For the last 5 years I have consistently celebrated my experience at Luther College. I have touted it as a place that always did the right thing, treated workers well, tried to have a strong stance on being ‘Green’, and, of course, provided a quality education. However, this past year th[...]
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
February 15th, 2008 - 1:06 pm § in Food, Hodge Podge
Inter-dietary Relationships
I stole that term from my friend Ben who suggested that people in inter-dietary relationships read this article. I support his decision and wanted to pass the information along.[...]
November 19th, 2007 - 11:03 am § in Food, Hodge Podge
An Extension of Truth-in-Labeling
Representative Nita Lowey introduced a bill in Congress to extend food labeling to cover notification of animal products (this is helpful for the vegans, Muslims, Hindus and Kosher abiding Jewish people among us). I’m cool with you telling your representatives to support it. You can get their [...]
October 9th, 2007 - 10:23 pm § in Food, Hodge Podge
Why Vegans Share
A friend of mine, who you can find here, often teases me (and the only other vegan in my department), about our desire to share food. Admittedly, our pushing food on other people may be a bit over the top, but I think I’ve developed a theory on why this is the case. Unlike many [...][...]
Happy? Cows
Growing up in Wisconsin, I have many relatives who farmed, learned about farming in school, and have developed incredible respect for many farmers. However, in the last several decades, these small farmers have been pushed out of business as larger ‘factory farms‘ have taken over the agr[...]
May 31st, 2007 - 5:30 pm § in Food, Hodge Podge
Tax Breaks for Vegetarians
As a follow up to the last post regarding energy consumption and food choices, I wanted to spread the word about a current PETA campaign that is based on the same line of thought. PETA is lobbing for tax breaks for vegetarians based on the idea that we are more energy efficient and produce less [...[...]
Vegan support from a responsible omnivore
My friend Tim (photo below), someone I would call a ‘responsible omnivore’ recently posted a message on his blog about veganism and responsible eating. I wanted to encourage people to read what he had to say (you can find it here). I also wanted to elaborate on his website suggestions. T[...]
Why does seeing birds eat chicken freak me out?
Recently there have been repeated sitings of birds (types I can’t identify but are everywhere throughout the city) consuming chicken that has been dropped by people on the sidewalks. Now, while I am not 100% certain, it seems to me that the types of small birds eating this chicken are normally[...]
Series on Factory Farms, part 1
Many of you know that I’ve been a vegetarian for the last 12 years. Recently, I’ve gotten the added bonus of having special vegans in my life who have presented me with a lot more information on the torture animals face when raised for milk production/eggs/other things, the environmental[...]