It’s Okay to Eat Pork Buns after Bay to Breakers

What a fantastic weekend! The unusual hot weather can cook eggs on the sidewalks, or bake human flesh during the Bay to Breakers in the Golden Gate Park on Sunday. http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf I have not worn a pair of shorts in San Francisco for a long time—it’s simply too cold for shorts here. I was glad that I got a chance to wear them this weekend. It brings back some memories during my college years when I felt the hot air rubbing my naked legs on the way to the library, and the raging hormone among my buddies. Due to the changing policy regarding Bay to Breakers, there were significantly less floats and drunken people this year compared to past years’ events. However, I think there were just as many naked and dressed-up people as before. The hot weather is a tremendous gift to those who want to show their skin because normally it’s quite chilly walking in the park even with clothes on. What fun! How can one not to smile at the silliness, goofiness, and craziness in the crowd? How can I not to love this city? Only in San Francisco! Then Monday, the weather seems having a hangover from Sunday’s big party—it was windy and cold! How lucky are those naked people at Bay to Breakers! Sunday’s weather is the encouragement for getting naked from the nature. On Saturday, the Asian Heritage Street Celebration at Civic Center is also very enjoyable despite the hot sun. While enjoying a terrific performance from a band on stage (that boy surely can sing!), I signed up the Comcast‘s Internet service. It’s only $19.99 per month with the 12MB per second speed, how can I say no to that? Besides, Comcast was the major sponsor for this year’s San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. I need to do business with them in responding Comcast’s support. To encourage Comcast, I sent Comcast an email. I call it community building. At the street fair, I also got a "Go Veggie" brochure from Suprememastertv that advocates reducing global warming by eating less meat. When I was reading it, I couldn’t stop giggling because I think their intension might be good, but they all came out so wrong in this brochure. I am totally support the idea of eating more vegetables and less meat, for the obvious health reason while reducing human carbon print. However, this brochure claims that if one person becomes vegetarian for a year, he or she will achieve all of the following: reducing 3,267 pounds of CO2 emissions stopping 5 people from starving to death saving 25 lives including 0.4 cow + 0.5 pig + 0.1 sheep + 24 chicken I think the math is totally wrong here… I mean TOTALLY, regardless how much life is for 0.1 sheep. Here is why. Let’s assume all claims are correct. Then, my becoming a vegetarian will actually do more harm to the earth than if I continue to eat meat. How so? Suppose that I become a vegetarian and save five people from starving to death. Now, what if these five people I save are not vegetarian? In that case, there will have 5×3267=16,335 more pounds of CO2 emissions from these five people; 5×5=25 more people will die because they don’t save them; and 2 cows, 2.5 pigs, half sheep, and God knows how many chicken will be eaten by those five people I saved. No way! I will save the planet by cooking meat when I want to eat. Will five people die because of it? On the other hand, doesn’t China’s One-child Policy look remarkably visionary compared to the massive highway system in the US? We all know who are consuming 23% of energy with only 5% of the population on this planet. The brochure goes on lecturing: "Pigs are curious and insightful animals considered smarter than 3-year-old human children. A pig once saved a boy from drowning." Big deal! We should not eat pork because pigs are smarter than your new born babies? So, eating a retarded pig is better than eating a genius pig? What about eating a 2-year-old baby since they are not as smart as a pig? Absurd? Then stop comparing pig with babies. Because we are eating pigs, and pigs are not human. This brochure has no credibility because it turns a good message into a ridiculous joke. Anyways, I ate steamed pork buns I cooked myself for dinner. They are delicious.