you subscribed! I'm so touched! :'D *hugs*

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You can read Dinner with a vampire on wattpad(i linked to the mobile friendly version!) here: http://m.wattpad.com/186999

If you like what you read, please vote it up or comment on her twitter @canse12. :)

*Just totally realized the interview looks like a Christmas tree, oops*