Word: meatlessness
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Between ME-N-U, the Food Services Department's catchilynamed dining hall handout, went slightly political in a special issue yesterday. The sheet published the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life's resolution last month calling for two meatless days a week in Harvard's dining halls--and then a rebuttal...
...What will prevent patronage of the nearest hamburger stand on meatless days, or eating twice as much meat on the days, meat is served?" the newsletter said. "Having one hamburger instead of two provides the taste satisfaction and nutritional qualities of meat, yet uses only half the meat...
...things stand, meatless days will begin--however reluctantly on the part of Food Services--a week from today, and extend until spring break...
...undergraduate, I am greatly distressed by CHUL's decision to hold two meatless days a week beginning February 15. It is not so much that I dislike the idea of meatless days (though I would prefer not to have them), but rather the fact that no referendum on the question will be held until the end of spring break. I believe that in an issue as important to undergraduate life as this, the normal channels of CHUL decision making must be bypassed. It is not right that a body as small as CHUL, with only 13 student members, should...
Agreed that poor and working people suffer disproportionately from food price increases. Agreed that Harvard is on the explotive side of that disproportion. Agreed that eating several meatless meals a week is not so great a sacrifice. It requires less effort than training to build elementary water systems in Africa, as one student I know is doing, or working in one's home community over a long haul to build a class conscious, worker-led movement, to use another acquaintance as an example. That doesn't mean that every smaller or less politically conscious commitment...