Murder!!!

That title got your attention didn't it?

We came home from school today, and starting watching Iron Chef America. (It's taking up room on the DVR) It's the battle between Chef Symon (the new Iron Chef) and Chef Costentino, who competed to be the Next Iron Chef. This battle is "Battle Organs" where the Chefs must use animal organs as the Main ingredient of each dish and are supposed to cook 4-5 dishes.

So these Chefs are going to town. They are cooking with among other things: liver, kidneys, hearts, cock-combs, trotters, tripe, chitterlings, and any number of other things that I don't recognize. Savannah, is doing homework at the coffee table and hearing the "cooking" going on in the background. She finally looks up as Chef Symon shows the container of blood, he's going to use in a dish, and then slices calf livers for something. "What?!" she says. "Calf liver, they murdered baby cows?!" "Why would they dooooooo that?" "Is it worse to kill a baby cow, that to eat an adult cow?" I ask reasonably. Thinking....thinking...thinking...."No, it's wrong to eat any MURDERED animal!". Zoinks! I think, I just made a vegetarian!

As, I grew up here in the heart Beef Country, I'm kinda amused. I can't imagine giving up my good ole greasy burgers. My fried chicken, pork chops and apple sauce (as I channel Peter Brady!) and every other dish I cook. Hmm, I wonder if this is a cause Du Jour, or if she has the staying power. I think, I'll support her and let her bypass the meat.

This brings me back to her Preschool Graduation, when she was asked what she wanted to be when she grows up. She replied with all the conviction of a 5 year old, " A Vegetarian, I want to be an animal doctor! ". She's given up an being an animal doctor for now, so we'll see about the other.

So, Veggie-Gate has begun.