IBS Bathroom Emergency

I was at a meeting tonight, when I had to go to the bathroom. I had just walked in, when somebody began to bang on the door. I said that I was in the bathroom, but the person kept on banging on the door and turning the door knob. When I was finally done, I washed my hands, and opened the door to walk out. The man, who was making a scene on the other side of the door, turned out to be a prominent LGBT lawyer in Manhattan. I told him I was sorry that he had to wait, but that it wasn't my fault that there was only one public bathroom at our meeting space. He was completely upset, even though I had had the opportunity to meet him before on our work to save St. Vincent's Hospital, and he acted tonight like I was doing something wrong by using the bathroom.

I wonder how many people know that it is wrong to deny people the use of a toilet. Nobody goes to the toilet to play, they go there to use it. If the bully lawyer was having an emergency himself, by banging on the door and turning the knob like he was, the lawyer was violating medical needs of others. What makes him more special than anybody else ?

Ammonia, Chemicals, And Other Hydro-Fracking Poisons In Our Food And Water Supplies

Over the last two years, I went from non-veg to veg, to vegan, and then back to non-veg. I'm now transitioning back to non-veg. It has not been an easy time on my digestive system. I had always suffered from acid reflux, but for the last two or so years, I have been experiencing irritable bowel syndrome. And I cannot help but think that, as I have eliminated foods from my diet, only to add them back in cycles, perhaps our food supply is the cause. After all, meat processors add ammonia to processed meats, creating pink slime. We find dangerous chemicals to our water supply, and now we are exposing our water supply in the United States to hydro-fracking petro chemicals. I wonder how much of the incidence of digestive disorders are related to the chemicals found in our water and food supplies ? More thoughts on this, and on the ethics of eating non-veg, as I continue to experiment with my diet.