Good people work hard to plan and carry out the Asian Coalition dinner every year, but the menu stays pretty centered on dead animals, and last night, that's what they kept bringing on.  Since my volunteer work for animal welfare and the environment is to eat plant-based with every bite, I had to wait around--as did another person, who's a vegetarian, for quite a while before they brought anything that wasn't a dead animal of some sort.  The problem could have been easily avoided if they'd simply begun by serving something that everybody at every table could eat, something plant-based.  Then we could have all begun dinner together and those who wanted to eat dead animals could still get their fill.