There's a certain amount of savagery involved in eating anything.  Kill plants.  I'm sure they mind.  I used to fish and crab when I was a child and what one must do to those animals, usually when they're still alive, to prep them for cooking is pretty brutal.  The most you can do to absolve yourself is to show gratitude for the sacrifice and not to be wasteful or greedy.

On a lighter note, the first time I caught a soft crab, I brought it home and showed it to my mother.  She explained that it had to be cleaned before we could eat it.  So I took it into the bathroom and bathed it in the sink, working up a good lather with the Ivory soap.  I don't think the crab was a fan of that procedure.  But it sure beats having someone cut your face off and tear out your gills.

Ethically, Rennet should have got me. It's horrifying, and no one has come up with a humane alternative.

Meanwhile, I like cheese.

It's a bad ethical compromise. The first time I learned the reality of meat production hit me I tried to go veggie.

I failed.

I respect those that can hold. But the alternatives still suck. I talked about morning star dogs on reddit and people tried to defend them.

Like no, they still taste like poo.

I used to like various ice cream treats, mostly stuff that I used to buy from the Good Humor man when the truck came through our neighborhood.  I doubt that happens much any longer.  Dreamsicles were my favorite.

I went on a cooking tear today:
blueberry muffins, turkey chili, and a pot of vegetable soup.  I'll freeze a bunch of this so I can have it when I don't feel like cooking.  It would really help if we had a larger freezer.  I bought more ground turkey so I'm conflicted as to whether to make and freeze turkey burgers or a second batch of the chili.  When we were on the island, the temp. was around 80+ degrees year round but we often had soup for dinner.  You'd have thought that such warm meals would be too much in a warm climate like that, but no.  It became quite normal.  I don't know about warm American summers, though.  Today is a lovely rainy day with cool temperatures.  My tomato garden is really happy for the water.

Nerds popsicles.
I can't really eat nerds anymore. They're chunks of sugar. But the popsicles have nice flavor.
I had a recent health unpleasantness and the nerds bomb pops are fantastic. golly the regular bomb pops though, they suck.

It's also sad how small they have made these things. I remember as a child realize they were making popsicles smaller, and I wondered then, who the golly gets to do that?

I still wonder who the golly gets to do that. And wish someone could make them stop.

Dinner was tacos. Nothing fancy. Ground beef, sauce packet, cheese, small tortillas, some mild guacamole. The prepackaged stuff I find the medium has seeds and I don't get that.

I think some falafel is made with fresh ground fava beans.  A lot of the falafel you get in middle eastern restaurants in the US is made from dried ground chickpeas and it's like eating spicy fried sawdust balls.  You need to lube it up with tahini paste to choke it down.  So I get why you'd balk at it.  But there is some falafel that is pretty palatable.

I generally make hummos with canned chickpeas, and add tahini, garlic, and lemon juice, salt and ground cumin.  It's delicious and it freezes well.  It's good on wraps with sliced fresh vegetables like garden tomatoes and cucumbers.  There's a good deal of pretty crappy commercial hummos available with all kinds of weird additives.  But it's so simple to make, I don't get why one would bother unless you don't have cooking facilities.  It's best made in a food processor since blenders usually struggle to puree the beans.  I generally run the garlic through a press before chucking it into the food processor.