Chloe Learned to Cook at Millennium!

Just found this about Chloe, whose roots I thought were on the East Coast:

Chloe Kay Coscarelli is the daughter of filmmaker Don Coscarelli.^[6] She is a graduate of UC Berkeley,^[7] where she discovered her love for cooking. A summer internship at Millennium, a gourmet vegan restaurant located in San Francisco, led to a course of study at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, ^[8] followed by entry into Cornell University's online Plant-Based Nutrition certificate program.

de Capprio's Vegan Toast

Vegan Slogans

Today I went by Trattoria Da Vittorio in West Portal to let them know I was bringing a friend to lunch tomorrow and wanted to be sure that there were vegan options--not just marinara sauce with other ingredients omitted.
The person I spoke to was very courteous and said they'd provide.

In the meantime, my Camino partner Bill had positive things to say about the quote "No single food choice has a farther-reaching and more profoundly positive impact on our health, the environment, and all life on Earth than choosing vegan," suggesting that I have this "powerful" message at the end of every e-mail message.

I then Googled it to see if any names are associated with it because I feel a little foolish citing the Alternative Cookie Company.

I found a lot of other vegan slogans!

Here are some:

Less meat--less heat.
And less wasted water
Less slaughter.
Less factory farming
Less animal harming...


82% of starving children live in countries where food is grown to feed animals in the West.

Vegans.  We're not crazy.  We're just from the future.

Don't ask me why I'm vegan. Ask yourself why you aren't one.

Vegan because my body is a temple, not a graveyard.

Asking vegans to respect your decision to eat meat is on par wit asking feminists to respect sexists, asking people of color to respect racists and asking homosexuals to respect homophobes.  Felix Sampson

Veganism is the radical notion that animals are not objects.  

Natalie Portman Narrates "Eating Animals"

Leah Garckik's October 9th column mentioned the Telluride  Film Festival that included Natalie Portman, co-producer and narrator of the documentary "Eating Animals."

I finally got around to looking this up and found this article by Pete Hammond:

http://deadline.com/2017/09/telluride-film-festival-natalie-portman-eating-animals-1202160237/

Leah Garchik's column also mentioned Alice Waters, also on the Telluride panel "Real Life Wonder Women," did something I've often wanted to do when I've seen bottled water.  She asked that they be "removed from the stage and replaced with glasses of water."

Another Approach to the Paunchy Problem in Dear Abby

Dear Abby,

You advised Paunchy to tell his vegan friend, who's preparing a vegan meal for them, to "Fire up the broiler" and then take his own steak to dinner.

Would you also advise a smoker to say, "Have the ashtray out" and  take his own cigarettes to the home of a non-smoker, someone trying to stop smoking for the good of his health? 

Even if  there's no second-hand smoke from meat,  there are disastrous secondhand effects on the environment we all share and on the animals that live in torturous conditions in factory farms. 

 

There's a reason that  meatless Monday has been promoted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for a Livable Future.

Paunchy asks, "Would a steak and a baked potato kill him?"

Would a meatless meal kill Paunchy?  

Jane E. Brody's Weirdly-written "Good Vegan, Bad Vegan"

Jane E. Brody's "Good Vegan, Bad Vegan," published in the New York Times on October 2, 2017, is strangely written, almost like a bait and switch.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/well/eat/good-vegan-bad-vegan.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

She begins with "I have no argument with people who adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet for health, religious, environmental or ethical reasons. "  (How big of her.)

"But I object vehemently to proselytizers who distort science ..."

I object vehemently to these people and their distortions too, and she gives an example that screams out, "Peer review???"  

It's from the Netflix documentary "What the Health" and it says that eating an egg a day is as bad as smoking five cigarettes.

But the rest of her article or column  is just so obvious or contradictory, and when she does cite studies of eating and health, they support a plant-based diet. 

Also, when she says, "The protein in plants is not complete and must be balanced by consuming complementary sources, like beans and grains."  Aren't beans and grains plants?  I always think of them as part of a plant-based diet, and it doesn't seem so difficult to me to include them!  I trust she isn't talking about how you have to have beans and rice together to create a complete protein.  That's been disproved. 

She also says she doesn't endorse inhumane treatment of farm animals (etc.), but acknowledges that it goes on because regulators don't force commercial operations to improve the situations; meanwhile she eats meat "in reasonable amounts."

She ends with the suggestion that meat-eaters add one or more new plant-based recipes each week.  "I bet you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much more delicious and varied your meals will be."

So...it's almost as if she should have begun her column/article with an "Although..."  "Although I hate distortions in proselytizing by vegans, I see evidence that a plant-based diet..."

She's holding on to meat, of course, and makes that clear.

An Open Letter to Dear Abby

Dear Abby,  

I agree with Paunchy that life should be enjoyed, and like him, I used to think being vegan was far too limiting and unappetizing.

Then I tried it--first because I found out about the torturous situation for animals in factory farms and didn't want to contribute to their suffering. 

Since then, I've seen that--far from being a sacrifice--my new diet enhances my enjoyment of life.

Until Paunchy's vegan friend learns to make tastier dishes, maybe Paunchy can learn to make some vegan dishes that he does like--or take his vegan friend one of the many vegan cookbooks of scrumptious dishes.

There is no food choice that has a more profoundly positive impact on our health, the environment, and all life on earth.