Comments on: Why Does Lou Dobbs Hate Vegetables?

By: Blue

Blue — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:47:30 +0000

In response to Sgt. Pepper -

I’m not sure on the real statistics, but I think 75% sounds about accurate. When I was in high school, most of the ‘school lunches’ consisted of french fries, pizza, and packaged food like potato and corn chips. A diet like that is VERY deficient not just of protein, but of almost everything but carbohydrates and fat.

Even the so called ‘home cooking’ options was usually a mystery meat burger, chicken nuggets, or some other form of processed meat by-product, extruded, ground, colored and flavored to look and taste (sort of) like meat. If we had been given a meatless Monday back then, I doubt any of the kids would have even noticed, let alone made a fuss about it. It always seems to be ‘concerned’ parents that have to push their own agenda on everything, instead of thinking about how much harm they are doing versus a minor policy change.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:09:55 +0000

Jimmy–I didn’t want to get sidetracked by ranting about what I think of PETA, so I just stated that they -do- have a definite agenda. I didn’t feel it necessary to belabor the point of what their agenda is–because I didn’t see it as being pertinent to the story at hand.

Now, if Lou Dobbs had gone on about the evils of PETA in his report, god help me, I might have had to agree with him, and it would have caused me pain.

But, instead, PETA was mentioned in passing…so I just went with my main point which was–just ‘cuz kids are eating vegetarian in school one day a week does not mean that the world as we know it is going to end.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:34:43 +0000

Barbara, I agree with everything you wrote, but I think this comment deserves attention:

“Yes, PETA has an a very definite agenda”

Isn’t that kind of like writing, “Yes, NAMBLA has a very definite agenda”? In other words, a very neutral assessment of their agenda?

PeTA specifically targets children without parental consent and advocates for the death of humans, and thus I don’t think it’s appropriate to regard PeTA’s endorsement of anything as neutral. PeTA is an evil cult, and their endorsement should rightly be treated with revulsion.

By: JoAnn

JoAnn — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:16:11 +0000

Excellent post. I get so irritated at these extremist talking heads. Occasionally, when I am on the road, I listen to these folks (until I can’t stand it anymore) to hear what they are saying. What are some of the jewels??? I believe it was Rush Limbaugh who implied that our kids should not go to college because all colleges have a liberal agenda and they will ruin our kids. On another program he implied that the people who exercise are the ones running up help costs because of exercise related injuries (so, exercise is bad). They will say anything to get peoples attention in order to make $$$.

I worked at a vegetarian campus for 16 years and we experiment with it at home. (My husband is vegetarian now most of the time.) We still eat meat but not as much as we used to. I believe that our vegetarian egg roll recipe is BETTER then our meat based one because it forced us to experiment with foods, tastes, & textures to get an interesting egg roll. What have I learned??? There are some mighty yummy and nutricious vegetarian dishes out there!!

By: Trig

Trig — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:44:38 +0000

Snap. On the topic of fresh fruit & veg, I’ve just posted a video from a school where kids promoting healthy eating are being punished for breaking school rules and another bunch promoting the eating of crisps are being praised for adhering to the school rules. Tell me the world hasn’t gone stark raving bonkers.