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“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” Yes, Sir Paul McCartney, you're probably right on that score. Thing is, I'm pretty insulated from the meat industry along with a few billion others. I don't see the stuff before it gets into my burger. Still, I've always wanted to try going without meat, just for a giggle and to see what it would be like. My 7-day resolution plan is the perfect answer, and maybe I'll discover some inner truth about myself while swearing off my four-legged friends as dinner sources for a week. Portobello mushrooms, pretty much the meat of the fungus family But first, to recap Week Number One–running every day for a week. I have to rate it as a complete success. After putting in a solid 10k on the first day, committing to half that distance every day was easier than I thought. Part of the fun was planning a slightly different route for each run, using Google maps to trace a minimum of 5 kilometres every...

"Anyone can take a reservation. It's the holding of the reservation that's important!" Jerry Seinfeld's words to the car rental agent hit me mid-way through a 10 kilometre run on the first week of January. My mind had been drifting off as I thought about New Year's resolutions and how notoriously stupid they are. "This year, I quit smoking!" "I'm gonna lose 50 pounds!" So dumb. Still, I like the basic thought of making a commitment, as long as you can stick to it. It struck me that the tough part about resolutions isn't the making of them. It's the keeping of them. Let's face it, we just don't. Fact is, 80 percent of New Year's resolutions are broken by February. Shoreline in Victoria BC, Canada So there I was, doing what so many others on that achingly beautiful day were doing along Victoria's sun-drenched shores. Trying to make myself a better person. Then and there, I could have committed to some...