In the news: Raw food diet available in B.C. jails

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Human rights complaint forces prisons to provide vegan meals

 

Jennifer Miller

Vancouver Sun

 

Saturday, May 14, 2005

 

Lentils, beans and tofu -- all the staples of a vegan diet -- will soon be

available to prisoners in B.C. jails, after two inmates took their food fight

to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

 

See the full story at:

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.html?id=7f14a9ad-1cd8-4191-

b542-d51437ae047e

 

Further on down in the article:

 

This is not the first time B.C. Corrections has received attention for meal

options offered to prisoners.

 

Accused eco-terrorist and current B.C. inmate Tre Arrow -- also known

as Michael Scarpitti -- went down to 38.5 kilograms (about 85 pounds)

last summer after being refused a raw food diet. He received media

attention after being put in solitary confinement for hoarding zucchini,

apples and bananas in his cell.

 

Prisoners aren't allowed to keep raw produce in their cells because they

can be fermented to produce alcohol.

 

Arrow's lawyer said in September that his client is now receiving a raw

food diet from corrections staff.

 

--Sounds like British Columbia, Canada, is the place to be if you are

going to be put in jail.

 

Ron Koenig