Maybe I'll whip up some schmaltz.

I frequently think about returning to vegetarianism. One reason I don't is that I have trouble consuming enough healthy calories without meat in my diet. I have a very hard time getting above 800 kcal/day because I can't have many nuts, peanuts, soy, or gluten. And I can't go overboard with refined starches or sugar.

And then there's the other reason. Burn-your-fingers roast chicken is too darn tasty. And the beef jerky I make? Damn, that's tasty.

My reasons for vegetarianism were rooted in health, not ethics. I think that makes it harder to revert, when I know that I am not healthier while veg. Yet I have more and more ethical and financial reasons for considering the switch back.

oh, well. I'll stick to sustainably raised animal flesh and buy it as locally as possible.