Frugality lifestyle is living an economical way of life, being able to plan expenditure to the minimum, living in a small house/apartment, eating what your financial budget can afford and planning on conserving, surviving or thriving on minimum amount of resource. To live a frugality lifestyle one must have a strict and disipline will, to be able to resist the impulsive consumer habits and to conserve whatever remaining resources.

Most of us have experienced frugality lifestyle in our lifes before but many of us just don’t realise it. When we decided to move out from our parents house and plan to make a living on our own, or when we are having a bad economic down turn, thats where the frugality lifestyle kicks in. Our mind and soul will tell us to be in a “safe cost mode”.

Some people consider frugality lifestyle as a habbit. They just want to live a simple life and are happy about it. These people are mostly singles, old couples and those who cannot afford for anything more. As long they have a small comfortable place to stay and food to eat then everything is Ok for them.

The operator justifies the slaughter so that a removal of the animals would be too expensive.

Since the start of the biggest pig farm in Chile health risks to consumers, are being killed for their 500,000 animals. “They are simply killed. You are not moved to another farm,” said a representative of the company’s Super Agro, which owns the farm, including abattoir and meat plant, local media in Freirina in the north of the country. Residents in the city over a week ago had blocked the roads leading to the Super Agro-complex to protest against the stench emanating from him.

At the protests of local residents led to riots, hundreds of workers fled in fear of attacks from the company premises. An unknown number of pigs died then, because the animals remained several days without food and water. Ultimately, the government stepped in, declared a “health emergency” and ordered the closure of the plant.

At the same time the authorities got super agro six months to evacuate the animals from the premises. But that will not do the business. In support of said super-agent agro Jose Guzman, there were 50 000 trucks needed to transport the pigs. In addition, would have no other farm animals.

Sooner or later, comes the moment in the life of every family when the child asks for a pet. Parents are often the first thing a cry or react firmly rejected, however, it is worth considering how much good a pet can bring to the child. Of course, the first and indisputable criterion is whether any of the family is allergic to animal hair in particular was a child.

If there is a free way to ensure that the child has the opportunity to learn something of value in pet. First of all, the child learns to be responsible for another, a living being, because the responsibilities of pet ownership, such as feeding, walking the walk or take care of its purity. But not only obligations because the dog, cat or another ward learns of love, joy, and you can give him learn and have fun.

If your home may not be any animal’s suited solution would be an aquarium. Here, too, the child learns responsibility, except that the fish he’ll have to feed them, share them with water (with parents). Looking at the fish floating peacefully in the countryside also calms. If you are only on the conditions at home is really worth to agree that the child can look after a pet.

They sat together on Emily’s couch. Andrew had spent the day searching the grocery store but
he had not located Caroline’s neck. Her head remained detached from her body.

Emily said the cyber-dolphin carried the rest of the cast and Andrew forced a laugh. He
was determined to make up for his behaviour during his and Emily’s last movie night. She did
not deserve the concern he had caused her.

“Well,” Andrew said, “that’s Kenny Baker in there, and he’s a genius.”

Emily laughed, inhaled a hand-full of popcorn before her throat was ready to accept it,
and began coughing.

“Woah, who taught you to eat, anyway?” Andrew slapped her on the back until she
turned to him, red faced and giggling.

Emily massaged her throat and Andrew forced aside an image of Caroline’s face hovering
over her shoulders, blood pouring into the gap where her neck should be.
“Sorry,” she said and sipped from a can of Coke Zero.

“Got anymore of those?”

She swallowed and nodded. “In the fridge.”

Emily’s kitchen smelled of microwave cooking and cleaning products. The fridge was
nearly empty. Four black cans of Coke, a pint of low-fat milk, a bowl of wilting vegetables, and

Caroline’s neck. It sat on a plate, shrouded in cling wrap. Andrew removed the plate, cold and
heavy, and stripped off the plastic covering. Her neck was pale and subtly veined, and shaped
like a tree stump made flesh.

A bubble grew in his throat then burst and leaked out his eyes.

He removed the flesh from the plate and hid it under his shirt. It was cool against his
belly but immediately began to warm.

In the living room, Emily looked over. “D’you not find a drink?”

“I—changed my mind.” Andrew said. Caroline’s neck swallowed against his flesh and he
felt something wet dribble into his navel. “I think—I think I should go, Em.”

Emily’s face fell but then her smile reappeared and she stood. “No way,” she said. “Not
again. You sit right back down, buddy. You’re upset? Fine, then you tell me about it. Otherwise,
you just be still and watch the movie. Okay?”

She looked up at him and she was smiling and, rather than chubby and soft, she looked
strong and sturdy. He resumed his place on the couch and Emily did the same.

“Wanna tell me about it?” she asked.

“What?”

“Whatever’s bothering you, Andrew. You’ve been a little weird for a while now.”

“I know, I’m sorry.” He felt the neck, Caroline’s neck, pulsing rapidly, swallowing hard,
as though trying to drink the heat from him. Liquid ran down his stomach, soaked into the
waistband of his jeans, his underwear.

“You sure you don’t want to—?” She stopped. “Andrew, did you spill . . . What’s that?”

Andrew said nothing. There was nothing to say.

“What—what’s under your shirt, Andrew?” Her voice was low, just above a whisper, like
she didn’t want to be asking the question and knew she probably didn’t want to hear his answer.

Tears ran down his cheeks and he hoped they weren’t visible in the dark. His sobs,
though, were all too audible.

“It’s okay, Andrew,” Emily said. “It’s okay.” Gently, she raised the hem of his shirt. He let
her.

“Oh. Oh, Andrew.”

Her expression was hidden in shadow, her face backlit by the flat-screen, but Andrew
could hear the disappointment in her voice.

“I—I’m sorry, I just . . .” he stammered.

She leaned into the light and Andrew saw that she was not angry, not disgusted, but only
concerned, her eyes filled with sad kindness. This made him cry harder, his sobs pulling at his
diaphragm as he cradled Caroline’s neck in his arms like a dead baby.

“It’s alright, Andrew,” Emily said and placed a hand on his shoulder. “You can have it.

It’s yours, okay? You don’t have to feel bad or ashamed.”

He shook his head but could say nothing.

“I’m sure it’s hard being a vegetarian,” Emily said. “I’ve never tried—I don’t think I could
do it . . .” Finding Love Again Quotes

Andrew’s sobs slowed like a dying engine and he looked up at her. Vegetarian?
“You know,” she continued, smiling and rubbing his shoulder, “there are other ways. You
could buy local, cruelty-free meat. We could do it together. We could visit some local farms so
we can see just—”

“What are you talking about?” Andrew pulled Caroline’s neck closer, felt it throb in his
hands.

Emily blinked. “I know it’s not the same as being a vegetarian, not as good, but it could
be, I don’t know, a compromise?”

Andrew stood, backed away from the couch, from Emily. “I don’t know what you’re
talking about.”

“Andrew, I—” She reached for him and he spun away from her, ran out the door, his
prize held tight to his chest.

He spread the electric blanket over his bed and lay her body upon the blanket. She watched him
and smiled as he placed her head on his pillow. The neck, still cool, was a perfect fit, bridging
the terrible gap between her skull and body.

“Just a few minutes more,” he said and grinned as Caroline blew him a kiss.

He wrapped the heated blanket around her body, stopping to kiss her before obscuring
her face. Seated on the edge of the bed, Andrew turned away and cradled his head in his hands. It
seemed unbelievable that she would soon be his, that they would be each other’s. He felt as an
expectant father must, alone in the hospital waiting room, useless and without recourse while his
beloved did all the work, while everything depended upon her.

A rustling noise drew his attention. The blanket moved like water stroked by a gentle
breeze. His hands trembled and he was vaguely aware that he held his breath as he pulled the
blanket from her face.

She opened her eyes, her pupils growing larger and then retracting, and she smiled. Then
she raised her chin, turned her head left and then right, showed him what he had done, what he
had accomplished. Andrew laughed and tears streaked his cheeks. They kissed. They embraced.

She said, “Andrew,” her voice both tender and raw.

She pulled him atop her with surprising strength, held him close, pushed her hips into his,
sighed. Her breath was warm and smoky, like summer picnics and backyard grills. He touched
every part of her and marvelled at the wholeness, the completeness of her. And she touched
herself, and smiled and laughed, and Andrew realized that, as he discovered her, she was
discovering herself. She was virgin territory in the purest sense. Pitcairn before the Bounty. The
Moon before Armstrong.

She thrust her hips upward and, abruptly, he was inside her, warm and wet. A gasp hissed
passed her lips and he slowed his movements for fear of hurting her. They were hesitant at first,
but as they learned each other’s rhythms, and Caroline learned her own, their pace quickened,
their breathing deepened, and they pushed and thrust and pulled until they both cried out.

Andrew collapsed atop her and Caroline wrapped her arms around him. They were both
greased with sweat and breathing hard like overworked beasts of burden.

Caroline touched his cheek, his lips, his chin, and said, “I love you.”

Andrew swallowed the tightness in his throat and said, “I love you too.”

“I want to know everything about you,” she said. “I want to share in everything that
matters to you.”

Andrew nodded, but felt a shiver of apprehension, like the sound of distant thunder. He
was most likely unemployed, given he hadn’t been to work in nearly a week, and had no family,
few friends—

“Emily,” he said.

“Who?” Caroline asked, curious.

“She’s my best friend.” He leapt out of bed, pulled on his jeans. “You have to meet her,
right now.”

Caroline grinned. “I would love to meet her.”

Still slick with their love making, Andrew stood and watched her for a moment. Every
single bit of her was perfect, but the whole of her, the totality of her, was beyond words.

He took her smiling face in his hands, kissed her, and, before leaving the bedroom, before
leaving the apartment, said, “Emily is going to be so happy to meet you.” To find out more, you can check out Finding Love Again Quotes.

• Deforestation. To produce meat, large tracts of land, including rainforests, are cleaned and converted to farmland. These farmlands are planted with crops for livestock feed or are made into grazing land for cows that will eventually be killed for food.

• Depletion of fresh water reserves. Water experts estimate that humans are taking half of the worlds available supply of fresh water and leaving the other half to be divided among the rest of the million species. And what do humans do with their half? They give most of that to livestock.

• Waste disposal. Factory farms are notorious not only for their cruel treatment of animals but also for the negligent way they handle raw sewage. these farms produce tons of animal waste allowed to leach into the ground, contamination groundwater.

•  Energy consumption. Before a chunk of meat goes to your plate, it consumed a huge amount of energy, courtesy of fossil fuels. The feeds the cow ate required oil-based agricultural chemicals to grow. Factor in the fuel for transporting the cattle to slaughter and from there, to the retail outlet. Consider, too, the energy required to refrigerate the meat.

• Global warming. The production and delivery and delivery of meat contributes to global warming because the whole enterprise depends on fossil fuels. What’s more, the methane produced by “livestock emissions” (more popularly known as farts and belches) is also a powerful greenhouse gas.

• Biodiversity loss and threat of extinction. When rainforests are destroyed to give way to cattle ranching, the wildlife living in those forests lose their habitat and food sources. When contaminated runoff pollutes oceans, marine life is threatened.

•  Spread of diseases. Factory farms give animals excessive amount of antibiotics to make them grow faster and keep them from getting sick. This indiscriminate, nontherapeutic use of antibiotics contributes to antibiotic-resistance problems among humans who eat meat. Worse, the negligent handling of animal waste causes air and water pollution in surrounding areas, endangering the health of the people.

The intensive raising of animals for food damages the environment more ways than you can imagine.

Some excuse this saying that “God gave us dominion over the other animals”. Of course whether this is true or not is highly debatable. It could also be said that God gave males dominion over females, so should men have the right to abuse, kill, or consume females?

I am not saying that we need to all become vegetarians, although there are many good reasons (health, environmental) that support eating less meat, or none at all, but it would sure be nice if people would be less callous about eating animals. We need to recognize that the animals we eat wanted to live just as much as we do.

©by author “We Want to Live Too!“

Many of the animals we eat have horrid lives prior to reaching our tables, kept in boring, over crowded cages or pens, taken from their mothers at a young age, killed when under a year old, but surely we owe them some compassion and should not simply take it for granted that these animal’s lives meant nothing to them.

People seem to feel the need to justify eating meat by making stupid sayings such as “If God did not want us to eat meat, he would not have made animals so tasty.”. Funny… if a bear were to kill, and eat, a person due to our tastiness we would freak out!

I am quite disgusted at how many people treat meat as though it were not from a living animal; they waste a lot, discarding chicken breasts because they forgot about them so long they got freezer burn. They treat the body in a way that would be illegal to treat the body of a deceased human, and show no concern in doing so.

I suggest that people stop to think about the death in front of them at meal times rather than ignoring the truth, do not be so cold as to deny that whatever animal you are eating, be it shrimp or beef, did not want to live.

Do not be ignorant and “thank it for giving up its life”, it is a pretty safe bet to assume the animal did not have a choice, its life was taken, not surrendered willingly.

Teach your children well, we eat animals but that does not mean we need to disrespect them in order to justify eating them. We do not need to be callous about it in order to show how “manly” we are. Nor should we use religion to excuse ourselves for taking a life.

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Meatless Mondays

8 Margarine is healthier and lower fat than butter.
Fact: The content of fat contained in margarine as much as the calories contained in the butter. That is, they do not provide real benefits for slimming. To make matters worse, both contain unsaturated vegetable oil are harmful to heart health. If you really prefer the taste of butter note the calories contained in it while eating them. For example, do not store butter in the fridge and apply a thin layer only on one bread.
9 Select the honey rather than sugar when dieting.
Fact: Honey contains simple sugars around 75 percent and 25 percent water. This is what makes honey contains higher calories than sugar. Just imagine, one teaspoon of honey contains 25 calories while 1 teaspoon of sugar contains 16 calories. That is why, too much eating honey can cause tooth decay. But the honeymoon does not mean useless. The proof, of the flavonoid on the honey is useful as an antioxidant that may help lower heart disease risk in higher honey. Most importantly, do not over-eat honey.
10 Red meat is not good because of the high-fat diet.
Fact: It is often, right, we hear that when dieting, you should avoid red meat? Indeed, hell, excessive consumption of red meat can clog blood vessels. However, about half the fat in red meat can actually maintain the vitality of the heart. Because red meat contains the unsaturated oleic acid. In addition, red meat also contains various vitamins and minerals, especially iron, the body needs.
In conclusion, to avoid anemia, extreme fatigue, lack of energy, and shortness of breath when exercising, red meat consumption is necessary. Notes, choose lean cuts of meat and no fat and processed by roasting. This will help keep your fat intake is very low.
11 Do not eat before a workout can help dieters.
Fact: Exercise is very good in helping the diet. But you should, get your body strong enough while doing sports or exercising is not hungry. Abdominal conditions, Äúkosong, Äù it will endanger your health. Furthermore the study showed, after 20 minutes of exercise, it turns out people do not eat more than those who did not exercise. The only thing that makes them, Äúmerasa, Äù eating more is a suggestion or a thought that says the food taste better. So, try to exercise when your body fit, yes.
12 vegetarian diet helps you lose weight.
Fact: As with a regular diet, vegetarian diet may eat fewer calories, less fat and more fiber. But if not planned properly, the result could be equally high in fat and calories with a regular diet. So, regardless of whether you are a meat eater or vegetarian, it is important to keep referring to the daily calorie and healthy eating. Namely, based on high-fiber eating, eating five fruits and vegetables every day, choosing low fat dairy products, as well as low-fat foods such as nuts, eggs, and soy. Do not forget, less sweet and fatty foods as well.

Simplify Things For Yourself!

It is a good idea to simplify your life as much as possible. Life is hard as it is, to complicate things further. I know for one, that I am one who take life excessively serious, and therefore creates so much stress for myself and even people around me.

Why not “chill”, for a while? Take your shoes of, let your hair down and pour yourself a glass of red wine, and just enjoy the moment!

Some Ideas To Simplify Your Life Some More:

1.      Don’t try to read other people’s minds.  Don’t make other people try to read yours.  Communicate.

2.      Be polite, but don’t try to be friends with everyone around you.  Instead, spend time nurturing your relationships with the people who matter most to you.

3.      Your health is your life, keep up with it.  Get an annual physical check-up.

4.      Live below your means.  Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.  Always sleep on big purchases.  Create a budget and savings plan and stick to both of them.

5.      Get enough sleep every night.  An exhausted mind is rarely productive.

6.      Get up 30 minutes earlier so you don’t have to rush around like a mad man.  That 30 minutes will help you avoid speeding tickets, tardiness, and other unnecessary headaches.

7.      Get off your high horse, talk it out, shake hands or hug, and move on.

8.      Don’t waste your time on jealously.  The only person you’re competing against is yourself.

9.      Surround yourself with people who fill your gaps.  Let them do the stuff they’re better at so you can do the stuff you’re better at.

10.  Organize your living space and working space.  Read David Allen’s book Getting Things Done for some practical organizational guidance.

We all desire to eat healthier and better meals in the comfort of our homes, but this often eludes us for one reason or another. The following are few easy tips on how to cook and eat healthier foods;

Eating at home

Stock your fridge with plenty of the healthy ingredients that make it easy for you to cook healthier foods such as  vegetables, brown rice, whole wheat, granola, cereal, etc. Make sure that when you choose to eat meat, it is usually lean meat stocked along side plenty of fresh fish and chicken. Also get the right amount of perishable items such as fruits and lettuce that you will realistically use as often as possible until your next grocery trip.

Eating at the work place

If you are not sure about the kind of foods they cook at the work place, the best thing for you to do is pack your own lunch to work. If however, if  the work place offers a wide range of choices of healthy foods, just make your own choices of what to eat, foods which fill your stomach and give you energy but never add grease to your stomach. Foods such as salads, fruits, and veges are recommended.

Eating out

If you choose to eat out, look for restaurants that have the right menu before you settle down to eat their food. Don’t be shy, ask the chefs many questions regarding what they add to the foods and be satisfied that the ingredients  are healthy stuff. For those who ask, the restaurant authorities will always find healthy alternatives for such customers.Learn to say no  to what you feel is unhealthy.

Should you choose to cheat

 If you know you are the kind of person with irresistible cravings then choose just one day a week to cheat on healthy eating and please be consistent about this. Follow the cheating up with exercises. Crown your choice of healthy eating with drinking lots of water instead of sodas and no doubt, you will realize the physical health that will accrue to you.

There is no walking, rooting in the dirt or contact with other pigs.   Eight states have banned the gestation stalls, and McDonald’s and Burger King will phase out purchases from farms that use this cruel crating technique. Chapman asks the owner of the pig farm if he is concerned about the mental welfare of the pigs.  The owner replies, “”That’s probably where I’ll draw the line. They’re animals.”

Pork Magazine, a publication for the industry, advised producers that, “on the issue of gestation-sow stalls, at least, it’s increasingly apparent that you will lose the battle.”  The editor of Pork Magazine wrote, “gestation stalls seem extreme.  It’s too small a space for too long a time.”  Steve Chapman calls the stalls, “a high-tech prison for pigs.”

If more individuals would visit the places from which their meat comes, perhaps a kinder, vegetarian lifestyle would be a consideration.  Go and see what a “downed cow” looks like when it is too sick to stand.  Better yet, take a little trip to see the de-beaking of chickens.   Seeing veal calves taken away from their mothers and placed in small crates awaiting slaughter may be of interest.  A feeding tube shoved down the throat of a goose to accomplish force-feeding is a sight to see.

There is a quote by Jane Goodall, primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist, that should give pause to those who enjoy the meat they consume.  She states. “Thousands of people who say they “love” animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs— and the journey to get there— before finally leaving their miserable world, only too often after a painful death.

If the above quote by Jane Goodall does not influence those who enjoy eating the products of suffering, then they should never exclaim, “I love animals.” 

Resources:

Goodall, Jane. The Ten Trusts:  What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love, New York: Harper Collins, October 2002.

Chapman, Steve. “Investigating a Pig’s Life.” Chicago Tribune, Thursday, May 3, 2012, Section #1: page 25.