This. This this this-y this. I think that it is really hard for many people who have spent their whole lives constructing meals around a central protein to imagine how you would do it any other way (this was definitely something that came up a lot when I was eating with P and his German family a lot last year.) So I think that really leads to the assumption that your meals look just like theirs, except with an enormous tofu loaf at the center of a platter or something.

Classy move, Mr. Anthony “Cultural Relativity Is The Only Important Thing on Earth When Eating” Bourdain

Until this: lately, I have seen a number of episodes where the dominant food culture in the area is vegetarian (where, for religious or cultural regions, that’s just how people eat): there was an episode in a predominantly Jainist part of India and an episode in Jamaica where he eats with some Rastafarians that are particularly springing to mind. What struck me is that Bourdain had no problem acting like an asshole guest/avoiding what the majority of people eat when the locals were eating vegetarian. When he was with the Rastafarians, he had some vegan rice and veggie dish and was like, “This is it? This is what you eat every day?” and was totally weird and dismissive; when he was in India, he found an out of the way Muslim corridor and spent the entire episode in a very vegetarian area eating meat on sticks. I respect Bourdain’s position if he’s intellectually honest about it, but that pissed me off.

So now when he talks shit about vegetarians, I just go ‘blah blah blah’ at the television until he does something else.

However, if we are purely talking about the 90%Tofurkey-based diet, then I absolutely agree with what you guys are saying. That’s a stupid diet, no doubt about it. And just as unethical and non-eco-friendly and etc.

I do love soymilk.

The problem is that so many people are like, “if you eat meat, you eat it twice a day every day!” and then vegetarians who oppose commercial meat production (such a vegetarian was I) just completely abstain and replace that protein with something that has its own ethical issues. That’s not to say that vegetarianism, and even veganism I guess, isn’t an ethical response to a totally fucked up meat production industry, but it’s not the *only* response one can make.

And as for your article: are any of your cohort also dissertating? Would they want to form a writing group? You could also put that on your CV: “Co-founder, Music Writing Group” or something.

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