Vegfueled

press your tofu by wrapping it in a clean towel and pushing it with your hands, or in a paper towel, it’ll absorb the water trapped inside

then cut it and microwave it for about 45 seconds. i know i know microwaves are evil bc someone said so, but if you use microwaves for anything it should be this, bc it pulls out even more moisture and leaves your tofu kind of thirsty so it can soak in your marinade

then marinade those suckers. you don’t have to do it all day, your tofu doesn’t have to be marinade to the core. tofu itself has an excellent an under-appreciated flavor. marinade it for like an hour. 

The CEOs of the Denver Zoo, Baltimore Zoo, Miami Zoo, San Antonio Zoo, Woodland Park Zoo, Fort Worth Zoo, Dallas Zoo, Pittsburgh Zoo, Detroit Zoo, and Kansas City Zoo all make over $200,000 per year. 

The CEOs of the San Francisco Zoo, San Diego Zoo, Houston Zoo, Philadelphia Zoo, Phoenix Zoo, LA Zoo, and Atlanta Zoo all make over $300,000 per year. 

The CEO of the Brookfield Zoo and the CEO of the Lincoln Park Zoo both make over $400,000 per year. 

The CEO of the St. Louis Zoo is paid 1.45 million per year. 

Trust me, zoos are more interested in making a profit than protecting animals. 

In terms of our evolution, whether or not meat is what we are naturally supposed to be eating is debatable; humans actually share many more qualities with herbivores than omnivores. Our facial muscles are well developed, our jaw is expanded and goes side-to-side rather than up-and-down, our incisors are broad and flattened and those much cited canines are short and blunted rather than the sharp and curved canines we see in carnivores. Our saliva contains carbohydrate digestive enzymes, our stomach has multiple chambers, our small intestines is 10-11 times the length of our body, our liver cannot detoxify vitamin A and our nails are flattened. These are all traits typically seen in herbivores, not omnivores. The animals who are the most similar to us eat an almost exclusively plant-based diet and we we are the only animals who get ill if we eat raw meat. We also have very few carnivorous instincts at all.

To a certain extent however, eating animals can be argued to be natural on the basis that we have evolved to at least be able to process meat, even though recent research by The World Health Organisation suggests that doing so is extremely harmful to our health. Despite evidence to the contrary, we can still happily accept the idea that eating meat is natural because what comes naturally to us should not in any way inform our ethics. Just because something is natural, does not make it right. An overwhelming body of research tells us that humans can thrive on a plant based diet, with both the American Dietetic Association and the National Health Service telling us that vegan diets are nutritionally adequate and appropriate for all stages of life. Eating meat may well be “natural”, but we can easily survive without it and so the decision to consume it is as open to criticism as any other freely chosen behaviour. The idea that we are adapted to do something and therefore should do it has no logical basis whatsoever.