Gene Baur Advances the Cause that Michael Bauer Sabotages---a Plant-Based Diet

Gene Baur Advances the Cause that Michael Bauer Sabotages---a Plant-Based Diet--and they're both in the San Francisco Chronicle.

 I wrote a letter to the editor yesterday after seeing the Open Forum piece by Gene Baur, who is president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal protection organization.

Thank you for printing Gene Baur's "A diet for a more sustainable Bay Area--eat more veggies" (May 23).

That Open Forum piece follows "Food technology brings new traditions including meatless ones" and an editorial lamenting Secretary of Agriculture Perdu's sabotage of a healthy school lunch (May 4) as well as a whole 14-page section suggesting that we eat less meat on a daily basis and explaining how we can do that and why we should. (May 7)

Yet, when Michael Bauer named the 100 Best Restaurants in the Bay Area, there wasn't even a category for Vegetarian, much less vegan.

A restaurant critic is in a position to encourage every restaurant to have on its menu a hot vegan entree --not just a vegetable side dish or a salad-- regardless of its specialty.  In Chicago this month, I ate at Wishbone, specializing in Southern cuisine and chicken but providing a whole menu for vegans and vegetarian. 

Gene Baur leads us towards a more sustainable world.  Michael Bauer does not.  I know he's the Executive Food and Wine editor.  Does he read the rest of the  SF Chronicle?

It's funny that Michael Bauer basically sabotages what the progressive reports and specials in the San Francisco Chronicle advance!  He could lead the advance.