Posted by Raphael, August 11, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Make my tofu well done.
The trolls came out to play when the New York Times' City Room blog gave commenters a chance to ask Rynn Berry, author of The Vegan Guide to New York City, about "shopping, eating, and living a vegan lifestyle in New York."
Now Berry has responded to the questions asked, but what particularly stood out was his absurd answers to the question of whether, historically, humans and prehumans were omnivorous and ate meat:
This is laughable caricature of human evolution. The annals of prehistory have unfortunately been written by historians and anthropologists who have a carnivorous bias, however unwitting.
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Posted by Raphael, August 4, 2008 at 5:30 PM
In a New York Times City Room blog post, "Ask About the Vegan Lifestyle in New York," commenters had a chance to ask Rynn Berry, the author of The Vegan Guide to New York City, about "shopping, eating and living a vegan lifestyle in New York." The moderators let a few nasty and silly comments slip through before retroactively deleting a few. For posterity, we archive some of the gems, from mean to sad to funny to just plain weird, after the jump:
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Posted by Raphael, February 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM
During the recent Congressional hearings, Bruce Braley, a Democrat from Iowa, asked Roger Clemens if he had ever been a vegan. Clemens, dumbfounded, responded, “I don’t know what that is. I’m sorry."
PETA, feeling the need to educate, couldn't help but mail Clemens a care package of vegan treats, including vegan chocolate bars and faux beef jerky. Which I'm sure turned him around.
PETA has created a guide to vegan foods found along your local grocery store's aisles called I Can't Believe It's Vegan. The goal is clearly to make it less painful for people to switch to a vegan diet, but factory-processed foods seem like they'd be far worse, both for the planet and for humans, than humanely raised animals. Nothing tastes better than a considered meal. [via Cooked Books]
Posted by Ed Levine, May 21, 2007 at 6:43 AM
You don't have to be a vegan-basher to applaud Nina Planck's clear-eyed, sobering piece about the explicit, deadly dangers of feeding an infant a vegan diet. Planck notes that three times in recent years (most recently in Atlanta) vegan parents have been convicted of murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty charges. These parents misguidedly fed their infants a vegan diet with tragic results.
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